[Suggestion] Monster Bestiary

[normalforce]

Travesty of travesties! I didn't realize I never 'liked' the first post! Shameful...

Anyway, I like the idea of a bestiary being available on your Lodestone page as well as in-game. Tied into achievements maybe?

I also agree that it'd be a good idea to have a sort of "gauge" in which you would have fragmented amounts of information on said mob until you completed it. This would include anything from HP pools, maybe a little lore, behavior and attack patterns, spawn locations, loot drops, etc., just to name a few examples.

Sorry if all this has been said, but I feel like I had to contribute somehow... >.>

All good ideas.

It just seems to me, with SE's long history of making Final Fantasy games, they should have a good gauge of what players like and don't like. And a bestiary is something that's been include in a lot of the recent FF games and I feel people enjoy having! Tie it in with achievements, give us bonuses for hitting each achievement. Any of these things would encourage players to go out and kill various mob types, if only to complete our personal bestiary and give us something to do while we wait for the next update.

[Kane]

Sounds fun; I'd always love some extra content to do!

[Rowyne]

I think this would be a great idea. The old-school FF games had bestiaries. Warhammer incorporated this idea into their Tome Of Knowledge (which tracked quests, exploration, monster kills, achievements and gave you tidbits of in-game lore). It was a truly unique idea that brought a lot of immersion to the game. With FFXIV to be soon getting an achievement tracker and title system, they could use that same groundwork to incorporate something like this into the game.

Plus, seeing those ??? entries gives you incentive to slay more monsters! Gotta unlock them all! It would be a nice activity for us OCD types.

*Thumbs Up*

[Payadopa]

Warhammer incorporated this idea into their Tome Of Knowledge

I'd LOVE to see something like this. Along with some nice rewards upon completion.

[Morticous]

Give me Mystery! GIve me Beastiary! GIVE ME CHALLENGE~!

[Jynx]

I don't think the "Battle fixes" will be fully finished until we see the job system roll out, and even then they will have some balancing to work with I assume.

I would be interested in knowing what "Paramaters" needed to be adjusted though.

[Innes]

I like this. Bestiary, scan/libra. Yes please. Si por favor.
Specifically, an option to remove UI mob information on mob name tag, and have that information in the bestiary.
I support this!!

[Morticous]

I really hope they put this feature in, it gives people the answers in game without just handing them over, I think it works out great for everyone! You could do a simple quest to start your beastiary with some simple mob information already added in to get you started, this would be a useful quest.. unlike the kill 8 squirrels for a subligar quests we have now.

[Kyra]

Signed, I love this idea, I wish you worked for SE lol.

I want to see something like this, something really addictive to sink my teeth into. There is nothing like this in the game atm. Sadly if stuff like this isnt in an mmo at launch it almost certainly wont ever get added. Or at the least we wont ever see anything like this for many years.

There is a reason I play final fantasy rpgs when they come out. Sadly FFXIV had very few of these reasons in it.

Maybe, one day we will see something as indepth as this beastiary/titles/cardcollecting/ingame achivments stuff. I am not gonna hold my breath though.

The only MMO ive played that had stuff like this was Everquest 2, it was truely addictive all the mini stuff you could do. From completing 100s of collections to killing mobs for titles, and it was all linked in with the player housing which was also one of the best player housing ive seen in an MMO. You would get rewards and trophies that you could display in your house.

[Rentahamster]

Or at the least we wont ever see anything like this for many years.

We will see it. You just gotta BELIEVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XISj03HREFo#t=00m56s