Editing Talk:Status Icon Reference Guide (section)

== Too Skill focused? ==
Honestly the majority of skills in the game have some component that is a debuff / stun / buff / dot so by the time you list all the durations / intensities for each you have to write pretty much every skill in the game.
That kinda makes it like a skill guide rather than a buff guide...  whether something is a squad buff for example is from the skill used not the buff you get.  

Going forward,  I think all of the over-time effects with a 3 second tick can be stacked multiple times (IH, Bleed, Poison, MP replenish from demon IH) while none of the other buffs can be stacked with themselves.  

Also some buffs have the same effect and the same icon but are treated by the game as seperate buffs (often with slightly different hover descriptions).  This allows them to stack like the phys attack buff from barb buff and the phys attack buff from Red bubble / Demon spark.<br>
[[User:Asterelle|Asterelle]] 18:01, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

:Well, my idea for making this guide, which I've actually had for about five months now, was to create a guide which would let people get a bit more information about the status icons they see caused by other players.  This way they could have some idea what they mean when working with or against other players in combat, plus have an idea about what the mob versions of those icons mean.  This way they can find out, for example, if icon X comes from class Y then it is most likely having effect Z.  Yes, it makes things a bit more complex to list, but I think the benefits are worth it.  Still, this only covers the skills that have some lasting effect, which is just a fraction of a full skill list.
:In any case, I'd like to thank you for starting this article.  I'm much better at improving pages and fixing things than I am at starting them or writing them on my own, so this gave me the kick in the pants I needed to get the information I've been collecting up here in the wiki.  So, thanks, Asterelle.  :-) -- [[User:Sangodoc|<span style="color:#CCCCFF;font-weight:bold;">Sangodoc - PWI wiki mod</span>]] [[User talk:Sangodoc|<span style="color:#9999CC;font-weight:bold;">(talk)</span>]] 02:55, 6 October 2010 (UTC)