R.I.P. bestiary

Well that seems like a lot of time and money wasted.
This league had enough content to be called an expansion.

The only thing I'm disappointed about is the loss of the four bosses and their uniques. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to preserve that by keeping the four legendary beasts used in spawning the portals as a very rare spawn, but instead of capturing them, killing them opens portals immediately instead.

Rest in piss.

On the surface it looks like "a lot of content", but in reality most of what Bestiary added in unhelpful bloat:

1.) How many times have you entered the menagerie? Look like its there just as an excuse to limit the # of captured beasts.
2.) Most of the recipes are junk and inferior to other methods of crafting
3.) The bestiary book does not help you in any way (recipes are unknown until you capture the right beast)
4.) Net galore
5.) Spirit beasts are too rare

I have a lvl 87 in Bestiary and a lvl 85 in flashback. Havent found any spirit beasts or any of those handful of GG recipes. Leveling recipes and a harder pack every other map is all the content I've got from Bestiary and as such it is inferior to any other league (with the exception of Onslaught). I had more fun in Rampage, ffs...

My first character was a Templar in this league and the initial conversation made me giggle.

need the bird one to complete the mini collection.

I liked Beastiary, if they made it just a little bit more simple and understandable for the average player it would fit fine into the core game.


How to implement Beastiary into core game:

Remove the Menagerie. Make Einhar a master with an Altar for beast crafting in the hideout. Drop fights for completing recipes. Captured beasts go into the Beast Book. Make names and mods of beasts simpler to understand tied with what recipes they fulfill. Beast boss fights is made into maps that open with map device. Remove unused recipes and tone down recipes that are to powerful / balance problematic.

As a returning player I was happy to play flash back on HC... Once I was introduced to the whole catch the pokemon; the game felt different... in a bad way.

I did however like the crafting book, that should be implemented in the game. Would be nice to have a book like that to know what recipes I have unlocked, and one place to craft everything. Tired of opening different windows to craft an item.

Catching creatures was just a pain... slowed me down. I stopped flash back because couldn't stomach the micromanaging. In addition to killing what you caught...

I did like the uniques "aspect" designs...

Flashback that should happen every month and last a week, with similar rewards.

Well if the alternative to one-shotting screens is catching pokemons, managing zoos and then blood sacrifice those pokemons for some more layers of RNG when crafting an item i choose one-shotting screens without hesitation. Unique sets were cool thought.

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IIPheXII написал:

Well if the alternative to one-shotting screens is catching pokemons, managing zoos and then blood sacrifice those pokemons for some more layers of RNG when crafting an item i choose one-shotting screens without hesitation. Unique sets were cool thought.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

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RichardFox написал:

Bestiary is an entirely optional mechanic which only benefits the game; you aren't forced to interact with it like lab. I spent quite a bit of time optimising my beast captures only to have them throw away such a complex and intriguing mechanic. I'm disappointed that GGG would do this, it's like they are reverting an entire expansion because a vocal minority cried about it and the people enjoying it didn't spam reddit or the forums about liking it.

Well said.