Category talk:Bosses

Maps for Elite Bosses
(merged from User:Ollj)

The standards for the bestiary have not been discussed yet, but the use of maps so far is pretty grotesque :P Please could we start a discussion on the proper standard for including maps in Bestiary articles? I recommend GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Bestiary as a place for this discussion to take place.  &lt;LordBiro&gt;/&lt;Talk&gt; 22:07, 28 Jul 2005 (EST) Hi :-) I'm Xennon, the guy who made the www.xennon.co.uk/eliteskills/ listing. I was contacted a while ago about the use of my information on this site. I said the information itself may be used, however the maps were not to be used. It was brought to my attention that the editor Ollj has been adding my maps under boss information without my permission (in fact, expressly against my wishes) so I was wondering if someone could get these removed :-) e-mail me at chriscox@ntlworld.com if you wish to talk about this. Cheers Xen Retrieved from "http://www.zerolives.org/guildwars/index.php/User_talk:Gravewit"
 * Ill only include maps on all Category:Bosses. I know the format is bad, but the information is good!Ollj
 * I'm not sure what you mean Ollj.  &lt;LordBiro&gt;/&lt;Talk&gt; 02:36, 29 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * Now i use "Image-" as place holder for elite-skill-bosses anyways.Ollj
 * I still don't know what you mean. Please add GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Bestiary to your watch list (click watch in the top of the screen) and get involved with the discussion of the formatting of bestiary articles. User:LordBiro 02:42, 29 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * Ok, now Xennon has posted this complaint on Gravewit's talk page, Ollj, please stop posting his maps:

all images removed.Ollj

Ollj, I got to chime in on that. You have recently edited a lot of your freshly created Boss articles, but the info on them is utterly lacking. For every Boss, you have entered the sentence "he has Skill x." This is quite unsatisfactory. Please look here for an example of a Boss article as we would like to have them. Just copy this article's code and fill it with the specifics of the boss you edit. I'm convinced this would earn you a lot more positive recognition than what you are doing now. Roland of Gilead 01:43, 30 Jul 2005 (EST)

Subcategories
I'd suggest to add subcategories for better overview. For example, instead of putting Alana Pekpek into Category:Bosses and Category:Grawl, put him into Category:Grawl Bosses, which would be a sub-category of both Category:Bosses and Category:Grawl. I think this would make both Category:Bosses and Category:Grawl look a lot "cleaner". I would be willing to put in the work and do the crusade. I'll be going through all the bosses one by one, checking them against Bestiary/RawDumpWikified, so I might as well fix the categories. Unless anybody objects by Monday, I'll go ahead. -- 21:14, 17 February 2006 (CST)
 * At least you're discussing this one before you did it. As such I see no harm in it, so go for it.  --Rainith 23:44, 17 February 2006 (CST)
 * Errrmmm .... obviously you have a case in mind when I made a major change without prior discussion. Shame on me. Just curious: What are you referring to? -- 00:31, 18 February 2006 (CST)
 * =) You might have talked about it and I just missed it, but I still can't figure out what rules you followed for your major overhaul of Category:NPCs. I know there was some discussion with PanSola about it, but there didn't seem to be any discussion from you before all of a sudden it was done.  (Like I said, I may have missed it as that was in the days of the 5 minute page load, so I probably wasn't checking everything.)  And I still don't know what the rules are for them.  We really should have a Style and formatting page written up for NPCs, possibly as a subset of the S&f page for bestiary.  --Rainith 00:36, 18 February 2006 (CST)
 * Oh, that. I asked about the subcategories on Category talk:NPCs quite a while and more than once before starting the crusade (which is still not finished, just took a break). You are right though that I added two additional sub-categories "in the heat of the fight" without asking: Category:Mission NPCs and Category:Quest NPCs, which I explained in the category description. -- 02:29, 18 February 2006 (CST)
 * Ok, then can I request you finish one crusade before you start another? Otherwise we end up with a bunch of stuff partially done, and people (like me) confused as to how to enter in the info for this or that new article.  Also when you finish the NPC crusade, write up the rules you followed and post them in Style and formatting/NPC as what is there now is woefully out of date (if it ever was current).  --Rainith 02:43, 18 February 2006 (CST)
 * Okay, will do. -- 21:18, 20 February 2006 (CST)

Okay, the crusade is rolling. While we're at it, may I suggest to fix the profession categories too, in order to have a "Bosses by profession" category. It's a minor thing, so I'll just go for it. -- 17:30, 9 March 2006 (CST)


 * So where does this crusade stand? Right now we're getting requests to delete some of the boss categories because they have nothing in them.  Is it abandoned and all changes should be reverted or what?  --Rainith 14:38, 19 March 2006 (CST)


 * A side-effect of the crusade, I should add, is that some bosses have been moved to one categorization of bosses OR the other instead of both. For example, Justiciar Hablion (whose pic I borrowed for the boss Rainith Ironhand) :) is listed as White Mantle Bosses but NOT as Warrior Bosses (though he is listed as warrior). So, if you go to Bosses by profession you actually can't find him. He's not the only one... Maw the Mountain Heart is also languishing in Category:Purgatory where he is not a necro boss anymore. :) --Karlos 14:44, 19 March 2006 (CST)


 * This is one thing that I hate (maybe hate is too strong a word, but it does kinda piss me off), half finished crusades. Are there notes anywhere about what is finished or needs to be finished?  :(
 * I liked Rainith Ironhand, I may have to make up my page using him similar to your page Karlos. :)  --Rainith 14:56, 19 March 2006 (CST)


 * Ok, I finished the boss crusade for atleast the largest part. All pages from the Category:Bosses are now categorized correctly. If some bosses miss any categories, they should be added, but I think I'm not up to checking every single boss in the wiki. ;) --Kalomeli 02:42, 23 March 2006 (CST)

Bosses by campaign
We really need to categorise bosses by campaign. Lets do this before campaign 3 or no one wil lever be able to complete it. --Gem 10:29, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Why? We don't have a lot of species that are in both campaigns, and the location categories should take care of this.  --Rainith 12:41, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * Ups... There are some species which are found in both campaigns and in the future in other campaigns too. I however didn't think about the location articles. *hides behind a large wall to convince he wasn't here in the first place* --Gem [[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png|Gem]] 13:17, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * While normally I'm in favor of splitting up categories by various criteria, in this case I tend to agree with Rainith. Since we have split them up by species, and very few species are on more than one campaign (and those who are, are split up by organization), there is little room for confusion. --Tetris L [[Image:TurningL sml.gif]]  13:26, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * No worries Gem, I'm actually surprised that Tetris didn't suggest this. ;)  Anyway the only species that I can think of (off the top of my head), are Tengu, Dredge and Humans (which as Tetris noted are split by organization in most cases) plus possibly Dragons, but we still need confimation on that mess.  --Rainith 14:09, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * I'm not worried or ashamed at all, but I should have thought a little more before posting. Well, it wasn't anything bad and we all got another topic to talk about. :) --Gem [[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png|Gem]] 14:11, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * There's nothing wrong with expressing an idea. It helps no one keeping it to yourself, whether its good, bad, or so-so. Keep those ideas coming and no hiding behind a wall. :P  --Gares Redstorm 14:17, 10 May 2006 (CDT)
 * I always let others know of my ideas if they are worthwile. No worries, I won't hide behind a wall. My only problem is that I have too many ideas all the time. I can't do/have others do it all. Therefor I usually try not to write everything on the wiki, just the easier ones and those which really are the most important. There is a bright side for my minds richness too. As I work for Nokia Research Center, new ideas are always welcome. --Gem [[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png|Gem]] 15:44, 10 May 2006 (CDT)

SoC confirmation
If someone is bored, I would like to have a list of all of the Prophecies bosses who need SoC confirmation. Then I could go and SoC them all. -- 05:04, 14 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Look at the Bestiary/RawDump. I have gone through them all, up to last month and deleted the ones that already have SoC confirmation. The ones that are left is the list you would be looking for. Be sure you edit the RawDump as some others, me included, also look at the list to find unconfirmed SoCs. Good luck, it seems I haven't even made a dent in the thing. --Gares Redstorm 06:16, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Actually, that list is a list of bosses who HAVE SoC confirmations... just from a long time ago. So, if anyone is bored, they should be cross-checking the RawDump with boss articles, and if the skills match, remove the row from the RawDump and add on the Boss' talk page "Synced with raw dump". - 06:43, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Sounds awfully bothersome, but I'll start the task. I just confirmed the elementalists in Iron Mines and noticed that the Ice Beast is missing a lot of stuff. Next stop Mineral Springs. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] 06:51, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * It's tedious, but much faster than actually going out and kill every single boss in the game d-: Basically just data-syncing. - 06:55, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Pan, you stated before in another discussion that the Raw Dump info was emails sumbitted by people that did not have the confidence to add the confirmations themselves. That is why I don't have faith in that information. Granted, some people are shy, but others could be emailing misinformation. I see the Raw Dump as a guide, not as accurate information until I see a SoC confirmation on a talk page. --Gares Redstorm 10:02, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * The lack of confidence was with respect to wiki-editing capabilities, as opposed to data accuracy. It was one person who SoC's the bosses but feared he might mess up the wiki if he edited it himself.  See the first section of Talk:Bestiary. - 10:05, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Read it, and I see where he was coming from, but did anyone contact him to get the SoC screens? Before you say GW:YOU, I'm trying to make this place as accurate as I believe it should be. In my opinion, GWiki should be the first and only place a user comes to for accurate and up to date information. Is all information sumbitted not double checked from time to time? I know even I have had someone say "prove it".
 * Not only the accuracy part of the discussion, but also it might be fun to Gem or I or anyone else checking these bosses. Who knows, Gem could get a 20/20 AP Dwarven Axe 15^50 +30 out there in Mineral Springs checking SoC confirmations. --Gares Redstorm 10:26, 14 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Up to this point I have found no flaws in the information in the RawDump. However, I'm still SoCing most of the bosses. I enjoy playing areas again, I might find something nice and I want to get all elite skills out there. --[[Image:Gem-icon-sm.png]] 11:00, 14 June 2006 (CDT)