[suggestion] Monster Bestiary

original thread here

Posting this here to get some more exposure and suggestions. Feel free to comment here or in the original post on what you think.

With the UI interface changes proposed by the development team I can't help but myself feel like it's far too much information to be slapping onto the monsters name-tag. A good solution to this conundrum is perhaps allow players to have a personal bestiary they can access and view information they have aquired from monsters.

Such as Level range, agro type, link or not, elemental properties...Hell go a step further and toss some lore into the monsters give em a small snipet of information on the besitary page. I'm sure the dev team has concept sketches of all the monsters they would make perfect artwork for a bestiary page.

Anyone else feel this would be a better way to handle giving us all this monster information without having it clutter up the UI? From here on is the agregate buildup of suggestions.

[User interface][ITEM="user interface"][/ITEM]
[SIZE="5"]Bestiary[/SIZE]

Possible implementation uses.

• Clear away UI clutter
• Collectable card game
• Progressive bestiary "more you fight monster the more it fills out"
• Supplement UI information

Possible Information listed

• Mob familly
• Mob level
• Agressive / Passive
• Linkable
• Elemental affinities
• Lore

Ways to gain Bestiary pages

• Sighting monsters
• Using a skill or item to capture a card "think panktration without needing to weaken the monster
• Killing monsters "once or multiple times"
• using a trading card obtained by other players via "capture" or killing monsters

These are all just suggestions within the thread and not a single cohesive plan, I just wish to give as much suggestions in the top post to get the topic flowing for the developers to read.

I think not only should elemental affinities be listed but the resistances to other forms of damage such as Slash, Pierce and Blunt should be listed.

Having information gained through multiple kills or through using the appropriate action (Blizzard gets you the ice resistance value) would be a good way to do it.

All in all a good idea I'm certainly in favor of.

Someone already posted this in the battle forum.

Edit:- wait nevermind you posted it twice :S, why ?

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Originally Posted by Jinko

Someone already posted this in the battle forum.

Edit:- wait nevermind you posted it twice :S, why ?

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Lol did you not read his post? He said for more exposure

So lets duplicate post everything then yea ?

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Originally Posted by Jinko

So lets duplicate post everything then yea ?

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Bitchbitchbitchbitchbitch.. that's all I hear on these forums

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Originally Posted by Jinko

So lets duplicate post everything then yea ?

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I don't see anywhere on the forum rules where I can't place my suggestion in multiple forums to get a larger chunk of the posting population to look at it. Not everyone visits the battle forum and I'm trying to re-direct people to the original thread for the most part anyways.

You don't like it...ok good for you.

i like it :) I'm just afraid ppl will see this as easy mode XD
"like omg this will make game so easy" stuff.

I like this idea quite a bit.

I THINK IT'D GO NICELY WITH A LORE JOURNAL -SHAMELESS SELF THREAD PLUG-
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-Lore-Journal

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

i like it :) I'm just afraid ppl will see this as easy mode XD
"like omg this will make game so easy" stuff.

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Well considering that they seem to want to spoon-feed the players all this information on the monsters tab itself I don't see how adding some extra information reall demeans it to "Easy mode".

The ammount of data displayed could be limited until meeting certain requirements such as until you actually kill the monsters all you know is it's level, agro type, and linkable or not.

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Well considering that they seem to want to spoon-feed the players all this information on the monsters tab itself I don't see how adding some extra information reall demeans it to "Easy mode".

The ammount of data displayed could be limited until meeting certain requirements such as until you actually kill the monsters all you know is it's level, agro type, and linkable or not.

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I mean even then its just a nice memory aid, I guess it would be hard mode to remember every little bit about every little monster but i'm assuming there's not going to be a test.

Personally I'm OCD about filling out things like Bestiaries with every tid-bit of information possible, it adds to my imersion in the game and gives me hours upon hours of fun just doing said task.

If done right the bestiary even without a reward could give players "something to do" I mean I personally would log in and start mashing whatever I must to get a small bit of lore, and a completion check in my bestiary. People will go bananas when new mobs are introduced I'm downright amazed this hasn't been done in a MMO before "that I know of" really considering how well they cater to the OCD in everyone.

Come on Yoshi-P show us you got what it takes to make another first and great idea for the MMO market!

I like this idea. In regards to weaknesses etc - I believe the information should only be obtained once said action is performed (Like in FFXIII where the info screen would complete as you found weaknesses intentionally or by mistake when not using Libra).

This would also assist in people being able to document in-game where is best to return to for mobs at certain levels (Still keeping the trial & error type exploring for mobs for newer players, or allowing more veteran players to be able to give guidance in parties based on info they have).

Whilst I do like to have information sources like ZAM etc to refer to for certain information, I'd like to see SE implement some in-game stuff that reduces the amount of alt-tabbing time. This breaks the 'immersion' that lots seem to carry on about.

Bestiary, Recipe catalog etc would definitely reduce this, and give the game a more full feeling. I liked in XI how NPC's would give clues about things (like the crafting NPC's making suggestions on crafts near your lvls etc) and it would be nice to have an MMO that could be played mostly or wholly in-game, without the need or less of a need to refer to information outside of the game.

I just feel this would be a great way to add some extra diversity in the game there are so many ways to go about it and almost none of them are what I would call a "bad idea"

I know I really shouldn't shamelessly bump my own suggestion topic but I feel there may be a few new members who might think this a solid idea and help get some well deserved thumbs up T-T.

"If it's against ToS feel free to lock this thread mods"