User talk:Shifuimam/List of skills by profession and skill type

ok I have a better idea of what you want to do. Axe Mastery makes your axe skill list totally redundant, so you would have to avoid any of these that match already existing links. Chieftain Alex 21:16, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for making this! Chieftain can we finally treat "Touch Skills" as its own skill-type (has it always should have been)? ^_^ --Falconeye 02:47, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

they're already in Category:Touch skills + linked from Touch skill. I see nothing incomplete here. --Chieftain Alex 08:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Do you legitimately think that a bulleted list of skill names on a category page is adequate when researching skills for a character build? You may also think that a monolithic table of all skills across all professions is good enough, but I doubt I'm alone in the idea that being able to filter out the garbage you don't care about (like all the professions your character doesn't use) would be quite useful - not to mention that the monolithic single-category tables include monster skills, which are useless for players researching builds. Shifuimam 18:56, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Falconeye is one of the "special" contributors we have to keep an eye on, he likes to go around categorizing everything at a moment's notice.

The best possible option would be to wait until SMW eventually turns up here - and sit tight a bit while all the infoboxes get changed ... - and then just use semantic forms to generate the template. -Chieftain Alex 19:20, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Alex, I understand what you're saying, but you're focusing just on warrior skills. While it is accurate that for a Warrior, the Axe Mastery attribute and the Axe Attack skill type are pretty much identical, this is absolutely not the case for all spellcasting professions. Within one attribute on a spellcaster, you have hexes, enchantments, skills, spells, touch skills, and touch spells. A number of skills within a spellcaster profession are dependent on doing other things - for instance, a lot of Mesmer skills are enhanced if the target foe already has a Mesmer hex applied. If you're creating a new Mesmer build, you need to know what hexes are available for your selected attribute (since most Mesmers aren't going to be spreading attribute points between both Domination and Illusion magic). There are indeed skill tables by a single category, but this is useless when you're working on a skill build - it's too much information to sort through. It's significantly easier to see just the skills you actually need to read about, instead of a long list of all the skills across all professions, campaigns, and attributes for a specific skill type. Shifuimam 17:05, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Could you please try not to make lists with say, less than 4 entries - a list with 1 item is no help :/ -Chieftain Alex 17:58, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm just making lists based on the skill types in each profession. Since this is a sub page on my user page, I don't know that I need to constrain myself to any requirements other than "lists of skills by profession and skill type". Shifuimam 18:21, 30 January 2013 (UTC)