Quote Originally Posted by Donjo View Post
It's not stupid. How can your book possibly think you killed that monster if you're face down on the floor when it dies? How can you collect its soul when you're out of commission? It makes perfect sense that you have to be alive to participate in the kill.
The same way you obtain crystalised souls of slain enemies from FATEs where you just collect stuff lying on the ground and never touch an enemy? How could a book possibly think anything? If we're mixing lore into this the books are already stupid. Because I am pretty sure the Zodiac Braves, who have written in their books what we need to kill to make our weapons stronger, and who lived in Radz-at-Han, did not kill Diabolos or the many other one-of-a-kind enemies that you can only find in Eorzea.