Gearscore has been a love hate issue for most WoW players, some argue that a high GS doesn't accurately reflect a players real skill level (I subscribe to this side of the arguement).

This article over at Gamasutra has a quote by John Hoskin, Creative Director at TenTon...

An enormous concern for World of Warcraft players is that they are excluded from much of the fun simply because a number generated by a gear scoring add-on is too low," said John Hoskin, Creative Director of Ten Ton Hammer. "Most players would agree that skill and attitude is more important than being a few digits higher on a virtual gear scoreboard. We allow players to not only see the gear level, but the skill level, raiding experience and more of any player. What’s even more exciting is that players can see where they rank against everyone else who plays World of Warcraft, regardless of what server they play on."

Visit playerscore for more information at http://www.tentonhammer.com/playerscore.

This, if it takes off could make it a lot easier for players with low GS gear to get a look in for PUG's and also fill in roles for established guilds on their runs into the higher level instances. promoted forum item

So can you click on a player and then it shows everything across all their toons? If not then it sorta seems useless especially when so many tards ask for achievements. You might have done something on one guy but not on the other. I could be wrong so i should prolly check out the site.

EDIT: Hmmm, I still don't get it after checking out that site. Looks like a much more detailed version of armory but i don't see how it's any different to gearscore or checking for achievements. Seems like more work going to the site and putting in someones name when you could do most of it in game.

It's still a nice site though but I'm not sure how it's going to stop people from being jerks.

last edited by Reverend Evil™ at 11:08:35 01/Sep/10

It would only show data linked to that toon that you are looking at. I punched in my Hunter and there was lot of scores and data to look at.

At the moment quite a lot of data is drawn from the WoW Armory but as more people start to add new data it will become it's own animal I guess.

#12,645,792 overall!

Woohoo, go me.

Yer Rev the difference will come when people actually start rating players, at the moment there is only the avialable data .. so it's just a heap of stats.

one of my toons

My priest maggiemayhem



last edited by Reverend Evil™ at 11:27:18 01/Sep/10

That's actually pretty cool. I haven't played for a couple months so im surprised to see ive still got decent gear compared to others in my guild, they went on to kill KT and such without me.

My Rehktum

Haha I wonder where my old hunter would line up, but no datas!

The site seems buggy as hell.

The equip score for example is a joke. It's rating people in almost full 264 higher than people in full 277+284 (and this is without Shadowmournes etc).

Might check again once they remove the bugs.

My armory link is: http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Jubei'Thos&n=Delmortis

last edited by Rukh at 12:10:33 01/Sep/10

last edited by Rukh at 12:11:20 01/Sep/10

The site seems buggy as hell.

yep it is a bit, they are onto it. Agreed it will be much more active once it gets sorted.

your achieves score is outta control lol

And there lies the problem when an mmo is based solely around gear.

#2,006,016 overall for me. http://www.tentonhammer.com/playerscore/character/4497055

Agreed about it being somewhat buggy...

Its all about the mammoth cainers!

http://www.tentonhammer.com/playerscore/scoreboards?guild=848058&server=343

Tried to look for my old chars from 2007 for a small nostalgia trip. Not surprisingly they don't show up. Ahh well.