Cataclysm Screenshot, Ruby Sanctum, Elitist Armory

[Boubouille]

Update - ElitistArmory got slightly mmo-champion'd. You might have to wait a while to get your character processed.

The activity on Blizzard's side is fairly restricted these days since most of the activity seems to be on the Alpha forums according to what I hear. I will probably start pushing live the Cataclysm menu and a few other things today (= I might break the site a little) since the NDA lasts longer than I expected and it's probably worth it to do temporary pages.

Also, don't forget that Ruby Sanctum testing is tonight!

Cataclysm Screenshot of the Day
A new screenshot has been added to the official Screenshot of the Day Gallery. Today is another look at Gilneas.

Reminder - Ruby Sanctum PTR Testing Today

Now that the 3.3.5 patch is available for PTR testing, we wanted to have a round of focus testing for Ruby Sanctum. Only normal mode will be available, with Heroic testing to occur at a later date.

Everything related to this zone is implemented for this test, please note any issues with the trash creatures and sub-bosses, loot, achievements, and quests.

US Testing Schedule:
Date to be determined

EU Testing Schedule:
Tuesday, May 18 starting at 19:30 CEST.

We plan to allow testing for an extended period. However since this is the Test Realm, unforeseen issues could delay or cancel testing at any time.

Elitist Armory
Today is a slow news day, so here’s a new armory website that popped up! It’s related to an addon I mentioned a few months ago, Elitist Group.

Elitist Armory is done by the author of Elitist Group, as with Elitist Group it gives you information on what kind of equipment, gems and enchants a player is using. It also tries to show you information you need, rather than just giving you everything and the kitchen sink.

I’ll be lazy and steal the examples used on the website, Shadow is a perfect profile, while Amarand has multiple item and talent issues.

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You can add support for tooltips showing Elitist Armory information by using the powered by support, all you have to do is include a little bit of Javascript.

Guild
The guild feature will allow you to quickly see how good and how accurate your raid teams gear is. This guild is probably not going to be killing 25-man heroic Lich King anytime soon!

Equipment, gems and enchants
Items are categorized into their basic types by stats. Items with defense rating are tank items or if they have spell power then it’s a caster item. Players are classified into a tank, caster dps, melee dps or range dps role depending on their talents and profiles are built based on if an item is useful for them. A Hunter would be penalized for wearing items with Spirit, while a Holy Priest would not.

Unlike Elitist Group, it will also warn players who are Jewelcrafters, but don’t have three Dragon’s Eyes socketed, or Blacksmiths who aren’t using their extra sockets. It will even show a players gear for both of their specs if it’s available.

It includes basic searching for item upgrades by their type, such as finding upgrades for Boots of Wintry Endurance.

Dungeon experience
Rather than showing experience by a long list of achievements, you can a simple summarized percent based on the same numbers used in Elitist Group. Dungeon experience is broken down by number of players and by heroic vs normal difficulty. Claiming a character, will let you show your main characters experience if you play a lot of alts.

[Prozac]

Nice screenshot.

That armory doesn't seems that helpfull to me, looks a bit like be.imba.hu mixup with wow-heroes or somethin'.

[deyndra]

Dunno if I dare to use that armory thing after the massive hacked people on the servers :/ Tho it looks nice

[Zlodo]

Why do they even bother with the screenshot of the day if they're going to show us the same place from a million of different angles?

[Sorayiel]

The tree on the screen looks like it's grown on a moonwell and destroyed it...

[Chaoyll]

Do want Cataclysm menu! O:

[Aettis]

Why do they even bother with the screenshot of the day if they're going to show us the same place from a million of different angles?

Because they've shown us this part of Gilneas before right? Not. This shot is completely new, as it's also the first shot of Gilneas outside of the city. And how dare Blizzard not give away the entire game with their screenshots?!

P.S. Do want Cata now plx. cannot wait to see that area as mah worgen.

Edit: Sorry it that seemed rude.

[Lethal]

Anyone else finding that alot of the links are down?

[iwco]

Loading *** of ***, this may take a minute
Position in queue: #2001

i dont like it

[Tomhvk]

When I try to use that site to find my guild it says 'you are 1285 in the queue'? it has been sat there for about 10 mins already.

[Seriousdoom]

nice pic of the day

[Prozac]

Everyone is going to that website. MMO-Champion has loads of visitors, what do you think? =p

[Izuria]

Hope we actually get to do some PTR this time...

[Ikkatsu]

One MAJOR problem with Elitist Armory...

It doesn't take into considerations the fact that Feral druids can be DPS & Tank, and instead classes them as "Melee DPS".

My Feral Tank had a rating ofl like 35% because i was apparantly "gemming and speccing" wrong.

(This was several weeks ago, if things have improved then disregard this post)

[Xandora]

I think you mmo-champ'd that poor guys website!

[vestergardi]

Loading *** of ***, this may take a minute
Position in queue: #2001

i dont like it

I use it regularly and the queue is mostly of 1-2 people... Thank you MMO-C! ;P

Anyway - It is a very good alternative to GS. It tells you what is wrong with the gear + the avg. iLvl. Who cares if the player has 7k GS when wearing nothing nut PvP gear and has never set foot in ICC?

A new feature that came up yesterday is a link from the ingame add-on to the site. If you paste the link from a party or raid, it'll show you a nice overview of these people. Very helpful.

[Shadowed]

One MAJOR problem with Elitist Armory...

It doesn't take into considerations the fact that Feral druids can be DPS & Tank, and instead classes them as "Melee DPS".

My Feral Tank had a rating ofl like 35% because i was apparantly "gemming and speccing" wrong.

Yes and no, a feral tank is going to have a few talents for them to be "actual" tanks rather than hybriding and trying to do both roles. Right now it requires at any combination of at least 3 of these: 3/3 Thick Hide, 1/1 Survival Instincts, 3/3 Natural Reaction, 3/3 Protector of the Pack to be considered tanks. If you want to link your profile, or PM me the link I can look into it further.

When I try to use that site to find my guild it says 'you are 1285 in the queue'? it has been sat there for about 10 mins already.

The load is making it occasionally time out which causes the queue number to not update, if you refresh it'll give you a new number. I'm fixing that right now.

I can't do much about the queues being higher, that's just due to the load that MMO-Champion generates.

[Noomz]

I think you mmo-champ'd that poor guys website!

YOU HAVE BEEN CHAMPED!


That add-on and function is just so much better then GS, I hope it's use spreads,

[DR.Green]

and the site is down xD
well gonna try it out later i guess

[Segasik]

You could give us back New Talents Calc. :>