Talk:Vs. Earth
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Reformatting Coming
Unless there are objections, I'm going to reformat this and every other 'Vs.' Page to sort the equipment by slot and level. I'll be using the existing equipment category pages as a guideline as I reformat this entire page. This will help make it easier to edit in the future and more useful overall IMO.
Example of what I'm doing:
Weapon
I am very tempted to leave out everything but the impact on Earth Resist for all the listed armor, as it is the only relevant data to the page. I'm already leaving out weapon delay, and omitting the rest of the clutter would make the table take up much less space on the page as a whole, like so:
Weapon
| Level | Name | Type |  bonus/penalty
| Jobs |
| 43 | Storm Axe | Axe | +10
| WAR/DRK/BST/RNG |
| 51 | Auster's Staff | Staff | +20
| All |
| 51 | Wind Staff | Staff | +15
| All |
| 53 | Thundercloud | Spear | -11
| WAR/PLD/SAM/DRG |
| 71 | Axe of Trials  
| Great Axe | Latent Effect: +10
| WAR/DRK |
| 71 | Club of Trials
| Club | Latent Effect: +10
| WAR/MNK/WHM/BLM/PLD/SMN/BLU |
| 71 | Dagger of Trials
| Dagger | Latent Effect: +10
| WAR/RDM/THF/BST/BRD/RNG/NIN/COR |
| 71 | Knuckles of Trials
| Hand-to-Hand | Latent Effect: +10
| MNK |
| 71 | Prelatic Pole
| Staff | +6
| All |
| 71 | Sword of Trials
| Greatsword | Latent Effect: +10
| WAR/PLD/DRK |
| 75 | Kirin's Pole
| Staff | +15
| MNK/WHM/BLM/PLD/DRG/SMN |
Comments/Suggestions welcome --Vervane 19:56, 27 November 2006 (EST)
I actually like the way the information is presented in the second table. Although I think we should keep the Magenta instead of the tan. My reasoning is thus: We use tan for most normal tables, and I think we should keep the magenta for stat lists like on this page. That way we'll can have two different color schemes for different uses of tables. The only reason I've kept using tan for non-stat tables is because I start my tables by taking the table on the Merchant section of the Item Template and modify it for the current page I'm editing. So I think we should bring back magenta on these types of pages, and keep separating and formatting as you've been doing. I'm glad someone is taking up this project, because I just don't have the time for this sort of thing anymore :(
To elaborate on why I prefer the second table, I think the information is more compact and to the point. When I'm comming to the Vs Earth page, I'm comming to find what things modify Vs Earth, not what else it has. I'll be looking for how much the items modify it, and it's a problem if I have to sort through the clutter. So when you boil it down to the important parts (level, name, type of equip, modification value, and jobs), it's much easier to read, and takes up less space. --Chrisjander 00:34, 28 November 2006 (EST)
I agree with CJ. --Gahoo 09:20, 28 November 2006 (EST)
I like the current look of it alot. If you can standardize the rest of the stats like this, it would be perfect. --Chrisjander 11:12, 28 November 2006 (EST)
