Because you break the weapon with a sneak strike you could also use a gibdo bone for maximum damage, then its 178 base damage * 2 for break * 1.5 for attack * 1.8 for bone prof. * 1.05 two-handed bonus * 8 for sneakstrike = 8074,08 which the game round up for a total of 8075 damage in a single hit. Enough to oneshot calamity ganon in botw if he could be sneakstriked

10:08 - Lynels can't be staggered with a crit while they have their bow out. I learned that the hard way.

2017 Austin John Plays was there….2023 he’s still here. Zelda guru

I don’t know if anybody will see this but if you use this trick for killing lynels you can also farm arrows with it since most lynels drop 10-30 per death.

I really hope there's guardian DLC where we can get the ancient gear again, I love the way it looked.

I was here for the “Mulipliers” thumbnail We’re now hitting Monster Hunter levels of damage stacking and I’m loving every second of it

This game (and Breath of the wild) has so much combat potential. It’s pretty amazing how layered everything is.

Once you kill your first Lynel, u then kill like 10 in a row with ease.

I can't say this enough but THANK YOU so much for turning the arrow attack white range down. You are the only KZfaqr who I've seen do this (and genuinely care for/about) for their photosensitive viewers and I (among others) really appreciate it.

It turns out the damage numbers are a little misleading as there's a hidden multiplier depending on whether you're using a one-handed, two-handed, or a spear. (100% for one-handed, two-handed are 105%, and spears are 75%) This is likely why the Champion Leathers don't display health numbers Red Bokoblins have 25 health. you'll need a spear with 34 damage to one-shot Red Bokoblins, 25 for one handed, and 24 for two-handed.

For anyone who is concerned about using durable on a shield because of a rocket, you can use and octorock balloon to get air and not use durability and stop it at any time

Things you missed here is frozen enemy attack multiplier. when you hit a frozen enemy, it multiplies damage with 3x. Also for sneakstrike, you can use pristine version of eightfold sword which deals more damage in sneakstrikes.

Fun fact: Stalnox Horns are also considered bones. Yes, they're called a horn, but they have skulls on them, and their description has the word bone in it, proficiency works. It's not as good as the Molduga, but they're easier to farm early game and are the only other material I'm aware of that works.

The lightscale trident is a better everyday weapon that doesn't limit your armor. With sidon's ability and a sylver horn, you get 154, 231 with attack up. Then a sneak strike that is 1848 and the trident has a durability of 70 of I'm not mistaken. And that is without the bonus elemental damage sidon's ability provided, which increases it even more.

Another really good weapon I found yesterday was by attaching a silver lynel horn to the scimitar you get by finishing the side quest in gerudo village. Gerudo weapons have a fusion bonus so the weapon I created has 130 something base damage. Attaching a bone fusion with the bone prof. armor might do even more damage

A super usable sneak weapon would be a pristine eightfold blade with attack +10 (25) + molduga jaw (32)=57. With full Evil spirit armor, you get sneak lvl 3 bone prof, and you can eat an attack up 3 meal. This gives you 57*1.5*1.8=154, and whatever the multiplier is for the eightfold blade passive ability with a sneakstrike. I would love to find out the final damage number if anyone knows what that multiplier is. My guess is sneakstrike is x8 and the passive ability is x2 which would make it x16. If so, final damage number would be 2462. That would be insane, but since you're doing sneak strikes, using a gibdo bone (if you have the stock) would be viable since you have time to actually fuse one everytime you use it. Edit: did some testing and even with a decayed eightfold blade attack +10 I am one-shotting Silver Boss Bokoblins which have 1200 hp. Set up was eightfold molduga jaw for a total 48 damage, evil spirit armor (1.8) and a sneak strike. 48*1.8=86.4 and 86.4*16=1382.4…. 1200/86.4 is 13.89 so the passive ability is doing at least x14 damage. This is without an attack up lvl 3 meal and to my knowledge boss boko and captain 4 are the highest hp enemies you can sneak strike both have 1200 hp so you can 1 shot any monster with an eightfold blade and molduga jaw as long as the base damage is 42 👍

Thank god Austin out here showing the math and information. I’m tired seeing vids that show the big numbers but no info how too. Heck, this is better then math class 👌🏼

Dude, your videos are so well made. Great info, super detailed, the editing, the flow of the information, all of it. Thank you!

this is why i wait for the ajp video, none of the other youtubers explained that it was the "on break" damage, they just thought it was extra damage. for some reason the lynel mounting still counts it even though the weapon isnt breaking. always more comprehensive than the others.

Even though the stal enemies don’t attack you, they still follow you out of curiosity. Can be annoying at times if you are needing stealth.

Fun way to make 249 damage every hit, get scimitar of seven in gerudo village, fuse molduga hammer to it and you'll get a damage output of 92 because the scimitar of the seven doubles the fused item damage so moludga horn would go from 32 dmg to 64 dmg so in total you could do: 92 dmg * 1.5 atk up * 1.8 bone weap. = 248.4 dmg which rounds to 249 every hit without the hastle of having your weapon break on last hit.

Hey Austin, great video as always! I was doing some experimenting with the bone proficiency, and apparently you can get the royal guard claymore on low durability AND have the gibdo bone attached at the same time. When you try and wear a claymore down and then attach the bone, it brings it out of low durability, but if you fuse something like a bokoblin horn to it, then bring it down to low durability, then destroy the fused material, then attach the gibdo bone, you will be on low durability and have the highest damage bone fuse possible at 178 base damage with a + 10 attack pristine royal guard claymore base. Obviously only useful for Lynels but it should provide higher attack than the molduga jaw!

I love how professional your guides and tutorials are. And that you still pause to say "Nice". Always makes me chuckle.

Loooool. With your guide lynels are becoming so easy! You arrive in bullet time mode, one round of hits and you're done! Thanks for the tips.

The OG set bonus atk up (x1.2) stacks with food, it doesnt help to outdamage bone, but its important to consider for future dlc weapons or monster parts like golden lynel horns

Unless the formula has changed from BotW, I think you got some things wrong here. Sneak strikes (and hitting frozen enemies) did not stack with other critical actions like headshots or breaking your weapon. Sneak strikes instead become the only critical modifier in the formula. Also, BotW bone proficiency applied to bone and dragon bone weapons, not just stal arms. Source: Croton's video What is the Maximum Possible Damage in Breath of the Wild

One thing to add, especially in the context of Sneakstrikes, the Eightfold weapons double the damage of Sneakstrike so instead of a 8x multiplier, it's 16x. A pristine Eightfold Longblade (with +10 Attack) + Molduga Jaw = 65 base power (not as high as the RGC's 81 base power before entering the breaking state, but stay with me here). 65 x 1.5 x 1.8 x 16 for Sneakstrike = 2,808 damage, which is 1.6 times more powerful than the RGC (pre-breaking point), a 60% increase in damage from the RGC. And this is without having to worry about your weapon being in low durability. When the Eightfold Longblade does break, it will deal 5,616 damage. Not as high as the final hit of the RGC being just under 7,000, but you're dealing more damage in the long run over the lifespans of each weapon since the RGC will only deal more damage than the Eightfold blade in Sneakstrikes during its last 3 hits of durability.

6:19 in botw, damage multipliers from freezing enemies or sneak striking them overrode the critical hit making them only *3 or *8

The jawbone 46 multiplying to give 69 was unexpected...nice

There's a force blood moon glitch that you shoud cover. Just get a 5 shot lynel bow and go in bullet time, fuse an opal to the arrow and shoot a breakable rock (not an ore) two times. Only in the depths. When you land the blood moon effect starts and boom. Blood moon. Works in the newest version

Hi, From what I have read bone proficiency does not affect bones attached to arrows. Because you were hitting the lynel on the head he is actually taking double damage

Nice tips! Just want to add more to the bow section. If you do a bow modifier transfer from a savage lynel bow (5x shot) to a demon king's bow (assuming you have 30 hearts so it has base damage of 60) and with attack up +3 (x1.5) and bone proficiency (x1.8), shooting it with Gibdo bone (+40) and critical shot (x2) will give you a damage of (60+40)x5x1.8x1.5x2=2700 per shot.

It would be nice to include the other damage multipliers like hot/cold/thunder attack boost, desperate strength, water warrior, improved flurry rush, etc.

Cant speak to other items, but the stalnox horn def counts in the bone profic category… 4 shots vs 7 w/o evil armor, tested on the hinox outside of lookout landing

Using zora weapons also double damage further while wet from sidon... you can double damage even further and get higher damage

there is a theoretical possibility to do 1620 dmg with multiple use. The demon kings bow does +2 damage for every heart you have (not counting the extra ones from food) so if you are to get the max hearts which is 40, the bow would do 80 damage. If you add the gibdo bone the arrow would deal 120 damage. If you do the weapon effect duplication glitch to get 5-shot it will do 600 damage. The radiant and evil spirit armor give bone proficiency, which is a 1.8 times multiplier which equals to 1080 damage. An attack up meal gives a 1.5 times boost which the bow will now do 1620 damage. although this seems correct it is all hypothetical so sorry if I am wrong.

14:14 you can do better, the scimitar of the seven does 92 with the molduga jaw because it doubles fuse damage, so if you want a weapon with durability that can deal high damage the royal guard weapon is not the go to choice. since its only 81 at base.

Hey Austin Quick Note. On a sneakstrike, the shatter multiplier doesent apply. It doesent matter if the Weapon breaks during a Sneakstrike its only the 8x multiplier. Awesome video other than that though!

The lightscale trident will double its power when wet, so you can have WAY more hits at full multiplier

7:43. Wow, lynels still scare me but your setup would make me feel a lot braver. 😀

When he has his bow out, for some reason, he's unable to be stunned

What is the video you’re talking about to find all 4 Molduga?

I have never learned as much about gaming strategy as I have from this man. Thank you so much for teaching me how much more I can enjoy playing video games.

You can also stack freeze on top for another 3x. Throw a boomerang with freeze out before initiating the sneak attack, since the animation is long, when you land the sneak the freeze would’ve happened. That would bring your damage over 20k

I love this channel. The fact it mostly survives on one or 2 big releases throughout the year. Pokemon, zelda, smash, mario. Pokemon is probably what keeps this channel alive the most but AJP gets a ton of subs and views during the first month of a game then it trickles off. Then a new pokemon game comes out and it repeats. Then we might get a big title like zelda, or mario, or smash and then its the big influx and fat paychecks and slowly trickles back down. AJP probably has to be fairly good with investing and money management to survive off this.

Apparently the jaw from the Rito boss, when you fight it again in the depths, counts as bone and is higher than the molduga jaw. Can't pick it up but you can fuse it.

I have a question, small spoiler to one of the bosses if you don’t want that don’t read more If you refight a Colgera in the depths, it drops a Colgera jaw, which adds 36 damage. Is that considered a bone? It isn’t an item you can pick up, so it doesn’t have a description that would say if it is a bone or not.

and evil spirit has sneak lvl 3, which make it even better to sneak attack. that's nice, ty for the tips! i didn't actually know what are the multipliers of everything lol. also very thoughtful of you for the flashing image stuff, rare are people who think about that, even for someone who doesn't have issues with that, it is very tireing for the eyes, so win win to have added that imo

why is austin like the god of glitches lmao

Has anyone done testing on weapon durability? Curious what weapon bases / fuses have the highest durability, and how durability up affects those numbers

Lynels have a couple special mechanics --first is they are only mountable if they have their melee weapon drawn --second as you have just experienced here 10:06 they are immune to staggering while they have their bow equiped

4:05 i'd give a million thumbs up for every single time Austin John says: NICE!

Hey just wanted to let you know a new dupe has been discovered for 1.1.2. To do it you need 5 shot Lynel bows. Spoiler warning now. Then go to where you entered the cave to get fifth Sage. There is a loading zone and you go just passed it. Use auto build to create a barrier to catch items. Personally I use carts attached to the scaffold. Then use the bow and attach an item. Shoot up into loading zone and it will freeze. Walk up to zone and duped items will fall. Have fun!

If you were to only use this weapon while on the back of lynels, would you get more damage by using a Gibdo bone instead of a molduga jaw?

Use the gibdo bone instead of the molduga jaw for the last hit royal guard's clamore, as it has more damage and it's one durrablility effect wont matter.

Immediately pressed the notification! Still wonderful that these things can happen in this game

This is really cool! How do the multipliers for the Eightfold blades compare? I was operating under the impression that the eightfold blade's sneakstrike was the x8 Crit (hence the name), and that normal sneak strike critical hits were smaller. I Love how much pummel DPS you get from mounting. And obviously the royal guards claymore is probably best for that. But What is our Eightfold bonus? It's a shame that the eightfold two hand weapon has a wimpy wind effect, and doesn't have the same effect.

From my testing (same bow with gibdo bones) the fierce deity did consitently more damage than the phantom armor so either the bone proficiency only counts the gibdo bone not the arrow or the multipliers have changed Also if i remember correctly the 2x on the last hit was for the guaranteed crit multiplier in botw which gets overwritten by the sneak strike multiplier so the very last hit with a sneak strike should not do more damage than the 2 before that

Thank you so much man, you're video just helped me beat the lynel coliseum, and get the materials I needed. All your videos have helped me. So thanks past, present and future Austin John, I appreciate all the hard work and hours you've put into helping us. Thank you.

Your videos are so helpful and informative. The biggest issue for me farming lynels is burning through my resources and low damage so this will help a lot.

Just a thought, but don't some of the temple boss rematches drop things that can be fused? IIRC they can't be picked up, but they can be fused to things, maybe one of those is classified as a bone (The Colgera one comes to mind, it's just it's big jawbone)

He just switched out his Great Fireblade with the decayed master sword 😭😭

This man always looks so worried. You’re doing great, I’m really enjoying your totk videos.

I would love to see some damage number explained for zonai devices. Like exactly how much canons vs beam emitters do, if they are effected by multiplyers of there owns and so on.

When he paused and says “nice” after 69 I was dying. I rewound it a few times it was so good

What about colgera? I think it dropped a jaw item in the depths when you fight it a 2nd time

Can we all just appreciate how good the background music is for his videos

I think you can increase this slightly using the jaw of one of the air temple bosses (flying centeped...can't remember the name). It drops it on the ground and can't be picked up, but it CAN be fused. It has a fuse damage of 36 compared to the mulduga, which has a fuse of 32.

Quality and quantity this man is like god

would an eightfold blade deal more damage than a low durability royal guards claymore while sneakstriking?

Thank you for being the first to explain the thumbnail thing i new what was happening but i see it all the time now and you are the first to say what it actually was

It’s nice to see his subscriber count just keep going up, every time I watch his subscriber counter in the back just keeps going up! Working hard Forsure lol

Ofcurs 6999☠️💀

Bone proficiency 😏

Hey Austin, you should try combining this with a sneak build. Using the yiga sword which gets a sneak attack bonus. Then all the other bonuses (minus the RG weapon bonuses obviously) and see what number you can pull.

Hey idk if anyone else pointed this out but the colgera jaw has a fuse power of 36, since its a jaw it should also be classified as a bone

It'll be a sad day when Austin stops uploading. His videos are always so comprehensive and I always learn so many things about my games that I otherwise wouldn't have. He's like the Prima strategy guides from back in the day, but better

Hello, I also made math and you are right but you forgot to put the barbarían armor to the silver lynel blade and it’s damage will be better than the molduga hammer putting on each weapon it’s respective armor and so the lynel blade will do 873 damage. Please take this in mind and by the way this was a great video I really liked it.

You can also use trident as base and get wet which may be less powerfull than one hit claymore but you can actually use your weapon

I was expecting a *(patched)* in the title… but then as I watched more and more I realized Austin really was gonna get to that 7k number legit. Outrageous.

Oh my Link, Austin John. I love how you explain details in your videos but my head is spinning. It’s hard for me to take all this info in and retain it for actual usage. I am an avid long time Zelda fan/player and let me tell you that I suck. I never knew any of this til I searched you tube. Thank you very much.😁❤️👍

2:42 that video is not out yet tho right??

6:02 Meanwhile, there's me overjoyed at attaching Black Bokoblin Horns to my Master Sword - and calling that a 'beatstick'.

Austin is becoming the final Boss Demise! The extra calculations are appreciated. 🤓 Nice numbers indeed.

Appreciate your channel, been my go-to since botw launch. Thank you !!

My hope for DLC: Go back in time and do the 8th Heroine quest line, but at the end you are sent back to the present without material rewards (which you get via the 8th Heroine side quest anyway). Make it so you can do this before the present day side quest so you can go do the statue hunting quest later and get the rewards after time travelling, for the lols.

Great info!! I'm using the best overall combo I found: shiny gerudo sword/cimitar of the seven + silver lynel horn =140 damage

Another brilliant video of many🥳 Keep up the great work Austin !!!

What about if you use the Lightscale Trident instead? Since you can use one of the powers to keep yourself in an almost permanent state of being wet so you'd do that x2 damage on top of the bone proficiency & all of that other good stuff.

Can we get a cooking guide for TotK? I've been finding your guides really handy and I would love to see more information about cooking.

Also, out of curiosity, if you repeatedly jump slash with the Decayed Master Sword before cutting the vines at the beginning of the game, can you softlock yourself?

This video was very helpful! I was doing the calculations like the Zach Galifianakis meme lol.

Technically, level 2 armor is only 1 upgrade from the great fairy. The armor when you get it is at level 1. Level 3 is 2 upgrades from the fairies where set bonus’ take effect.

If you're debating whether to get the Radiant or Evil Spirit set, just get the evil Spirit set. With smart travel medallion placement you can blow through the 3 Labyrinths in no time, and you get the bonus out of the box.

Can someone please test if you can sneakstrike a frozen enemy using puffshrooms? Freezing an enemy gives a ×3 multiplier on the next hit which would do the 7000 damage very good.

the gerudo weapons give a serious boost when you fuse something to it aswell

Super informative. Love all your videoa. In Breath of the Wild the Phantom Ganon outfit plus dragonbone moblin club (50+ damage) was an awesome combo with attack up food. Fly directly at a Lynel with max stamina and all those equipped, get some head shots in from a high power bow to stun him and knock some HP off. Land directly behind him, replenish stamina, then wail away with the dragonbone club on his 2 back legs from the middle. He doesn't know what's hapening. You get double hits each circluar swing of the club with one on each leg and he's dead before he knows what happens. If he moves either left or right to try to see you, just go the opposite way whilst hitting him. Works every time after a few practices. Ditto for Hinox. Sort of cheating but I'm rubbish with combat!

well there is at least one more powerful bone that you can fuse to weapons, that being the colgera jaw providing 36 fuse attack power instead of the molduga jaw's 32. this is just for technicalities, since i doubt that many people want to go out of their way for a small difference in power, but i just thought id mention it

I think that in place of Ancient Proficiency we could have Zonai Proficiency. Works the same, but also works with fusible objects (like captain horns for example)

I really really really appreciate you saying "nice" after "69." Very cool of you to do, god bless.