User talk:Shade/2011

walk-through theft
ya, sry for that. i wanna eventually get lid of those quest walkthrough copy/paste, have the wiki's own guide and just leave a link to original guide. see User talk:Curiousgis. yoko5000 00:06, January 23, 2011 (EST)

Augment Crystals

 * I started building that table, it's a little cluttered at the moment, and I have a bunch of alignment things to take care of, but I wanted to run my first bbn life up to 20 and fill it all in before I spend too much time worrying about formatting.. It's located at the bottom of the page Here.....  Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think..  I need to find a necklace, better Armor, and a necklace.  I have complete all of the quests levels 1-4 and the chains that start there (Including Tangleroot) up to Elite, with the only exception being Bookbinder rescue from Sharn because the dummy NPCs in the quest keep dieing on me..  ShoeMaker 15:47, July 13, 2011 (EDT)

EVoN2 Strategy
Hi, except the Symbol of Persuation part, I think the strategy provided by the rest of the video is still valid, isn't it? -- Gsklee 07:50, September 2, 2011 (EDT)


 * Yea mostly I guess. Just really it's quite old and the games changed a lot since then so duplicating it today in a similar manner would be really tough, and as such recommending it a strategy players may want to use is misleading. Like wall of fire, doesn't really do that kind of damage anymore cept maybe on a fire savant. But yea if you wanna re-add it with some notes about it's date and how the giant area wouldn't work like that today, go ahead. Decent enough video to showcase the quest i guess, if not be accurate in how you can beat it on epic today. --Shade 08:40, September 2, 2011 (EDT)

"Bugged" Templates
The reason all of these templates are broken is because when the wiki picked up a virus the other day and Xevo had to restore the wiki, he hasn't yet gotten around to re-installing and. I'll send him an e-mail and that should fix it.. The templates are not broken, the extension just hasn't been re-installed yet that they rely on. ShoeMaker 23:17, September 29, 2011 (EDT)

Dackle's Bugged Crossbow
I'm not saying it's not bugged. You mis-read my edit and undid other important parts of the edits. My edit says that that part of Dackle is bugged, and I'm guessing it is because his crossbow is defective/bugged and not working. ShoeMaker 19:37, October 11, 2011 (EDT)

Sonic Blast AoE
Could you take a look at Talk:Sonic Blast, and tell me where I'm going wrong with testing the shape of its AoE? Or let me know that I can change it back - I don't want to start a reversion war! :) -- Raumkraut 09:44, October 30, 2011 (EDT)

New, not sure how to correct/update info but see a correction that needs to be made
Browsing through the Quests category, I selected the Free to Play sub-category. Listed in that sub-category, is at least one that requires access to an Adventure pack. Here is the direct link to the quest I am referring to: http://ddowiki.com/page/Dr._Rushmore%27s_Mansion:_Behind_the_Door  On the page for the quest itself, it states, verbatim, "Requires access to adventure pack: Vaults of the Artificers", which requires either VIP or purchase, making it not "free-to-play". As stated in the subject line, I do not know how to correct this myself and browsing through the help section did not tell me. I do not know who else to mention this to, so apologies if I have told the wrong person in the wrong way.

That's a challenge quest. All challenges are indeed free to play, partially. Read the linked adpack for more information on that Vaults of the Artificers.

I've cleaned the adpac msg from that page, since it does say "requires" and thats not accurate. You can run it for free, if you get some free tokens to do so. Shade 14:16, December 11, 2011 (EST)

Did not see that disclaimer at the top before I posted. Thank you for pointing that out.

Unique Two-handed weapon Cat issue
After looking into the problem a little more deeply, I see the problem.. There is nothing wrong with the template as far as doing it's job to cat stuff, the problem lay in the weapon page editors use of the template.. They hare typing "Two-handed weapon" into the "|hand = " argument instead of just Two-handed. I think with some fidgeting, I can get it to detect that, strip the word weapon off the end, and let the template work as intended.. Think I will play with the idea in my template:sandbox first though. ShoeMaker 19:34, December 27, 2011 (EST)


 * Ok.. So I played with it in my sandbox and came up with:

Which says: If the word "weapon" exists --> Check to see if the entire length of the argument - the starting point of the word weapon (Leaving just the word weapon and beyond) = 6 (# of letters in the word "weapon", "weapons" would be 7) --> If it is 6, then the word "weapon" exists, add an "s" to make it "weapons" --> if it is not 6, then assume it is already "weapons" and pass it through --> if weapon did not exist to start with, add " weapons"

It is doing what it is supposed to as can be seen if you read the "Categories: ...| ... | ... | Category:Unique Two-handed weapons | ..." line at the top of the Category section

However, in the sub-cat system, it is not working right..

... > ... > ...

... > ... > ...

... > ... > ...

... > ... > ...

Category:Root > Category:DDO library > Category:Items > Category:Unique weapons > Category:Unique Two-handed weapon

I suggest asking or  after waiting 24 hours from the time of this post to see if it is some kind of caching issue that may fix itself in a little time. ShoeMaker 13:53, December 28, 2011 (EST)


 * Nevermind... As you can see.. My second example using Category:Unique Two-handed weapon turned to a redlink while I was typing previous post, this means it was a caching issue and it fixed itself.. ShoeMaker 13:55, December 28, 2011 (EST)

Greater Acid Arrow
And was there any particular reason you reverted my edits? Sure, Greater Acid Arrow will now work, but I would think that going straight to Acid Arrow instead of going through a redirect would be better. LrdSlvrhnd 20:04, December 29, 2011 (EST)