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[Nighthawk]

If you want to kill Lynels and you're not confident about a direct confrontation, get a multishot bow, jump down on one from above, and fire as many slo-mo arrow shotgun blasts into its face as you can before you run out of stamina. Then use whatever cheap method you find suitable to avoid being killed and repeat.

Spoiler: Related to abilities acquired after beating one of the main dungeons (click to show/hide)

If you have upgraded Stasis and Urbosa's Fury you can freeze the Lynel for 2 seconds using Stasis and then blast them in the face with lightning for massive damage. Preferably repeatedly. Combined with the above technique, it should be enough to kill just about any Lynel.

[Ozyton]

So I just want to quickly touch on the weapon durability thing again since that seems to be the major complaint people have with this game.

Are these people playing the game wrong or something? I'm drowning in so many high quality weapons that I'm at the point where I'm dropping old weapons to pick up fresh ones instead of letting them break. I haven't really tried using shields, so at one point my entire shield inventory was just knight shields, however I now have even better shields I'll probably end up not using (although I did just get spoiled on something by accident so we'll see if that changes).

I haven't even tried using the Master Sword because all my other weapons do more damage.

Also: Lynels... is it me or do they all have ridiculously high health. They seem more like an endurance test than an actual fight now. Spam those flurry rushes.

[Neonivek]

Their problem is they think the weapons in the game have a point.

Then again the game doesn't translate very well that the weapons are pointless.

[wierd]

Weapons are disposable. Weapon management is really just holding on to some fallback items as you pick them up/find them. Finding koroks lets you increase your 'hoarde' of stashed weapons.

Some of the weapons you find are more rare than others though. Like my previous "OMG, SO OP!!" savage lynel bow. It is one that does not come up often, even when actively hunting the critters that drop them. I would have very much liked to have some means of repairing it, even if it would have been expensive.

[Frumple]

... just to make sure, the one venue there is to repair non-unique items for a hefty price tag didn't have it as an option? Or have you just not found it yet?

[Greiger]

My problem with the weapon durability is that it's so FAST to break a weapon.   So unrealistically fast that it's immersion breaking.  Tree branches skeletal limbs, and makeshift weapons breaking after a few hits?  Sure makes sense.  Professionally smithed metal swords or spears being broken completely and utterly after fighting a handful of completely unarmored bokoblins? No.  A professionally made WAR BOW made to be used for actual combat broken to uselessness in a single run of an archery training course?  No.

I actually made a crappy little bow out of branches and string when I was an 8 year old cub scout, that could fire more arrows than the best bows of hyrule.

[SOLDIER First]

Game balance. Next question!

[Frumple]

Hey man, you take a professionally forged sword to the face of something that trivially tanks what amounts to mining explosives and sometimes survives direct lightning strikes, and see how long that sword lasts

Though personally I'd just blame it on tech degeneration + ganon goop corruption. It can't be healthy to be breathing that stuff, and the blood moons display pretty plainly it's getting basically everywhere. Presumably it's doing weird stuff to durability. Either that or link is just hitting things really goddamn hard. I could see that pretty easily, too. Skinny little bugger pretty clearly has an improbable amount of upper body strength.

[Ultimuh]

I'm just annoyed that they break easily when hitting Chu's or Bokoblins.
It's not like they got any chitinous exoskeletons, hard scales or something like that.

[Greiger]

Hey man, you take a professionally forged sword to the face of something that trivially tanks what amounts to mining explosives and sometimes survives direct lightning strikes, and see how long that sword lasts

Though personally I'd just blame it on tech degeneration + ganon goop corruption. It can't be healthy to be breathing that stuff, and the blood moons display pretty plainly it's getting basically everywhere. Presumably it's doing weird stuff to durability. Either that or link is just hitting things really goddamn hard. I could see that pretty easily, too. Skinny little bugger pretty clearly has an improbable amount of upper body strength.

Yet those same things that can tank mining explosives can be beaten to death by a few twigs

[Frumple]

Man, we don't know what hylian wood's like. That stuff might be some kind if magical ironwood or something. Also see previous statement about hitting things with way too much force.

I'm just annoyed that they break easily when hitting Chu's or Bokoblins.
It's not like they got any chitinous exoskeletons, hard scales or something like that.

Chus probably have some acid or somethin' going on, at least. Maybe fooblins just have metallic skeletons or somethin'. Might even explain how stalfos et al have functionally invincible bones, though where that leaves the heads I couldn't say. Could just be whatever's animating them getting rattled apart. We'll just assume link has some kind of trauma based perceptual filter for the mountains of bone and viscera he's leaving behind.

Arms you use as weapons are presumably not breaking per se, just losing connective force and falling apart.

Hell, it would even explain why all keese have 1 hp. They have to have lighter bones in order to maintain flight, so they don't have the metallic aspect, or it's at least significantly lessened.

... mind you, I'm pretty sure it's just game balance/mechanics/etc. But sometimes you just gotta' roll with the explanation. Can keep this up for a while, ahaha.

[SOLDIER First]

Hey man, you take a professionally forged sword to the face of something that trivially tanks what amounts to mining explosives and sometimes survives direct lightning strikes, and see how long that sword lasts

Though personally I'd just blame it on tech degeneration + ganon goop corruption. It can't be healthy to be breathing that stuff, and the blood moons display pretty plainly it's getting basically everywhere. Presumably it's doing weird stuff to durability. Either that or link is just hitting things really goddamn hard. I could see that pretty easily, too. Skinny little bugger pretty clearly has an improbable amount of upper body strength.

Yet those same things that can tank mining explosives can be beaten to death by a few twigs

Guardian HP: 1500
Tree Branch base damage: 2
1500/2 = 750 Tree Branches

"a few"

[edit] unless you weren't referring to Guardians

[Putnam]

Blue bokoblins can tank bombs.

[SOLDIER First]

Because they have, like, a hundred HP?

[Putnam]

I'm saying that I'm pretty sure bombs only do ~20 some damage.