We maintain a database of millions of Armory characters, guilds, and arena teams that have been imported by our users. You can browse through this extensive list by visiting the main profiles page and selecting a region, battlegroup, or realm from the menus at the top.

This will give you an unfiltered look at the players and guilds in the area you selected, with the most recently updated characters displayed first. You can also enter your characters name in the box at the top to jump directly to that character.

Finding My Characters

• Use the breadcrumb listings at the top to browse to your region, battlegroup, and realm. When you do this, a box will appear in the listing at the top of the page. Enter your character's name in this box to be taken directly to your character. You can use the "Claim Character", which is located under the Manage Character button, to save a character to your user page for later viewing.

Tip: Claimed characters can be made public or private as you choose—so you only show off the characters people want you to see! Basic information for the profiles will remain public, just as it is in the Armory—but any connection to your account will be hidden.

Filters

But that's not the only way to find a character! You can also search Profiles using our robust filter system, just the same way that you can search items, NPCs, or spells in game. Characters and guilds can be filtered by name, region, and realm to limit the number of displayed results.

Additionally, characters can be filtered by faction, level, race, and class – as well as a number of other unique and useful criteria. For example:

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  Searching for characters that match your criteria.

  Let's see all the Draenei mages on my server that have their tailoring maxed out.
• Hmm... I wonder if anyone is using my name on European servers?
• How do I compare to other Retribution-specced paladins on my server?
• How many Bloodsail Admirals are there out there?
• Who got caught wearing a Lovely Black Dress?
• How many people on my server and faction completed Heroic Ulduar?

We'll be adding more filters as time goes on, so feel free to experiment – and let us know if you think of other ideas!

Guild and Arena Team Rosters

When you click on a character's guild or arena team, you will be directed to a roster view listing all the characters that belong to it. The roster view displays additional information, including guild ranks and personal arena team ratings. You can further filter this information using the Create a filter link, should you want to find characters matching specific criteria. Now its easy to find all of the crafters in your guild!

Resync Queue

When a character resync is requested, it is added to the queue. The queue is used to make sure everyone's characters are updated and processed in the order they were submitted, without overloading the Battle.net Armory's API with requests. Whenever you access a character that does not exist in our database or has not been updated in more than 1 hour, it will automatically be added to the queue.

The profiler has a wealth of information it can display about characters and custom profiles, so it can seem daunting at first! Each of the sections are broken down in detail below.

Basic Profile Information

At the top of a profile you will see an expanded header with vital information about the profile itself. All profiles have an icon and the character's race, class and level; Armory characters display a link to the character's guild under the name, while custom profiles display a description set by the user that created it. A link to Edit this information appears on the bottom line, allowing you to update a profile you created or make a new custom profile from an existing one.

• Name – Give your profile a name! Names must start with a letter, and can only contain letters, numbers, and spaces.
• Level – Select a level for your profile. Profiles must be at least level 10 (55 for Death Knights) and no more than level 85.
• Race – Ever wonder what you'd look like as a tauren instead of an orc? Choose any race for your profile, and the character model with automatically be updated.
• Class – You can select any class you like, regardless of racial restrictions. See what your stats would be if you were a draenei druid!
• Gender – Select male or female to set your character's gender.
• Icon – Icons are automatically generated for Armory characters and in game class/race combinations, but you can change the icon to any you like.
• Description – Enter a tag line or brief description for the profile so you and others know what it is about.
• Visibility – Public profiles will be visible on your user page and anyone can view a public profile. Private ones will not be displayed or visible to others.

Note: If you edit a character in any way, it will become a custom profile. The reputations, achievements, and raid progress information will be removed.

Managing Profiles

In the upper right are a number of useful buttons for managing profiles without having to go back to your user page. Each of the buttons have several options that can be used to manage the character's page you are currently on and include the following options.

• Custom Profile

  • New – This is a quick link to creating a new, blank profile from scratch. It will open in a new window so you do not lose your current profile. This option is always available.
  • Save – Save any changes you have made to this profile. This option is only available for logged in users on profiles they own.
  • Save as – This will let you save your current changes under a new name. It is extremely useful for making copies of profiles! This option is only available for logged in users.
• Manage Character

  • Resync – Request that the character be updated from the armory; it will be added to the queue. This option is only available on Armory character pages.
  • Claim character – Adds an Armory character to your user page. This is a good thing to do with all your alts. This option is only available for logged in users on Armory character pages.
  • Remove - Removes the character from your user page. Use this if you no longer play the character or have long since deleted it.
  • Pin/Unpin - Pin one of your characters so you can perform personalized searches throughout the database for missing or completed quests, achievements, recipes and more!

From the User Page

All of your claimed Armory characters and custom profiles are listed in one convenient place on your user page. From the Characters tab you can remove one or more claimed characters. The Profiles tab allows you to create a new profile, delete profiles, or change the visibility settings of profiles. Your private profiles will not be visible to anyone else.

Tip: When you are logged in, all of your characters and custom profiles can be accessed from the My profiles menu at the top right of any page!

Saving Your Work

Any profile can be edited, even if you don't own it, but you'll probably want to save your work when you're done! You must have an account with us in order to save a profile. Once you've created an account, you can bookmark any number of Armory characters and save up to 10 custom profiles. Premium users will be able to create even more, so upgrade if 10 just isn't enough! You can use the red buttons to save a profile from its page, and manage your existing profiles and characters from your user page.

The main tab for a profile is the character inventory, which includes a lot of the same information you would see by looking at your character pane in game. This tab is broken up into four key sections - the character view, quick facts box, statistics, and gear summary.

Character View

The first thing you'll notice, of course, is your character – as rendered by our custom built modelviewer, in all it's three-dimensional glory. You can turn the character with your mouse, and zoom in and out using the A and Z keys, just like the modelviewer elsewhere in the site. We even pull your face, hair, and skin color information from the Armory!

On either side of the character are inventory icons which you can right click on for a menu of options:

Tip: You can remove a gem or enchant by clicking None in the picker window or by right clicking on it in the gear summary.

• Equip... / Replace... – Selecting this option will give you a quick search box in which you can type an item's name. Click on the item or hit return to equip it.
  Unequip – Unequips the item, of course. :)
• Add / Replace enchant... – The spell icon on the left shows if the item is enchanted. This opens a customized picker window with all enchants available for the item slot.
• Add / Replace gem... – The icon on the left shows the socket color or socketed gem. Like the enchants, this opens a picker window with valid gems for the socket.
• Extra socket – The check mark on the left indicates if a blacksmithing socket has been added to this item. Click to toggle on or off.
• Clear Enhancements - This will remove all reforges, enchantments, gems and extra sockets from an item. Useful if you want to start fresh with an item.
• Display on character – The checkmark on the left indicates if the item is displayed on the model. Click to toggle on or off – it works for more than just cloaks and helms!
• Compare – Adds the item to the item comparison tool and opens it in a new window to compare with other items.
• Find upgrades – Uses our weighted search to find upgrades based on your talent spec.
• Who wears this? – Creates a filtered list of other Armory characters who are also wearing the item.

Tip: Items that can take enchantments but have no enchantment, or which have empty sockets, will even have a little notification in the tooltip!

Quick Facts Box

On the right hand side is a handy Quick Facts box that displays basic, defining information about a profile. This box is chock full of useful information, including talent spec, achievement points, and professions.

Tip: Any raid icon that's ringed in gold is a raid that the character has cleared!

Statistics

You'll also notice that all of a profile's statistics are laid out beneath the character view. This is also all information you can get from the Armory (and then some), but we lay it out in a nice, convenient page so you can view it all at once – no more messing with drop down menus. You can also click on a statistic and expand it so you can see its tooltip information right there on the page—or click on the header to expand all the related statistics. Your statistics are updated as you edit any part of a profile, including race, class, level, items, enhancements, or talents – all in real time! Statistic modifications from glyphs and buffs are not presently supported, but will be in the future.

Note: These statistics are calculated manually – they are not pulled from the Armory. Statistics calculations are still in beta and will ironed out as we go.

Gear Summary

Last on the character inventory tab, but not least, is the gear summary. This is a personalized list of all items worn by the character, with convenient column headers and in line filtering options. Use it to see where most of a character's items come from, what is the best and worst piece, and whether or not there are missing gems and enchants. Just in case the empty icons aren't clear enough, a warning appears at the top of the list if a character is missing gems, enchants, or blacksmith sockets. This warning is based on the professions of the character if it is an Armory profile, and otherwise shows you everything missing on custom profiles.

The gems and enchants can also be edited from within the gear summary, and have a few additional options not available in the character view. You can remove or replace an enhancement from here, and you can find upgrades using our weighted search – just like items!

Talents

The talents tab includes an inline version of our talent calculator with a full display of a character's talents. It is locked by default, but you can unlock it to begin editing talents, just as you would normally. There are two extra features in the Profiler's talent calculator: you can store and swap between two specs for each character, and export the current talent build to the calculator to link to your friends. When you change your talents (or swap between specs) your gear score and statistics will be updates real time!

Reputation

The reputation tab displays the complete faction information of an Armory character, with collapsible headers for each section. Its much easier to read than the tiny faction pane in game! Of course, you can link directly to the faction's page to get more information about that faction.

Achievements

The achievements tab lists an Armory character's progress in each of the main achievement categories, and has a filterable list of achievements including date completed. All of the normal column and list filters are available, along with some new ones! You can filter the list by earned, in progress or complete achievements – complete are displayed by default – or click on any of the category progress bars to only display achievements from that category.

You can use the Profiler's Completion Tracker feature to keep track of your quests, achievements, pets, mounts, recipes, and more!

Getting Started

In order to start tracking your completion data, all you need to do is visit your character's page on the profiler and resync it. This will automatically collect data about your character's completed achievements, companion pets, mounts, quests, recipes, reputations and titles.

Tracking Your Completion Data

Once you've got your data up on the site, it will be available in the form of five new tabs: mounts, companions, recipes, quests, and titles.

If you open the mounts, companions, or titles tabs, you'll immediately be greeted by a list of all the entries you've already completed. You can cycle through the different tabs to see the ones you already have, the ones you still have yet to collect, a complete list, or a list of just the ones you've "excluded" (more on that shortly). You can also use the "Search within results" box to search the list based on a keyword, just like you can with other search results in the database.

The recipe, and quest tabs, like the Achievements tab, contain more entries—so you'll be presented with a box like the one shown above. From there, all you have to do is click one of the progress bars to see the complete tabbed list in each category.

Exclusions

When you're trying to make sure we check off every quest, achievement, or mount on our list, everyone knows that there are some that you just don't want to bother with. To that end, we've created exclusions.

Using exclusions, you can flag certain quests, mounts, achievements, recipes, pets, or titles that "don't count" toward your completion total. When you exclude (for example) a quest, that quest no longer appears in "incomplete" listings, and the total number of quests in that category is reduced by one.

For example: There are 632 quests in the "Eastern Kingdoms" category. If I were to decide that A New Plague is for noobs and I don't want to count it, then all I have to do is put a check in the box next to the quest and click "Exclude". After I do so, the Eastern Kingdoms progress bar will only show 631 quests total—the remaining quest will appear in the "Excluded" tab but won't be counted for anything else.

If you want to re-include a quest, just go to the "Excluded" tab and then use the checkboxes to restore as many as you like. You can do the same thing for achievements, titles, mounts, pets, or recipes.

If you complete a quest that you have excluded, it will show in the progress bar as a +1. Example: If there are 31 quests in the "Miscellaneous" category, and I've completed 20 quests and excluded 1, the progress bar will show 20/30. If I have completed the quest that I excluded, then the progress bar will show 20(+1)/30. If I then go on to complete ALL the quests in that category (including the one I excluded), the progress bar will show 30(+1)/30.

Exclusion Manager
The companions and mounts tabs let you manage your exclusions en masse with the Exclusion Manager. Just click the "Manage Exclusions" button on top of the tabs to see a list of convenient categories you might want to exclude. There's also a "reset all" button here to let you wipe all of your exclusions and start over.

Note: The Exclusion Manager is currently only available for companions and mounts.

Tip: Exclusions are tied to your account, not to a particular character. This is so even when you look at someone else's character, you're judging them by your completion standards, not anyone else's!

Most of the information we display is pretty straightforward. A lot of it, particularly the stats on items, is readily available in our database and on various tooltips. There are some new numbers on profile pages that you may ask, what does this number mean? How was it calculated?

Base Statistics

A character's five base statistics are determined primarily by his or her class and level. This base amount has a modifier applied to it depending on the character's race. We gathered an extensive amount of data from the armory to come up with these base numbers, using untalented individuals of every race, class, and level combination. Because racial modifiers are consistent, we are able to create statistics for "fake" race and class combos using the data we already know. However, the Armory does not give data on characters below level 10 or Death Knights below level 55, so we have no statistic information for these profiles. To simplify things, we have set a minimum level for custom profiles based on the available statistics.

Gear Score

Okay, so a lot of sites have gear scores. Most of them (ours included) are based around the item budget Blizzard uses to determine how much of each stat can be on an item. This budget is calculated using the item's level, quality, and slot, and we use the budget as the item's gear score. You can view a complete breakdown of an item's gear score by mousing over it in the gear summary at the bottom of the character tab. You can view a breakdown of a profile's total gear score by mousing over it in the Quick Facts box, also on the character tab.

Each gear score is color coded based on the item levels of the gear in reference to the character level. Grey for poor, White for common, Green for uncommon, Blue for rare, Purple for epic and Orange for legendary. For example, a level 70 character wearing high item-level, raiding epics from Hyjal Summit and Black Temple will have a purple-colored gearscore, as their items are considerably "epic" quality for their level. However, the same character at 80, if wearing this same gear, will have the gearscore colored blue as the items are of lower-than-optimal quality for their level.

The value of an empty socket was generated using the gear score of appropriate gems for the item in question, and subtracted from the item's score. This allows us to score unsocketed items lower than an item without sockets of the same level, quality, and slot. Items with better than expected gems will receive higher scores, and items with lower quality gems (or no gems at all) will receive lower scores.

The values of enchants are based off of the level of the enchantment. Endgame enchantments are 20 points, profession perks are 40 points, etc. The numbers go down from there.

You may notice that some profiles have different gear scores for the same item. There is an extreme difference in budget between a two-handed or one-handed weapon, which causes a discrepancy in scores between characters who should be fairly equal according to the level of their gear. To address this, the gear score of weapons has been normalized so that a character with appropriate weapon choices has the equivalent score of two two-handed weapons. Appropriate weapons are determined by your class and spec; for example, an enhancement shaman should dual wield one handed weapons, a protection warrior should have a one-hander and shield, etc. For classes which the melee weapons don't really matter – like hunters or spellcasters – anything they can use is considered appropriate.

Note: Gear score does not take into account the stats of the item. It is a measurement of quality of gear, not whether the stats on the gear are suited to the character's spec.

Guild Scores

Guild gear scores and achievement points are derived using a weighted average of all of the known characters in that guild. Guilds with at least 25 level 80 players receive full benefit of the top 25 characters' gear scores, while guilds with at least 10 level 80 characters receive a slight penalty, at least 1 level 80 a moderate penalty, and no level 80 characters a severe penalty. This is to prevent small guilds and bank alts from appearing to have higher scores than legitimate raiding guilds. Instead of being based on level, achievement point averages are based around 1,500 points, but the same penalties apply.