Should you prioritize Heart Containers or Stamina Wheels first The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Zelda: TofK)?
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Offer Spirit Orbs to the Goddess Statue
Clear shrines and turn in your Spirit Orbs in order to boost your Heart Container or Stamina Wheel. Each enhancement increases your Heart Container by 1 or your Stamina Wheel by 1/5th.
You can only max either the Heart Container or Stamina Wheel.
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You cannot max both Heart Container and Stamina Wheels
Similar to Breath of the Wild, Link has to choose between the Heart Container or Stamina Wheel to the max. Since there are only up to 120 Spirit Orbs you can obtain, you can only pick one to the max.
Which should you give top priority?
It is advised to max out Link’s Heart Containers first, especially for beginners. If you boost your heart 13 times, you can unlock the Master Sword.
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Make Stamina Wheels your second priority
Boost your Stamina Wheels in order to increase the limit of your dashing, climbing, and aerial gliding.
Can you reset your boosts?
If you visit the Goddess Statue, you can reset your character’s status. Pay 100 Rupees for Heart Container and 120 Rupees for Stamina Wheel reset.
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This page is copied from Breath of the Wild and…isn’t helping. You unlock the Master Sword in TotK with stamina (not hearts) and there are more shrines.
If you played BotW, I think TotK rewards stamina more, relatively: five stamina upgrades unlock the Master Sword, and early stamina lets you travel further from towers. The one thing gated on hearts shows up late and only needs 10, only two of which have to come from non-tutorial shrines. You can use armor, food, and one-hit-kill protection to make it through a lot. Maybe you get those two “mandatory” heart containers from shrines, then stamina until you can get the MS, then whatever you want.
If you haven’t played BotW you probably should get more hearts early than the game makes you like this post says. Besides dying less, it’s just fun spending more time running around leveling up and it gets you experience that makes the main quests easier.
Also, the puzzles are pretty good and you can just do lots of them and not worry about optimizing this!
I’m dumb I missed where am I supposed to trade them in