Automated Armory Access Tutorial

Introduction

Welcome to a little tutorial on how to grab data from the Armory and bend it to your will. [insert evil laughter]
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Armory Basics

The World of Warcraft Armory is a website that holds information about all characters above level 10 on all of Blizzard's WoW servers.
The Armory was introduced quite a while ago, some time into TBC and first of caused an uproar by people who felt that this information about their character ought to be private and no one shall see it. It paints a decently complete picture of your characters, just some things are missing - but that's good. There's nothing about "amount of gold", "items in inventory and bank", "Recipes knows" and "mailbox system". But you'll find: Class, Race, Level, Guild, Rank, Titles, Equipped Items, Spec, Reputation, Skills, Professions and now after WotLK - also Achievements and Statistics. Some of these could be seen by inspecting before anyway.

What information is available in which file/section is fairly self-explaining. If in doubt, open the URL in a decent browser and inspect the source. It's nice and well-formed XML and they even put some thought on it (well, most of the time, with "Riding skill" you'll tear your hair out).

This made my day.

There's this whole movement now, too, that "WoW is totally catering to the retards now, and everything is totally trivial". When prodded, someone in my guild asked me when the last time I jumped out of my chair shouting when the raid boss was downed. I can say pretty honestly that that's never happened. I've had a few pump-your-fist-and-give-a-quick-"yes!"-over-vent moments, but I guess I'm playing the game wrong if I'm not hopping around like a monkey and flinging my feces when Patchwerk falls over.

-- Ixobelle

WTF?

Launchdatum für Wrath of the Lich King (das zweite WoW-AddOn) war seit Wochen der 13.11.2008.
Inklusive allerlei Mitternachtsverkauf-Verrücktheiten und sonstwas.

Die ersten Vorbesteller habens gestern, also am 11.11. bekommen und ich habs heute im Laden gekauft, wo die Lieferung um ~15:00 ankam.

Medienhype für nix und wieder nix?

Der Launch von The Burning Crusade (dem ersten AddOn) war wirklich so. Mit Mitternachtsverkauf und am Tag danach unspielbar weil die Server down waren.

WoW-Patch 3.0.1 - Das Grauen hat einen Namen. "Echoes of Doom" oder so.
Furchtbar, rennt seit mittlerweile 7h, der Torrent vom tollen Blizzard-Downloader, wird wohl auch die Nacht durch laufen.

"Never play on a patch day" hat sich mal wieder vollkommen bewahrheitet.

Macht aber nix, Guitar Hero III ist toll. Auch wenn ich den Konsolenfaschisten immerhin rechtgeben muss, so einfach wars nicht, es zum Laufen zu bringen.

- Spiel installieren (statt einlegen)
- Controller anstecken
- merken, dass der Controller nicht erkannt wird
- im Web nach Lösung suchen
- Lösung finden: Logitech G11/G15 muss abgesteckt sein, bevor man GH3 startet
- geht!