World of Warcraft Armory Additions

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:30 am

If you haven't been to the Armory today, Blizzard has added some interesting new features.

They have now added items to their database of searchable and viewable information. Not only that, but they have a nifty new way to view upgrades for your character! When viewing your armory page, and you hover over an item, a little arrow will appear, hover over the arrow and click the Check for Upgrades to see a list of suggested items for that slot.

Some interesting new stuff here for sure!

DM. · Post by **DM.** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:25 am

Damn thats nice stuff!

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:32 am

Sounds good, not seeing it on the European one though, guess we're behind as usual

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:46 am

I'm sure it'll hit EU within a few weeks. Prob gonna work out the kinks on the US folks first =x

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:47 am

suggested upgrades? haha... isn't it just like Blizz to show you that you could do better?

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:50 am

Hmm, wonder if they've fixed it so the talent trees are actually viewable... they've never ever loaded for me so far

I'll have to poke around the US one and see

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:51 am

my thing was that if someone linked me a profile ic oudn't see it until i looked for it myself... weird.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:00 pm

Omg... I can see talents

Nice additions too, although it's very very slow to load, might be heavy load on it currently though. Ok, now I'm hoping Blizz update the European one fast, finally I'll be able to see what talents my guildmates have

Btw I just looked at Rollie's profile for testing, interesting seeing the difference in stats between pvp and pve players; my rogue has about 450 more attack power, but 3k less health, totally different priorities, even though we're both combat rogues

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:50 pm

I can't see the arrow with additions :-s SS or it didn't happen

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:58 pm

I actually just spec'd combat last night to give it a whirl while running Kara. Upped my overall DPS by about 5 - 7%. I don't think I'll like it when it comes to PVP though, I'll be missing lots of sub talents.

I'm usually a sub/hemo build

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:59 pm

You have to hover over the item, and a little arrow will appear on the right side. THen you have to hover over that arrow and you'll get the View Upgrades thing.

Skyfire · Post by **Skyfire** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:37 pm

Yeah... we noticed it on the wowwiki irc last night. Some nifty stuff, but Skosiris has a bunch of what Blizzard has planned for wowhead. He might steal some of the xml, but I think I'll prefer wowhead to that slow, lumbering thing that was the armory.

I've never really liked the armory anyway. The profile was too slow to load, and as it is currently, the entire thing is too slow. Oh well.

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:59 pm

Yeah, that's my gripe with it as well (so slow)

xpolockx · Post by **xpolockx** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:47 pm

I haven't checked it out yet, but I'll definitely have to give it a whirl. The speed (or lack thereof) was always the annoying factor when using the armory, that's for sure

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:57 pm

Seems we have it now as well, slooooowwww though, they could use speeding things up a little!