Yeah, it’s a weird design decision imo at least for #ToTk (IIRC in #BOTW each fairy sidequest was independent from each other) - if you didn’t start a specific side quest you were left finding all these fairy fountains with no real direction on how to unlock them aside from the instruments. Like I helped some of the band members but it wasn’t until I went to the last two areas I explored where I found the necessary quests needed to start unlocking them lol.

So up until that point I have been using some of the earlier items (namely the blue moblin horns and the contruct 1 horns) as throwaway fusion items for weapons (also rocking the knight armor since my defense was oof with only 3-5 hearts) for a lot of the mid portion of the game.

I am enjoying the game a lot but man the fusion management has me scared when trying to find low tier items for amor being unsure how much of the higher tier stuff I should just save for armor instead of using for fusion. Though I suppose white/silver lynels are easy enough to come by since I marked big monster locations though I don’t imagine every player going in has the hindsight to do that.