It's a minor concern of mine that with fire magic being in chaos & light magic in order creating a sun themed spellcaster will be unduly difficult. I suspect this will be moddable in the long run but would like to hear more about what, if anything, I'd be working against trying to do something of that nature.
#To what extent will "opposing" tomes be combinable?
turbid ice
brazen kiln
I mean we would need to know how you actually get tomes 1st before we know how hard it is to mix affinities.
misty crescent
They wrote explicitly in the 2nd dev diary that you can pick "opposing" tomes, and they used the example of mixing shadow tomes and order tomes.
turbid ice
They wrote explicitly in the 2nd dev diary that you can pick "opposing" tomes, a...
I have double checked, they do not at any point call shadow an opposing affinity to order. If any affinity is going to oppose order it is likely going to be chaos, going by names.
misty crescent
I see. In any case, there has never been talk of a limitation on choice of tomes. I'd be surprised if there is such a limitation, with the other design choices in mind.
errant current
I personally think that some limitations need to apply in order to prevent players from eventually being able to get all the Tomes and Affinities at the same time, but I don't think that "Opposing affinities" will be hard to combine.
misty crescent
I personally think the limitation will be on total amount of tomes
Someone on the forums made a good compilation on what we know so far about tomes ^
unreal night
Jordi said on the forums that you unlock new tomes simply by research
So maybe there is no hard cap, but you can't feasibly research all tomes in a single game
or there might be something like a scaling research cost for tomes
heavy steppe
I have double checked, they do not at any point call shadow an opposing affinity...
Based on the UI layout, opposition is Order-Chaos, Shadow-Nature and Materia-Arcane, but it probably doesn't mean anything:
In the gameplay reveal, they pick barbarian culture (chaos, nature) and can pick order-aligned and shadow-aligned society traits on the next screen, and then they can pick any tome on the next, so opposite alignments probably simply lack synergy instead of being hard exclusions like magic spheres in some previous games
vivid loom