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A template for BBDW quest info is ready to use and can be seen in use on these pages:

To Do

(More info on each below)

Fill in missing quests
Create a way to track enemies and bosses
Rearrange the information in the BBDW Quest template so it's easier to use at a glance
Slim down the BBDW Quest template as needed

Missing Quests

BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War/Quests - in general, most story quests and any recent or new event quests too

Track enemies and bosses

Right now we've just been tracking enemy element, but it may be of interest to track individual enemies as well. We don't have a template or anything set up for this yet.

So far, we've confirmed that enemies have names (long-press the enemy's sprite in battle-not its HP bar-and its status information and name will pop up). They're mostly generic from what I've seen, but I haven't looked in detail.

Rearrange info in BBDW Quest template

I think we should try to answer the question: What information do people want to know about a quest when they glance through the quest list?

For now, since there's so many quests to list on a page, I borrowed what BBDW does in-game and hid all quest information except for quest level, AP cost, location, and name. However, this probably isn't the best format for quests and maybe it would be better to hide and show different sets of information. Any input on this is welcome.

Slim down the BBDW Quest template

The MEMORIES RESTORATION event page also hit its post-expand include size limit since the BBDW Quest template was too bulky. This limit restricts how much text can be transcluded onto a page (i.e. by templates), after which templates on the page won't be processed. In practice, it just means some templates will be broken on the page, but this is very poor for readability.

So I had to spend some time (Twitter link) slimming down the BBDW Quest template and even now it might still be a concern for pages that will have a great number of quests on it.

So, one suggestion I had was to remove the quest clear bonus at the bottom of the template since it looks about the same for every quest and put it on one of the BBDW guides pages somewhere instead.

Of course there's also the saying "don't fix something that's not broken" so we don't have to tackle this until the issue crops up again, but just in case it does, I'd like people to be aware.

Posted by Chao on 17 April 2021 at 14:56.
Edited by Chao on 17 April 2021 at 15:36.

Rearrange info in BBDW Quest template: It may help to display a quest's guaranteed drop, and possible orb/grimoire drops, on a quest's preview. Location isn't as relevant because from what I've seen, it doesn't affect the quest at all. Maybe it's better to replace it with player exp earned on quest clear?

Posted by Graplo on 17 April 2021 at 18:48.

Yeah, that's a good idea. So maybe we want drops, AL cost, level, maybe enemy element too, to be visible at a glance.

We're currently using portrait-sized previews for grimoires instead of icons (no one's really uploaded icons yet), so the quest previews might not look so smooth but we can always work that out later.

I remember there was some feedback about the different quest colors (red for battle only, blue for battle and story, green for story only) not being very useful, and we do have a filter at the top to filter through these three types, so maybe we can remove the different coloring too and see how it goes?

Posted by Chao on 20 April 2021 at 20:18.

Attempted a rearrangement of quest info. I ended up keeping the quest colors just so the headers would pop out more (each quest wasn't distinct enough from the next without the header colors).

Posted by Chao on 28 April 2021 at 01:57.