Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Skill history

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 Skill history This project seeks to provide full histories of all skills showing the initial function and any rebalances that have taken place along with the rebalancing date.
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Please feel free to contribute. To see an example, check out these skill histories:
 * Aegis/Skill history
 * Heal as One/Skill history
 * Mystic Regeneration/Skill history (shows PvP parameters)

Contributors

 * Active
 * Blue Clouded


 * Semi-Active
 * Kaisha User Kaisha Sig.png Semi-working on: tick (Air Attunement Histories of the Elementalist)
 * Tennessee Ernie Ford
 * Falconeye (Skill Histories of the Ritualist; will resume after May)


 * Inactive
 * Maestro Ed (no contributions under that user ID since 2008)

Tools

 * Format guideline


 * Historical data:
 * Gamependium: they have the oldest database (back to 2005)
 * Search for Template:(insert skill); they list their skill infoboxes in templates.
 * Guild Wiki: second oldest set of data
 * Game update announcements going back to 2005.
 * Index of Skills, might be missing some of resource costs from the older infoboxes.
 * The official site has developer update notes (arranged by month) from 2009 to today; the game update notes go back to 2005 (these are the same as Guild Wiki's (above) without the commentary by wiki contributors).

Use the first if only minor changes have occurred to the skill; use the functionality version if the functionality changed at all (whether or not there were lots of other changes; lots of readers have expressed interest in learning which skills used to behave differently).
 * Snippets (for articles to link to histories)


 * Skill revision histories
 * * This skill has changed since its introduction; see its skill history for details.


 * * This functionality of this skill has changed since its introduction; see its skill history for details.


 * Split skill revision histories (same as above; use the second also if it has split or merged since introduction)
 * * This skill has changed since its introduction; see its PvE and PvP skill histories for details.


 * Templates
 * /Template:Skill history table
 * skill history
 * unchanged skill history (if the skill hasn't changed since introduction)

To Do

 * Create history page for each skill
 * Obtain original skill descriptions for all skills
 * Add each subsequent rebalance change

Notes before Editing

 * The following changes are undocumented as of May 6th, 2011:
 * The changes to Nature Spirits that adjusted their effects to not work on each other.
 * Sacrifice costs which were moved from the descriptions to become part of the skill infobox (list these normally in the skill infobox).
 * Minor technical things, such as typographical re-wording, unless they showed up with a skill change.
 * Global changes that caused little to no change.


 * The following should be noted as of May 6th, 2011:
 * Skill histories where the skill hasn't changed should be marked with unchanged skill history
 * Bugs which changed the functionality or numbers in a skill.


 * When making PvP articles, the "Original skill" should be the last revision before the skill split. The second update listed should be the skill split.


 * Please do not create new pages without listing any information. This makes it harder for editors to figure out which skill histories need to be updated. Strive to complete skill histories if you can, and if you find other tools to research skill histories, please list them in the Tools section above! We can never have too many sources.

Progress Report

 * Yes - Complete
 * tick - In progress
 * red - Not being worked on