Anonymous asked: Hey guys! Is it just me or do WTF Gearscore can list 10 Player but no more?
No, to display a realm ranking we’re simply grabbing the players from that realm out of our region rankings, which are currently capped at 7,000. Thus, only ten characters from your realm make it into the top 7,000 for your region.
We might bump this number up, though.
We’ve added experimental support for realm rankings on the new site. The main issues for maintenance are keeping memory usage reasonable while making sure that there are enough global rankings to make the realm rankings valuable.
We’ll tweak the settings as we people use the site and evaluate whether we can keep them up permanently.
Anonymous asked: Any chance we can hide our characters from your site?
None at all.
It appears that Blizzard has moved their web development resources from WoW to Diablo 3, so it is unlikely that the items missing from the API will be added.
We released a new version of the site today that works around this issue by trying to get the item from Wowhead if it isn’t available from Blizzard.
Anonymous asked: I can look up all my chars but the mage and warlock which gives me 500 saying unable to obtain information. I also couldn't look up a char from another server. I can look up some chars but not all like I use too. My question is why is this happening and can something to be done to fix it?
Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do. The problem is that the data source that Blizzard requires developers to use for detailed item information has not been updated to include some (all?) of the items from the patch 4.3 heroics.
This has been a problem for some time, but Blizzard hasn’t given any response.
Please complain to them.
Anonymous asked: How does this Work with Avg Fail odr Win my WoW InGame K/D is 1,56????
Must be a bug!!!!
Anonymous asked: Are you dutch by any chance?
Nope.
We rolled out a new version of the site today. Things should be slightly faster and less broken, but we’ve simplified the feature-set in order to minimize the amount of maintenance going forward.
The most notable changes are the removal of realm rankings and the switch to the Disqus commenting system.
If you get an “unable to get item information” error, it is because Blizzard is not great about supporting the data API that they require third-party sites to use. They still have not updated it to include items from patch 4.3.
The new ilevel 251 items that drop from the Elemental Invasion bosses are currently not reported by the Armory and show up as empty slots. As such, we cannot correctly calculate your gearscore if you are wearing any of these items.
This is a bug on Blizzard’s end and completely out of our control.
It appears that the Chinese armory has been upgraded to the WotLK version which allows us to pull the item information needed to calculate GearScore. As such we have reactivated support for Chinese characters and this time it is actually calculating proper scores!
Check out the China rankings page here: http://wtfismygearscore.com/cn
After finally discovering the secret to proper database indexing I was able to turn rankings back to the way they were originally intended to be…with the inclusion of our full 750,000+ character database and the delivery of these results in real-time. This should help to add many characters to the ranking pages when looking over individual realms.
There are other improvements coming in the near future, but for now, this should help to improve the speed and quality of our rankings results!
We’ve finally decided to move on from our shared hosting roots! With the increase in power we hope to be able to display rankings for all characters once again instead of having to cap it at a hard number (which has currently been moved up to 100,000 by the way)…so be sure to look out for those changes coming soon.
Also: Please note that some comments might be lost during the switch. We might try to recover those comments within the next few days but most of our comments are quite doltish anyways…
(Doltish, really?)