Age of Calamity: Expansion Pass Bonus Released

Today the Prototype Ancient Short Sword and the Prototype Ancient Soldier Gear became available in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. This was already part of last week's update, but you can now actually obtain the Expansion Pass, which then unlocks these items. We still don't know on what day the first DLC wave will release in June and what exactly it will contain, where this might get announced at E3. We'll see.

Returning to this game after more than three months feels kind of weird. Normally we get these DLCs when the games are still fresh, but here there has been a significant gap, where many people probably have moved on to other games.

I left off in a state where the only thing left to do was leveling characters and building weapons, where I'm not even sure what's what anymore. This will take a little bit of time to get back into it, especially with what weapon seals I was planning to use for everyone... But as long as there aren't any new challenges to overcome, I probably won't bother.

And the new items of course aren't a real incentive to return to the game yet. I was never a big fan of the Ancient Helmet, because it looks so dorky, especially with that long hair. The Prototype Ancient Cuirass looks cool, though.

The Prototype Ancient Short Sword seems very basic on first glance. It has a base attack value of 36, which is half of what other weapons might offer, and it comes with an Attack Speed++ seal on it, which is nothing out of the ordinary, unlike the Training Sword for example. However, from what I've seen, this weapon has its own tier, where it grows quickly to over 160 damage, which is quite significant and ridiculously good for something that you can get right at the start of the game. So, it's definitely a weapon you want to hold on to in any case...

Ideally, at the end of the DLC, they'll add something where you can get the Lucky Ladle, Training Sword and this Prototype Ancient Short Sword, so you can get these items again. But for now you just want to save them in case they remain a one-time deal, so press that L stick.

It also seems that the DLC will offer some stronger weapons for what's to come and with that it's also possible that the first DLC wave will include the other ancient weapons and armor pieces from Breath of the Wild, including the real Ancient Short Sword, where it will even surpass this one and make it obsolete. But for now this is a good weapon. Maybe even too good. It's basically how the Master Sword should have developed, which even had the same base attack value.