Talk:Buff spells

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This is a topic that surely many people can contribute to! If you don't see us editing within several hours, feel free to jump right in! If you have specific visions or re-organizations in mind, we'd appreciate you posting them here first. Happy editing! DAID (talk) 09:41, 6 February 2015 (CST)

Evarin's scroll guide might be a big help, I've tried to keep it up to date. VANKRASN39 (talk) 10:05, 6 February 2015 (CST)
We'll definitely think about scrolls in the final version. The basic concept of this page, however, is what spells characters can easily expect to get from others or themselves. Stay tuned! DAID (talk) 12:53, 6 February 2015 (CST)
I was thinking more of the organization of the guide and the easy access to spell info :) VANKRASN39 (talk) 15:51, 7 February 2015 (CST)
Would you consider these spells appropriate for inclusion in this article? Elemental Blade (411), Minor Elemental Edge (902), Bless Item (304) Mark (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2015 (CST)
That's a tough call! The former two seem slightly more suitable where as the latter one not as much. I think when Sarah and I were shooting ideas around, I had drawn the line at defining a "buff spell" as one cast at a character. Granted, these spells kind of vary in their mileage in that respect. Symbol of Blessing is used on an item, where as Bless can be cast at a character. In any case, we'd surely need to Consecrate (1604) to the list as well. Definitely on the fence about this one from the outset, but more because it's a grey line than because I'm sure which way it should be! Especially for beginning players, Minor Elemental Edge sort of feels like something people should know about, for example! DAID (talk) 04:31, 13 February 2015 (CST)

Best Approach to Transclusion

Another question that came up, I believe Scribes made the comment on the officials when Sarah first began a discussion there about this type of page. He suggested it would be useful to have that information also included to other profession-specific pages, etc. I attempted my first transclusion, which certainly worked. However, I'm not sure if that's the route we'd like to go. There are quite a number of ways to go about the transclusion. Since it was a test, the way I did it first was to make a new page for Minor Spiritual buff spells and then transclude it to the section here (and then potentially to the A_beginner's_guide_to_playing_a_sorcerer). Another way would be to keep things here as they already are, and then transclude with a hash to the section. Yet another way would be to stuff these things into each spell circle page, and transclude from that origin. I think we definitely want to stream this information around to a few pages, circle-by-circle, as is appropriate. But, what I don't know yet, is the best place for the origin, etc. Halp halp with some feedback so we can make the most sane structure! DAID (talk) 04:55, 13 February 2015 (CST)