Editing The Hunting Guide

Introduction

This page started as a PM sent to a player who asked for help editing the Per-Level Hunting Guide. At the time there were no Najena entries in the guide, but by the time you read this there now will be. However I've left the part about Najena "not being in the guide" to demonstrate how to add other zones which aren't in it.

Tutorial

It's great that you're adding to the guide! Honestly, here's how I do it. First, I find an existing entry for the same zone and copy it, just because it will already have the converted ZEM ... but unfortunately in this case there are no Najena spots.

So we check Recommended_Levels_and_ZEM_List and find that Najena has a ZEM of 130 which, when divided by 75 (the normal ZEM) gives us an XP percentage of 173%! I suspect the actual ZEM is lower, but unfortunately all we have to go on is the wiki ZEMs, so we'll have to use that.

Again, to get started I usually just copy an existing entry, and since there are no Najena ones we can just copy any. If you click edit on any of the sections in the guide you'll see code like this; we just want to copy one entry, eg. the part I bolded:

{{HuntingGuideTableStart}}

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= 55-59 
  |groupLevel= - 
  |zone=Kedge Keep
  |area= 
  |monsters= ? 
  |xpModifier= 133% 
  |notes= [[Enduring Breath]] required; 2 seahorses and a mermaid respawn every 20 min (where?)
}}

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= 55-59 
  |groupLevel= - 
  |zone=Chardok
  |area= Entrance/Betrayer/Waterfall 
  |monsters= ? 
  |xpModifier= 113% 
  |notes=
}}
...

Then, we just need to change the values to have the information for your hunting spot:

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= ? whatever level range should hunt your post?
  |groupLevel= - (unless you have a group range; if so add it) 
  |zone= Najena
  |area= Crystal Room (#4)
  |monsters= ? maybe [[A Tentacle Terror]], maybe some other monster or monsters; whatever is at that hunting spot
  |xpModifier= 173%
  |notes= ? Any notes you have "eg. can loot [[Magician Focus Items]] here"
}}

Finally, we just need to paste that code into the appropriate section. For instance, let's say your spot has a level range of 21-25: that would put it in the "20-24" section (it goes by starting level), so we would edit that section.

Within each section I try to group the spots in order, so we'd want to add your new entry between the existing 21-24 and the 21-27 spots (if it had been 21-24 also you could add it either before or after the existing 21-24; it doesn't matter), so we'd wind up with:

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= 21-24 
  |groupLevel= 18-24 
  |zone=Lake of Ill Omen
  |area= Around windmill 
  |monsters= Goblins, Sarnaks, Sabre-tooth Tigers, etc. 
  |xpModifier= 87% 
  |notes=
}}

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= ? whatever level range should hunt your post?
  |groupLevel= - (unless you have a group range; if so add it) 
  |zone= Najena
  |area= Crystal Room (#4)
  |monsters= ? maybe [[A Tentacle Terror]], maybe some other monster or monsters; whatever is at that hunting spot
  |xpModifier= 173%
  |notes= ? Any notes you have "eg. can loot [[Magician Focus Items]] here"
}}

{{HuntingGuideSpot
  |soloLevel= 21-27 
  |groupLevel= 19-26 
  |zone=Ocean of Tears
  |area= ? 
  |monsters= Gargoyles, Mermaids 
  |xpModifier= 
  |notes= Gargoyles have pretty good loot, good for Druids
}}
...

Then you just hit preview, make sure everything looks good (if it looks extremely off you might have messed up the punctuation somewhere, like only having one "}" at the end instead of two; either try to fix it or just re-copy an existing entry and replace the values, more carefully this time). If it does, hit submit and congratulations: you've added a new Per-Level Hunting Guide Entry.

And of course if anything doesn't work or you have any questions, first check Template:HuntingGuideSpot, and if it doesn't help feel free to send Loramin a PM in the forums!