Request: Flavor text for Job Actions!

This is a humble request. I really love job lore and I am sorely disappointed that there isn't any lore on any of the new skills 70+ in Shadowbringers. That said, would it be possible at some point to have 1 or 2 lines of flavor text under the tooltip of job actions? The localization team already works hard to add flavor text to each new food and key items for every patch, what's a few more lines for permanently adding flavor text to skills to clue players into the power source or inspiration for these skills?

Some examples for DRG:


Geirskogul
Delivers an attack with a potency of 270 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Blood of the Dragon.
Additional Effect: Changes Blood of the Dragon to Life of the Dragon
Dragon Gauge Cost: 2
"Roils the inner dragon, releasing an aetheric blast not unlike a dragon's breath."

Life Surge
Ensures critical damage for first weaponskill used while Life Surge is active.
Duration: 5s
Effect cannot be applied to damage over time.
Additional Effect: Absorbs a portion of damage dealt as HP
"Keenly strikes at an opening or weakpoint. The surge of exhilaration from inflicting a grievous wound replenishes vigor."

Battle Litany
Increases critical hit rate of self and nearby party members by 10%.
Duration: 20s
"Recites a battle-cry taught to fledglings of the Knights Dragoon, rouses the fighting spirit of nearby allies".

While I like the idea in theory, I wouldn't want this on the tooltips. Some tooltips are very, very long (see: AST skills, Earthly Star most of all). I'm not sure where else to suggest putting it, however.

Not that it’s much of a resolution for your issue but don’t they generally have this kind information in the Lore books? Since all the previous ones have been so popular I imagine we’ll see a ‘Shadowbringers’ one that will cover at least some lore about this kind of thing. So even if it’s not in the game itself I do think we’ll get something like this in some form in the future.

I do like this kind of thing though, it’s fun to read how the abilities work from the viewpoint of characters in the game rather than as players

I really liked the Lorebook had that for some skills, it'd be nice if we had that for all of them! I agree!

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Originally Posted by Raldo

While I like the idea in theory, I wouldn't want this on the tooltips. Some tooltips are very, very long (see: AST skills, Earthly Star most of all). I'm not sure where else to suggest putting it, however.

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If this were ever implemented, I'd like to see the flavor text be an entirely separate tooltip, toggled by the HQ/NQ item toggle button. That way if someone is interested in the flavorful tooltip rather than the technical, or vice versa, they can hold shift/ctrl/alt.

What if they made a "Skill Log" widget on the menu? Skills are added to the menu as you level each job and learn them. You can hover them and read their tooltip but there's also a few lines of text for each? We have this already for Blue Magic Spells, Triple Triad Cards, and Minions. This would also be a convenient place to put all skills available to you for every job because you know how sometimes you want to read what a certain WHM skill does but you don't have time or can't switch to WHM at the moment? You could open the Skill Log and there would be tabs for each job. The only issue is skills are added/removed all the time so they would constantly have to update this every expansion.... BUT I WANT THE LOREEEEE