So here's something interesting.
In the interface to purchase recipes with Hero Merits interface, I see this listed as something I can buy:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Recharge Speed (Recipe)Hovering, that item has this name:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedWhen I buy it, I receive this message in my chat:
You received
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe).
When I look in my Recipes window, I see this listed:
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe)When I hover over it, I see this again:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedI go to the auction house and drop it in the auction house inventory and it shows up as:
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe)I click find, and it shows up the same:
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe)I hover over either of the two entries in the market and see:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedOkay, I decide to craft the sucker. The crafting interface displays it as:
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe)I craft the sucker and out pops an enhancement. Hovering over it shows:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedI drop it in the auction house. I click find. I hover over both spots. They all agree:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedI go to the market and look it up there. The textual description describes the enhancement as:
Luck of the Gambler: +Defense/+Increased Global Recharge SpeedI'm not inclined to buy one, so I can't say what kind of name it pops out with if you do. I'm inclined to guess that the unique text in the description above is completely unrelated to what the enhancement itself would say.
When I hover over the enhancement (or anything else that gives similar info) and look at the list of the pieces in the set, it shows up as:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedI visit Paragon Wiki and look the item up. It's listed as:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Recharge SpeedSummarizing some observations...
The enhancement is consistently called:
Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Global Recharge SpeedThe recipe does not have a consistent name. It is called:
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% Recharge Speed (Recipe)Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Recharge Speed (Recipe)The text you see when you hover over a recipe is
not the text for the recipe itself. Instead, it's the text
for the enhancement the recipe creates.
I did some further searching. Every IO recipe I looked at had a distinct name from its corresponding enhancement. For example, "Invention: Accuracy (Recipe)" for "Invention: Accuracy". Or "Cloud Senses: To Hit Debuff/End/Rech (Recipe)" for "Cloud Senses: To Hit Debuff/Endurance/Recharge". Two observations:
- IO recipes always have a "(Recipe)" suffix.
- Even if you drop "(Recipe)", the names are often different.
Non-IO recipes do
not have the "(Recipe)" suffix. As examples, "Costume Piece: Bat wings", "Respec Recipe", and "Temporary Power: Backup Radio".
I think this makes it very clear that we should have
always had two articles, since a given pair of enhancement and recipe aren't even actually named the same. This also suggests that it's probably a good idea on the set page to given them separate listings, as I did on my
sample set page.
It also means we can't automatically link between the Recipe and Enhancement with template magic since the two often will have different names. It also means we can't fully automate the process of creating all these articles. Most of our IO articles are named for the enhancement, but we clearly have a few errors (such as the LoTG above, which doesn't perfectly match
any of the names I found in game). But even ignoring those errors, we have no way to automate determining what the recipe names are because they just aren't on the wiki. At all.
We also need to decide, which recipe name is right? It seems like the merit vendors use a different naming scheme than everything else for them. I'm inclined to go with the names we find in the auction house.
This may be cause to re-assess whether we still want to split these out into separate namespaces. It
looks like the recipes and enhancements have distinct names. The costume pieces and their recipes have distinct names ("Bat wings" versus "Costume Piece: Bat wings"). The temp powers and their recipes have distinct names ("Backup Radio" versus "Temporary Power: Backup Radio"). Are there any instances where naming
isn't distincts? If we have separate namespaces, our recipes will have names like this: "Recipe:Luck of the Gambler: Defense/Increased Recharge Speed (Recipe)".