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== Welcome to the PoD Wiki ==

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|<span style="color: brown">Anyone can login to their PoD account and edit the pages of this wiki. So please; if you see outdated or missing information, help us fix it. Thanks!</span>
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== Wiki To-Do ==
This page is meant to house a "to-do" list, in progress, and wish list for edits to the PoD Wiki

== Wiki editing documentation ==
Create a "how to" for wiki editing

Started [[Path_of_Diablo_Wiki_talk:About#Wiki_Editing | right here on this page.]]

Difficult to explain (and display!) in just text here, probably need good written documentation AND a video tutorial


== Duration tables ==
Where duration is "X plus Y seconds per level", add those numbers to damage tables. Some skills already have this, but some do not.
Amazon, Assassin, and Barb skills are done. Necro skills are done except for Curses.

== Bugs ==
Is a known bugs page helpful and needed? Or is it enough to list known bugs along with the skills that have them?

This would only really have 3 skills listed I think? Not sure an entire page dedicated to that is worth it. 

Who would have the capacity and bandwidth to maintain it?

== Class skill pages ==
Transition all class skills to the new display template/layout:
* Druid, Paladin are all incomplete but in progress
* Amazon, Assassin, Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorc have been adjusted for the new look
** '''Would be good for fresh eyes to look at it'''
* A few skills are missing display icons ([[Combat_Masteries#Pulverize|Pulverize]] and a couple of the [[Item-only_Skills|Item-only Skills]]; likely does not matter, but the lack of an icon stands out)

Go back through and change damage tables in skill pages to reflect up to lvl 40
*Druid and Paladin needs finishing

== Aggregated class change page ==
[[Aggregated_Class_Changes | '''This page''']] has a lot of potential, should it be maintained?

== Item only skills ==
[[Item-only_Skills | Item-only skills page]]...

Page looks funny after converting these to the new look since they don't have the standard info

== Armor vs Armo'''u'''r ==
Shiver Armo/ur is spelled both ways in various places throughout the wiki, should be "Armor" with no U. Find and fix.

<span style="color: red"> '''Update:''' </span>Looks like '''Armor''' is the winner; this section will be deleted when that's complete.

== Nit picking ==
*Skill descriptions, do they all not end with a period? Are they statements or sentences?
**Same for patch notes listed in skill pages
*Are all prerequisite skill listed in '''not''' bold?
*Are all Skill-based synergies in bold?
*Are all attribute-based synergies (i.e. Dexterity or Intelligence) not in bold?
*Is spacing between sections on pages standard? Like, no extra white space?

== Wiki Editing ==
This section will provide a brief intro to editing the PoD wiki, with a focus on the formatting of skills.

For these examples, we'll be using [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]]. 

https://i.imgur.com/oDmwUwu.png

=== The skill descriptions ===

Using  [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]]  as an example, the skill description looks like this:

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{| <!-- Description table -->
|rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; width:5%"|[[File:Fire_Wall.png]]  ||'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies'''
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|'''Required Level:''' 18
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|'''Prerequisites:'''  [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]],  [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]] 
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The new standard for skill descriptions is to include a picture of the skill icon and clickable links in the list of prerequisites. To simplify the editing process we've created a wiki template to remove the need to worry about formatting and spacing, and all you need to do is add a link to the skills icon, the narrative description, the level required, and any comma separated prerequisites. The template is named Skilldesc, and you can use it by issuing <nowiki> {{ Skilldesc | icon | description | level required | prerequisites }} </nowiki>.
Filling this in with the information for Fire Wall it would look like this:
<pre> {{ Skilldesc | [[File:Fire_Wall.png]] | Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies | 18 | [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]] , [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]]  }} </pre>
And this creates:
{{ Skilldesc | [[File:Fire_Wall.png]] | Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies | 18 | [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]] , [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]]  }} 


In that template, we have 4 pieces of information that will vary from skill to skill and need to be edited to reflect the skill: 
*The skill icon (note the link needs to be surrounded by double brackets and include the "File:" in the link, ex: <nowiki>[[File:Fire_Wall.png]] </nowiki>)
*The narrative skill description
*The level required for the skill
*Any prerequisites required (these links also need to be surrounded by double brackets)

All skill icons can be found here on the wiki: [[Special:UncategorizedFiles]].

For skill prerequisites (and synergy tables), the standard is for clickable links to the skills. For [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]] to get [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]] and [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]] as clickable links instead of just text, we'll be using the <nowiki>[[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]],  [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]]</nowiki> skill links in the code. To find copy/pasteable links to skills, navigate to the [[Main_Page | home page of the wiki]] and click on the relevant class link under the '''Character Attributes''' heading, and then click that classes Discussion tab. There, you'll see all that classes skills listed along with links that you can copy and paste. For this example we've been looking at sorceress skills, [[Talk:Sorceress|links for which can be found here.]]

=== Synergies and static values  ===

After the skill description, the next part we'll focus on are the synergies and miscellaneous static values a skill has. For Fire Wall, the relevant parts are highlighted below:

https://i.imgur.com/XABVvf4.png

We want these in their own tables, side by side like this:

{| style="margin:auto 0em;" <!-- Layout table for description and misc tables-->
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| style="vertical-align:top;" |
{| class="wikitable" <!-- Additional skill table (put here not scalable skill properties) -->
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Fire Duration: || 3.6 seconds 
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Cooldown: || 1.4 seconds 
|}
| style="width:20px" |
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{| class="wikitable" <!-- Synergies table (Please use skill codes from class discussion page) -->
! Synergies !! Bonus to skill
|-style="text-align:left;"
|     [[Fire_Spells#Warmth|'''Warmth''']] 
| +4% Fire damage per hardpoint
|-style="text-align:left;"
|     [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|'''Blaze''']] 
| +4% Fire damage per hardpoint
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2;" |    [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Mastery|'''Fire Mastery''']] 
|}
| style="width:20px" |
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|}


And this is the code that gets us there:

<pre>
{| style="margin:auto 0em;" <!-- Layout table for description and misc tables-->
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;" |
{| class="wikitable" <!-- Additional skill table (put here not scalable skill properties) -->
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Fire Duration: || 3.6 seconds 
|- style="text-align:left;"
| Cooldown: || 1.4 seconds 
|}
| style="width:20px" |
|
{| class="wikitable" <!-- Synergies table (Please use skill codes from class discussion page) -->
! Synergies !! Bonus to skill
|-style="text-align:left;"
|     [[Fire_Spells#Warmth|'''Warmth''']] 
| +4% Fire damage per hardpoint
|-style="text-align:left;"
|     [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|'''Blaze''']] 
| +4% Fire damage per hardpoint
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2;" |    [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Mastery|'''Fire Mastery''']] 
|}
| style="width:20px" |
|
|}
|}
</pre>

For skills that have no synergies, we've created two templates named Skilldescnosynergiesleft and Skilldescnosynergiesright. You can use these templates by simply issuing <nowiki> {{Skilldescnosynergiesleft}} or {{Skilldescnosynergiesright}}</nowiki>. This results in:
{|
{| 
{{Skilldescnosynergiesleft}} {{Skilldescnosynergiesright}}