Talk:Druid

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It seems they are Spirits when they spawn like Nature Spirits. But Dark Oak do not react to Gaze of Fury like Aurora Glade, Bloodstone Fen and Sage Land druids. It's a bit confusing. MithranArkanere 23:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Armor

Is the ranger armor REALLY named after them, or just a usage of the word druid/referance to DnD?Tearh 23:30, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes i think it is named after them, remember that the druids were once DnD-like druids before they turned into spirits --Soulforged 23:43, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Cite.php

With due respect to Gordon, the new article looks atrocious. I'm going to revert back to the original form until we figure out how to use this extension. Honestly, I think the experiments should be done in a sandbox before being moved into mainspace, but that's just me. NuVII 10:54, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thoughts on first iteration of citations

The first cite seems useful; we don't have an article that includes the full text of the manuscript and even if we did, it would be hard to find the reference without a magnifying glass. However, we do already have articles for the next 3 cites. Do we really need to repeat the in-game descriptions and dialogues? Wouldn't it make more sense simply to link to the [article#anchor]? And, if that is the right way to go, would it make more sense to link directly (rather than using the cite/reference convention)? In other words, what type of guidelines should we be considering to determine when we need to cite, when we should not cite, and the gray areas in between?   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 11:03, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

I have been thinking, myself, of making four new articles on the whole four manuscripts - we have their entries split up, History of Tyria, History of Cantha, History of Elona, and the various regions/NPCs/races. It's scattered all over the place, I think we should have a Regions and Landscapes, Kingdoms of Tyria, and a few other pages as per the different sections of the main lore sections of the manuscripts. The annoying part for the separation throughout the wiki is not the actual separation, it's that there are multiple entries on some (i.e., Devona and co, Ascalon, Cantha, Elona, Jalis) and the articles on the subject of said entries are not fully quoted. Meh, it's too confusing for me to work out on a possible how-to idea. -- Konig/talk 01:37, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

If you set up 4 main articles with everything, then you can transclude as you find the right way to divide it. That way: there's a searchable main text and more manageable articles on individual topics. Best of both worlds and relatively few of the downsides.   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 02:44, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I have no clue how to "transclude" - or what that even means for that matter... -- Konig/talk 03:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Oh! Check out the Game updates pages - they "transclude" the 10 most recent update pages onto a single page. That way, "this week's" update page is same as last week's...and at the same time, we have individual pages for each specific update. Transclude = portmanteau word of "transfer" and "include" iirc (might be "transposition").   — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 04:00, 16 November 2009 (UTC)