[Neus]

So in another topic, someone mentioned being able to see monster stats being a downer, which I can agree with. Although it has been helpful for bug testing, at higher levels, it does sort of convey another advantage for players. So, basically, I wanted to get some feedback for an idea I had;

1) After level 20, monsters start hiding their stats and skills from players.

I picked level 20 because it's still nice and flexible for new players. Alternatively (and somewhat tricky to implement);

2) Monster skills are hidden from the player until they are used/applied.

So you won't know a monster has Red Sea until it casts it. You won't know that Forgery will make your ears hurt until it does. And so on. Enemies with Akashic Erasure would ignore this rule, as you might expect. This would apply on a per-enemy basis (so if you were in a battle with two enemies that could use Red Sea, you wouldn't be able to see that they both have it, even if they're the same enemy type. This is mostly to cut down on storage issues; tracking skills individually is out of the question for that reason. I could see something like a Monster Hunting talent being added at some point, though, that lets you record enemies in a bestiary (like the Detective Log) and see their stats if the talent's rank is high enough (so you can see enemies you've already beaten, and so on). This is an idea for the future, though, not something that needs to be included alongside this adjustment.

Some notes;
A) Skills such as Enemy Evaluation would give you the full rundown.
B) Some new skills could be added that give a similar 'analyze' effect.
C) Might be able to buff Zeran's focus sense to include HP and FP being seen by default, giving them a nice little niche.
D) Could also have applications in future items/etc.

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Also, enemy equipment. Some people have mentioned this before, but I think it might be interesting if at certain levels, some of the humanoid enemies (such as goblins and bandits) could equip items like players; the number of items they could equip in this nature would be relative to their level. So a higher level enemy could have a whole bunch equipped. This would work similarly to arena combatants.

Some notes;
A) Could give rise to some new skills that let you check what items an enemy has equipped (and potentially steal them if they're a monster maybe?).

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Anyway, just looking for some feedback on these ideas, so feel free to post what you think.