Armory Updated with Item Information

The World of Warcraft Armory site has been updated this week with several cool enhancements. My favorite is the ability to look for upgrades to existing equipment. Simply hover over an equipment slot and a little arrow will show up and when you hover over the arrow a box will expand with a link to search for upgrades. The page you get lists all the equipment that would be an upgrade for that particular item. Playing a paladin, I did notice a mix of gear but the majority and highest ranking gear was based on my talent choices which is pretty cool. The listing also shows where you can get the gear which makes it a lot easier to plan ahead.

The other addition that is noteworthy is the ability to compare profiles. Clicking on the push pin in the "Profile Selected" box in the upper right hand corner will store the currently selected player's profile. When you go to another profile and hover of their gear, you will see their gear plus the selected profiles gear.

I will detail out these new pages in an upcoming entry in my blog along with some of the PVP pages so stay tuned.

Comments
Jamie's Gravatar This is some very promising data. I blogged some plans for it last night and this morning. The most exciting thing of it will be a chance to play with <cfthread> when returning all upgrades at once.

Have you noted armory being down and/or slow far more often lately?
# Posted By Jamie | 6/7/07 9:02 AM
Matt Shooks's Gravatar Yeah, I have noticed it was down for a bit earlier this week but I just attributed that to them moving over their new code for the item and pvp additions. It has been down other times too. I bet there are a lot more sites starting to mine that data now that it has been out for a couple of months. Probably should wrap some of my example code with CFTRY/CFCATCH blocks.
# Posted By Matt Shooks | 6/7/07 3:14 PM
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