How would people feel about a bestiary?

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Say you have an empty book, underneath hunting lug or wherever, called "Bestiary"

The first kill of an enemy simply labels it's name and shows a picture of it, and so on with varying degrees of optional rewards.

- 5 Kills: Unlock location data
- 15 Kills: Unlock loot drops, and percentages
- 50 Kills: Opens up a tidbit of lore on the creature
- 150 Kills: You unlock a title, say "Yarzon Slayer"
- 500 Kills: You unlock an acheivement and some vanity/exclusive gear for that creature, etc. a wolf skin you can wear
- 1000 Kills: You unlock a special, unique, completely optional item, say "Sun Bats will now come to your aid in battle, and no longer aggro you *on world map, not during treasure maps or quests"
- 5000 Kills: You unlock the full lore for that creature, a cutscene, the title "Researcher of Diremites", and possible a vanity weapon with a special effect such as always doing critical damage to that enemy type and raising its drop rates for gil and items


I think this could add incentive to kill world mobs for some people, a bit of grind for others, and I don't think it would be too hard to implement.

[Diadumenos]

+1 for OP

I like this idea, FF games are full of cool critters! Why not give them some recognition?!

[EdwinLi]

I would love to have something like this so we can learn more about the lore of each monsters in this game.

We see so many monsters (world areas and dungeons) but lack a lot of knowledge about their lore in FF14. Only time we get some lore is from quests or cutscenes that we can easily miss if you don't either play certain class/Jobs for their story quests or normal quests which people often just blindly skip the text because they want to rush towards finishing the quests.

However, I think somethings will need to be removed.

This ideal is better for unlocking lore about monsters. Leave the beast taming to the Beastmasters in Ishgard.

[Errors]

Very novel idea, have a "like".

[Alwryn]

I have two viewpoints.

1. That would be ****ing RADICAL!

2. It's a unbelievable waste of limited time and resources.

[Jynx]

Was suggested way back in 1.0 check the thread in my signature for the dev responses.

[Karnyboy]

I think it's a fabulous idea and keeps zones interesting after hitting 50.

This game needs more personal time sinks you can do on your own without feelign trapped to play with either people you don't want to play with or that you HAVE to do it.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Was suggested way back in 1.0 check the thread in my signature for the dev responses.

So get the ball rolling again?

[Avenol]

Beastiary would be cool. I'd like if you had to summon the fat chocobo to see it...lol.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Beastiary would be cool. I'd like if you had to summon the fat chocobo to see it...lol.

You could tie in the Bestiary and Chocobo Companion in one fell swoop!
Give a sidequest with your companion to unlock Fat Chocobo, haha, then he reads off everything