User talk:Chieftain Alex

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Easter break is more of a chore with revision, but for the greater good...

— I, Alex

Images are hard :O -- anguard 22:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Yeah after 6 years of pushing people to upload under the right name, i still can't do it myself sometimes. God I'm retarded. Chieftain Alex 22:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps I should start watching your revisions so I can correct yours as you have mine ;)

Can't tell if deliberately not signing ... lol Chieftain Alex 00:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

ROTFL, well I did save the changes then realised I hadn't signed it and then the irony dawned on me, so I left it :P Lady Elyssa 07:25, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Trying to get through Warning the Angchu HM - if you can lend a hand, thanks!Baron Pierre Lestat 11:41, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Tis ok

Its ok. I just needed to voice my opinion. Some people wont speak first so I went ahead and did it publicly. I honestly didnt expect to get it. And as it says "I hope to never use the tools". Drogo Boffin 23:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

If you want a laugh, I RfA'd when I was sharing my account with a perma banned guy Chieftain Alex 10:31, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Thats harsh. Drogo Boffin 13:09, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

"world map"s

← moved to Guild Wars Wiki talk:Projects/Interactive Maps#Integration of maps on explorable area articles

EC

No problem. Any time mate. Cheers Drogo Boffin 18:06, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Hah. nowhere near as bad as old interactive maps when I was Ec'ing farlo fairly frequently.. and since each map takes 30 mins of editing :p ... rage. Chieftain Alex 18:07, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

You're awesome!

Just wanted to pop in and express my delight that you've continued working on the maps! I thought for sure that they'd sit there unfinished forever. ~FarloTalk 19:39, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Oops

I think I accidentally Edit Conflicted you. Sorry about that. Afraid I don't know how to read what you wrote. Gaudy Gourd God 14:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Its ok since you answered the question too. If you do get the "warning: edit conflict" message, then usually your stuff will be in the bottom editing pane, and the inbetween edit will show in the top editing pane - if two submit at the same time, it just ignores the middle one :P

You should be using wiki links though, e.g.

[[Main page]]

will take you to the Main Page. You can view what another user wrote by clicking on the History tab to the right of the edit button, and then clicking on any of the edits. (also i've detected iminent EC here :P ) Chieftain Alex 14:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Alright, and yeah, dunno what I'm doing anymore. I should read up on some of that linking, because it's starting to get messy for me lol. Or maybe just stay off wiki when tired ^^. No fun in that though. Gaudy Gourd God 14:31, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

The Scribe

Thanks for making use of the Scribe images. I started on that...and then ran out of time to work on it. (Plus: it's looking better than it would have if I had been making the template.) – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 21:29, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

YHM

Or you would have mail if you enabled email this user. Could you send me an email using that feature so I can reply back? Thanks! – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 21:32, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Since I started getting aggressive emails from Kaisha I have had it turned off. Chieftain Alex 21:39, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Images

Erf, not got anti aliasing on. Chieftain Alex 12:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Addendum

Assassin Ancient armor. I like the straps on the arms. Now, if only I could remove the spikes on the boots, it'd be fine...-- anguard 22:26, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

You could probably texmod them away by making the parts that are the spikes turn alpha channel (thus invisible), though not sure how that'd look for where the spikes come from. Konig/talk 06:52, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

...Not really a fair option.-- anguard 15:36, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Finding Jinnai

Well, this is a bummer, after you helped me with Finding Jinnai. And we resigned, the quest didn't update. -_-. Now I've gotta do it all over again... --Thon Ghul Talk 19:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Lol I was sure I asked if it had updated D: (Still gives more chance for uniques :P ) Chieftain Alex 21:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

It had said "Quest Updated", in the chat window, but, once i left the mission, it said the same thing it said before I started. I don't know what happened o: --Thon Ghul Talk 20:27, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/AI skills usage

Hi Alex. Could you help me with a DPL by professions in the same way you did for the images projects? Yoshida Keiji talk 06:58, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

I'd need a clear detailed description of what you want. Chieftain Alex 07:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

A list like Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Images needed/list that sorts my newly created template ({{AI behavior update}}) by professions, if it's possible with skill icons to the side for better visual identification. The same way we have been tagging with template {{image update}}, it should automaticaly display its sorting. The number of columns doesn't matter to me as long as all skills are not listed together. Or a hero version of this list List_of_elite_skills_by_profession would be awesome but seems a lot of work. Yoshida Keiji talk 07:40, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Hey, I appreciate all the cleanup and fixes you're doing, especially considering how this wiki is getting less and less active, but comments like "you retarded or something? that wasn't your username :p" aren't particularly appropriate (less so when they're about new users). pling 17:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey, sorry for that - I'd forgotten that move summaries are permanently embedded on the page you delete the redirect from :/ kinda looks bad I agree. Chieftain Alex 21:20, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Would have helped

If I spelled it correctly when moving it. Thanks Alex. -- FreedomBound 12:37, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Oops :) Chieftain Alex 14:26, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Tagging for deletion

Hey, I realise you've been hard at work tagging those nonsense pages that bots keep creating. Thanks for that, a lot.

But uh, just wanted to point out that there was one in particular where an actual user asking a question. It was really unfortunate that he formatted his talk page in such a way as to be so similar to all those bots :D -- ab.er.rant 15:51, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Hmm my bad xD, just got back to a place with internet ^_^. Probably a good job admins are more switched on than I am with deletions. Chieftain Alex 14:26, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Hell yea, deletion candidates give me purpose! :D -- ab.er.rant 14:31, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Lil help with Defend Droknar's Forge Hard Mode

Hi,

I saw you stated you completed the mission, must have been a beast! I have used consets and tried different builds for my hero's and myself. I have a Ranger that I tend to have a build around Barrage. My other heroes are your typical from Prophecies and EOTN. I saw your acronyms for the builds you used, but I am sort of new to the various builds they are. Any sage advice would be appreciated as far as good builds and what they specifically are. Thanks in advance! --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Angaels (talk) at 04:16, 15 June 2012 (UTC).

Yeah it takes ages (shorter than running to eastern frontier for the ascalon hm one from ToA though), and possibly the same difficulty as Defend North Kryta Province (awful npc protection..)

Ok you'll have noticed that there are only 5 hero builds there. (I honestly don't recall the other hero, but I think it was probably Powerblock with Mistrust.) and I brought another human with me as a source of Save yourselves.

Titans hit super hard, so Soul Twisting rit is the way to go imo, and the +100 armor from save yourselves will help immensely.

Stopping Backbreaker titan warriors from knocking out your heroes with displacement/ineptitude/clumsiness is probably a good idea. Micro these spirits before aggro, spaced out.

Xinrae's Weapon necro - minimises damage taken as a result of hits.

Signet of Spirits rit - I'm honestly not sure if ritualist spirits are worth taking anymore, but it offers some much needed spiritwall to take some of the damage for your party, (and I think they help trigger daze interrupts too).

Broad Head Arrow - important hero in my opinion, micro it onto the Hearts of the Titans and they shouldn't be able to cast anything :) Use Drain Enchantment on Shield of Absorption.

Spoil Victor almost always triggers due to titans having over 1k health.

I could imagine it might be possible to put Save Yourselves and Broad Head Arrow on the same bar, in which case bring dwarven stability to use with lightning reflexes.

For cons, I didn't use them but armor of salvation would be a good idea. Bring absolutely loads of dp removers for your team and yourself.

As for the route.. the south path in Mineral Springs is probably a better idea than the north (I've done both routes and the north takes longer), the difficult thing about the south path is the titan group immediately as you enter mineral springs (you might want to head north to the rez shrine, kill the titans, then work your way east.

As for the final fight, flag heroes way back with spirits microed, pull the mob, run away superfast until the titans break aggro and start returning. Setup your spirits and party at this "aggro breaking" line. Procede the pull the titans again and slowly pick them off, try to bodyblock titans that try to return against the wall. I've currently not got gw installed so am unable to help in game :/ Chieftain Alex 09:58, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

More DPL fixes

Hi Alex. Today I stomped on Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Skill history which has a DPL for every profession...but the list is failing...as with the others... the current set-up only lists with {{yes}} and {{no}} which skill pages do or not have a history sub-page. The problem here is that it won't exactly tell if each of the skill main pages "has" actually been updated with the latest rebalance. Which technically nullfills its purpose.

I think a more efficient list would be one that would include skill pages which contain a tag such as: {{history update needed}}. Yoshida Keiji talk 09:37, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately the DPL manual has been unavailable for the last month due to a corrupt server, so I don't actually know what the parameter is for lasteditdate, but I can make a few guesses. I don't think adding another template should be the right answer tbh. Chieftain Alex 09:48, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Apparently DPL manual still has trojans but it is online. I'll look into it further this afternoon. Chieftain Alex 10:15, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

I don't know how to lookup the edit date of the sub-page :( adding an update needed template still seems clunky, idk what to do. Chieftain Alex 12:23, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

User:arronb153

Oh dear. How do you contact a user when they're presumably unaware that they even have a user page? I hope my edit note on the revert did the job, but I somehow doubt it. I hate alienating new users like that :( --snograt 16:37, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Sigh - nope, he just reverted my revert :/ --snograt 16:39, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

New Userpage

I Like it (: -- Thon Ghul|Talk 15:36, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Since you're currently here...

Is there a way to make {{Item infobox}} not automatically categorize reward trophy pages into Category:Trophies when the collector parameter is used (e.g. Imperial Mask Token and Ancient Artifact)? Reward trophy pages are already categorized in Category:Reward trophies and some reward trophy items don't drop from creatures like trophy items do. --Silver Edge 21:47, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I see you have altered that infobox. That corrected the categorization on all the reward trophy pages except for War Supplies, which is categorized in Category:Trophies because "Reward trophy" and "Sweet" are listed in the "type" parameter. --Silver Edge 05:07, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Good spot, its a bit of an odd one that. Do you think I should add a special case for "War Supplies"? :/ Chieftain Alex 10:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Pillaged Goods is automatically categorized into Category:Trophies by Template:Item infobox, since {{ #if: {{{collector|}}}|[[Category:Trophies]]}} is used in that template and the Pillaged Goods page has a collector listed in its infobox. How can that code be adjusted so that salvage item pages, such as Pillaged Goods, doesn't appear in the trophy category? Thanks. --Silver Edge 07:26, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok I've made some edits and put them in sandbox 1. My test results are in sandbox 5. (I'm also thinking we should get tub to add the material categorisation code.) -- Chieftain Alex 10:55, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Copied to mainspace. Chieftain Alex 10:39, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Urgoz's Warren/Map

As per Talk:Urgoz's Warren/Map, the elite area has only 2 death traps. Their "safety character" spot are correctly marked with player's position marker, but you also added the same legend on the Energy Drain icon and readers are seeing 3 safe spots. Change the "Only one person should remain here until the Guardian Serpent is slain to stop foes spawning next room." for "While in the area, foes suffer from -4 Energy degeneration.". Yoshida Keiji talk 11:27, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Ugh and the second Life Drain legend as well: "One person should remain here until the next door opens to stop everyone being trap in the next room" for "Foes in the area have -15 Health degeneration.". Yoshida Keiji talk 11:33, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

I'll resolve per my comments on the talk page tomorrow. Chieftain Alex 00:08, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the picture tags

I dunno if they changed the uploader or I am just going blind. but for the life of me I could not see the boxes on the screen to tag that image as a screenshot. Done it so many times before quite easily with the other shots, but that one today was just throwing me. Still no idea how you did it, but thanks :) Muppet 20:12, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

I just hit the edit tab at the top of the image and typed {{screenshot}} & {{user image|Muppet}}.. but yeah the image uploader can be erratic and fail to provide tagging options sometimes. Chieftain Alex 08:36, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Boss List Merger

I commented on this page, I'd like to know what you think before I do anything. --CrazyRabidSquirrel 16:18, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Ok they're quite different in appearance, do you think you could do a really small mockup so I have an idea of what you're intending to follow through with? Chieftain Alex 08:30, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Basically, if any of the bosses are missing on the capture location page, I'll add them. The List of bosses page would become a redirect to the capture location page, instead of being a carbon copy of the same information. It would require little to no change to the capture location pages. --CrazyRabidSquirrel 14:56, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

It's a selective paste merger. I delete all text on List of Factions bosses and add "#REDIRECT [[List of elite skills by Factions capture location]]". I then place "merge content to [[DESTINATIONPAGE]]" as edit summary. I also edit List of elite skills by Factions capture location with a summary of "merge content from [[SOURCEPAGE]]" even if no meaningful edits are performed. I then place "Article merged: See old talk-page [[talk:PAGENAME|here]]" on List of elite skills by Factions capture location talk page. I might go ahead and perform the Factions one. If you don't like it, go ahead and revert it, and make the changes you feel necessary. --CrazyRabidSquirrel 16:26, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Tbh I think we would have been better off with just deleting "List of Factions bosses" since nothing important links there anyway.. the same for the "List of Nightfall bosses" and "List of Prophecies bosses" too. They're just too long to be helpful, and a redirect ain't helpful at all. :/ (afaik "List of elite skills by Prophecies/Factions/EoTN/Nightfall capture location" are all complete) Chieftain Alex 00:47, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree with their redundancy. I couldn't find a guide or template for merging other than the tag. I did find the discussion on whole topic here, and a link to Wikipedia's merging guide. From what I got from these links, it looks like the history and talk pages for the merged/deleted articles have to be preserved under the GFDL. I think the reason behind leaving the redirect there is for the preservation of the page history. I'll do the same thing to the others that I did to the Factions one, if you think the redirect is unneeded, go ahead and tag it for deletion, I'm just too afraid to becuase of this GFDL stuff. Off the topic, it looks like you avoided the evil grasp of 216.66.151.59 today. That IP hit my talk and userpage 3 times each. Curse those darn IP's. --CrazyRabidSquirrel 02:51, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Contributions

I just want to let you know that I really appreciate everything you've been doing on weapons and PvP rewards. Keep up the great work! -- Kirbman 02:09, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks man, I guess I should go through all the pvp weapons now I know the list is complete & check the formatting ^^ -- Chieftain Alex 07:43, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Template help

After I made some changes to {{Skill progression max12}} so it doesn't display rank 0, rank 3 doesn't display the correct figure on some of the allegiance rank skill pages. E.g. Summon Spirits displays "78" for rank 3, but it should be displaying "79". Is there anyway to fix this or should I revert my changes? --Silver Edge 04:52, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

I had a careful look, and concluded that if it previously start the progression at rank zero, then what appeared to be the rank one value would be a rounded value. I've used this to calculate the "precise" (no rounding) values. (Yellow cells are inputs, the bottom progression is the old one, the top progression is the new one).

I'm sure theres a method where it can calculate the var0 value and just not display it, but I've no real idea how to do that. I think I've updated all the skills needing an update. Chieftain Alex 11:27, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. That also fixed the incorrect rank 2 value for "Save Yourselves!". --Silver Edge 18:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

NPCS locations

Yep, sitting on RC again. Why the notes on hard mode quests, specifically on Yong Hei and Cap'n Bitchy? It could lead one to believe that they're only involved in the HM versions (er, they're not, are they?) - and why just those two? I guess you're working on conditional spawners, eh? --snograt 14:28, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm just copying the format used on Ministry of Purity member X ... perhaps its incorrect. :/ -- Chieftain Alex 14:29, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Template:Unsigned+ usage

Noticed that your bookkeeping needs timezone adjustment, e.g.: [1] (timing doesn't look right). Yoshida Keiji talk 06:16, 28 July 2012 (UTC)