World Bestiary V2

So I posted a suggestion a while back and this is it edited based on feedback I got.

So, when you enter Ragni for the first time, this guy comes up saying he is a Corkian biologist and says he needs help researching on rare mobs in the world. He then give you this gadget that allows you to analyze a mob.

Now, when you kill a rare mob or boss for the first time, It will "analyze the mob" and will message you saying the mob's data has been put into the gadget. When the gadget has data in it, you can click on it and it would bring up a page showing the mob heads/parts of the mob you researched. Clicking on an icon would bring up lore about the mob, and item drops and drop chance of it (if it has any).

The Bestiary allows you to learn more lore about a certain place through mobs, and is just a neat collection thingy saying you've hunted down every rare mob in the game. Also, the Corkian guy is also sitting in Ragni, and if you reach certain milestones he will give you neat stuff

Here are some ideas for bestiary entries:

Spoiler: Theorick

"This ice mage is the last surviving member of the Twain Family. He had froze the entirety of Nessak to protect it from the corruption; and himself."

Spoiler: Hydra

"A strong burning dragon that lives in the Molten Heights. It is very hard to kill, as slicing one head of just replaces it with two more."

Spoiler: Vandal Leader Randal

"A renowned bandit leader in the Almuj Desert, he is known for vandalizing structures by blowing them up."

 

So it would be like a really short quest where you would get the "gadget" (I hope you didn't want to make it an item) at the end?

 

It is not an item, it is put into your compass gui next to ur skill points. It acts similar to a pokedex
Oh I was just thinking the guy just give you it

 

Wouldn't it be a little bit weird if you were a fresh recruit and someone would tell you "hi, pls help me with the bestiary, here you have a thing to do it"

 

Oh yeah true.
So basically somewhere in emerald trail is the guy getting harassed by some zombies because he is bad. You chase of the zombies and save the guy, and the guy thinks you are pretty useful so he give you the thing
I just got this off of how u rescue prof. birch in pkmn ruby, sapphire, and emerald

 

Its a nice thought, having the ability to basically see all of a mobs info/dmgs/defenses/flavour text or lore. It could be implemented into the compass and would really be helpful for getting certain numbers like elemental defense of a boss. The UI could basically be just the jukebox with the search function(which is just, broken.) with icons that basically indicate whether its a yellow name, passive or hostile. However, this just feels too much work to add all mobs especially their infos (Unless there's an API or something to basically implement it much easier? Im no coder.) The fact that you will also have like a lot of enemies with the same word/name on a part of their full name i.e zombie would make it sort of a pain to navigate more but I can't really find a solution or a substitute for that problem. The way to obtain the Bestiary could definitely be worked on seeing as it would get in the way of Enzan's Brother and feels too out of place just introducing themselves as a Corkian would also feel out of place seeing as wynn itself was just introduced to you.

Conclusion is that: It is alright. I would definitely use it in-game and it IS pretty nifty but with all the bugs and other matters right now, I don't feel like it would be implemented especially since it looks like it would take a lot of time to implement. Idea could also be worked on more.

 

I like the idea, as it shows the player more about the mobs and how they come to be, however i don't think this will be implemented too soon due to 1.20 being close by

 

Yeah, hopefully we will get it in 1.21 :)

 

Stats should be easy enough to implement. After all, the game has to get those stats somehow. They could just implement that but display it in text instead of making a new mob.

Extra lore should only really be for rare mobs and bosses, which would actually be really nice, since a lot of rare mobs don't have lore and there's no other good way to give them lore

 

1). Wait I'm pretty sure the Enzan's Brother quest is getting removed and replaced with a discovery
2). Ok I guess it can just be a normal biologist

 

Enzan's brother is still there. It just leads to a secret discovery that you can do still a very short quest though

 

Oh ok

 

How about we don't introduce a lv 85 city at lv 1.

how would we open the menu normally? compass? I rly don't wanna add another slot lol.

1: Ragni is not a great for a dude from corkus lol
2: What type of stuff? How will the stuff be useful? (armor, tomes, etc.) will it be level based or is it discoveries and such? Does he let you beat special mobs or smth to get more lore? pls be a bit more specific here.

there's a whole quest about this... is it worth it to say that in a few sentences (ik this is an example, but you know)

 

A city? No. Just a person.

It can be changed to mage or whatever

Wasn't this supposed to be in compass? Like tomes, jukebox etc.

Could be worse. It is about the boss, so a few sentences are fine.

It will help more with stuff like minibosses

 

I meant talking about corkus that early ingame could be a bit wierd

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oh by another slot I meant on hotbar lol, and they didn't (as far as I can tell) specify a location so

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true, could be cool to learn more about some of those star mobs at grinding spots without official discovories

 

I know what you meant, thats why I quoted it

And now you would have a blank lore about few bossed (e.g. Theorick) because there is already quest about them. Perhpas it could focus on more about their abilities than general lore, so it is not thst boring