User blog comment:Taldin/Some thoughts on redesigning the Boss/Quest Lists... Again/@comment-24150802-20151231232958/@comment-24150802-20160102015052

Numberland:

At the moment, the "rating" (whether they appear in the easy, medium, or hard tables) depends on the "quest difficulty" and the "quest length", both of which are (or at least should be) calculated in the same way as is done in Template:Bosstext. You can see the results of the calculations in the HTML table on http://oldgods.net/habitrpg/quest_table_creator.html, so please tell me if any are wrong. Note that you can sort by the rating column, then hold down your shift key and sort by difficulty, then keep holding down shift and sort by length. That makes the current logic easier to see. You can also sort by rating, then strength, then health

The "rating" is determined like this (tell me if this syntax doesn't make sense):

Easy: questLength === '1. short' AND (questDifficulty === '1. trivial' OR questDifficulty === '2. easy')

Difficult: questDifficulty === '4. hard' OR questDifficulty === '5. very hard' OR (questDifficulty === '3. medium' AND questLength === '3. long')

Medium: anything else

So a quest that appears in the "hard" table can be either one with a strong boss, or one with a slightly less strong boss but a high health. From the point of view of the whole quest, I think a quest can be considered hard if it takes a long time to accomplish, as well as if it does a lot of damage due to missed Dailies. In fact, some players (those who are good with their Dailies) would probably consider boss health to be a bigger factor in the difficulty of the quest than the boss strength.

Taldin:

The Wikia templates are not automatically updated. The HTML page will be, so wiki editors just need to paste text from the correct textarea box into the correct template.

An upcoming revision of the page will state which template needs to be edited for the latest quest, so it will be easy for us to avoid unnecessarily updating unchanged templates.

Note that I can also create templates for all pet quests, all {whatever} quests, as listed in this comment from Numberland: http://habitica.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Taldin/Some_thoughts_on_redesigning_the_Boss/Quest_Lists..._Again#comm-40269 or from anyone else's ideas. Now that the bulk of the script is written, adding new templates is easy.