Hello!
I have an idea for our community forum that might be useful:
It would be nice if we could tag heroes within a comment so that you could click on the mention to see their full stats and art work. There are a lot of heroes, and a lot of stats and often times I have to stop reading to go research a hero before I read on. This would streamline all that reading.
I moved this to the Ideas forum, since that’s what I think it is, and I also voted for it, since I think it’s a great idea! It would also ensure we get an up to date image / stats, as, if I want to post about a hero I don’t actually have, google image often shows me old versions.
I’ve been thinking about this off and on since it was posted, and there’s a slightly hacky way it could be done without an insane amount of effort if we could collect a screenshot of every hero card.
I think we can collect screenshots from players and online/already on the Forum. I doubt I’d succeed in getting “official” card images from Staff in as timely a fashion as we’d get them from players.
Classes create an interesting problem, since we’ll want screenshots at max and not beyond +1, which would change stats. For any hero in a Summoning Portal, that’s easy, so it’ll be the Seasonal and Challenge Event heroes that most need to be tracked down.
Everything else could be screenshotted now or this weekend, while the Atlantis Portal is up.
You would need to create a new hero only thread which can’t be commented in by others, place every hero in the thread which would provide an individual link to each hero and then make each one linkable via a tag # as you done. Not allowing comments would keep that thread clean to work with.
When called upon like #quintus that heros post pops up.
As does 7 days departed website (not sure if it is updated with current buffs, but all current heroes are there) and @Kamikaze_Assassin class spreadsheet has all the hero cards embedded in it - not sure what the source is.
Can forum owners add smilies? Another way would be to add a mini image emoji per hero and hopefully have it auto link somewhere or have info on popup? Don’t know what this forum system let’s them get away with…