[Request] Bestiary

[Dreggit]

I know it's really stupid... but I enjoy reading these when they are in games...

It's be nice to unlock a bestiary that holds information on every enemy we kill with a small lore note or description about it.

I imagine it to be something like this;

UI is a book or box
-Has several lines for sorting
-Sort by:
*Region
*Enemy type
*Class/Job quests
*Regional quests
*Dungeons and Raids
*FATEs
*Notorious Monsters/hunts
*Bosses
*Would break down into 3 categories. Mini bosses, bosses and raid bosses (Trials and Raid Bosses)

Once sorted, display would be similar to how it was done in FFX-2 with a small picture of the enemy+name, with 9 entries per page. Of course in an aesthetic style akin to FFXIV.

An entry page in my mind would look like this

Top left corner- Image of enemy
Left center under image or above image - enemy name
Top right corner and right center - Statistics
- Stats would include:
-The 6 main stats
-Attack
-Defence
-Health
-Mana/Stamina
- Attacks?
Bottom of page: Lore description or note about enemy

I can see two types of achievements

Entries (generic entries in log)
10 entries
50 entries
100 entries - necklace
500 entries - title
1000 entries - ring
2500 entries - earnings
Whatever current cap is* - title + minion/mount

Zone completion (completing all entries in a zone including dungeons, FATEs, Notorious monsters/hunts, dungeons, raids or otherwise relevant to that zone)
1 zone - title
3 zones
5 zones - hat
10 zones
15 zones - body/chest
Whatever the current cap is* - title+ minion/mount

*same achievement


I know. Lame idea. Common idea. It'd just be cool to have. I've got a notebook of 527 personal entries but I know there's way more and I'm missing a lot of stats and lore entries

I feel this would promote people to seek out and do old content they may never have done before or enter areas they had no reason to go to before

**An afterthought. To the quests that cannot be completed again with relevant unique mob incounters, I would propose that they be ticked as entered in the bestiary as long as that quests been completed.

[JedahJohnny]

Like this ^^

[TristanBlane]

I love Bestiaries ! I'd love one in game that'll be fun to complete.

[Driavna]

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It's not a lame idea at all, fishers already have similar content. Other rewards could be trophies or/and frames.

[Yamimarik]

Well... it might not be an official SE, in game bestiary... but!

Moose-Senpai has this going on... it's quite the interesting read and look through!!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...le-Codex-Alces

Link to the actual page for the Bestiary: THE RAIMDELLE CODEX ALCES

[Dreggit]

Well... it might not be an official SE, in game bestiary... but!

Moose-Senpai has this going on... it's quite the interesting read and look through!!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...le-Codex-Alces

Link to the actual page for the Bestiary: THE RAIMDELLE CODEX ALCES

This is great. Although it'd also be great to have it in game so to not have to search elsewhere for such information.

However.... maybe Mouse would accept help from me in gathering some statistical information. (That I can gather at least)

[SaitoHikari]

I've wanted one for a while. Would take a lot of work to implement at this stage in the game though, but it'd result in a ton of people going back to earlier areas for the sake of filling it out for completion purposes. The earlier they get started on it, the easier it'd be to work on in the long term.

Unlocking entries would probably work quite a bit like a hunting log, but with some differences depending on the type of content.
- Regular monsters out in the field need to be defeated 5 times to have their lore entry recorded. 20 times for stat and attack descriptions.
- B, A, and S rank hunt mobs need to be defeated once to have their lore entry recorded. Three times for stat and attack descriptions.
- FATEs only need to be cleared once to be recorded. I was thinking there should be more, but there's more than enough FATEs on ridiculous respawn timers already.
- Dungeons need to be cleared once for a general lore entry, twice for lore entries on basic enemies in the dungeon, three times for lore entries on the bosses, four times for stats on the basic enemies, five times for boss stats.
- Trials and 24-man raids work similarly to dungeons, but omit the 'basic enemies' part since everything would be treated as a boss, meaning you only need 3 clears to count for total completion.
- Let's include Diadem in there too! Mobs behave as regular monsters. The only FATEs recorded would be for the boss FATEs (and the Blood Wings FATE, which is technically a boss on a shorter timer), and they would behave like a hunt mob. The Emergency Mission entry would behave as if it were a Trial.

Oh, and filling out entries should award you EXP, just like the hunting log. There'd be a large EXP bonus for filling out all 'lore' entries within a particular area, a title for filling out all 'stat' entries, and maybe a piece of related glamour for total completion of a zone (like a wreath crown similar to what the Moogle King wears for completing all Churning Mists entries).

Should probably exclude quests though, it's really just a lot of extra work for something you only do once. Most important quest NPCs you fight would already be covered in the lore book too.

[Just-Communication]

Can we get a bestiary with more than just text description but also a 3D model that we can rotate and inspect? I don't know how much work goes into making the creatures but I'd like to take a more closer look at them, especially the bosses. More often than not people are playing with the camera zoomed way back and you don't really see the details that are put into the model. There are things you simply don't notice about enemies when you're trying to kill them (and not get killed), you know?

While we're at it can we also get a Sabotender/Cactuar pose emote and...a minion that looks like the blue butterflies in The Lost City of Ampador (hard)?

[Clethoria]

I actually looked for one my first sub because I just expected it to have one. Unpleasantly surprised.

[Rhivryn]

love this idea