The Warcraft Armory - Page 2

• Navaash · 02/28/07, 5:13 PM

Originally Posted by Bekah

Here's hoping Blizz has the bandwidth to maintain a monster of this size without losing the questionable stability of their forums server.

I think some of us would rejoice if their forums server imploded on itself.

Apate · 02/28/07, 5:20 PM

Wow. Not only is my name super-common, but my actual character is only 75% relevant. I'd think that my fortunate guild name should put me somewhere around 110%.

Originally Posted by Kalince

You still kind of consent to giving out that information by using whatever product it is that pulls your data. With the armory Blizzard has decided for you that you would like to display everything.

The same could be said for the use of the WoW client, couldn't it? I'm not going to pour over the EULa/TOS right now, but I'm pretty sure that Blizzard holds the rights to the data.

Avair · 02/28/07, 5:29 PM

When this is working, this will be incredible, especially for guild management. All they need to do is:

1. Include instance keying information (shattered halls, karazhan) etc.
2. Support a public API (i.e. xml) for character information.

Some enterprising young soul can then write a real time guild management tool and you don't need to hound your members about keying/attunements, etc.

Giant · 02/28/07, 5:34 PM

While not terribly useful for you US based people wanting to check out your own info if you want a look at what it shows in general the european one seems to be a lot less overloaded.

http://armory.wow-europe.com/#index.xml

• frmorrison · 02/28/07, 5:39 PM

Wow, if blizzard adding some more bandwidth to this site, this is an excellent tool (from guild management, to looking at the competition, to seeing what gear people have all without their consent (I am sure the EULA says they can do this).

Cryect · 02/28/07, 5:41 PM

Originally Posted by Grymm

NGiven the competitive nature of the raid scene, I'd prefer people didn't have access to see my gear. It begs the question: what gear do they see? What I'm wearing when I log off? What I am currently wearing? What I was wearing at last maintenance?

Its at least somewhat delayed but fairly close to live data. Will take a while for it to be determined for sure what forces an update and I'm sure blizzard will be adjusting this a lot while its tuned for performance on a larger scale.

Also, I hope Blizzard will add some of the information to the armory it apparently isn't showing yet but they track. Example being how many times your character has died.

diospadre · 02/28/07, 5:41 PM

Oh no gurg will find out I don't have defiance

Giant · 02/28/07, 5:45 PM

One nice feature would be rare patterns you have. It looks like it at least saves it when you zone into/out of an instance but not when you teleport / portal.

I'm still shown wearing my wonderful greens of stamina from our attempts on maulgar earlier this evening which I changed out of after we called it and portalled out.

Kalince · 02/28/07, 5:46 PM

I am sure it is in the EULA but there is no reason I have to be happy about it.

diospadre · 02/28/07, 5:51 PM

I'm looking forward to telling people who come onto these forums and say "X boss is easy without pots, you just suck" after looking up their info and seeing 13 wipes and 300g in pots spent.

Anias · 02/28/07, 5:54 PM

Originally Posted by diospadre

Oh no gurg will find out I don't have defiance

I think he's known since the pet pulled argo.

Just a guess though.

(Yes, I feel being a warrior who tanks content without defiance better than some, gives me the option to hassle you, oh-brother-in-arms.)

I like this idea, and I honestly don't care about "privacy" options as I feel that any case you can make for a "privacy" option can be countered by the premise that the people you play with are terrible individuals and generally not worth playing with if their opinion of you will change based on this information.

More information is good.

LuckyAC · 02/28/07, 5:56 PM

Originally Posted by Kalince

I am sure it is in the EULA but there is no reason I have to be happy about it.

I'll look up your arena rating and spec to see if your opinion is worth considering.

Everything that shows up when inspected should be automatic, but things like spec should be optional, in my opinion.

Kalince · 02/28/07, 6:01 PM

Originally Posted by LuckyAC

I'll look up your arena rating and spec to see if your opinion is worth considering.

Everything that shows up when inspected should be automatic, but things like spec should be optional, in my opinion.

It is quite possibly the biggest tool for forums trolls ever.

Yaltus · 02/28/07, 6:05 PM

It seems that if you let spec be optional, you might as well remove it. For the most part, the players who will hide that information are the high-end, competitive raiders and PvPers, and that's exactly who Joe Casual wants to check. Whether it's good or not is debatable, but I think that optional isn't really a good compromise.

For what it's worth, I think it's probably not a good idea. We'll have people running around with whatever spec they happened to see off a DnT, Nihil, etc. member, but they'll have no idea what that spec was for and probably be worse for it.

Malan · 02/28/07, 6:07 PM

If that site can be datamined through XML format, we could finally find out what % of guilds and players are seeing end game content.