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Table or list of items offered by Renown heart NPC's

→ moved from Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Requests for technical administration

While searching for the Renown heart NPC's in Queensdale to see in one glance at what they offer after completing their heart, I realized there was no way unless i clicked on each heart and then on the renown npc. For a complete list of the karma merchants in Queensdale I had to click around until I got to the List of Krytan karma merchants to find a list of them all, and then I had to click on each one to see what they offered. I am specifically requesting for the items offered by Renown heart NPC's and NOT karma merchants, since one has to complete the heart in order for the items to be available, while the other karma merchants don't require heart/quest completion. I'm willing to do the leg work, just want an ok from the mods for either updating the above page, or creating a new one. Thanks. --Iceblue 13:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

List of hearts in Queensdale--Relyk ~ talk > 14:48, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

^ubad relyk. I think (s)he means the rewards offered by the merchants rather than the actual monetary/xp/karma reward. e.g. Farmer Diah offers Wurm Tooth / bread / crude salvage kits after completion of the heart. Chieftain Alex 16:24, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I've attempted a low-thought version, User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox. The page is immensely long and frankly too long for implementation as a method, might do as a page to copy data off though >< --Chieftain Alex 17:20, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

The renown NPCs in each zone are clearly defined and shouldn't be changing, there no reason we can't use an explicit DPL call on each NPC to transclude their item table. —Dr Ishmael 17:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

How to get weapon skill icons without skill bar numbers for wiki?

I was wondering where people get the "clean" weapon skill icons from. Normal weapon skills can be grabbed from the Weapon Skill tab under H I guess but e.g. Environmental weapon skills or Costume Brawl skills will only appear on the skill bar itself. If I take a screenshot from that, there will be a skill bar number over the bottom of the icon. 08Ray 03:34, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

This includes skill icons, that's where I generally hear of people getting icons of all sorts. Manifold 03:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! That's exactly what I was looking for! 08Ray 12:24, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Guild Wars 2: Guilds Wiki

Hi, I was wondering if there were any plans or if you are willing to create a separate wiki or separate section of for guilds. It could be useful information for other players --GM Sphere 70.79.62.156 15:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

From Guild Wars 2 Wiki:FAQ#The Wiki:

Will there be a place on the wiki for me to add my guild?

No, at least not in the way this was done on Guild Wars Wiki. However, you are free to create an article for your guild within your user space.

In addition, some example userspace guildpages can be found here. You will need to register an account before you can create such a page. Chieftain Alex 16:09, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Signature Image

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone could clue me in on how to create a signature image like that of the chicken that ishmael has? :) Turial 11:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

I didn't make mine, so I can't help. :P —Dr Ishmael 13:45, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, how do I link to any kind of any image at all lol :) Turial 14:18, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Maybe something like:

-[[User talk:Turial|Turial]] [[File:User Turial sig.png|19px|link=User:Turial]]

Which would appear as:

-Turial

(this would look fine if you actually uploaded a signature image) Or steal/adapt someone else's signature. See Help:Signatures for help, or say what you want it to look like, which icon it should look like/the color and I'll do it :p -Chieftain Alex 14:32, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I thought you were asking specifically about making an icon. For just coding a sig, follow the instructions at the bottom of Alex's link. —Dr Ishmael 15:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

That's it! Thanks much guys :) Now once I figure out coloured names then I am set ^_^ [[User talk:Turial|Turial]] [[File:User Turial sig.png|19px|link=User:Turial]] 15:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Looks like you forgot to check the box that says "Treat signature as wikitext". —Dr Ishmael 15:33, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

That I did :) you're a star ;) Turial 15:40, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Content

Is it allowed to use or copy the content of this wiki, for an other official GW 2 wiki in a different language? Id like to upgrade the PVP reward section for the german GW2 Wiki but i dont rly want to start at zero.

Since they're both official gw2w sites, where anet legally owns the content, there shouldn't be any problem with you copying the data. (just make sure its not full of mistakes :D ) -Chieftain Alex 20:54, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

As long as you adhere to the GFDL, the license under which our content is available, you can use it for whatever you like. The main requirements the license gives is that you provide attribution to the original authors (you can see those in the page history) and republish the content in a compatible license (GFDL itself would be perfect :P). If you want to publish the content on the official German Guild Wars 2 Wiki, it is easy as all the official wikis are using GFDL and as such, you can share content around as you want—just remember to provide attribution, for example by linking to the original source in your edit comment. poke | talk 20:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Font Size GW2 Wiki

Are there viewer options for the GW2 wiki? I have above average eyesight but even I have a hard time reading the wiki sometimes because of the small typeset so I'm certain that others do too. And evidently the font size used for entering this question is so small that I can scarcely see it. There is little difference between 'c' and 'e'. Though the font itself is great. Very neat, as in tidy and minimalist. Though it would be easiest perhaps to change the default font size, it wouldn't be too hard to insert font-sizing coding in the webpage to preserve the original look by default while allowing an option for those of us who have trouble reading it. I've been meaning to create an account and would be happy to help on this if you all would like. Hoping for a favorable response, JRF

You could correct this issue for yourself by i) creating an account ii) setting up some custom CSS, e.g. Special:MyPage/monobook.css + then typing something along the lines of

element {
    font-size: 105%;
}

(you need an account to be able to setup custom css). You could also try zooming in, typically by holding CTRL + scrolling the mouse. (this would work without an account). I admit that this wouldn't keep everything looking normal in proportion, but adjusting everything would be too complex for me :p -Chieftain Alex 16:39, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) You can zoom the page in your browser, Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- or Ctrl+mousewheel. Try Ctrl+0 first to make sure you're at 100% zoom to start with. (I know these work in Firefox, Chrome, and IE.) —Dr Ishmael 16:41, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm having trouble with an event template/infobox

Hi all, I'm trying to edit the page Escort_Agent_Rexx_as_he_delivers_supplies_to_Warden_spy_Alarin and add File:Agent_Rexx_start.jpg into the event template/infobox so that people know where he starts (it's a FAQ in my opinion). I added npc_map = File:Agent_Rexx_start.jpg to the page, but no map seems to pop up. Am I doing something wrong? That seems to make sense based on the infobox template to me. Let me know! Thanks, Demeric 19:36, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

You were doing it perfectly, its just that the documentation hadn't noted that you have to specify the start NPC in order for the map be processed properly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I'll go add a note to the infobox template! -Chieftain Alex 19:42, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit, I've updated the infobox explanations. Also, on this wiki, I think all of the infoboxes assume files have the "file:" prefix so you only have to type the bit after that ;) -Chieftain Alex 19:51, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Bullet list issue?

When making a bullet list I am having some problems. In this example the little blue square will not appear: * {{map icon|heart}} I think this problem is any time you use the map icon|whatever after the "*". Yoe Dude 22:53, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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Where are you trying to do this? Are you definitely using the bullet at the beginning of a new line? -Chieftain Alex 23:13, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I was looking over some stuff, I saw this on the Statue page wanted to fix it but couldn't get it to work. Yoe Dude 23:23, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

It's because the map icon template now floats the icon to the left, covering the bullet. If you're using an icon like that, you don't need a bullet anyway, because the icon takes the stylistic place of the bullet. —Dr Ishmael 23:46, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok, maybe it's the * {{event swords}} putting the square that is the odd thing, map icons and skill icons do not. I can use indent to remove this issue. Yoe Dude 00:25, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Colspan / rowspan help

Please could someone remove the last column from: User:Chieftain_Alex/sandbox#See_also in a way that doesn't a) leave an empty column on the end or b) move norn to the right of the table. -Chieftain Alex 00:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

It's doing that because every cell in the "Human" "row" has a rowspan. You'd have to add a hidden column to make that work - but I thought we had gotten away from the complicated rowspanned tables fad. —Dr Ishmael 01:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

I'd do that, but I think class="hidecol6" etc got removed from the .css years ago, so I can't do that. Pling thinks my "humanoid" collection of sylvari/norn/human into one row is mad anyway. -Chieftain Alex 10:29, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

earth skills?

Hello fellow players,

I'm currently a lvl 5 Elementalist and I've recently noticed I'm unable to use my Earth skill set. Is this a bug or is it unlocked at a certain lvl. Please help.

Signed

A fellow Elementalist.

This isn't the appropriate place for game questions - this page is for wiki questions. You should ask questions like this on the official forums. However, we state on earth attunement that it unlocks at level 6. —Dr Ishmael 15:21, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Internal link formatting

Is there a way to insert a link to the image page, not displaying the image (or it's thumb etc.) itself, other then format it as an external link? Malgalad 16:10, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Yep, you put a colon before the link. e.g. [[:File:User Chieftain Alex Bristol Airport.jpg]] gives File:User Chieftain Alex Bristol Airport.jpg -Chieftain Alex 16:41, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Great, thank you! Not so obvious... Does semicolon posses any other magic properties i should know about? :D Malgalad 16:43, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Not really ;) it does allow you to include some pages as templates if you wanted to. e.g. a mainspace item would be "{{:< mainspace pagename>}}" -Chieftain Alex 19:57, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Won't start a new thread the same day. Another question: is it possible to make headings collapsible/expandable? Malgalad 21:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, as I think you know how to use expandable tables... could you expand on your description of what you want/give an example of where you'd like to use it please? -Chieftain Alex 21:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, it can look like in the mobile version of Wikipedia. So that you can hide/open content below the heading. This is for my research, I guess, with all ~1600 IDs it will take a looong time to scroll down the page. Malgalad 21:53, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I can't find the exact js/css that tells the mobile version of wikipedia to convert headings into collapsibles :/ if you could find it and hack that up, that would be the perfect solution.

But I can get it close enough using something like User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox3. -Chieftain Alex 22:10, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Close enough :) Relating js is here, css is just display:none / display:inline-block. Malgalad 22:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Well, i figured out, why in GW2W [Show/Hide] button is shown above heading: it has margin-top 1.39em. Appropriate value is like 0.5em. I can make so with styles, but then it doesn't count as heading and thus doesn't show in page content list. Malgalad 23:14, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Pristine Fractal Relics

Hello, I am currently playing Fractals of the Mists (FOTM) and I am surpassing lvl 10, but there is a problem. I am now on level 30, of FOTM and I only have 7 Pristine Fractal Relics, what is the reason for this? Don't they drop every time you complete the dungeon? Or does it drop every other time? I would please like some help on this issue, thank you very much. 173.33.131.95 22:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

You may see the answer you need in this page Pristine Fractal Relic or in it's talk page.--Alu 11:37, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

how do you increase guild size? a friend of mine has been trying to increase it but the guild registrar keeps telling him he needs more members. is it a glitch or something?

This page is for wiki questions, not game questions. Game questions should be asked on the official forums. —Dr Ishmael 13:30, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Will there be a "Daily" section on the front page of the Wiki? I know that Dailies are listed under Achievements, and just 2 clicks away, but since Dailies are such a, well, daily part of the game, would it be appropriate to give it its own section on the front page? So that players can quickly see what they can do each day to earn karma, laurels and other rewards?

'Profession' Gear

Laurel merchants are selling 'Profession' Gear items with the Wiki filling in some pages quite quickly with drop possibilities (like Mesmer) and some rather slowly (like Elementalist). I was wondering if perhaps we could join the pages together into one (similar to Runes). I assume most people would only be interested in them with perhaps the following stats:

• Rare to Exotic drop ratio or percents?
• Do legendary precursors drop?

I 'assume' the actual drops, while finite in number, still do have a large number of possibilities (in hundreds if not thousands); I don't think it would matter listing every possible outcome. Lancour 13:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Drop rate subpages needs to be created for the gear pages. We are only concerned with the level and rarity of the weapon for rare items and the item name for named equipment.--Relyk ~ talk > 14:04, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

A combined drop rate research page for rarity/level would be useful, since the only plausible difference in drop tables is the restrictions on item types (engineer = light armor/rifles/pistols/harpoon guns/shields; elementalist = light armor/staffs/scepters/daggers/foci/tridents; etc.). Merging the item pages would just create an infobox mess. —Dr Ishmael 14:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Transferring Upgrades

I am having trouble transferring armor and weapons on my level 45 Ranger. I hit level 45 went to an NPC to upgrade weapons and armor. I purchased, but it will not transfer when I click and drag.The level 40 armor stays on my character. And the level 45 armor just stays in my inventory. Can you tell me how to correct this?76.18.139.208 20:00, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Please read the notice at the top - this page is for questions about the wiki, not questions about the game. You should post game questions to the official forums. —Dr Ishmael 21:15, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

That being said, try double clicking, and make sure that there is no red text at the bottom of the item saying that it’s not wearable by your character. poke | talk 07:43, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Reformat links table

After Dr Ishmael created {{Game link}}, I was thinking about reformatting Chat links table - imo, it's not necessary to keep both link and ID if we now can transform ID into link. In my vision, table row will look like

{{Map link table row|827|Ash Tribune Quarters}}

and visualize like

ID	Link	Location
827	[&BDsDAAA=]	Ash Tribune Quarters

As far as I searched the wiki, the closest templates are for skills. So, the first question is: I need to create one template for table rows, and another for the table itself, right? No way to make it in one tl? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Malgalad (talk • contribs) at 12:13, 3 May 2013 (UTC).

You don’t need a template for the table itself. You can just write the table stuff in normal wiki text and just use the template to quickly produce the code for each row. poke | talk 17:55, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Were you thinking of templating the table header like Template:weapon skill table header? That template exists because of the need for precise and uniform layout formatting on skill tables: in case we ever change them, we only have to modify the template (like when Anet added activation time to skills, we added that to the skill tables) and all the tables will update. For this, a header template probably wouldn't be necessary, since these tables don't require precise formatting, and the layout probably won't ever change, either. —Dr Ishmael 18:03, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

(hoping I interpreted Poke correctly in that a row template would be acceptable). I've created {{Map link table}} and tested it on Chat link format/0x04 codes/Cities. Chieftain Alex 18:40, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Er-r-r... yeah, thank you. I was just in the processes of writing regexp to make such operation. As for the template - as good as I imagined, but a bit unclear with #type - it is defined for the whole table, right? Well, lets say that spawn points are such invisible waypoints... MalGalad 18:46, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Its defined until you next redefine it. Just declare it before you start using it, like in my example, for instance in the table header. -Chieftain Alex 19:11, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

ID	Link	Type	Location
827	[&BDsDAAA=]	Point of Interest	Ash Tribune Quarters

{{mlink row|827|poi|Ash Tribune Quarters}}

Why do you need separate tables and and force yourself to use a variable? Header templates are good whether or not you need uniform layout, I'd use them even for headers you can copypaste.--Relyk ~ talk > 19:07, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Header templates save a mere two lines. might as well copypaste them. Plus if the points are being grouped in different tables why would you list the type? :) Are you suggesting an even longer page? -Chieftain Alex 19:11, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for creating a bazillion links to waypoint pages that don't exist.  :P —Dr Ishmael 19:25, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't find it any more useful than simply having a list of locations for a zone where you can sort by type if you want to.--Relyk ~ talk > 19:28, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed -Chieftain Alex 19:47, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Phew, finished. Alex is right, the main reason for splitting into 2+ tables is page length. Of course, we can have 1 big table, but other 80% of the page will be blank - I don't think it's reasonable, besides it is harder to read. MalGalad 20:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

How?

How can i make a post or something that people will see and give me there opinions and answers to my questions?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mr.ShmAlec (talk • contribs) at 16:53, 9 May 2013 (UTC).

Good news: you just posted something that people saw and somebody (me) answered on! But in general, it depends on what you want to post. If you want to comment on some article, it’s best if you start a discussion on its talk page. If it’s a general wiki topic, you could use the community portal or start a discussion elsewhere and link to it to get some attention. If you want to discuss the game, I would ask you to take that to the official forum or some fansite instead. poke | talk 17:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

SMW weapon gallery

Hi, per Template talk:Weapon gallery#Ok_we_have_the_SMW_gallery_format_now, I'd like to caption the images properly with a page link. I think that in order to caption it, the property I choose has to be of type "page". Is there a way to use the pagename as the caption parameter, or should we setup a "page" property with the pagename of each item? (seems kind of meh) -Chieftain Alex 20:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Second-person or third-person?

On this wiki, should we be talking to the player of a character/profession/etc. ("You can tame a pet"), or about the player/character/profession/etc. ("The ranger can tame a pet")? That is, should we write from the second-person or third-person perspective? —173.199.215.5 02:57, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Second-person is indisputably easier to write and read when discussing how a player does something (like you say, "You can tame a pet," or "Equip a weapon on your character."), there's no reason at all to complicate things by trying to write all of that in third-person. —Dr Ishmael 01:22, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Can't save edits removing section titles

I tried to remove a section from Basic Salvage Kit, but when I click on "Save Page," I just get a blank page and the change is not made. This happens on both Safari on my iPad and Firefox on my computer, and I've had no problems making edits that didn't involve removing section titles. How do I report a wiki bug, or is this message sufficient? —131.91.4.14 13:45, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Seems like a bug with AbuseFilter - we have a filter to prevent section removal by anonymous users since that is an extremely common spambot attack. If you register an account, you'll be able to bypass most of the AbuseFilter rules. —Dr Ishmael 14:38, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Moving a page, template problems

After moving an event page, the {{event|Something or other}} link from the corresponding meta event displays not correctly. The event symbol is missing (although specified in the event template of the moved page), and the event level in brackets is displayed twice.

Example: last event of http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Assault_on_Thunder_Rock (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kill_the_champion_Modniir_overlord)

In addition to that, the event reward box is empty.

Any reasons? Just caching issues? Senritsu (talk) 17:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Looks like SMW has doubled-up the page's properties for some reason: Special:Browse/Kill-20the-20champion-20Modniir-20overlord. I have no clue how that could happen, but I'll try to look into it. —Dr Ishmael 17:40, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Deleting and restoring the page seems to fix it, see The Battle for Northeast Kessex Hills/Defeat Harathi loggers before they collect enough lumber to repair the Earthworks catapults. That shouldn't be necessary, though. It may have something to do with master/slave database lag, so let's leave the others alone for now and see if they fix themselves in a few hours. —Dr Ishmael 17:42, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Ok, in that case i'll wait with fixing the rest of the mis-named events until i see if the problem solves itself Senritsu (talk) 17:56, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

I had this issue come up after moving a page yesterday, it seems to have fixed itself.--Relyk ~ talk < 22:59, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't look like it's fixing itself this time. —Dr Ishmael 18:26, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Removing the infobox and adding it back in forces it to update correctly luckily. This is going to be a constant issue for semantic templates for events and items.--Relyk ~ talk < 17:48, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Seems like this has been a known bug for a while, but sporadic enough that the developers haven't felt a need to fix it. —Dr Ishmael 18:03, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Rare item/ princess doll frame

HI! Is this right place to ask follow question: where I can get Princes Doll Frame??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 178.75.151.15 (talk • contribs) at 01:30, 24 May 2013‎ (UTC).

Ask yourself: is this a question about the wiki, or is it a question about the game? Then read the notice in the big box at the top of the page. That should answer your question. —Dr Ishmael 01:33, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Also: Princess Doll Frame. The article should answer your question. poke | talk 17:10, 24 May 2013 (UTC)