Background
This is how it all started...
Early 2007 my wife got WoW for her birthday. I'm not much of a gamer myself but I looked over her shoulder when she was playing. And soon I was even telling her what to do. ;) I did all the background research for her character and also handled the auction house for her, because that was not her "thing" back then.
We created a mule for that purpose and soon I learned it was hard to decide which items to consider, because I couldn't see her main's equipment in game. And to make things worse the Armory website wasn't always very responsive.
I learned about the possibility to use add-ons written in the LUA language. Never heard of it but being a professional software engineer I was interested anyhow and I knew already what to build. I chose the Armory website as example (hence the name) for the layout and decided to follow Blizzard’s way of coding. Also I wanted to use the existing game layouts as much as possible. The first Armory was nothing more than the paper doll (character frame) with all its tabs. After the first launch in my wife's guild I got numerous requests for additional features.
Many, many evening and weekend hours and lots of cups of coffee later, what started as a project to see what’s LUA all about, Armory had become a full blown add-on with lots of features. Because I got positive feedback from the guild I decided to publish Armory on some hosting sites to make it available to the WoW community. The user base grew and so did the list of feature requests.
And then I got WoW for my birthday…
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When i read this story, I became 100% sure to want to become a programmer.
thanks!
Thank you very much for all your great work on this mod.
Nice work, good job!
I have enjoyed using Armory, and was wondering when (or if) you are going to update it for the next expansion. I hope it will be soon. I miss it terribly!
Thank you for your hard work on Armory. It is my favorite addon.
Can I get some clarification of a few settings? What does the following actually do?
Remember the inventory "all characters" setting.
Remember the last character viewed.
Remember individual settings.
I had thought they had to deal with keeping tabs character inventory, but all three of these are currently unchecked and this information is still remembered when I log into other characters, or after a new session.
Force a scan on the next session.
Implies that it checks all characters if ticked (such as adding info for all existing characters even if not on the list already) but it doesn't seem to do this. I've ticked the box before now and not noticed anything update
LOL Hmm Maybe if I read this to my hubby I can finally talk HIM into playing! :)
So this sounds like a good replacement for Altoholic.
Does it do everything Altoholic does and is it as easy to use?
I hope it doesnt change the bag layout though.
Aelfi
Do I have to uninstall altoholic to use this? I would like to check it out before giving up on altoholic if possible, but I need to know if it will cause conflicts if I try to have both installed or if it is enough to just temporarily disable Altoholic while testing out the armory addon? Is it up to date for BFA (I haven't even upgraded to BFA yet as I've been off the game for a while.
In reply to Aelfia:
I think you may have to because they have some differences but similarities and may cause conflicts.
Thanks for you work on this mod, and continued work on it. Can I make one suggestion on a slight improvement if possible please? Can you make the realm and faction filter separate boxes to tick please? Sometimes I want to see both factions on a certain realm (and connected) without the others popping up. Then vice versa with just one faction over all realms. This maybe to send account bound items across, or faction only items across (like currencies for example).
Many thanks for the Dragonflight update. The game is harder & not as much fun without the "Armory" to manage Alts, banker/auctions and Quests/Achievements/Professions that require collecting stuff!
Long Time Armory User,
Ron