First off, I never said that ess bottle dupe doesn't work with Ruto's letter (RIP), but it is still faster to do torch HP before going to Lake Hylia.
As it seems there is interest for more 100% route ideas involving a reverse DoT skip, Fox and I began chatting up some ideas and speculations. If this route could be faster here are some thing so keep in mind. I'm going to organize these into pros cons and likely route ideas.
PROS:
- Silver Gauntlets FWWW as adult for faster Mirror Shield
- Possibly slightly faster deku tree, but also maybe slower (need to go through basement for bomb wall skulltula)
- faster KD
**There are probably more pros but those are what I have for now.**
CONS:
- No ganonless
- DHWW with 20 hearts for ganondorf skip
- won't have beans for DMC and ZR early on most likely
- maybe slower poes
- BotW is kind of out of the way
- Probably have to move Mido
LIKELY ROUTE IDEAS:
- DoT skip after doing lon lon
- Epona first thing in adult 1
- Fire temple is the last thing in adult 1
- Complete Biggoron Sword quest in adult 1 right before fire temple
- Ice Cavern in adult 1
- Deku Tree after getting saw
- Spirit Chus probably for LW skulltula
- BotW after trading Keaton mask
- Reverse wasteland after Spirit temple
These are all just speculations. At this point I'm going to say that this route will not be faster.
BUT while I'm on the topic of 100%, I thought of a good idea for the current route! Currently, I get silver gauntlets because silver rock skip is hard, and it's still slower than just picking up the rock. What I'm thinking is, after getting the skulltula in the wasteland, savewarp and go get golden gauntlets and double magic like you would later on. The issue with this is a slightly slower and definitely harder shadow trial because of no longshot. However, I think this is faster than both silver gauntlets and silver rock skip.After adult fishing you would warp to spirit temple instead of savewarping which would waste maybe five seconds from having to quit fishing and having to leave the area to warp away.
