Adding new skills in skill.xml

[Romplayer]

My champion has some elite skills not in the skills.xml database.
How do I go about adding my skills to the database?
whats the way to find out the ID of the skill?
I have 2 I want to add: Dark energy strike and Rune siphon
Oh and Dark energy punishment.
So 3 total

Oh wait maybe Remodeled body also which is a shield form when about to die restores full HP

Do all I need to do is find the ID and follow the format in skills.xml to add to database?

Whats the easiest way to find the skill ID? can I do it by writing an ingame macro?

[kenzu38]

You can go to runesdatabase.com and search for the skill you want to add. And then take note of the url, the number in the URL is usually the skill Id.

For example this is for the elite skill of Champion/Rogue Shadow Pulse. So the skill Id is 498726.

And then you just have to add this line to the Champion Elite skills section of the skills.xml:

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<skill name="CHAMPION_SHADOW_PULSE" id="498726" range="225" cooldown="6" type="damage" target="enemy" />

[rock5]

Do all I need to do is find the ID and follow the format in skills.xml to add to database?

Yes, pretty much.

Whats the easiest way to find the skill ID? can I do it by writing an ingame macro?

You can usually look them up on http://www.runesdatabase.com, the Ids are in the address bar, but it's out of date so new skills might not be found there. I like to use the ItemPreview addon. It's an easy way to get the Id of items, quests, skills, buffs, etc. The only thing it can't give Ids for are in world objects such as harvest nodes, npcs and mobs.

For buff Ids we usually use a macro to be sure we get the right Id.

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/script local i=1 while UnitBuff( "player", i) ~= nil do local name, __, __, ID = UnitBuff( "player", i) SendSystemChat(name.." "..ID) i = i + 1 end

This just list all current buffs.

[chesterfield]

runesdatabase.com <---- it lacks skills

--- Scout / Rogue ---

i can`t find all skills

sorry my english , translate from google

[rock5]

Yeah I know. It hasn't been updated since 5.0.0 which is disappointing. The only database I can find that is up to date is the rom wiki http://runesofmagic.gamepedia.com but it doesn't provide Ids, so I still wish runesdatabase would update.

[lisa]

this is my current version of ID to skill names.

skills.xml

26/5/2013
Not to be confused with skills.xml in database folder, very different

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You can either just open it in notepad++ and then do a search for the name or you can do more complicated stuff.

I keep it in the logs folder

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local ll = include("logs/skills.xml") 
for k,v in pairs(ll) do 
if string.find(v,"Berserk") then 
print(k.." "..v) end 
end

492999 Berserk
497152 Berserk Excuse
499484 Berserk
491305 Berserk
497601 Berserker's Fury
497603 Heavy Berserker Attack
497604 Heavy Berserker Attack
497605 Heavy Berserker Attack
497998 Berserker Elixir
498284 Berserker's Fury
490095 Berserk
490526 Berserk
498778 Berserk
494939 Berserk
492942 Berserk

If you have a different language version than english you can use this userfunction to make your own language file, it takes anywhere from 10 to 30 mins to finish.

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function lisa_logskills()
	filename = getExecutionPath() .. "/logs/skills.xml";
	file, err = io.open(filename, "a+");
	if( not file ) then
		error(err, 0);
	end
	file:write("return {\n")
	for i = 490000,499999,1 do
		local nam = GetIdName(i)
		if nam and nam ~= "" and nam ~= " " then
			file:write(" ["..i.."] = \""..nam.."\",\n")
		end
	end
	file:write("}")
	file:close();
end

That code doesn't deal with any weird characters that might be in the name like ", you'll have to work that out for yourself if you intend to use it as a table.