Thread:Matsczon/@comment-5405207-20180523193153/@comment-4511886-20180524225432

Hello Doug, I would love to discuss this, but ShadowBeast109 is currently off for a few days, and I would like him to be available for obvious reasons. Regardless, I can give my initial thoughts on this.

Although I am personally slightly skeptical towards changing the standard format for pages, perhaps it could help, I suppose it mainly depends on what kind of changes you propose. However, I will agree that the main page is quite outdated, so if you have any suggestions for what we should do about it, they would be welcome.

Furthermore, it is likely that we will change back to the old color scheme, and a Dark Souls Remastered-related background, as the current design is based on the Ringed City.

While I cannot guarantee that we will incoroporate it, a "Beginner's Introduction" would probably be more fitting than a guide, if it is to be considered official content on the wiki. I should have a decisive response on whether we should add it or not once ShadowBeast is back, and making a draft in the meantime would not hurt.

We would want to stay objective, just like we try to keep the wiki's content. So it would mainly bring up and explain core mechanics such as scaling, how to attune and cast spells, what specific stats do and so forth. No "this item is really strong" or "you should level this stat" stuff, however. We try to avoid that if possible, and I feel this is no exception.

As such, it would essentially be a collection of basic information that can be easily accessed, while specific in-depth information can be found through links to relevant articles. Of course, this could be worked on further, with information being added progressively as time goes on.

Regards, Matsczon