Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard

Our good friend (and co-worker) BigBearButt posted this the other day, but it never made it to us (and it’s probably considering it doesn’t seem to be working for US players quite yet). Be Imba! is an awesome little site that purports to do what Dan’s new column additionally does, which is construct one character as good as it can be.

As I said, US players aren’t really working at that point, and the site blames the Armory’s instability (one more reason for Blizzard to start breaking out the stats). But I looked up an EU player I know (as you can see above), and the app is pretty cool — it’ll tell you where you’re lost sockets, where your gear could be better, what your talents are “meant for,” and where to run instances so you can get better gear. Pretty neat.

Now, a disclaimer: you should always spec and gear how you like, not how some online application tells you to. But everyone should be interested in making their character better, and a setup like that could be very helpful in figuring out how to get where you want to be going. Hopefully the site’s creator (early apologies for sending traffic to the site, but it’ll die down after a while) will figure out how to work with the Armory, or Blizzard will get it into their heads that opening up Armory info in XML or other open formats will build that easier for everyone.

[Via AA in its slick new location]

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Original post by Mike Schramm