Board Thread:Dark Assembly/@comment-653063-20150514024408/@comment-26317226-20150516000726

SannaSK wrote: If a person is playing, say, Disgaea:HOD, and they want information on what spells Etna can cast, are they going to come to this site and look up 'Beauty Queen' or whatever her class is? No, they're going to search for Etna -- and then read (or at least skim) that whole page, and maybe figure out that there's a link in the infobox that goes to her Class page. That's not efficient. If a person wants info on Fubuki, his stats or skills or how he plays, how likely are they to care that his 'class' is Ninja Master ? If a person is looking at Template:Disgaea 2 Classes, are they going to say, 'ah yes, Fallen Angel, that's what I want to know about'? Or are they going to be asking 'Why can't I click anything here that says Flonne?' This pretty much described my first times using this wikia...

I would have to agree with most of these sentiments, the 'class' for unique/story characters does not really mean much and in game is merely just a placeholder name, heck it even is a running joke in some the Disgaea games, in D2 I recall Adell's class changing a lot through the story, his 'class' even becomes Prism Black at one but really nothing has changed except the name and the real class is still Adell's. Also in D2 Etna even makes the joke that you can change your class by just changing the class name text (as a side note you could really change unique characters classes this way if you used gameshark).

So I guess my point is the 'class' for unique characters is somewhat pointless and I do think the class page and character page should be combined.

But if this does happen then what about characters that appear in multiple games, their various stats do/would change from game to game to satisfy different game mechanics, so effectively from game-to-game the real class does change. So would that mean you would (1) create different character pages for each game (eg: Laharl_Disgaea_1, Laharl_Disgaea_2 etc), or (2) would there just be one huge page with the class information for all games on the same page?

Using Laharl as an example my opinion would be to go with (2) and then use SannaSK's second tabber template with tab1 having all the character text and lore etc, tab2 having class information from Disgaea 1, tab3 having class information from Disgaea 2 etc etc.

Anyway that's at least my view/opinion on this..