Corey Holt 4/19/2014 Aion Armory Skill Console Client This program provides a simple, console-only interface for searching the character skills portion of the database website Aion Armory for the MMORPG Aion Online from NCSOFT. The client first prompts the user for a character class and then a character level to search on. The client will accept any of the classes currently listed on Aion Armory. These include: Assassin, Chanter, Cleric, Gladiator, Ranger, Sorcerer, Spiritmaster, Templar, Gunslinger, Songweaver. It also accepts the common shorthand notation for these classes that players commonly use. If there are new character skills available for the specified level and class, then those skills will be displayed in the console window on successive lines. If there are no new skills available for a specified level, the client reports this and asks the user if they would like to perform a new search. After displaying the list of skills for the specified level, the client asks the user if they would also like to view the descriptions for each of the skills. Answering "yes" will tell the program to print out the skill descriptions it has retrieved from Aion Armory, including usage details such as target, cast time, cooldown time, and cost (in MP or DP). The user is then asked if they would like to perform another search. The client connects to the various Aion Armory website pages via C#'s WebClient, and it extracts the skill data from the HTML code of the pages using regular expression matching. The WebClient connection that retrieves the initial skill data (skill names) for a class + level is done on the main thread, and skill description + usage detail retrieval is done in a background thread as soon as the initial list of skills has been displayed, but before the user has been asked if they would like to get the skill descriptions. This is done to minimize the delay of retrieving the higher volume of data when the user answers "yes" to wanting to see the descriptions.
cholt13/Aion-Armory-Skill-Client
A console application for quickly querying Aion Armory (www.aionarmory.com) for trainable skill availability for a given character class and level
C#