Clocking in longer than the average Dynasty Warriors game, Age of Calamity is a worthy successor to Breath of the Wild as far equally sheer content is concerned. The story is a lengthy playthrough in and of itself, filled with some of the best cutscenes across both series. While there aren't as many side missions every bit in the original Hyrule Warriors (nevertheless,) Historic period of Cataclysm is overflowing with mail service-game content that'll proceed players hooked afterwards the credits.

Fifty-fifty though the game is receiving two DLC packs, information technology definitely isn't hurting for gameplay. The story itself will take anywhere from thirty to 40 hours to complete on a casual playthrough, but that's simply the tip of the iceberg.

Updated on June 25, 2022 past Michael Christopher: Since the initial publication of this post, the showtime circular of Age of Calamity DLC has released. We've updated this list to bring it up to date with the expansion, as well as refreshing it more generally for readability and clarity.

eleven Play the DLC

split image of age of calamity, with a guardian on one side and link and zelda with their new weapons on the right side

The first wave of DLC is called Pulse of the Ancients. It includes a lot, so we've broken it downwards hither:

  • New fighter: Battle-Tested Guardian
  • New weapon: the Flail, for Link
  • New weapon: the Master Cycle for Zelda
  • New enemies: Moblins with bombs, Gigantic Chuchus, and powerful Wizzrobe variants
  • New difficulty level: Apocalyptic
  • New location: The Imperial Ancient Tech Lab

By taking on challenges at the Royal Ancient Tech Lab, you tin can unlock a ton of new stuff, including the new graphic symbol and weapons on the list above. At that place are also challenging battles that you lot tin have part in, but beware that they tin can be very difficult.

Overall, the DLC will add several hours to your game fourth dimension later you've cleared the main game.

10 Blood Moon Missions

Age of Calamity Blood Moon

Upon completing the game once, Age of Calamity volition start spawning Blood Moon missions which accept precedence over former story missions. Claret Moon missions let you to obtain high level material as rewards from stages yous've already finished, and increase enemy levels considerably in club to offer a greater gameplay claiming.

With the easiest missions in their 60s, the Blood Moon does a great task at incentivizing replay value and encouraging full use of the unabridged party.

nine Terminate Side Missions

Age of Calamity World Map Missions

Age of Calamity might only accept 20 story missions (Blood Moon notwithstanding), just at that place are over 150 side missions to keep busy with. Virtually volition popular up over the grade — offering means of leveling upward outside story missions while generally offering solid rewards, just the all-time are relegated to the post-game.

Belatedly game side missions push well into the 70s equally far as levels are concerned, and require using everyone in the political party at least once. While never as long as story missions, Age of Calamity'south side missions pack in a bunch of a gameplay diversity.

8 Collect All The Korok Seeds

Koroks

Koroks make a return from Breath of the Wild, giving you a seed when y'all observe them. While at that place aren't 900 seeds this time around to torment 100% completionists, there are quite a number scattered about and they're all necessary for getting 100% completion (which really does accept its share of rewards in Age of Calamity, different Jiff of the Wild).

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Korok seeds can exist found in most every single story mission along with quite a few side missions. Koroks themselves are frequently off the beaten path. If a mission has a strip of state leading outward with nothing at that place, chances are there's a Korok hiding in plain sight.

vii Up The Difficulty

Impa Age of Calamity

Historic period of Calamity gets somewhat easier over the course of the game as you amass powerful weapons and resources, especially for players who import their progress over from the demo.

Thankfully, Age of Calamity features difficulty counts to counteract its relative simplicity, none of which equally demanding or irritating as BotW's Master Fashion. Difficult is a prissy step up from Normal and arguably what the story is best balanced around, but Very Difficult is genuinely challenging and turns an like shooting fish in a barrel game into a barbarous Warriors experience. With the new DLC, you can have it up even higher, to Apocalyptic.

6 Upgrade The Perfect Weapon

Age of Calamity Link

With the release of the first round of DLC, you lot tin can now take on missions that are in the college levels, all the way upward to over level 80. You'll definitely want a high-leveled party and a perfect weapon to help y'all.

Weapons can only be leveled to 20 initially, but playing through the game will unlock services that push max weapon Lv to 30. Creating a perfect weapon requires a high base stat to fuse from (stick to the high 60s and 70s) along with matching seals together in social club to get more potent abilities. Each weapon has its own unique skill at xxx, as well, with the Master Sword gaining a vampiric buff, which heals Link every time he deals harm.

5 Level Grind

Age of Calamity Daruk Fighting

On that same token, you volition desire a high-level party for the harder missions, likewise as the DLC challenges.

Blood Moon missions are easily the best way to level upwards quickly while also generally being productive, simply there are several late-game side missions that advantage quite a lot of experience by simply pitting you against high-level enemies. Most of the Coliseum stages make for quick grinding spots, but it's as well possible to feed EXP into party members past exchanging Rupees.

Link Tunic of the Wild

Breath of the Wild committed to a fresh Zelda experience equally much as possible, to the signal of replacing Link's signature light-green tunic with the blue Champion's Tunic. While the Tunic of the Wild is available in-game, information technology can only be unlocked after completing all 120 Shrines, making information technology an extremely late-game reward.

The Tunic of the Wild is similarly unlocked late in Historic period of Cataclysm, but non on the same scale as Jiff of the Wild. Upon finishing the main story, you will unlock a side mission where you'll exist tasked with fighting through Hyrule'southward strongest warriors, somewhen going one on one against Link. Link himself is locked out of the mission, but immigration information technology unlocks the consummate Tunic of the Wild gear up.

3 Unlock Every Character

Calamity Ganon

Fifty-fifty though Historic period of Cataclysm volition throw party members at y'all fourth dimension and time once again, at that place are a few members of the roster who are relegated to hush-hush status. The Slap-up Fairy and Monk Maz Koshia tin exist unlocked as early as Chapter iv, simply there are besides two secret characters relegated to the post-game.

Unlocking both requires quite a chip of effort, from clearing out almost every single side mission available up to that indicate, to collecting the necessary materials for their character quests. That said, information technology's all worth it to unlock both Calamity Ganon and Terrako.

ii Rebuild Terrako

Age of Calamity Zelda and Terrako

On that note, it'southward really possible to rebuild Terrako following their heroic sacrifice at the terminate of Age of Calamity's principal story. Several Terrako icons will pop upward on the earth map afterward completing the main story, all of which require material from side missions sectional to the mail service-game.

Completing all these side quests will eventually build up enough materials to fully rebuild Terrako, triggering a brand new ending where Zelda reunited with her egg robot and a new playable character in the form of a atomic Guardian.

ane Get 100% Completion

Kohga and Sooga

When information technology comes down to information technology, Historic period of Calamity is an incredibly dense Switch game boasting half a hundred hours of content. While that's fiddling compared to both Breath of the Wild and the starting time Hyrule Warriors, taking the time to 100% Age of Calamity is more than enough for the game to earn back its value.

More importantly, 100%-ing the existing content will ready y'all up perfectly for the second circular of DLC coming in November.

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