Editic memory completion scroll.

Benefactor

I was thinking about convince items and what I think would be a great addition to the crown store and I believe that a scroll that completes the editic memory would be a wonderful convince item. It's difficult enough to find every book in the game and this would allow lore nerds to be able to access the complete library of texts while in the game. What do other people think of this?

vyrusb23

I think it's a bad idea. If you want to read all of the lore, go online. It's all available online.

What are "convince items?"

starlizard70ub17_ESO

There's this add on called lore finder, it shows you where all the books are. Use that instead before asking for more crown store convince items. Finding lore books add to your mage guild rank, getting to rank 10 gets you Shooting star skill, the "Master Wizard" title and the mages guild blue dye achievement. So if you can buy all the remaining lore books in the crown store, you're either forgoing all those skills/dyes/titles, or you've moved a step closer to P2W by buying instead of earning those perks.

vyrusb23

starlizard70ub17_ESO wrote: »

There's this add on called lore finder, it shows you where all the books are. Use that instead before asking for more crown store convince items. Finding lore books add to your mage guild rank, getting to rank 10 gets you Shooting star skill, the "Master Wizard" title and the mages guild blue dye achievement. So if you can buy all the remaining lore books in the crown store, you're either forgoing all those skills/dyes/titles, or you've moved a step closer to P2W by buying instead of earning those perks.

This person isn't even talking about lore books. This person is literally talking about every single book/scroll in the game.

Abeille

Or they could just make all the books available to us at all times by doing what they do to some and putting them out in the open, near quest locations. It kinda sucks that some of them are kept in areas that we can't access once a quest is over.

TheShadowScout

Abeille wrote: »

Or they could just make all the books available to us at all times by doing what they do to some and putting them out in the open, near quest locations. It kinda sucks that some of them are kept in areas that we can't access once a quest is over.

^THIS!^

I love finding books, and I love completing collections. I am not sure a "pay up and have them all" feature would satisfy me... even though if there was one such consumable, I'd prolly buy it for my "librarian" character, just because... librarian.

But I would much rather have more ways to read the books in-game. Especially the ones I missed one place or another.

Benefactor

I by no means mean that they should add something that gives you the mages guild lorebooks but instead the editic memory books which have no impact on game play besides convenient access to the lorebooks while in game.

CaptainObvious

So the quests that you can't return to usually have areas out side where pages appear that are duplicates of those regular books.

Example, when you complete the halls of torment, the books from there appear outside the Harborage. Same thing applies to many quests as you advance through the regions.

Volkodav

That defeats the purpose of why the books were put there.You can get perks from reading books.A lot.I began to realize this when I would get the notice that my skill had just increased after reading some book.

Lithium Flower

There are multiple copies of several of the books. They're all lying around the same general area. Some books have single copies but they are usually placed in a very obvious position - you might miss them running willy nilly through a dungeon but if you spend a few moments scanning a new room, you should be able to spot the tell-tale glow. There is no collection you cannot complete because [reasons].

If that still doesn't work for you, get the lorebook addon or consult online resources. I was able to get an ePUB (such as are available for all past TES titles too) of all the in-game books in 2014 that I still sometimes browse through on my phone. You're supposed to 'find' and/or discover them in the course of your explorations.

Reading books can raise skills, sure but so can doing other things. You don't need to read books to get level 50 in any skill line. For Mages Guild, you only need a little over 1/3 of the total lorebooks available in the game.

I don't know why people buy games when they don't want to actually play through the content. Pay 60 USD for the game, pay 180 to unlock all the achievements.

Benefactor

Again I don't believe many people are realizing I'm not suggesting the skillbooks or the mages guild lorebooks just the editic memory collections. If you don't know what the editic memory is it's a new tab in the lorebooks that allows you to read every previous book you've seen that aren't mages guild lorebooks. There are over 3000 of these books and some are in quest locations you can't get back to once you complete the area it's in. It would be nothing more than a quality of life addition to the crown store as it has no bearing on gameplay at all.

Enodoc

I realise you're referring to Eidetic Memory and not Shalidor's Library. But then Skill Books are part of Eidetic Memory. If you start discounting Skill Books for certain reasons, there would then be other reasons to discount other books, until you end up with something that only gives you an arbitrary selection of books, and is ultimately not the "unlock all" convenience you were after. Unfortunately I don't think it would really work.

As for books that are locked into quest locations; they should always appear somewhere else when the quest is done. If there's a certain book (or books) from a quest that does not get relocated after the quest is complete, then maybe we should make a list.