[Tips] Visually locating file names for Devotion Constellations nodes and Monsters Dictionary

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I was trying to remember what skill in the Devotion tree summoned a hound and checked the Grim Calc page for the Devotion calculator since Grim Dawn was not running and when I hovered the skill node it also gave me the file name for that node.

I know some of you already figured better way to do it with tool but I think for someone fairly new to modding it could be really useful.

So here’s the link for the Grim Calc page, http://grimcalc.com/Mastery/Shaman
on this page click Devotion on top of the Mastery Tree and hover a node and you will see the file name in the description.

Second tip, someone suggested I take a look at a certain enemy ability and when I searched video of that enemy I stood upon this page.
http://grimcalc.com/monsters
Again, Grim Calc :stuck_out_tongue:
Last time I used this website the Monsters section wasn’t finish but know I can see this being really useful to some peoples wanting to rework or maybe play around with some of the monsters.
The monsters are split in categories inside of which you will find all monster names for that category and their races and groups.
If you click on one the monsters you will get a page with the monster attributes,resistances and skills in form of file names.
Pretty useful.

Hope this can help anyone out there!

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I linked it in the mod creation tools, awesome work! Neat little text parser :slight_smile:

A few suggestions:
Same thing for skills as constellation? They are much easier to identify by name, but I have seen the question among new modders. I’d like to get more people involved into the modding community by making things more accessible.

A back button on the monster list, instead of navigating top down.

On the monster list, make the top “grim calc” link go to the master monster list instead of the monster skills list.

Until I looked at the source to the page I didn’t realize that the skills were clickable. Maybe an underline? I’m so old school I still look for underlines for links or interactive content. Since tab 1 and tab 2 weren’t clickable, I didn’t even check tab 3.

I didn’t realize what the parent dbr file was at first. I concluded it wasn’t listed anywhere and then I saw it on the URL. I don’t have a decent UI suggestion there but some bad ideas are: tooltip to the mob name, line under the tooltip name, a template driven title tag (google likes unique titles anyway)

I’m a fan of jQuery too, I prefer it over mootools and the like. Nice use of Canvas and LocalStorage :cool: