it's pretty funny really. i started just bopping around the sky islands basically immediately after the tutorial, dropping on random skyview towers, so i have utterly random bits of the map unlocked now
and that took me to a labyrinth which i did. and i found a bunch of zonai weapons in there with good stats which was great
and then after that i thought it'd be fun to revisit the great plateau and that's full of high level bokoblins which i killed and then i fused their horns to the zonai weapons and now i have an inventory full of high damage weapons that are completely OP for the early game >_>