Monstrology gear

[Willowdreamer]

Well with enemies that are hard to get to because you have to defeat tons of bosses before them just to extract them you should go in with someone to help you defeat those tough challenges ahead of you. Solo extractions are very tedious when you want to do the full extraction of animus, plus it takes tons of build up just to do it. I would just settle for the 2 animus, with someone defeating them quickly after the extraction rather than wasting tons of time just for 3 animus.

As an Ice Wizard as my main, I hate fighting tough battles, so I always rely on a strong hitter to help me do the battles quicker. Even if it's more battles, it would probably be faster to obtain those items than the full extraction solo route. Still more animus multipliers would still help a bunch, and Monstrodome needs to be improved since it hasn't been that beneficial to players.

Well, we could go back and forth about playstyle preferences all day, but at least we agree that the Monstrodome needs something unique to be worth setting the darned thing up.

[Draglegs]

Having gear and/or jewels that add a stat to increase the amount of animus drops is an awesome idea. This should definitely be a thing.

While we are at it... How about animus increasing utility spells? A spell that hangs a charm on you that increases animus dropped when you hit. A spell that hangs a animus trap on the monster that increases animus dropped. Maybe even multiple versions of these that can be stacked, just like blades and traps. They would pop if you hit without an animus collecting attack.

[JaredSpellFrost]

@Draglegs

I love this idea! Perhaps instead of having unique Blades/Traps, we could have Enchants similar to Sharpen/Potent. You would simply enchant them onto a Blade or Trap, and when used in couplet with an extraction enchanted spell you would gain more Animus.
It'd be interesting to see a Monstrology Quest unlock for these Spells once you reached certain Monstrology Ranks, so that Players don't have to pay an ungodly amount of Gold for them too!