User:Tennessee Ernie Ford/Shortcuts

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Official

Linsey Murdock's Journal	QA Manager Mike Zadorojny
Regina Buenabora's Guru posts	In-Game Talk
NCSoft on GWx2	Official Updates

Rants

• What is a fair price? Traveler's Gifts and Victory Tokens
• Scamming? Why bother?
• People who invite themselves to your group. Huh?
• Ungraciousness to fellow contributors, Part 1: RC
• Is there a best resurrection skill?

Saved links

(These are pages I was following in Monaco's Bookmarks; not sure if I remember why always.)

• GuildWiki:Admin noticeboard
• GuildWiki:Dungeon chest contents project
• Damage Rating progression
• Perfect stat weapons (Domination Magic)
• GuildWiki:War in Kryta new items project
• Area boundary/Portal jumping project
• Grandmaster cartography guide

Core

• Better late than... chest running for dummies

General

• Mesmer rebalance official notes
• Five things that make your life easier/harder at various stages in your evolution as a Guild Wars player.
• Tonic details... in detail
• Traveler Gift Analysis, prelim
• TEF's Guide to Caster Weapons
• Kirbman's Calendar of GW tasks

Builds & Skills

• search pvx for builds using, Cry of Pain; substitute the bit in quotes to search for other builds. (PvX doesn't have its own mechanism for finding builds based on skill.)
• Audrey Chandler's Skill Bins — no builder should build without reviewing this.

• PvX on farming Nick's Item of the Week
• Skills that have impact when removed/ended...

• TEF on PermaForms (in progress)

• Guru on Monk soloing
• guru on Rt/Mo farming
• GWW:User:Wynthyst/Heroes Wynthyst's generalist hero builds

• Can you make a better build than either the Peacekeepers or the Mantle?

Energy Management

• TEF's Energy Management (PvE) (in progress)
• Which is better? Wand + Focus or Staff? (in progress)
• When does dagger generate more energy per hit than by pip? (already in Main Space)

Inventory

• Artisans and the materials they craft
• Special Collections: some Trophies are worth more on holidays.
• Price Checks:
  • Runes & Insignias Worth Storing
  • GW Guru unique item price checks is a good starting place (although it's woeful short on prices for most of its listings)
  • Guild Wars Auctions has a searchable DB of all previous auctions; very useful for price checks (this feature requires userID)

PRE

• Collection Made Easy (for PRE)
• Farming Made Easy (for PRE)

POST

Prophecies

• Defeating the Doppelganger, short version
• Dragon's Lair: Summary of Advice → defeating Dragon's Lair Facets → defeating Glint

Factions

• Faction skills available before choosing a secondary profession.
• Kurzick & Luxon faction
  • Farming Luxon points
• Factions henchmen, by location (in progress)

Nightfall

• /Henchman/Nightfall Nightfall Henchies, by Location

EotN

• Not ready for prime time EotN mission notes

Other Ideas

Articles

all article ideas are just that: ideas. With drastic edits like those proposed, I'll post in my user space before considering to foist them on the unsuspecting wiki world.

New

• "local max" — the maximum available to a char who has not progressed to a main trading area (e.g. what's max armor for PRE, for Shing Jea); point to collectors for same
• q0 — what are the max stats for q0 weapons, helpful for new chars & for alternate weapon sets (e.g. pulling, emergency shields)
• dagger breakpoint — at what skill rank does E +1/hit, -1 degen become better energy management than status quo? (more or less available at zealous)
• (started) Available hench comparison (why: current guides are good, but don't compare choices available, e.g. when there are two fighters)
• Hero AI Project: do different with identical profs/builds/commands behave identically? (Why? No one seems to have done controlled experiments. Both pro/con use anecdotal evidence to support case.)
• I'm just an in-between guide: there's a lot of useful info for noobs and for veterans, but for us in-betweens, not so much. We don't have access to most skills (let alone elite ones), most/any heroes, lots of outposts/zones, etc. If GW follows typical attrition rates, than perhaps half the players online have spent more than 90% of their game life in-between, 30% are new, and 20% are veterans w/access to everything. A poor start to this has already begun.
• Break-even points — when is armor better than health? when is armor penetration better than damage? when does regen beat pure health/regen, when does DOT beat pure damage

Improved

• update gm cartography guide (Why? current version combines techniques (move to existing section), history (delete or move), and description of how to get hard to reach areas (rephrase))
• Simplified guide to Keys, Lockpicks, and the Lucky & Unlucky titles (why: current guides emphasize math over guiding)
• Simplified guide to Damage, Armor Ratings (why: current articles emphasize calculations and explanations over guiding)
• Sunspear promotion points (why? currently wordy, repetitive, requires careful scrutiny to find details)
• Missions overviews: these should take up less than a screen at a reasonable resolution (no?)
• profession guides: secondary professions esp, but maybe the primary page, too

Combined or Synchronize

• Profession changer and profession changer differences (why? hard to parse, repetition, matrices could provide more data and be more compact);
• SoC vs Capping skills, also Elite Skills (personally, I think all details amount to only 3/4 screen of info; however, others disagree and think these should be two articles)
  • For elite skills, make the instructions more concise and point ppl to SoC or capping for details

Comparison Tables

• damage type comparison: type, weapons, other sources, defense, resistant classes, susceptible classes, for physical, elemental, & all else

Supposed to be done already!

• bonus items as own article transcluding the items, so that they can be treated as indepedent articles (low priority)
• full set of editions of the game, transcluding (maybe) the bonus items (low priority)
• the other wiki's landmark project
• this wiki's Landmark Consistency Project is less well organized

TEF Drop Rate Project

An attempt to get more ppls to collect drop rate data. How:

• count data per run instead of per creature;
  • amt of time, location, pct of area covered
• use named-parameter template to collect data, making it easier for to add
• limit # things counted
• results will be % per run
• drop rates for non-merch prices? sure, people see WTB/WTS or actually buy/sell; also same idea from authorized auction sites (gw auctions or guru)

Template Ideas

• TEF table (in beta via user css)
• make better use of userbox params or build TEF box for sillinesses
• quotations that really set the quote apart neatly
• inlines: hot tip, bug, historical, anomaly -> so that they function as bullets and set themselves apart only slightly
• setasides: "they way it looks now" and "the suggested way" — since I seem to be often using that technique
• navbars for missions (at campaign level; already exists for within campaign)
  • on 2nd thought, perhaps a guide to guides navbar
• quick ref bar for kits (to reduce superior/expert/perfect confusion)
• Cartographer & Vanquisher - standardize usage on all pages
• tinier skillbar (ideally w/resource costs on mouseover) already exists!
• Consistent display of eotn dungeon chest contents