The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom acts similarly to other games in the series, making bombs a valuable item you’ll want to obtain early in your adventures. Those familiar with The Legend of Zelda Games will know that bombs are powerful tools for breaking obstacles. Bombs can open paths, damage enemies, and open up the game’s larger world for further exploration.
Bombs come in many forms – as traditional items you can place, or as powerful echoes in TLoZ: Echoes of Wisdom. Echoes can be summoned at any time, allowing you to summon the memory of an item or enemy you interacted with. There are two different forms of bomb echoes that you can collect early to gain access to the explosives before naturally placing them in the story.
How to get bombs
Get the Echoes Right
Bombs are found in two separate echoes for Bombfish and Zirro mushrooms which you can discover in several locations. Although you will get traditional bomb items later in the main story, it may be better to get the bombs earlier to break through the obstacles immediately. For example, one of the game’s many dungeons can only be solved with bombs, so you can’t earn your rewards until you have explosives on hand.
If you’re wondering what order you should try to get these bombs in, the best way to start is go after the Bombfish first. These pumps are among the best echoes to get early because of how much easier they are to find compared to Zirro echoes or traditional pumps. However, you need have some combat echoes with you before starting to look for any type of bomb present in TLoZ: Echoes of Wisdom.
How to get and use Bombfish
Defeat a dangerous enemy
Bombfish Echo can be obtained when you defeat the Bombfish enemy in the Zora Rivera location to the east that you may have explored before. This place can only be accessed after finishing the first rift and complete the Suthorn Forest dungeon. Head south from the Zora River until you see a cave to the left of the huge rift on your map of the region to chase the Bombfish.
As you enter the cave, you will see a small stream with a sign that says not to disturb the Bombfish swimming in these waters. You should be able to spot the Bombfish bobbing back and forth in the water, ready to explode if you accidentally fall into the stream. All you need to do is detonate the bomb fish from afar to make sure he is defeated and ready to be picked up as an Echo.
You can use a variety of Echoes that Zelda already has to defeat the Bombfish, such as the Chompfin, which can attack the Bombfish in the water and force it to detonate.
This Bombfish south of the Zora River village is not the only one in the greater Waters of Jabul region you can defeat for Echo. Once you have this, you can throw the bomb fish at an enemy or target an enemy using L2 cause it to swim and detonate at a target. The bomb fish can’t harm youSo use your explosions to destroy cracked walls, breakable objects or against bosses in TLoZ: Echoes of Wisdom.
How to get and use the Zirro Echo
Knock down enemies from the sky
Zirros are small mushroom-like creatures with wings that fly around Hyrule as annoying enemies that periodically drop bombs. You can use these creatures as an Echo after defeating one of them for the first time, similar to Bombfish. However, you don’t find Zirros until you reach Eldin Volcanoa place you typically won’t visit until much later in the game’s story.
You can visit Eldin Volcano early to start finding Zirros, especially in the west of Goron City. Avoid the bombs dropped by Zirros and summon an Echo that uses ranged attacks to attack these air creatures. Any kind of throwing spears, arrows, or other long-range moves will end up taking down at least one Zirro and giving you the Echo you want.
Using a Zirro Echo is significantly more difficult than using a Bombfish, but the controls are largely the same. You can still target enemies using L2, causing a summoned Zirro Echo to throw a bomb at an enemy and explode after a short period of time. Even though these bombs detonate quickly, it can be difficult to time their explosions to actually hit targets, including destructible parts of the environment that you want to move on to exploration.
How to get normal bombs
Defeat a dark reflection
Normal pumps are also called Power Bombsthat you can get when defeat Dark Link in the Eldin Volcano dungeon. This evil reflection of the legendary hero Link acts as the dungeon’s final boss, using only his traditional bombs to try and take him down. The boss arena is full of cracked sand blocks that can be destroyed when a bomb explodes near them.
You need let Dark Link expose a path that leads to him through the blocks that the boss destroys. As long as you don’t get too close to an explosion, you can catch up to Dark Link and attack him using your Swordfighter form or a variety of attack Echoes. As you can see in the video above from the YouTube creator Release fireThis causes Dark Link to enter a second phase where he throws several bombs until you defeat him.
Those who own the Zirro Echo can hit Dark Link with their own aerial bombs, turning the tables on Dark Link and making the fight against this boss much easier.
Defeating Dark Link will give your Swordsman form the ability to throw bombs anywhere in the world. Just like with Zirro and Bombfish Echoes, you can use Bombs of Might to destroy sections of the environment with cracks to reveal hidden treasure or unlock paths to new areas. Those looking for heart pieces, fairy bottles or secret accessories in TLoZ: Echoes of Wisdom They’ll want to use bombs to reveal as many items as they can.
Normal bombs can be thrown when you assume Swordsman form and press A, but using a bomb costs energy. Since you can only be in Swordsman form for a limited time, this restricts how many bombs you can use without exhausting this combat stance. It’s best to use Normal Bombs for combat as you can update Bombs of Might with Lueberry next to the Swordsman’s Bow and Sword.
Bombfish are the best explosives to use while exploring, as they are easy to aim and are not limited in number. Those who receive bombs at the beginning The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom You will have many ways to uncover many secrets around the world that will help you become stronger on your ongoing journey.
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