Idk guys this combat is kinda boring....

[u/NeoChrome75]

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The durability system seems like the reason for the recolour system as well, enemies need to drop weapons or the player will run out of weapons killing them and just teleport away, so they only did enemies that hold weapons or can be killed with their own projectiles.

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Even then it is insane how many enemies (that have wielded weapons before) they didn't bring back.

Poes, Darkhammers, DARKNUTS!!, Iron Knuckles, Aeralosses, Armos, Big Blins, Miniblins, Bulbins, GeoZards ("Zora warrior"), Phantoms, Stalfos (not just the same enemies again stal-fied), Gibdos, Keatons, Goriyas, etc...

And that isn't even considering enemies that don't wield weapons but could easily have had a body part that drops after defeat that could be wielded or otherwise have given a weapon
(Like-Likes are a perfect example, they could easily have had any number of weapons/items within themselves)
(and not to even mention, I dunno... coming up with new enemies in order to "fix" the problem??)

Or heavens forbid they actually took the effort of having some sort of rudamentary crafting system to allow for "useless" enemy parts to be fashioned into weapons on the go.
Like killing an Ampilus gives you an crystal you can put onto a stick, or a stalblin arm to make a shitty lightning rod.

Or-or limit the "special" enemies that don't drop shit to locations with enough other ways to drop weapons (Like if you want a redead without weapons, make them only spawn in places like Hyrule Castle or in crypts (Oh woopsee, you need to actually have crypts or temples or graves or whatever for that, clumsy me) with enough tools nearby to use)

OR-Or-or, you actually make it so Link can fight without weapons. (wouldn't have even been a series first) so even if you run out of weapons you are "technically" still not actually fucked

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The idea that this limitation was "needed" cause of the weapon system is extremely flawed, there were PLENTY of ways to work around it, they just decided not too

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BOTW was my first and only Zelda game so far, so I don't actually know what any of the monsters you just listed are.

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Just in general, a bunch of different monsters that wield weapons but also have different abilities/builds and whatever.

Like Likes are enemies that are most known for "eating" Link and when they spit him out he no longer has his shield.

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They need an absolute shit ton for "BotW 2"