Asura.Spicyryan said:
It has been about a month since the last update. So here we go!
Social
BG now has a wiki discord channel for all our editors. Feel free to join us and ask questions/seek help with the wiki
here. This has been a really productive increase to the wiki, and is improving quality.
*We would like to welcome Mondegreen to the wiki. He has left behind the sinking ship of Clopedia and joined the cause. We are glad to have you.
Wiki Changes
*I changed the standard spell template. So now that icon of a scroll that no one ever knew to click is now labeled. Yes, we have separate pages for scrolls and spells.
-After that change, talks happened in discord, and Fae created the new referenced pages icon that everyone didn’t know was the link they all wanted. You have all noticed this by now.
*There have been some template changes and additions. To the template:quest usage table and quest reward table. They do more things now like campaign ops and records of eminence objectives based on type=op or =roe in the template.
*There is also now an augmented items template so we have something better than a note on all the pages.
*Darvamos (Chiaia) improved some job pages. Adding missing tables for job point bonuses, links to gifts, etc. There are a lot of job pages to sure up like this. This project will be completed over time.
*Funkworkz uploaded new image icons from the June update (food) to match the current ones.
-He has also finished going over the job points and gift pages. The tables for gifts are now collapsed by default so users are not on a massive page like before.
*Faequeencory updated the missions pages for expansions. Now they are prettier than ever and have reward information along the side.
Fae also started changing the colors of the main page from what I did a couple of years ago, and now it is uglier than ever. :P
*Carrot is the best ever
*Mondegreen is working on pages and templates. Aside from this he is a very busy bee. He has created a new one for automatically calculating an item’s guild point value (see poison dagger) and changes to the CSS for changing the colors of all the templates. We are planning on changing the template colors up depending on the topic.
You can see I have already started doing this. The currency exchange on the imperial currency pages and the augmentable items template on something like hagondes coat, are already different colors. Jazzing that ***up!
And, once again with the color nonsense. Funk, Fae, and Carrot tell me that my choice of red was uglier than ever :|
*Loona has continued fixing links and correcting or adding to zone pages which is very important and also incredibly boring. Loona is our favorite stick in the mud. Every month I shall acknowledge that he fixed links. We love you Loona. :P
*AF for BLU, COR, and LOLPUP was gone over and cleaned up.
**NPC pages for forging the equipment were already there except for LOLPUP which was now created.
-Ghatsad now has a section dedicated to the creation of frames. This page didn’t exist until now somehow.
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Automaton page desperately needs work though. It is from the 75 era, and completely lacks information. I am 75% done with the new one though after grinding it out for the past few days in a row. It will be in next months announcement despite being done soon. I will ask Carrot to please let the PUPs know about the PUPdate when it is done.
*On a similar note, all materials related to the forging of ToAU AF armor and automatons such as imperial currency or wamoura cloth have been done.
*All materials related to Reforged AF, Relic, and Empy armor have had their pages noted for the use. Later I will go back and add anything missing to those pages.
*All weapons related to Oboro’s JSE weapons have been noted as used for the upgrade and the weapons themselves have been noted as augmentable.
*All escha gear has been marked as augmentable with a link to the materials used and the NPC responsible.
-All WKR stuff too.
*New redirect creations, such as:
-Type BLU AF for example to go to the AF forging page for it.
-Type Puppet Frame Creation to go to the page for making puppets
-Better redirects to mission pages. Now things like “toau missions” works direct to the page, no more nonsense!
*Chapuire of the Woodworking guide was cleaned up and his regular wares were added to all pages. Eventually all guild NPCs will be done, but don’t expect that anytime soon, although I might decide to just do most of them by next month or none at all. Probably none at all :P
Feedback?
-Other NPCs like Taten-Bilten (CC in Al Zahbi) were touched up and put on pages. But, this is a drop in the bucket.
*All apex mobs for Dho Gates have been completely done. This includes level on the zone page, spawn amount, and the exact evasion and defense values on the mob page. Thanks to the work of the thread here on AH.com.
- More will be done in time. You can see I cover scattered stuff.
*Along with the augmented items template implementation. All the hundreds of pages for all sorts of skirmish armor, weapons, WKR items, etc have all been revisited and improved.
*Rejoice for the Kupons for the Intermediate RoE objectives have all been done and noted. Doing this caused a domino effect of massive edits to all sorts of content. This should be great for newer players as most of the old pages got some TLC. But, we are always chasing waterfalls.
*Various materials have been done. This is a random change each month to fill in missing NPC and item info.
*We plan on cleaning up the disaster of an RoE page in the future. As well as also planning on cleaning up and improving the Trust page, making the Mount page cooler in the face of new mounts coming out now,
and a new beast jug pet page that should be pretty awesome in itself. The jug page design is already under construction by Fae, and it looks nice.
Guides
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The Fantastic EXPs and Where to Find Them guide has gotten a little work since it has been made last month. Overall I will slowly complete it if no one else jumps it. It is intended to be a collaborative guide though. I haven’t gotten balls deep with it yet at any rate.
*Out of the BLU has some more touch ups here and there.
-I have a brand new and much improved Gear Swap linked in there as well as an updated sword flowchart with a new “Sword of Shame” section where we can all laugh at Mimesis.
-I keep skimming things and cleaning them up or adding to them as I see them. I have been putting things in collapsible tables to make the guide easier to scroll through. It is an ‘at leisure’ sorta thing.
* Some various community improvements to the Returning to Vanadiel guide over the past month.
*Funkworkz is working on an editing guide for people. So anyone can learn to edit BG or maybe learn something new.
We are always looking for people to show their stuff in a guide on BG. Feel free to throw one together.
Overall, in the month since the last update notice; there have been about two dozen different editors for about 1.5K+ edits. It was a busy month! Thank you to everyone who enjoys, contributes, and is a part of BG.