Trying to figure out what is new with the Oct 24, 2010 update and so far:
Nothing new with binding hounds.
Nothing new with Release the hounds (though I did manage to do some spading on the damage range).
Same enchantment as before.
Any ideas?
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I was just reading old forum and devblog posts and found my old suggestion about using this to bind hounds. :D
As for tome of binding content, there's always, y'know, binding something. Which I'm always up for!
No binding:
Masked Shaman
Spectral Sailor
Angered Rat
Rat King
Bat Swarm
Lake Serpent
Chained Ghoul
Writhing Mass
Dark Specter
Hanging Skeleton
The devblog also said
On a totally unrelated note, some of you may have a spooooooky present waiting out there.
Nothing for Urban Lore, fake christmas tree, or Halloween skeleton…
OH HEY the dorms are open =)
In the beginning, men were mortal.
Please confirm whether or not the Tome of Binding must be equipped to bind the Towering Figure in the Black Book. I did not have the option to bind, even though Tome of Binding was in the inventory.
I think the only way to get one if you missed it is the yearly Ecliptic Books halloween encounter in the VIP Room.
Nothing special for killing the tree of hands or the spearwoman with a tome.
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
Podcast #53 says
Q: Is it currently possible to gain another tome of binding technique from any earthly enemies we know of?
A: Good question. Took a long time to figure out spider. There's another one that should work, now that I think about it. (checks) As a general thing, the enemies that would grant that are a pretty tight group.
So I looked at the current (earthly) bindable enemies. They have one of two things in common:
1) Etheric versions of Midgard Drones (Burrowing centipede, Titanic Mole, Twisted Hound, Horrific Spider, Memorial Statue)
2) Enemies with the Flying Tag (Dazzling Cloud, Winged Hunter, blazing Phoenix, Skull in the Flames)
We've pretty much got all the midgard drones, save the Flying Eye. So not much more to look at there.
However, for the rest of the flying enemies:
1) Flying Eye (already tested)
2) Bat Swarm (already tested, and also generally unlikely, not associated with the Ether like the other fliers are)
3) Grasping Hand + Shrouded Hand + The Mask (not tested)
4) Ghostly Hand (not tested)
One enemy meets BOTH binding criteria, the Flying Eye, so I find it odd it has no reaction to the tome of binding. I have some ideas to do some further digging with the Flying Eye.
But I'd like someone to try binding the Ghostly Hand and The Mask combats, as I've already completed the Ghost Ship quest.
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
Nothing for trying to bind the Flying Eye by killing with Evil Eye, with Entrapping Gaze Active
Writing for the long-neglected GOC Casefiles canon.
You can also bind the Ghoul King, who is neither drone-derived nor flying. I'd suggest that in addition to etheric versions of drones with the mysterious drone signature or some close approximation of it (Titanic Mole), the other big grouping seems to be entities who come somehow or other from art: various opponents associated with the Artist and also a bunch of Art Museum opponents. (I had originally been thinking only about the Artist; Crypto pointed out that art in general correlates with being susceptible to binding.)
Dazzling Cloud is a bit of an outlier, although you can't fully bind it. Not quite sure how that fits in. The description of the tome mentions "demons", but the tome's definition seems more restrictive than Matsuo's.
I agree that it does seem really weird that we can't bind flying eyes. Somebody straight out asked about flying eyes in Podcast 29:
Q: Could we bind Flying Eyes?
A: I suppose that's not entirely unreasonable. Not sure why that's not in there now. I'd have to double check some facts about the helidrones.
This suggests you can't bind Flying Eyes, although 2013 was a while ago, so it's possible Kinak went in and made it possible since then.
Another podcast nugget, from Podcast 46:
Q: The tome of binding seems pretty well-spaded out, as we've killed nearly every monster available with it. Any secrets still lurking behind its innocuous facade? Anything to do with binding humans?
A: It does have limitations on what it can bind. Those follow its own internal logic, not sure if that makes sense or not. I’d be surprised to find it binding humans, not surprised to find it binding things that look like humans.
This suggests that we somehow can (with the unfound Charnel House skill?) or someday might be able to bind ghouls.
One other thing I notice about the tome is that there's a sort of gaze theme. Flying Eyes seems like they at least should be bindable. You can bind the Evil Eye in the Park (teaches the Evil Eye technique). And you can try to bind the Starry Gaze in the Museum (which eats Evil Eye to give Starry Gaze).
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