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Tomcat1408

Tom Atkins developed and maintained Dancer job guides for The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static, delivering eight feature updates over five months. He focused on content management and technical writing, using Markdown and JSON to ensure guides reflected the latest patch changes, including gear recommendations, ability usage, and strategy enhancements. Tom’s work included updating best-in-slot gear sets, clarifying partner priorities, and improving onboarding through refined leveling guidance. He integrated patch-specific metadata and cross-referenced external tools to support user decision-making. The updates improved documentation accuracy, reduced information drift, and enhanced user experience, demonstrating depth in game mechanics, content curation, and version-controlled documentation workflows.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

21Total
Bugs
0
Commits
21
Features
8
Lines of code
632
Activity Months5

Work History

January 2026

7 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 performance summary for The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static: Delivered a major Dancer content update synchronized with patch 7.4/7.41, refreshed BiS gear guidance, updated the opener image and hotbar tips, and completed a comprehensive guide refresh across key sections. No major bugs identified this month; content is now aligned with patch notes, improving user guidance, consistency, and onboarding for Dancer players. The work supports user retention, reduces support queries, and strengthens the site's authority on patch-specific build guidance.

December 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Monthly work summary for 2025-12: Focused on delivering practical improvements to the Dancer leveling experience in The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static. Implemented clarification of ability usage and strategy enhancements for single-target and multi-target encounters, aligning guidance with optimal leveling paths. Result: improved onboarding, faster skill mastery, and reduced learner confusion. Primary commit: 071742bb1b7b6115cce9cdf7946fd0fed37aa76d (Update Dancer Guide “leveling-guide”).

July 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static focused on delivering a feature enhancement to the Dancer job guide FAQ. The update adds revised partner priority lists across tiers 100, 90, 80, and 70, clarifies that priorities are influenced by gear/skill vacuum and may vary with fight mechanics, and retains a link to partnercalc.app for more accurate, group-specific analysis. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact includes improved documentation accuracy, better user guidance for Dancer planning, and increased content maintainability. Technologies/skills demonstrated include content updates, domain knowledge of game mechanics, disciplined version control, and cross-link integration.

June 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static. Key feature delivered: Dancer Job Guide BiS Gear Update for Patch 7.2, updating best-in-slot gear configurations and adding raid tier/dungeon links and descriptive notes to reflect latest optimal setups. Commit change: 45aa5a293d128d5f870ca96868f4f71f49a69668. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: Keeps the guide current with Patch 7.2, improving player guidance, reducing potential support queries, and strengthening community trust. Technologies demonstrated: content curation, patch familiarity (FFXIV 7.2), version-controlled documentation, and clear technical writing.

April 2025

11 Commits • 4 Features

Apr 1, 2025

For 2025-04, The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static delivered targeted content updates for Dancer guidance aligned with patches 7.2 and 7.20, plus a new author profile to support ongoing contributions. No critical bugs were reported this month; the focus was on improving guidance accuracy, end-game decision-making, and contributor onboarding. Key updates include patch 7.2 Dancer Guide Content Updates (buff notes, multi-target damage changes, and metadata corrections across job-changes, basic-guide, advanced-guide, and stat-priority); patch 7.2 BiS updates with new gear sets and end-game/raid notes; patch 7.20 Dancer Guide and FAQ updates addressing partner priority, weapon choices, and BiS considerations for newer raid tiers; and Author Profile Setup for Tomcat1408 to enable contributor workflows. These changes enhance player decision support, reduce information drift, and strengthen the community’s ability to contribute.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness100.0%
Maintainability100.0%
Architecture100.0%
Performance100.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JSONMarkdown

Technical Skills

Content ManagementContent UpdateDocumentationGame Guide CreationGame Guide DevelopmentProfile ManagementTechnical Writingcontent managementcontent updatescontent writingdocumentationgame balancinggame designgame mechanicsguides

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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The-Balance-FFXIV/balance-static

Apr 2025 Jan 2026
5 Months active

Languages Used

JSONMarkdown

Technical Skills

Content ManagementContent UpdateDocumentationGame Guide CreationGame Guide DevelopmentProfile Management