User talk:Lirielle/BuildTemplate

Since I cant post in [], I will abuse this page for little (I have also posted my thought before somewhere, but did not find that page atm). Feel free to move this comment where it suits better.

Basically, all builds are only views of one player and as such they should be all moved into user pages. Each class should have 1 extra page where anyone may add link to his own new and wonderful "Ecaflip/Chance/Foggie/Shovel version". So the Ecaflip/Builds page remains just a collection of links to all users pages who wish to share what they were wearing and were they killed what monster and gained how much xp. This would mean the "build" is their build and what they post there is their own thoughts and views and not backed up by other wiki users (who may only post comments on discussion page).

The build pages as they are now, being part of Class page, gain more value for what they should. Many builds are too old, never been updated with changes in the spells, items and monsters. Many are giving advice that is either wrong or quite debatable. But since they still "belong" to original poster, other members are not even trying to update current builds, instead everyone starts their own new slightly different build page. Of course new players come and look for advice, but the advice they currently get is too "official".

I have not high level chars for each class, but for those classes I have played long enough, there is only 1-2 reasonably good "build(s)", used by most chars. Information about this main way to raise char for this class could be added into main page and it would only contain short description of main stats and key spells. All other variations of main theme, all other special builds should be only accessible from builds page linking to each user. The information in main class build would remain editable and updatable by every member unlike separate build pages which belong to each separate user. -- Fogleg 17:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)