About
Why Speedclear Wiki?
The idea for a wiki was born thanks to the DoA guide by Loa. Many high-end speedclear players realized that the guide was being indeed read by new players and was surprisingly effective at teaching the basics. An effort was made to improve and expand it, but the single-document format soon became a problem as more and more cross-references were needed, and reading was becoming increasingly difficult.
FBGM offered to host the wiki itself, and so we created wiki.fbgmguild.com with Domain of Anguish content.
The obvious next step was to consider all speedclears rather than only DoA, and then we decided to include all speedclear-relevant resources: general equipmenents, game mechanics, speedclear guilds, community creations and websites.
Why not using Guild Wars Wiki?
The official wiki is a great resource, but its scope is much larger than this wiki, which prevents us from creating very specific pages. For example, we have pages such as City which point to the Domain of Anguish area rather than "outpost", and pages such as Assassin Equipment which are only relevant for speedclears.
Why not using PvXwiki?
PvXwiki is a great archive of builds, but its structure is rigid and its voting system makes change difficult. Specifically we saw the following issues:
- Lack of cross-referencing: many tactics share the same specific parts, jobs and equipment which we can move on their own page to reduce duplication and increase the overall quality.
- Cannot split pages: Having a DoA guide on PvX would mean having a single monolithic page full of content which becomes extremely hard to browse. In the Speedclear wiki, instead, we split pages depending on their scope.
- Aging: Unfortunately PvX has become disconnected to the real Speedclear meta years ago, and its rigid rating system makes it hard for current meta builds to replace outdated ones.
Contributing to Speedclear Wiki
As a general main guideline, the content of the speedclear wiki should reflect the current SC meta. This includes builds, equipment, tactics, but even the names of roles and areas.
If you don't have a lot of direct experience with something please refrain from editing or creating related content. Do not theorycraft builds and do not attempt to influence the meta here. The wiki is simply a mirror of the SC meta. On the other hand, feel free to use the talk pages for asking relevant questions.
Please refrain from transforming this wiki into a redundant list of things. For example, do not list everything in FBGM/Golt tactics, but rather list the differences, don't list each spike the TK does, but feel free to list important splits (e.g. Ranger vs Derv) and explain why the role exist in general and how to perform the role-specific tasks.
- Check the TO-DO list of pages to create/edit
- When creating build templates, use Template:Miniskillbar, Template:Skillbar or Template:FullSkillbar
- Guild pages should contain the spirit and main activities of the guild. Do not describe tactics but feel free to link to the page of the tactics they use.
- Pages for tactics such as FBGM Tactics, Golt Tactics, French Tactics should emphasize the differences rather than a list of splits, including pros and cons.
- Pages for DoA areas (Foundry, City, Veil, Gloom) should contain a simple walk-through of the quests and how to behave in the area.
- add fix templates to pages that need fixing and then check this category to find and fix such pages Category:Needs_fixing
Credits
A lot of content was copied from existing guides, thanks to the original authors.
- Domain of Anguish: [Loa] guide [1].
- The Underworld: Underworld Guide by Charlo [2] (also posted on gwguru, [sent] and other forums)
