Bestiary

[SydeBeheln]

Pardon me if this has been a discussion in the past, but I was curious in what everyone's opinion on a bestiary was. I just recently played FF12 and the bestiary in that game was really nice, I liked all the artwork for each mob, and the amount of detail for each one.

Honestly I think a bestiary in FFXIV would be awesome, they could even add some cool functions to the system like a way to track mobs you've already encountered but forgot where you slayed it.

Either way, it would be something new and interesting for the game, what do you guys think?

[Laughlyn]

I think this is a great idea, i really loved this feature in the older FF remakes aswell.

Maybe when addons comes along for FFXIV 2.0, maybe we
get some user-created addon with this feature.

[Orophin]

At the very least I think this should appear on the Lodestone home page as its own section. I remember when the game was still in beta the main FFXIV website (na.finalfantasyxiv.com) was posting pictures and such of some of the various monsters, but not much more than that.

[elreed]

Good idea, it could be inside the achievement window,would be good to know weakness, attacks the mob does, for NM's they could add some history, especially beast tribes and garleans,etc theres a lot that SE can do with this to improve the quality we have now

[MistressAthena]

I come from playing FFXI and loving it back in the day when it was worth playing, when it was very hard to get anywhere, learning each beasts weakness/strengths, and remembering what they are, where they are. part of the excitement is "forgetting", and having to re adventure and re-learn. I believe despite the good intentions game developers these days have for puttin this type of thing in games, it does destroy the need to learn, and adventure. It also kills "could be" Adventures you never knew you would of had.

I know most players these days like to have things as easy and simple as they can in games, but I also hold Square Enix games above others for the reason that they dont make everything clear cut and simple, they make you learn it the hard way, and remember, instead of taking the lazy way out.

[DonMega]

Would like to have that, hopefully we'll get in in 2.0 along with achievements to go with it.

[JusticeReborn]

I think this would be a fantastic idea as well.