Looking for a comprehensive guide to the tomes system.

[Janthis]

Since this is something new in AOW4, I was wondering if there is some sort of guide or wiki that explains it a little more in-depth. Things I'd like to know: Is there a finite number of tomes you can pick? What determines which ones are available to you? What are the precise requirements to unlock a higher level tome? Etc. Thanks in advance.

[Orion Invictus]

Note: These answers are based on my observations from playing and may not be 100% accurate.

1 - You can pick as many as you want, with the exception of tier V, of which you can pick only one.
2 - You should always have all tomes available, but only the ones of the highest tier you currently have unlocked. So if you're up to tier III, you should be able to pick any tier III tome.
3 - To get the higher-tier ones, you need to pick the lower-tier ones. For tier V, however, I think you need to pick both tier IV tomes of that type (so you couldn't, for example, get the tier V Astral tome without getting both tier IV Astral tomes).

[sandman25dcsss]

https://aow4.paradoxwikis.com/Tomes

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Looking for a comprehensive guide to the tomes system.
Since this is something new in AOW4, I was wondering if there is some sort of guide or wiki that explains it a little more in-depth. Things I'd like to know: Is there a finite number of tomes you can pick? What determines which ones are available to you? What are the precise requirements to unlock a higher level tome? Etc. Thanks in advance.

1. Click on the Show the Tome Library button to get access to all tomes available to you when you get to select a new one for the arcane research -> the cycling GUI can only hold a limited selection

2. You are free to choose

3. Tome gives affinity

4. 2 tome of a tier unlocks the next tier

5. Tier V tome have an affinity requirement of 8 of the related affinity
So if you want to access the Tier V tome for Chaos, you need to have picked tomes of chaos to give you enough affinity (and heroes and decisions which helps you with that - but that is optional e.g. Chaos Adept heroes)

6. You can pick as many tomes in total as the game last, up to 47 additional tomes, as you are allowed to have only one of the tier V for a game session. The total number of tomes is therefore 52.

What else you want to know?

[Janthis]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

https://aow4.paradoxwikis.com/Tomes

That would be it, thanks. :)

[lethminite]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Looking for a comprehensive guide to the tomes system.
Since this is something new in AOW4, I was wondering if there is some sort of guide or wiki that explains it a little more in-depth. Things I'd like to know: Is there a finite number of tomes you can pick? What determines which ones are available to you? What are the precise requirements to unlock a higher level tome? Etc. Thanks in advance.

1. Click on the Show the Tome Library button to get access to all tomes available to you when you get to select a new one for the arcane research -> the cycling GUI can only hold a limited selection

2. You are free to choose

3. Tome gives affinity

4. 2 tome of a tier unlocks the next tier

5. Tier V tome have an affinity requirement of 8 of the related affinity
So if you want to access the Tier V tome for Chaos, you need to have picked tomes of chaos to give you enough affinity (and heroes and decisions which helps you with that - but that is optional e.g. Chaos Adept heroes)

6. You can pick as many tomes in total as the game last, up to 47 additional tomes, as you are allowed to have only one of the tier V for a game session. The total number of tomes is therefore 52.

What else you want to know?

You also missed that you need 6 affinity for tier 4 tomes, which can come up pretty often.

[sandman25dcsss]

It is not necessary to pick previous tomes of the same affinity for access to tier 5 tome unless you really want the tome. I had a game where I had 5 affinity in chaos despite not having any chaos tomes: there are heroes who give 4 affinity as governor and you can get more from signature skills of leader, events and starting culture.