Armory New Features

Some very nice features have been added to the official WoW Armory today.  MMO Champions caught a blue post with some specifics.

Player Calendar Interface

The Armory’s new player calendar support allows you to view the in-game calendar of every character on the World of Warcraft account you use. Here are some of the features of the Armory’s player calendar:

• The player calendar can be accessed by clicking the new “Calendar” tab on a character profile. Clicking this tab will take you to a login screen, where you will be prompted to enter your World of Warcraft account name and password.
• On the top right of the Armory, a notification window appears if you have pending invitations and upcoming events.
• Switch between the different characters on your account under the redesigned Options menu on the top right of the Armory. This menu also allows you to select what characters you wish to display in the new drop-down character select menu.
• The main calendar interface is similar to as it appears in-game. Click the arrows next to the month name to switch between months. Clicking on an event itself brings up that event’s detailed information window.
• An event’s information window contains its name, time, description, and list of invitees as they appear in-game. The right side of the panel displays a tally of classes where the player has a status of either Accepted or Confirmed for that event.
• If you are invited to a given event, the date of that event will appear with a large question mark and the buttons to take action on the event will be active. Accept or Decline the invitation to change your status accordingly, or Remove it to remove it from your calendar. These status changes will take effect in-game.
• Player-created events display with custom background images befitting the nature of the event. For example, an event for a Black Temple raid displays a picture of Illidan Stormrage.
• The “Filters” menu allows you to toggle the display of various categories of recurring events such as battleground holidays and raid resets.

As you can see you CAN now access your ingame calendar.  This is good news for those of us that have been trying to create a export module for the ingame calendar.  Hopefuly it wont be long before we can parse the data for online apps.

A couple of observations I made this morning.

• Looks like they did some code optimization.  The site seemed a little faster to me today.  Could be that its Monday and no one is using it, but it sure would be nice if they optimized the site.  The slow speed of the armory has made sites like ArmoryLite and ArmoryLight popular.  That and gear ranking, get a clue Blizzard.
• You can now access the characters on your account with the nice little pulldown on the top right.  Very handy for switching quickly.
• Still some bugs.  Paravel STILL does not have the corect data in her spell tab for the new system while Valimonde does.  Must be a caching issue, but then I have played Para some time now and it should have synced.
• When I loaded my mage up it displayed the mele stats instead of spell.  

It will be nice ot have a functional armory.  Blizzard has sunk a lot of money into it. I just wish they would get away from the old bloated graphics heavy slow my computer down design and go with a more clear streamline feel as they have done on their storefront.

 The new features are nice. Keep em coming and keep giving us tools that we can plug into other useful tools.