Talk:Active Skills

Sorting and transclusions
For now, we can just keep adding to the subpages for attibute type, but eventually we should subst them on here and just redir those pages to their category here, as I think the skills list will be a stable set of information once we have it. We should then sort them by other qualities in additional lists, such as by melee/ranged/both attack type (as those require weapons to use), attack spells, auras, traps, totems, summons, and/or required level. I organize my gems by purpose in-game and they are fantastically easy to deal with. Red-green-blue organization is easy on the people getting the data input, and it makes it simple for someone to find skills they can utilize with a certain character based on stats, but they're hardly easy to browse otherwise.

Transcluding each skill's qualities would be nice, but they aren't changing and they would only need to be repeated on the skill's page itself and here where it is listed. Tables (sortable even) are preferred when information is static like that, because transclusions of a large list of skills would just be a lot of unnecessary resource usage on the server. Ionface 15:38, 9 June 2012 (UTC)