I was thinking about how we people talked about the lore being really confusing. And I know there’s an achievement attached to finding books in the world.
But I was thinking perhaps along the lines of either a journal or a tab in your character page that you can fill in as you discover them and it makes a copy of the text.
I don’t think anyone wants to carry around six pages of Firim in bags. And if possible dedicate a space in a capital city to all of the miscellaneous texts that aren’t part of an achievement but can be accessed easier.
I know Lore Walker Cho in Pandaria is great but I’m thinking of something that’s less out of the way and more accessible. And maybe even build upon it.
Not really part of the topic but I was just watching that scene from Lord of the rings where gandalf is in that library and there’s tomes upon tomes and he’s just filtering through it.
It’s also one of my most fun things to ever do in Morrowind is to find these libraries. And the books could offer skills or even potential clues to confusing things in the world. I find it hard to believe that 10,000 years of night elves and blood elves and whoever else doesn’t have like these massive vaults of texts of previous wars and exploits.
I don’t think many of us have the ability or time to go out and buy the entire collection of real world authored books to supplement our World of Warcraft lore knowledge.
What do y’all think?
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In Skyrim I collect a copy of all the books I can find so I can fill my bookshelves in my home. Something like this would be cool.
I read quest texts and also the texts in scrolls, letters, and books I find in Azeroth. But I certainly don’t keep them! Those Firim pages were like, 10g each. I vendored them after I read them. My bag space already suffers because of all the other random crap I can’t let go of!
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That is not half a bad idea actually. Add a tab in our collection window for books/a journal that tells you the story of certain zones/raid.
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I haven’t gotten the Well Read achievement but was actually just thinking about knocking it off my list and finishing hugging all the critters I started ignoring a few expansions ago.
We have bits of lore in the dungeon guides but I feel like a tab with all the compiled lore books, letters, etc. etc. would be great. In Destiny 2 as you play the game you unlock “books” in a menu that go deep into the lore of the game and I love that.
We have places to store our perfect archeology artifacts, and Lorewalker Cho has an entire library where we would go back and he would conjure up imagery of past events. I feel like stuff like that, when it is presented in an expansion, should move forward, and not just be a one-off feature of an expansion.
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Yeah I didn’t play Pandaria when it was released but having gone through the campaign more now that I’m doing loremaster, I was wondering why this compendium of past history wasn’t continued into the newer expansions.
I don’t want to get off topic but there are many features from previous expansions that seem to be completely dropped for the purpose of breaking immersion I guess.
However with Lore Walker it would make sense that he’s a recurring figure much like Nesingwary.
Heck even add a bibliophile profession. Imagine having the ability as a expert bibliophile to pause rewind and fast forward past events.
Let’s say you want to return to a particular location and as an expert you get a extra action bar that lets you replay sequences. For example replaying the sequence of the lich King walking around in stormheim.
But additionally maybe a instance area that is separate from the world where you can rewatch all the live action sequences as well as all the previous cinematics.
I know that the caverns of time has those recaps of past cinematics but I’m thinking of a much more comprehensive place.
A grand library would be pretty neat. A place where players could go and checkout books from every expansion and read the history of the events that took place.
Bonus points if forced RP walk and no ability to jump or use abilities.
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