general Petopedia suggestions
general Petopedia suggestions
Petopedia would profit really much from this. In my opinion this guides would be really useful:
-HowTo: Taming properly (how to tame a elite mob with max level without dying)
-HowTo: Getting rare-spawnes (how to set up addons and makros for this purpose and hints)
-Best pet families for dps (a guide that does the math and shows some neat graphs and formulas)
-Best pet families for soloing (same here)
-Best pet families for PvE (same here)
I would even write some of them myself. Since I'm a mathematics student here at germany I think I'm quite good for this
However, I'd like somebody to check them for grammatical errors since my english is just a foreign language to me.
2. Pics of Spawn locations
Yes, I know WoWhead offers this and that there's a direct link for every pet. However. Named pet's (for example the spirit beasts) should get a small graphic that shows the spawn locations for them.
3. gif Animations
WoW Modelviewer offers a nice option for this. gif Animations of the different stand and attack animations of every pet model would be really really nice. Yeah, it's quite much work but it would help deciding which pet to take (for many people) since at least for the user it's better to have a quick look than have to test-tame one ingame or open up modelviewer by himself
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However, I see a problem with the animations suggestion. Animations take up a heck of a lot of space; having multiple animations for so many different pets would make a computer miserably slow.
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Maaaaybe... Instead of pet animations... Pet "smilies" for the forums? Ahhh I can dream!
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You'd need some free webspace that allows you to upload pictures. But you'd want to have one account for all users, so, if one user wants to upload just one little pic, he doesn't have to register and make his own account for uploading pictures. But you'd want to be sure that people can't just delete or overwrite the uploaded graphics.
Sounds complicated? Well, that's because it is complicated!
I don't know any way of haven pictures stored savely forever.
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I mean little tricks and tips that experienced instance/raid runners can share, that might help out newbs. Like grouping etiquette. Or "hey, during X boss, you can throw out the suggestion to use move Y plus Z for better pulls." Or 'don't use your pet like THIS on THIS boss, it glitches." Little tips and tricks, y'know?
I say so because I'm gearing up my first level 80 hunter to try and run a few instances and while I have rotations and stuff pretty much understood, any little tip helps!
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Until we get a "real" petopia theme for the forum, maybe Mania could include this:
instead of this:
So it wouldn't look so much construcion site like!
Just an idea...
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I can remember nearly 80% of my old guild leaving because the GM did'nt want to pay for it.
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Well, just rename the graphic to what the original is called and swap the files.Mania wrote:I have no idea how to get it into the header, but I'll poke around today.
It's this file: http://forums.wow-petopia.com/styles/su ... e_logo.gif
I made it the same size and the background should also be blending in.
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I also exist on DeviantArt.
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saturo: Just to clarify, I run this forum on my own dedicated server. (Well, the server my husband and I share. But same difference.) Since the code itself is open source, I have access to everything. I just don't always know what to do with it, or have the time to do it right.
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I'm just not too good on this sort of thing. Ask me how to cobble together three macroes into one, and I'll do it, but forum administration... That's not my field...
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Orni wrote:-Best pet families for dps (a guide that does the math and shows some neat graphs and formulas)
-Best pet families for soloing (same here)
-Best pet families for PvE (same here)
If those guides pop up, I leave.
I don't like people telling me if I'm not using __, I'm not doing the maximum DPS I can. Pet DPS is VERY variable, so in turn, there is no best pet, as depending on multiple factors, some pets do better in different situations. So spreadsheets don't tend to work for pets. They work for the most part for player DPS, simply because they do it as if the monster never moves, etc. Even if that's the case, pet dps is still variable based on many hunter talents, procs, etc.
Anyway, I agree with most the other things, XD
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Heck, I've been kicked from raids for not using a wolf.
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