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Difficult to explain (and display!) in just text here, probably need good written documentation AND a video tutorial
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 ==
== Bugs ==
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== Class skill pages ==
== Class skill pages ==
Transition all class skills to the new display template/layout:
Transition all class skills to the new display template/layout:
* Sorc, Druid, Paladin are all incomplete but in progress
* Druid, Paladin are all incomplete but in progress
* Amazon, Assassin, Necromancer, Barbarian have been adjusted for the new look
* Amazon, Assassin, Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorc have been adjusted for the new look
** '''Would be good for fresh eyes to look at it'''
** '''Would be good for fresh eyes to look at it'''
* A few skills are missing display icons
* 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
Go back through and change damage tables in skill pages to reflect up to lvl 40
* The format for this can be found on  [[Paladin_Combat_Skills#Sacrifice|'''Sacrifice''']]
*Druid and Paladin needs finishing
** It's one static table on the left, and one longer table with scroll bar on the right


== Aggregated class change page ==
== Aggregated class change page ==
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This section will provide a brief intro to editing the PoD wiki, with a focus on the formatting of skills.
This section will provide a brief intro to editing the PoD wiki, with a focus on the formatting of skills.


=== The skill descriptions ===
For these examples, we'll be using [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]].
 
Using  [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]] as an example, the existing skill descriptions look like this:


'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies.
https://i.imgur.com/oDmwUwu.png


'''Required Level:''' 18
=== The skill descriptions ===
 
'''Prerequisites:''' Blaze, Immolate
 
This is the code makes it appear like that:
<pre>
'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies.
 
'''Required Level:''' 18
 
'''Prerequisites:''' Blaze, Immolate
</pre>


''You'll notice that the words in '''bold''' have three single quotes (<nowiki>'''</nowiki>) surrounding them, this is the code formatting that makes characters bold in the wiki. ''
Using  [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]]  as an example, the skill description looks like this:


The modern standard for skill is to include a picture of the skill icon and clickable links in the list of prerequisites.
Still picking on [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]], the end product should look like this:
<!-- If skill doesnt exist in original Diablo 2 remove comment marks below -->
<!-- <span style="color:green">'''New skill'''</span>  -->
{|
{|
|-
|-
|
|
{| <!-- Description table -->
{| <!-- Description table -->
|rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; width:5%"|https://pathofdiablo.com/wiki/images/sorceress/Fire%20Wall.png ||'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies'''
|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'''
|-
|-
|'''Required Level:''' 18
|'''Required Level:''' 18
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|


The code to make this happen is a lot longer than the code to make the original happen, and it looks like this:
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>.
<pre>
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-->
|-
|-
| 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" |
|
|
{| <!-- Description table -->
{| class="wikitable" <!-- Synergies table (Please use skill codes from class discussion page) -->
|rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top; padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; width:5%"|https://pathofdiablo.com/wiki/images/sorceress/Fire%20Wall.png ||'''Description:''' Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies'''
! 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
|-
|-
|'''Required Level:''' 18
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2;" |    [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Mastery|'''Fire Mastery''']]
|-
|}
|'''Prerequisites:'''  [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]],  [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]]
| style="width:20px" |
|
|}
|}
|-
|</pre>


In that example, 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
*The skill description
*The level required for the skill
*Any prerequisites required
The labels for Description, Required Level, and Prerequisites are all in bold.


The most obvious changes are the skills picture/icon and the clickable links in the prereq's list. All icons can be found here:
And this is the code that gets us there:
https://pathofdiablo.com/wiki/images/


In there you'll see a folder for every class, and all skill icons for that classes skills can be found in its folder. Adding the link to the [[Fire_Spells#Fire_Wall|Fire Wall]] icon includes the picture in the description. You'll see a "pipe" <nowiki>|</nowiki> character before the icon link and a double pipe ( <nowiki>||</nowiki> ) after it, as well as in various other places in the code. These pipes help control placement and formatting of text throughout the wiki pages and are necessary to make it appear the way it's supposed to.
<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>


The narrative skill description and level required are self explanatory, and generally I just copy the existing description from the old display into the new display.
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:
 
{|
For skill prerequisites, 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.]]
{|
 
{{Skilldescnosynergiesleft}} {{Skilldescnosynergiesright}}
Here's a short video about editing a skill description.
<youtube>https://youtu.be/M9hSpJGWgL8</youtube>
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