Bestiary as a Core Game Mechanic

3 more weeks. :) Im ready for new league and fresh start. :)

No, please no.!!!

Glad it's not going core, and I said at the announcement trailer debut that it would be a terrible league. Having played it every day since launch, I still say it was a bad idea. I warned then that cull builds minion builds and totem builds would have difficulty with captures, and even with necro nets I was right for 3/4 of the league. The portal boss beasts were far too rare, which again, I expected. However a farric tiger alpha spawn shouldn't be as rare as a damned mirror. They're selling for 6 exalts in bestiary. You should also think hard about the rng in getting to even fully access any of the endgame content, bestiary or not. There needs to be a way to grind definitively towards shaper, or grind definitively towards uber elder. The fights are great, they don't need a change, but the method of getting to them definitely does. This is the first league I haven't bought a stash tab from you guys because I got tired of the constant rng shitting on me. I actually spent every single exalt I was lucky enough to accumulate just so I could hit 36 challenges and I play for 8 hours a day most days. That is unacceptable that to do things that should be a mark of skill at the game I have to spend 125 chaos worth of currency just to have access to the attempt not even to guarantee success.

rip aspect of cat and spider but great call

the only thing I didn't like about bestiary is that at first I captured all beasts then I just forgot to and I started doi9ng so again and I got rich really fast
In my opinion bestiary has a place in the core game but the other people aren't happy

the next league will be totally different... because it will be two leagues!

beastiary red edition
and
bestiary blue edition

each player has to choose at the start of the league, what team he will be going for.
Each league has there own subset of special monster, unable to reach for the other league except with... Link Cables... Ehhh.... Link Orbs...!

Thats a brand new concept and i think nobody has every tried something similar before!
There is also potential for more leagues to come out of this...

i took the freedom to shape the name of the leagues in the right direction:
bestiary yellow edition
bestiary gold edition
bestiary silver edition



btt:
it would be cool (if bestiary ever comes back) to pit two monster against each other and the winner gets some lvls and the looser gets killed (similar to Shadow of War). Would be cool to see some monster battles and you would also benefit from it ^^

Liked bestiary for a league but indeed not suited for the core game

Menagerie looked cool but only walked through it once however I think menagerie would be cool as a map with mobs and some escaped bosses

I really hope the 16 aspect uniques and their crafts will come back in some form. I completely agree about the decision to scrap bestiary but the aspects enabled a ton of interesting builds and will be sorely missed.

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fraggleroc wrote:

these same people who bashed Bestiary will go on to bash any future leagues that is not Breach/Abyss-like or Clear-speed-shit...

cater to these people to your own demise, ggg. u've lost me as a customer.

6 challenges in bestiary? doesn't look like you enjoyed bestiary that much if you barely played it.

And there goes the second of the 2 really impactful great gameplay additions that were ever added and made the game a tad more unique... 2/2... RIP.

But ofc we get all the ever same "f*ckton of trash spawns out of nowhere all the time to clutter the inventory with new cr*p"-expansions, with even a new one already announced...

Yay...