Guild Wars 2

Heyh, gw2dungeons.net is about to get a new (maintenance) release next week (16.10). Before that, I would like to try fix bugs and polish and for that I need your help.

The site can be found at http://gw2dungeons.net/test/. Please don’t link or share this so people don’t start using test sites (had already enough people complaning that dev/ doesn’t work).

Known issues:

• Lack of polish. Interface is not finished. Any ideas welcome.
• Enemy attack notes are missing. This system was converted to enemy tactics. I never had help or time to convert notes to tactics (link).
• General guide page is outdated. This won’t be updated before the expansion.

How to help?

• Report any bugs/issues you find.
• Suggest any features, tweaks, improvements, etc.
• Test damage numbers in level 80 content.
• I added more ads in some cases. Does this feel intrusive?

Biggest changes:

• Redesigned guide page: Images from the path shown on left. Clicking makes them bigger. Profession tips converted to profession tactics.
• Redesigned search page: Data can be filtered by dungeon, enemy rank and other things.
• Redesigned enemy page: Enemy attributes, images, etc. Enemies now appear on a pop-up. This can be reversed to previous behavior in settings.
• Updated content. Guides updated/being updated by Zui. Atoi helped me to get enemy attributes.

Change log (of stuff I remember):

This is pretty snazzy! I particularly like the images.

I only clicked around a bit to look for ads/compare them with the main page; to me, it doesn’t feel intrusive at all.
When looking at the Glossary I was about to suggest using anchors (I think that’s the name for it) when I noticed “Aura” used another abbreviation (PBAoE) in it’s explanation, but when going through the page I didn’t find more instances of an explanation using another abbreviation. Maybe make it so that whenever a term found in the Glossary is used on other page, said term is clickable and opens a little pop-up with the explanation found on the Glossary? I’m not sure how often this would be the case/how much effort this is considering they could just leave it open on another tab.

Also, probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but the combat and skipping pages are outdated. Shouldn’t take too long to get them up to date again though?

I’m gonna look at it again later, maybe I’ll find/can think of some more stuff.

General page will be outdated because expansion will change stuff.

Only complaint I’ve got is that I honestly preferred the enemy details in the sidebar instead of the overlay, personally. It was helpful to refer to them while reading the description of the encounter.

I’m sure you can imagine how that all info would look like on the sidebar.

I hear ya. Just saying if there’s an easy way to make both the details and the encounters visible at once again, it may be worth looking into. I find most pop-ups disruptive, so it might just be my preference.

wow, this site is amazing, will be even better with the raid coming out!

dlonie.6547:

I hear ya. Just saying if there’s an easy way to make both the details and the encounters visible at once again, it may be worth looking into. I find most pop-ups disruptive, so it might just be my preference.

What kind of information are you looking from there?

Wethospu.6437:

dlonie.6547:

I hear ya. Just saying if there’s an easy way to make both the details and the encounters visible at once again, it may be worth looking into. I find most pop-ups disruptive, so it might just be my preference.

What kind of information are you looking from there?

Perhaps a concise skill description in a sidebar, and a complete list of detailed info in a pop-up? You could have slightly longer descriptions on monster skills in pop-ups: glowing effects, odd body movements, etc… Like graveling breeders stop, grab their abdomen and start vomiting hatchlings, bandit bombers whirl when they throw a barrage.

In particular, I liked being able to refer to the details of an attack while reading about it in the description. It was a nice convenience to read something in the description about an important attack and then have the sidebar open to see what the tells/damage/etc are at a glance.

But I missed earlier that the encounter descriptions seem to always be included in the overlay info, so it’s less of an issue than I originally thought. Maybe a little redundant compared to the main text + sidebar, but as long as the info is all there it’s good

+1 on the overlay tabs, too. It’s handy to be able to easily refer back through a history of detail pages.

I restored the sidebar. It can be enabled on settings. Alternatively you can hold ctrl while clicking enemies. You can also tweak what is shown and other stuff from settings.

Remember to hard-refresh the site.

Hey Weth, has anyone told you that you’re awesome?

You’re awesome.

I also liked the sidebars more to have fight description and Boss description without scrolling. You option is great since your pop-ups are really nice. Is it intended though that if I ctrl clic one boss to have the pop up then all boss of the same page, whether clicked or ctrl clicked will be displayed as pop-up?

May I suggest two things?
1/The pop-up closing : could you have it like a cross in a corner ? I’m old-school and I must admit that before thinking to clic out of it I first reload the page thinking it was bugged :s
2/Something I thought about long time ago : add a clicable summary at the top of the page to directly access the part of the dungeon you are interested in.

Fixed one bug (links from popup opened on sidebar).

Added a X icon to the popup.

Added a table of contents to start of every path.

Remember to hard-refresh the site.

Whoa so fast??!!!
I’ll quote dlonie on that one :

Hey Weth, has anyone told you that you’re awesome?

You’re awesome.

Well, the changes were pretty simple. Unlike the sidebar which I had already totally scrapped.

Yeah but I’m so bad at web design/ web programming that every single change is a wonder for me if it happens in less than 2 days

Site released: http://gw2dungeons.net

Reddit topic with similar info: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3oztpp/gw2dungeonsnet_maintenance_update/

It had the list of fractals on the left, but the right side just has ac story and a bunch of big kitten stars, I’m not sure if that’s how you meant to list the dungeons.

I’ll try and send you all the descriptions for CM tactics, before I head out of the country next week

Hard refresh.

Added support for customized search from links.

For example: http://gw2dungeons.net/Search###2##:#2 searches for bosses with projectiles.

Does anyone have interest of getting enemy images/animations for fractal enemies?

It’s a lot of work so would be nice to split it up.