Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-4698489-20150808195101/@comment-1330314-20150814212155

There seems to be more of a consensus on making a case for derived and non-derived information, which can work.

Looking at the examples cited for, though, I think there are some issues with what's being proposed: The on-hit damage, for example, is derived information, yet it's also currently shown on its own, and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to bundle it under FlipText with any other value, as everything else is packaged up in a manner that respects this essential/nonessential dichotomy.

Another issue, further down the line, is that implementing this standard risks making editing extremely unstable: for example, under this standard, would have all of its values spread out (which also raises the issue of page formatting), or at least formatted differently, because describing its power progression is fairly complex. However, if the maximum AD ratio dropped by 10, we'd have to bundle it under FlipText for following a 1-1.5 progression, and if it were to receive another change we'd likely have to switch back, and so on. If someone were to describe its exact progression (e.g. "...increasing its base damage by up to 50% and its AD ratio by up to 60%"), then that "essential" information would become "non-essential" information, and we'd have to switch again. Not only will this make editing overall more complicated and more difficult for new users, it's also going to make page formatting change completely based on simple numerical changes.

Additionally, while this is a more minor issue, I feel like there could be comprehension issues along the way: if we were to reformat Q in such a way that it would show its standard and minimum damage in each instance, the reader would have to go to the bottom of the ability's description to understand that there is a damage falloff, while the ability's increased damage from charging up is listed at the start of the ability, and would, imo, be much more intuitive to the reader to add first. The wording could always be changed, but I know for a fact that changing the wording on relevant articles is likely going to come at a cost in clarity.