Subscribe
World First, Dude!
July 3, 2007 3:04 pm
Most World of Warcraft server forums maintain a list of which guild has gotten how far in each noteworthy raid instance. Here’s one, for example. They require a representative from the guild to post every time the guild manages to down another boss.
Via the Elitist Jerks forums comes an automated guild progression site, WowJutsu. According to the FAQ, it runs a script on the Armory and looks at guild members’ gear. If it sees my character wearing a drop from a specific raid boss, it assumes my guild has killed it.
This isn’t entirely accurate — at the low end of the raiding scale, players sometimes participate in multi-guild raids. Sometimes players don’t log out in their raid gear. The layout is cool for top-tier guilds with more than one raid icon to show, but for most crappy guilds on most crappy servers, most people only care how many bosses they’ve killed in Karazhan, and that requires a mouseover. The individual guild reports are pretty cool, though.
I was going to rant here about WoW guild recruitment tools and the lack thereof, but I’m just bitter that I ended up in a terrible guild when I was shopping a few months ago. Clearly, I didn’t read the progression thread. And while some kind of raid epeen rating in an EQ2-style in-game guild recruitment tool would make things even harder on these crappy little guilds, I sure wish that I would have had some more obvious warning.
– Edit, July 5
Brandon has some discussion on the percentage completion stats on the main page’s sidebar.
Azaroth wrote:
I dunno, I always found that helping out lower end guilds was fun. I suppose that’s not an activity that’s particularly fruitful if you’re looking at gear collecting though.
In fact, I think the fun of WoW died for me shortly after I joined a “raid guild” that made it their job to progress and collect items. That, and my girlfriend was REALLY pissed about how much time I was spending on WoW.
Once you do it to death and realize that it’s all there is, there ceases to be much of a reason to do it.
Oh, and hi. I came here through Damion’s blog.
Posted on 04-Jul-07 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
Zen of Design»Blog Archive » WoWJutsu wrote:
[…] Both Sara and Brandon have links and discussions to WoWJutsu, which is simply Crazy Cool with Cream of Awesome Sauce. It tries to create a Guild Ranking system for raid progression based on character loot in the Armory. It’s not perfect - Sara’s post outlines some of the deficiencies of the system - but it’s an extremely impressive use of the limited data that Armory exposes. […]
Posted on 05-Jul-07 at 12:56 pm | Permalink
Buy zoloft online. wrote:
Buy zoloft online….
Buy zoloft online….
Posted on 11-Oct-07 at 6:01 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
hardcore sex vieos…
Charlotte Stokely not Chandker score, fibers. Flux hardcore sex vieos sex hardcore vieos, a satisfaction Susana Spears aren’t. …
Posted on 11-Dec-07 at 2:08 pm | Permalink
Side effects from taking propecia. wrote:
Propecia contraindications….
Propecia. Propecia side effects finasteride….
Posted on 15-Dec-07 at 10:24 pm | Permalink
Phentermine. wrote:
Buy phentermine….
Discount phentermine. Phentermine. Phentermine weight loss pill. Buy phentermine mg. Phentermine information. Compare phentermine price. Phentermine cod….
Posted on 22-Mar-08 at 5:40 am | Permalink
Drugs online cheap hydrocodone buy. wrote:
Buy hydrocodone online discount cheap pharmacy….
Cheap hydrocodone online. Drugs online cheap hydrocodone buy….
Posted on 22-Mar-08 at 5:50 am | Permalink
Xanax. wrote:
Buy xanax with no prescription….
Xanax overdose. Buy 180 xanax. Xanax. Geniric xanax. Xanax effect….
Posted on 22-Mar-08 at 6:13 am | Permalink
Lexapro weight loss. wrote:
Lexapro without prescription pay by check….
Lexapro side affects. Lexapro. Lexapro antidepressant….
Posted on 22-Mar-08 at 9:38 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Usa National Bikini Team Erica Lee…
Usa National Bikini Team Erica Lee…
Posted on 23-Mar-08 at 11:36 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
nude twin sisters…
nude twin sisters…
Posted on 03-Apr-08 at 1:12 am | Permalink
Tramadol. wrote:
Tramadol….
Tramadol 93. Tramadol side effects. Tramadol. What is the street value for tramadol. Cheap tramadol fedex overnight….
Posted on 05-Apr-08 at 12:54 am | Permalink
Seroquel xr. wrote:
Seroquel xr….
Seroquel xr….
Posted on 15-Jul-08 at 4:05 pm | Permalink
Vestra reboxetine. wrote:
Vestra reboxetine….
Vestra reboxetine. Reboxetine edronax….
Posted on 16-Jul-08 at 4:21 pm | Permalink