Multi-character scribing on Console is incredibly painful to track - feature suggestion

bobdrad · July 10

I have multiple characters doing script chases for different scribed skills.
But the console UI gives me no method to determine which scripts a given character has learned. The only tracking I'm aware of is in achievements, but it's account-wide. So the only real way to tell right now is at the scribing table, testing each script individually (or maintaining an external spreadsheet). Very painful!

From a UI perspective, a clean enhancement would be to add a filter to achievements, similar to "Show earned/unearned" but for a new filter: "Show character achievements".
This would help in several ways, to mitigate some of the downsides of the account-wide achievement changes made a while back, but in particular it would make tracking scribing by character infinitely easier on console. Please consider this feature.

DenverRalphy · July 11

Go to Skills -> Scribing -> Click Grimoire you want to scribe -> Scripts listed are Light for known, Muted/Darker are unknown.

bobdrad · July 11

Fantastic, thanks. I must have explored this on the wrong character. This is a fine approach.

bobdrad · July 11

Actually, having played with it now, it's pretty lacking. If you are reading scripts for all Grimoires, to get the curated drop you are looking for, you can only see the scripts you've learned for the Grimoires you have purchased. There is no way to see scripts you have learned which are not associated with your purchased Grimoires. And there's really no point in purchasing Grimoires for skill lines you're not even using on that character.

What's needed on Console is a straightforward list of scripts we have learned (and have yet to learn) on the current character. We have that for skills we have purchased - this is similar.
PC community wrote an add-on for this purpose, but it's important to all players and should be a part of the UI.
The simplest, and most generally useful approach, would be to add a filter to Achievements to "Show earned by this character".

Necrotech_Master · July 11

filtering achievements wouldnt do anything, as all of the scribing achievements are acct wide

but i do agree that base game tracking of script knowledge needs major help, honestly for console its probably the same for motifs, furnishing plans, and provisioning recipes, which are also all learned per character

i remember way back in the day on PC when i didnt have an addon for tracking these and i would just throw the drops in my bank and then have to switch to my main to see if i needed to learn it, if i did great if not i would just sell it, but this just added extra steps to the process

katanagirl1 · July 12

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

filtering achievements wouldnt do anything, as all of the scribing achievements are acct wide

but i do agree that base game tracking of script knowledge needs major help, honestly for console its probably the same for motifs, furnishing plans, and provisioning recipes, which are also all learned per character

i remember way back in the day on PC when i didnt have an addon for tracking these and i would just throw the drops in my bank and then have to switch to my main to see if i needed to learn it, if i did great if not i would just sell it, but this just added extra steps to the process

This is what we have to do with scripts, recipes, motifs and furnishing plans. Put them in the bank, check your main to see if she has it, then log onto the next toon, check that one, log onto the next one, and so on.

I don’t understand why we can’t see this information, the game has to track it for every toon. AWA did not change that. It is stored somewhere.

Elvenheart · July 12

Although I am on pc, one of the first things I noticed about scribing is how hard it is to see what scripts you know. You have to check each grimoire and make a list of the scripts you don’t have (I used a spreadsheet), and make a note of the sources for each of the three types of scripts so when you do finish up one type with a character you don’t accidentally end up with a duplicate script. I found my spreadsheet very helpful, but then discovered the addon that did the same thing in game, with a drop-down box that you can look at all your characters after you have logged them in at least once. And my first thoughts were, “This is great!” And, “Why wasn’t this included with Scribing from the get-go so everyone can use it?” I really don’t understand why something so necessary was not included.

Hapexamendios · July 12

I've found a character build that has some scribing skills I want to use. I've just been doing the daily quests to get the scripts. I can't be bothered going through a list.

MidniteOwl1913 · July 12

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Go to Skills -> Scribing -> Click Grimoire you want to scribe -> Scripts listed are Light for known, Muted/Darker are unknown.

But only if that skill can be used with that grimoire. What is needed is a *complete* list regardless of grimiore.

MidniteOwl1913 · July 12

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

filtering achievements wouldnt do anything, as all of the scribing achievements are acct wide

but i do agree that base game tracking of script knowledge needs major help, honestly for console its probably the same for motifs, furnishing plans, and provisioning recipes, which are also all learned per character

i remember way back in the day on PC when i didnt have an addon for tracking these and i would just throw the drops in my bank and then have to switch to my main to see if i needed to learn it, if i did great if not i would just sell it, but this just added extra steps to the process

This is what we have to do with scripts, recipes, motifs and furnishing plans. Put them in the bank, check your main to see if she has it, then log onto the next toon, check that one, log onto the next one, and so on.

I don’t understand why we can’t see this information, the game has to track it for every toon. AWA did not change that. It is stored somewhere.

Yes and all that is a pain! Why is it so hard to understand I just want a complete list per character?

MidniteOwl1913 · July 12

Elvenheart wrote: »

Although I am on pc, one of the first things I noticed about scribing is how hard it is to see what scripts you know. You have to check each grimoire and make a list of the scripts you don’t have (I used a spreadsheet), and make a note of the sources for each of the three types of scripts so when you do finish up one type with a character you don’t accidentally end up with a duplicate script. I found my spreadsheet very helpful, but then discovered the addon that did the same thing in game, with a drop-down box that you can look at all your characters after you have logged them in at least once. And my first thoughts were, “This is great!” And, “Why wasn’t this included with Scribing from the get-go so everyone can use it?” I really don’t understand why something so necessary was not included.

On the console this sounds like just what I need! Too bad I can't have it... :-(