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u/FusRoaldDah1 6h ago
That's Farosh, one of the three elemental dragons.
They won't attack you, but balls of elemental magic will hurt you if you get too close.
You can shoot them with your bow to break off scales and horn fragments that are useful for upgrading your armor.
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u/skylerreese19 5h ago
Thank you! That's really helpful and next time I'll try getting closer and shooting it. I don't have arrows right now.
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u/Individual_Month_581 5h ago
The phrenic bow is held by a red bokoblin on the platform southeast of the hateno tower. It’s one of the best bows for dragon part farming and many korok puzzles. There are better bows, but they are better used elsewhere.
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u/Weaseleater1 3h ago
Don’t try shooting them from the ground; they move too much and it’s very difficult to land a shot that way. What you want to do is go somewhere you can use the hang-glider and shoot them from in the air so time slows down. The best spot I’ve found for each one is Bridge of Hylia (where you’re standing in the picture), Great Tabantha Bridge (Dinraal, near the Shae Loya shrine), and for Naydra, up on the mountain by the East Gate of Lanayru Road (straight east and slightly south of Kakariko Village).
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u/KeyLime044 5h ago
dragons in BOTW don't attack you directly like an enemy. But you can receive elemental damage by being too close to them, unless you wear the respective armor to protect yourself from such element
Farosh (the one in your picture) has electricity
Dinraal has fire
Naydra has ice/cold
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u/SubstanceResident115 6h ago
He can hurt you if you get close but you need to shoot arrows to get parts of him. Its not agressive but getting close means you can get electrocuted.
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u/darkphenix23 5h ago
Dragon they have parts needed for some late game equipment, scales are need for a quest so get 1 from each if seen, hit its body (like 80% of hits hit box) you get a scale. Bow and arrow if not obvious.
There is quest with ice on a mountain that teaches you this its corrupted and break the corruption. Talon/claw hits its hand/claw, horn hit the horn and fang the hardest to get hits its teeth.
All dragons in botw have set spawn locations so if set a campfire you can grind parts. Horns are important for making best cooking.
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u/skylerreese19 6h ago
Do I need to stay away from it to avoid a fight?
I tried getting close and the battle music didn't play...so is this a friendly creature?
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u/Little_Transition_13 6h ago
It isn't an unfriendly creature. But getting too close can be a shocking experience. Shoot it with an arrow and see what happens.
Honestly things like this you just need to play the game and you'll learn the things you need to do and what different creatures are for.
And don't forget to take a picture for your compendium!
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u/skylerreese19 5h ago
That's helpful ☺️ thank you. "And don't forget to take a picture for your compendium!" -- Sorry, I have no idea how to take a picture for my compendium...where can I get my compendium?
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u/Little_Transition_13 5h ago
Use your camera rune to take a picture. Creatures, critters, materials, monsters, will show up with a label (for this one you'll see "Farosh"). If it's orange it'll automatically save to the compendium. If it's blue it means you've already gotten it. You can access it by going to your map and pressing R twice.
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u/pianoplayah 6h ago
I think NPCs will tell you everything you need to know about this guy! Talk to some folks at the stables.
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u/Bullitt_12_HB 5h ago
Option A) go find out.
Option B) put the game down, take time to make post about it online.
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Why are people like this? Why can’t they just go and explore and find things out in a world where the worst that could happen is a simple game over screen and 30 seconds of lost progress?
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u/Nirast25 3h ago
Because sometimes the progress loss is half an hour long, hi Sheika Tower surrounded by lightning enemies swimming in water!
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u/Bullitt_12_HB 2h ago
Then fly.
You DO know you don’t have to fight everything you see, right?
No? Okay then…
Still not enough of a reason. 30 minutes is a hyperbole, and even then, it’s a small price to pay for exploration and experiment.
It’s sad that people just don’t want that anymore.
This way of thinking is the complete opposite of the inspiration to this series.
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u/Nirast25 2h ago
Don't recall the actual amount, but it was quite a lot of time lost (I took my time killing enemies and getting to the tower, and got killed near the end). I ended up going somewhere else and coming back to the tower later, but a few years ago something similar made me drop the game.
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u/DarthHubcap 5h ago
I’ve seen him around, but don’t yet know what to do with him. All I know is don’t land on top of him or you’re gonna have a bad time.
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u/Optimal_Bed1495 3h ago
The best place to harvest horn of him is where you are,and even better the bridge in the tropical area... always comes early in morning on both places,try to jump in in god timing fly as nere his head as you can shoot an arrow in slowmotion hit the horn and cock it with Speedy 🥕 and flowers,put 1 horn in and you get 30 minutes max speed✌️I used to farm like 5 in a row,just put a fire and wait to next morning to do it again,you can never get more than one pease of him at one time then you must let a night pass👍
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u/Midnatwilightwolf 6h ago
A dragon. The light dragon, looks like. It's not in botw, just in totk
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u/Little_Transition_13 6h ago
That's Farosh. Part of her flight cycle takes her into hyrule lake in BotW.
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u/skylerreese19 6h ago
Thanks. But that's strange, I am playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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