guildwars.wikia.com VS wiki.guildwars.com

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Malla13
Malla13
Frost Gate Guardian
#21
I use both. The Unofficial one has better armor galleries and a bit more detailed information at times, but I like the look of the Official better.
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dusanyu
Lion's Arch Merchant
#22
/wiki nuff' said

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Mintha Syl
Mintha Syl
Desert Nomad
#23
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Originally Posted by doomfodder View Post
Personnaly, I have found that the quildwars.wikia.com site provides "better" information in many ways. Just to name a few: schedule of Zaishen Challenges, schedule of WiK quests
*cough cough* do you know official wiki has that as well, right?

I usually only use official wiki, advertisements-free and with better impagination (and that also depends on ads). And I find it more accurate. I go to wikia when I need more sources (ex. more info on a mission, as they are described differently in one from the other) and sometimes for armors, as picures are better there.
And most of the time I search from the game, so wiki is default on that.
Angel Killuminati
Angel Killuminati
Krytan Explorer
#24
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Originally Posted by Malla13 View Post
I use both. The Unofficial one has better armor galleries and a bit more detailed information at times, but I like the look of the Official better.
I'm agreeing with this.
majoho
majoho
Forge Runner
#26
I used to use both but these days I only use the official one, it might not be the best but it's good enough for me.
cosyfiep
cosyfiep
are we there yet?
#27
yeah I have both up at all times, but I find the ads on the unofficial (the stuff on the left) annoying as *&^% so if I want to use it I have to log in (sometimes more than once too) and its not updated very often anymore. That said the information it does have is presented better, missions have strategies and armor has LOTS of screenshots (not just the grey and red ones that the official has). When I need to find things I can find them better on the unofficial one (books artisans skills) as well as the zaishen stuff.
I dont like the fact that the official is being used also as a forum with all those blogs et al from the anet staff ....but that issue is a dead horse.

so
I like the unofficial better as its user friendly and has more information laid out nicely, the official has more up to date information, but lacks some of the strategies/armors etc.
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doomfodder
Lion's Arch Merchant
#28
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Originally Posted by Mintha Syl View Post
*cough cough* do you know official wiki has that as well, right?
Actully, I didn't know that a schedule was available on official wiki. Unofficial has link on main page & I guess that I didn't use the right keywords (on the official wiki" in the search box to find the nested links/pages showing the SCHEDULE (use the search term predictions not schedule to find those pages easily)

TY for the heads up
Stuart444
Stuart444
Krytan Explorer
#29
I usually go to the official guild wars wiki first of all as it looks better and is better organized I find. If it doesn't have what I want, I then look to the unofficial guild wars wikia.

If I am doing something in game, I usually have the section from both wikis up for what I'm doing just incase (and doing that has always worked well for me )
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Smith23
Guest
#30
I like the official one better. It has more accurate information and it's in more detail. The unofficial is just full of idiots going around messing up pages or thinking it's a contest to see who can edit the page last. The admins on the unofficial seem to be hell bent about undoing peoples work. I posted up info on the Battle for Lion's Arch just to have an admin completely purge the page and put up a 3 line account of the mission. I re put up my info just to have the same admin do it again and kick me off the site.

So ya official is much better when in comes to up to date news and info.
Regina Buenaobra
Regina Buenaobra
ArenaNet
#31
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Originally Posted by doomfodder View Post
AND when the "Official Site" is really borked, even ANET refers us to the "Unofficial Site" http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ldwars.wiki a as opposed to just telling us to wait until the "Official Site" is fixed.
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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke View Post
I see nothing in that link that puts an employee of ANet in the position of recommending the use of the unofficial wikia.
doomfodder: Because I don't recall ever making a recommendation on which wiki to use, I looked at that link you posted. I found two forum posts that I made. Sure enough, neither of them had any statements from me or any other ArenaNet staffer recommending the use of a Guild Wars wiki, official, unofficial, or otherwise. Perhaps you misremembered? Just wanted to clear that up, anyway.
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Smith23
Guest
#32
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Originally Posted by doomfodder View Post
AND when the "Official Site" is really borked, even ANET refers us to the "Unofficial Site" http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ldwars.wiki a as opposed to just telling us to wait until the "Official Site" is fixed.
I don't see any Anet employee referring us to the other wiki either. The only thing I saw was another user saying to go to the unofficial on until the official one is up and running again. Maybe looking into more might help in the future.
-Makai-
-Makai-
Jungle Guide
#33
I prefer the official one these days, though as with all wikis, I stay away from the discussion pages.
Mintha Syl
Mintha Syl
Desert Nomad
#34
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Originally Posted by doomfodder View Post
Actully, I didn't know that a schedule was available on official wiki. Unofficial has link on main page & I guess that I didn't use the right keywords (on the official wiki" in the search box to find the nested links/pages showing the SCHEDULE (use the search term predictions not schedule to find those pages easily)

TY for the heads up
Yeah, it's a bit hidden. If you haven't found it yet here's the link http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaish...st/predictions
-Makai-
-Makai-
Jungle Guide
#35
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Originally Posted by Mintha Syl View Post
Yeah, it's a bit hidden. If you haven't found it yet here's the link http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaish...st/predictions
Thanks for sharing that. Now I'm sold on the official wiki.

Ooh! Tihark time!
ZenRgy
ZenRgy
Zookeeper
#36
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Originally Posted by jimbo32 View Post
The unofficial wiki is almost always better imo.
Read : The unofficial wiki is better if you make it just like the official one
Benderama
Benderama
Krytan Explorer
#37
i use wiki.guildwars motly because of the layout and good info sources. though for missions and HM tips .wikia seems better. official seems to not have a list of some things like elite skills in NF but it does have them by capture location.in the same way you can't search storyline to find out the order of missions :/
Arduin
Arduin
Grotto Attendant
#38
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Originally Posted by Benderama View Post
i use wiki.guildwars motly because of the layout and good info sources. though for missions and HM tips .wikia seems better. official seems to not have a list of some things like elite skills in NF but it does have them by capture location.in the same way you can't search storyline to find out the order of missions :/
Elite Skills -> By capture location -> Nightfall.

Storyline -> List of [campaign] missions

Whoopdidoo.
CagedinSanity
CagedinSanity
Wilds Pathfinder
#39
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Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm View Post
I prefer the official one these days, though as with all wikis, I stay away from the discussion pages.
Really? When it comes to some of the new missions, they're the best source of insight onto their difficulty so I go in knowing what to expect.

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Originally Posted by Benderama View Post
.in the same way you can't search storyline to find out the order of missions :/
Yes you can. You're just bad at the wiki.
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Commander Kanen
Lion's Arch Merchant
#40
I prefer the un-official wiki, There is way more infomation on there and the layout is better.

The official wiki is only good for dev update notes and features.