K181 posted... People get overly attached to their weapons despite the fact that they're meant to be used and you will always find more good weapons. Thereby many hoarde and ruin the core gameplay loop by their own volition.
I honestly think the dislike of the weapon breaking is mostly from an admittedly understandable gamer attachment to the idea of acquiring and upgrading gear in games. We're mostly used to finding and savoring quality weapons in games, so the sight of high level weapons breaking after only a handful of enemies seems counter to what we're used to. So it creates a built in impression to treat great weapons as special items that you horde but never use. With that mindset, I think many just artificially limit themselves to a smaller set of weapons, thereby ruining the core gameplay loop.
Here's the thing, though..... weapons in BotW are not special. They're just ammo. Use your weapons, you will always find more weapons. If you play it with that mindset, the game is far more liberating and open than you think it is.
This is pretty much my take re: durability.