WoW armory revamped to show achievements and more

by Krystalle Voecks Nov 26th 2008 at 12:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Endgame, News items

World of Warcraft players finally have the moment they've been waiting for. Well, okay, one of the many moments they've been waiting for. The armory has finally been revamped into the updated form Blizzard promised some months ago that will allow players to off the achievements they've earned. The armory version of achievements also contains the same tracking bars and lists for in-progress achievements as are on the in-game interface. For the World of Warcraft player who really likes achievments, this armory update should prove to be a gold mine of things to poke around and plan during lunchtime. (You'd never consider wasting company or class time reading about MMOs, we're sure.)

Also added in this pipin' hot armory update is a series of statistics tracked on accounts since the 3.0.2 Echoes of Doom patch. Everything from how much gold your character has made to how many times you've wound up spending special cuddly time with the floor due to overaggro is there in black and white for you (and anyone else) to read. Additionally, there seems to be additional information in regards to overall World of Warcraft guilds. Whether or not any of this new information - like say, the achievements showing you've cleared certain endgame raid instances - will play into other things like guild recruitment or choosing guilds to join is unknown. With so much information openly available, we're going to hear more about this, we'd bet.

Tags: achievement, achievements, armory, blizzard, breaking, echoes-of-doom, statistics, world-of-warcraft, wow

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Evi said on 12:29PM 11-26-2008

They also made some changes to the armory that are really irking my friends. Apparently you can't view the guild calendar without your Blizzard Authenticator, if you're using one. I haven't checked personally because my authenticator is still on it's way to me. But if this is true, that's really lame. I don't plan on keeping my authenticator on my person, and I like to check the guild calendar while at work.

Burzum said on 12:36PM 11-26-2008

Omg... this is baad.. i dont want people to know how much gold i have :S

im happy i use my blizzard authenticator anyway....

haxxor to the attack

Joe said on 2:03PM 11-26-2008

Nice! Love the new achievements & stats tabs.

As for the wealth stats, I can't see where it lists how much gold you have on your character on the last logout. Maybe they did that for a reason :P

Jack said on 10:12PM 11-26-2008

Good move blizzard, now everything is in the open no longer can players hide the max gold they ever owned. No longer can you hide how much time you died and how many Battlegrounds you loss! Everyone can call you a noob after they see you still did not run Kara...

Not a problem for me but I think lots of users will fear this info out in the open.