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Welcome to the PoD Wiki

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 right here on this page.

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

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 (Pulverize and a couple of the 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

• The format for this can be found on Sacrifice
  • It's one static table on the left, and one longer table with scroll bar on the right
• Possibly better table put in place on Javelin & Spear and Passive & Magic trees

Aggregated class change page

This page has a lot of potential, should it be maintained?

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 Armour

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

Update: 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 Wall.

The skill descriptions

Using Fire Wall as an example, the skill description looks like this:

Description: Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies Required Level: 18 Prerequisites: Blaze, Immolate

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 {{ Skilldesc | icon | description | level required | prerequisites }} . Filling this in with the information for Fire Wall it would look like this: {{ 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]] }} And this creates: Description: Creates a wall of flame that blocks of burns your enemies Required Level: 18 Prerequisites: Blaze , 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: [[File:Fire_Wall.png]] ) 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 Wall to get Blaze and Immolate as clickable links instead of just text, we'll be using the [[Fire_Spells#Blaze|Blaze]], [[Fire_Spells#Immolate|Immolate]] skill links in the code. To find copy/pasteable links to skills, navigate to the 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, 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: We want these in their own tables, side by side like this: Fire Duration: 3.6 seconds Cooldown: 1.4 seconds Synergies Bonus to skill Warmth +4% Fire damage per hardpoint Blaze +4% Fire damage per hardpoint Fire Mastery And this is the code that gets us there: {| 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" | | |} |}