Erorus sent us some cool Armory-related tools he's been working on -- you can find them all at
QuickArmory.com. Aside from the usual Armory lookup (with a much faster loading design), he's got
an Heirloom item tracker (you put in your level and it will show you what
the Heirloom items look like throughout the game),
an Arena Points calculator, and perhaps most interesting,
an Achievement Tracker. That last one actually does something a little different from most Armory sites -- it uses
the Greasemonkey Firefox script to have your browser pull information from the Armory rather than Erorus' servers doing it. The output ends up looking
more or less the same, but basically his site tells your browser what information to get, and your browser gets the info rather than his server. Interesting way of getting around the problem of stability, though the tradeoff is that you've got to use Firefox and install the addon to use his site.
None of the tools provide quite as much functionality as some of the other more
specialized Armory sites out there, but Erorus does some new and interesting things with the Armory information, on the Achievement tracker especially. If you can't get enough of your character's stats (and in this case, happen to also use Firefox), they're worth checking out.
Tags: achievements, arena-points, armory, calculator, firefix, greasemonkey, heirloom, internet-tools, stats, tools, toolset, tracker
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, Odds and ends, Economy, Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements
WoW: Cataclysm still on target for a 2010 release
Dec 16th 2008 at 6:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lorqueado Dec 16th 2008 6:04PM
wooT
Dunwich Dec 16th 2008 6:33PM
The Heirloom Item Tracker is nice. I had wanted to know what the Upgraded Dwarven Handcannon would be like on my very first character (Dwarf Hunter lurking in his early twenties), and now I know.
Halycot Dec 16th 2008 6:51PM
Is a pity they haven't updated the server list. If I do a US Ssearch, I can find my character, but then selecting it says it can't find my server :(
I'll stick with the Amory-Light one until then, methinks.
AyaJulia Dec 16th 2008 6:59PM
The achievement tracker would be a LOT more interesting if instead of blank boxes for things we haven't done yet, it showed grey boxes you could still hover over for the achievement text. Not bad, though.
I still prefer the Armory-Light for its "find upgrades on wowhead" links. That, plus the new weight scales... ohhh baby. :D The only excuse anyone has for not knowing where to find upgrades anymore is not knowing these sites exist.
dwatowski Dec 16th 2008 8:25PM
QuickArmory has an upgrade option, click the button to the bottom left of your items and whatever item you want to find upgrades for.
Don't disagree on the blank achievement boxes though. :)
Tim gibson Dec 16th 2008 8:47PM
the Achievement page is fricking awesome it shows what day u completed what acheivement on.