Grab your chopper.

Save your best, favorite and most powerful weapons for the enemies that deserve them. Who’s deserving? The toughest monsters — the ones with the most hit points.

Put differently, don’t waste your powerful weapons on weak enemies.

This keese is on fire, and it still only has 1 HP

Consider the annoying, bat-like Keese. They have exactly one hit point. To kill it with a single hit, you need a weapon that does at least 1 HP of damage. And that pretty much means that any weapon you have will do.

Given that every hit in Breath of the Wild inches a weapon one step closer to explosion (and the best you can do is find random duplicates or reforge some select weapons), then it makes sense to equip your least powerful (and likely least favorite) weapon. In short, use the right weapon for the right enemy.

KEEP A CRAPPY WEAPON

There’s a corollary to this advice, too: It may seem counterintuitive, but you should carry at least one (relatively) crappy weapon. Maybe that’s a low-powered club or a weak sword. It’s up to you. The specifics don't matter. All that matters is that it’s less powerful and, therefore, more expendable.

Don’t let their size fool you: Moblin skeletons have 1 HP, too

Keeping a weapon that’s significantly less powerful than your other weapons means you can quickly pull it out for confrontations with the low-level enemies that roam Hyrule. That includes everything from Keeses to the brownish-red variety of Bokoblins and everything from the smallest skeletons to giant Moblin monsters.

The point? Let your worst weapon take the abuse, and save your better weapons for more powerful enemies where chipping down HP is essential, and every hit chips off more HP.

THE BEST CRAPPY WEAPONS FOR FIGHTING AND BREAKING

In Breath of the Wild, we’re always on the lookout for two crappy weapons to keep in our inventory — though, to be fair, thinking of them as weapons is the wrong way to approach it. They stink for fighting almost everything — except the weakest of enemies.

The iron sledgehammer and the woodcutter’s axe don’t have much in the way of power, but (at least based on our experience) they’re among the toughest weapons in the game. They won’t do much damage, but they won’t break easily, either.

 

Where can you find these? Just about every stable has a woodcutter’s axe. There’s a ledge on the cliff wall by the Owa Daim shrine in the Great Plateau where you can find an iron sledgehammer.

Both of these weapons have a bonus feature, too: Because they’re so tough, you can use them to break crates and jewel-filled rocks. Don’t waste your powerful weapons breaking them. Save them for enemies.