Zelda Breath of the Wild – Does Salting Cooking Change Effects/Regen Hearts?

I bought the hyrule soldier armor in Hateno village (full metal heavy armor) and have been running around with it for at least 8-10 hours of game time. I have tried to carefully track its' side effects, since I also expected to move more slowly.

I just did some user tests to be sure, and this is what I can say for sure:

Running speed and stamina are not affected. Climbing speed and stamina are not affected. Dodging and jumping distance is not affected. These all work exactly the same. The speed is the same, and it consumes stamina at the same rate. I tried it with cloth armor and the hyrule soldier metal armor multiple times, there were no differences.

Even the noise meter was the same for sneaking. I had no issues with sneaking up on horses or enemies.

Metal armor doesn't even affect lightning strikes either.

Answer

I took the crazy idea of trying to throw the leaf using the 'RB' throw button, and it actually did not throw the leaf like I wanted! Instead, it blew in my currently facing direction with that familiar reticle.

Etc.

So that seems to be the answer, and in case you actually wanted to throw your leaf, well, I guess I don't know if you can do that in the game currently. :P

This wasn't a huge issue, but wanted to post in case anyone else was searching for the answer by chance. I was a bit too protective of my items in the beginning of the game, coupled with the durability factor, and didn't want to lose my leaf! Then I found it's a common and replenishable item from destroying trees, and I'm not even sure if it has limited durability to worry about.