When a character has too many soulbreaks for the chat, have the bot directly message the user instead to cut down on spam.

With Enlir retiring their is a new community repository to carry on his work.

Should just require updating the spreadsheet IDs in a few places to 1f8OJIQhpycljDQ8QNDk_va1GJ1u7RVoMaNjFcHH0LKk if I'm not mistaken

The current command output throws out data in this format:

Ability name: Firaja
Description: Magical Attack
Multiplier: 9
Element: Fire
Type: Black Magic
Target: Single
Soul Break charge: 60
Cast time: 1.8

This is quite a few lines, especially for an active chat room. Compressing the lines would make the bot much friendlier on the screen real estate and make it feel less spammy. Something like this:

Ability name: Firaja
Description: Magical Attack
Multiplier: 9 || Element: Fire
Type: Black Magic || Target: Single
Soul Break Charge: 60 || Cast Time: 1.8

Putting names and descriptions on the same line may be a problem because some descriptions are way more complex, but compressing the other data to two entries a line would kill a lot of wasted space.

Refactor and clean up the current code for soulbreaks, splitting as many parts as possible into their own functions.

Consider using ReactionCollectors to create a dynamic embed menu for Burst and Brave lookups, to help condense the massive amounts of posts the bot makes in a row. (See: !sidebar command for the Mog Bot). I would volunteer to help but I don't know js enough. I can give you a brief overview of the code flow though.

I should add !help and !github to reveal the possible functions. How do I best go about doing that?

Ideally would like a command that allows the user to search for their name in the rankings and get a list of their rankings in each category. Could have a more tailored version where they search for their name in a given category as well (or in lieu of the original). Ping me on Discord if worth discussing

Now that you have an aliases database, you'll want to add an aliases command to show what they are.

I'll need to add the potency of each ability to the message output. That's exposed in FFRKCentral's API as battle_arg1.

From Discord: the ideal scenario is that the bot would provide all of the crunch: potency, element, number of hits, effects, all of that

Per earlier conversation, requesting a command that would allow the bot to pull the Top X rankings from the master Google sheet based on category.

The master sheet is linked here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/11gTjAkpm4D3uoxnYCN7ZfbiVnKyi7tmm9Vp9HvTkGpw/htmlview. Can also check our chat history for the shortened URLs, which would provide direct links to each of the three tabs.

There are currently four brackets: 1) 4* Overall, 2) 4* No CSB, 3) CoD Overall, 4) CoD No CSB. The first two have their own tabs, which are divided up based on the boss. Second two are both on the same tab.

Ideally, users would be able to do something like:

!rankings <Overall/No CSB> <# of rankings>

which would then output the rankings as shown in the sheet. If the sheet’s structure is problematic, I’m happy to revise it in whatever way makes things easier for you.

At a certain point, we’ll likely want to add more brackets (e.g. 3* Magicite Overall and No CSB, the new Torments, other special challenges, etc.), so having an infrastructure that makes that easier to add would be great, but defer to you on what would work best.

Also, we’ll probably want to add some kind of help function to guide users on what the proper syntax is since I imagine it might be a little alien to them at first.

Happy to discuss if any questions, if any of this is unreasonable, or if there are things I can do to make this simpler to implement. Again, thank you so much for the help, and hit me up on Discord if you want to talk through anything.

Due to Enlir swapping his spreadsheet naming conventions the FSB and UOSB bot lookups fail:

FSB > Glint
UOSB > ASB

The next major milestone is to implement searching for soulbreaks and burst soulbreaks.

Use a RichEmbed for the current soulbreak output, and fall back to plaintext if not possible due to permission issues.

Apostrophes, like "Gaia's Cross", break the bot lookup. I'll need to fix that.

new tab on enlir needs syntax like ,brave character x where x is brave level 1-3

So, typing ,bsb Orran will only return the entry of his Burst, but no Burst Commands. Is this an error?

Characters like Eiko have two Brave Ultras. Only the first one can be pulled by the ,brave command on the bot.

SkyfireX: when I type .ability snow
NEW MESSAGES
[12:13 AM] SkyfireX: the bot can ask which abilties do you mean

1. snow 1
2. snow 2
   [12:13 AM] SkyfireX: and so on
   [12:13 AM] SkyfireX: maybe..

The nicknames for Paladin Cecil and Dark Knight Cecil aren't registering correctly, even though they're in the aliases database. I'll need to examine this one in more detail.

You want to avoid looking for specific ability names, nobody will remember those. Something along these lines:

.burst CHARACTER 1|2|3
with the number at the back defaulting to 1 if no entry is given.
ex:
[ .burst Squall 2 ] will give you Squall's BSB2.
[ .burst Zidane ] will give you Zidane's BSB1.

Probably formatted like so:
Burst Name: Stellar Circle 5
Entry: Deal six ranged physical wind attacks to all targets, temporarily lower their wind resistance, and grant Haste and Burst Mode to the user.
Multiplier: ##.#x / 6
Element: None
Command 1: Mug Power (IX)
Effect: Deal physical damage to one target, temporarily lowering its Attack a large amount, and temporarily raise the user's Attack a large amount.
Command 2: Mug Defense (IX)
Effect: Deal physical damage to one target, temporarily lowering its Defense a large amount, and temporarily raise the user's Defense a moderate amount.

The ,glint command will only list a character's normal Glints. Superglints like Cloud's won't appear and probably will be under a different command which probably wasn't specified on the bot, unless I'm missing something.

could we get "a" as an alias for "ability"?

This takes precedence before everything else. I'll want to use discord.js-commando as the base for my code and commands to make it easier to maintain.