General new player guide

This is a page for the non-guild specific page for the Newbie Help Guide. For details, rules, and the other pages involved, see Category:Newbie Guide Contest.

How to Search Elanthipedia

Basic and Advanced Search

Elanthipedia has a lot of useful content, but finding what you want is not always intuitive. Here are some tricks.

Basic Search: to perform a basic search, click the link, or scroll to the upper-right corner of the screen, and type your search term in the box. Click "Search."

Advanced Search: Sometimes, the basic search gives you too many results, and you want to narrow your search. You can reach the advanced search option by clicking the link by performing a basic search and then clicking the "Advanced" link.

Under Search in namespaces, you can choose which types of pages to include in your search. The most useful options are:

• (Main) any wiki page that is not in a special category (most articles and shops)
• Category: any wiki page whose title begins with Category:. This includes the main guild, race, and spell pages, for example, which link to more detailed information.
• Armor: armor item pages (with looks, stats, shop locations, etc.)
• Shield: shield item pages (with looks, stats, shop locations, etc.)
• Weapon: weapon item pages (with looks, stats, shop locations, etc.)
• Item: all other item pages (with looks, stats, shop locations, etc.)
• Post: archived posts from the official Play.net forum
• Title: titles (the kind your character wears around his name)
• Checking the "List redirects" option will include pages that just redirect you to another page.

Special Queries

In addition to the normal search options, Elanthipedia has some special query pages that let you search for particular content. To use them, simply select the options you want and click "run query" at the bottom.

• ShopQuery: in the type field, include any of the merchandise types listed here
• WeaponQuery
• ArmorQuery
• ShieldQuery
• ItemQuery: all other items

When using the four item query pages, "rare" means items that aren't normally available, such as quest prizes, festival merchandise, etc.

BestiaryQuery: Here you can search for huntable creatures by location, difficulty, types of loot dropped, etc.

PostQuery: Search for archived posts from the official Play.net forum (separate topics with a comma)