Template talk:Infobox-ability/issues/sandbox

Should Toggled be considered a subtype of Active or its own thing?
Toggled usage is a hybrid between active and passive, in that it has to be actively triggered once, but from then on it's passive; in some cases, until reincarnation. Functionally, toggled is most often paired with passive, e.g., an active ability requires a target and a duration, while toggled and passive abilities do not. However, in the existing templates and documentation (such as there is), toggled is considered a refinement of active. It's easy enough to continue to follow this precedent, but I would lean toward treating them as distinct. &rArr; Hoopy Froodle (Contribs • Message • Email ) 12:45, September 7, 2019 (EDT)

Should Area be mandatory?
In PnP, every spell description includes Target, Range and Area, among other things. DDO conflates range and area, so you end up with a range like "Standard AOE" for both ranged spells (e.g. Acid Blast) and zero-range spells (e.g. Negative Energy Burst). Conscientious editors elaborate either target or range to clarify the ambiguity, but that wouldn't be necessary if we simply added the missing field. Unfortunately, that means (a) the wiki would break from in-game wording, and (b) hundreds of legacy pages would need to be updated. (a) particularly bothers me, until one considers that ad hoc clarifications already break from in-game wording, and inconsistently. &rArr; Hoopy Froodle (Contribs • Message • Email ) 13:01, September 7, 2019 (EDT)