Gear Wishlist tells you where to go next

After putting in your character and realm, you get a list of all the gear you've got equipped, matched up against a list of all the gear available at the item level you're looking at (you can customize exactly where the item levels come from, if there's a site whose estimations of the gear you value more), with yours highlighted. So basically, you get an up and down list of where to go from the gear you've got, and you can easily see where it all comes from and what kinds of stats it gives.
Of course, this is still more of a guideline -- just because gear appears above yours on this list doesn't mean that it's better than yours for your class and spec. And attainability is a big factor as well -- if you're not in a raiding guild, your time might be better spent grinding rep rather than trying to suffer through with PuGs. But as an overview of the gear available to you, Gear Wishlist works great. Hopefully the site will stay up under our linkage, and if it doesn't, check back in a few days to see if it's slowed down.
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Bosses, Leveling, Guides






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Azri Sep 6th 2008 11:04AM
It'd be even better if it worked! :D
TeragX Sep 6th 2008 11:23AM
The site doesnt work for me
Itracku Sep 6th 2008 11:24AM
I think you broke it ;) All I get is an internal 500 Server Error:
"Error: Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.
If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it."
Bookmarked for later.
Avrsion Sep 6th 2008 11:26AM
Aye, the site is down :(
Balius Sep 6th 2008 11:29AM
Penny Arcade has the same thing happen whenever they link to someone. Rotten popular sites, strangling the little guys...
Tolthalan Sep 6th 2008 11:30AM
the current link is to your own character's page, not to the site itself. I believe that's what's causing the problem.
davemo Sep 6th 2008 11:52AM
Hope this isn't too technical for this article but the reason he's getting 500 server errors is because the app is built on Google App Engine (hence the *.appspot.com domain). The site has to be using the urlfetch mechanism google provides which has a very aggressive timeout; it won't wait more than about 5 seconds for a urlfetch to return data.
I know the armory can be slow even on a good day, so if he's scraping the armory directly and not caching the results his app is going to be slow.
It is a good idea for an app, just needs to come up with a way to cache the data otherwise it's not going to work the best on GAE.
Chris Sep 6th 2008 12:10PM
Works now
Starlin Sep 6th 2008 12:06PM
The error probably stems from the fact that wowhead is down. probably.
Starlin Sep 6th 2008 12:09PM
Nvm, wowhead is up now and the error is still there.
davemo Sep 6th 2008 12:12PM
The site uses item databases for recommendations on upgrades for your character on a per-slot basis. However, to get the input data to create it's recommendations it has to be pulling data from the armory website. As of the writing of this comment wowhead and the other sites used as item databases are currently up.
The 500 error is a serverside error on his Google App Engine app; it has nothing to do with wowhead being down or not.
Ichigo Sep 6th 2008 12:24PM
It's dead, Jim.
Vidi Sep 6th 2008 12:36PM
Mike, thanks for trying.
if it worked this would have been a great find.
Hopefully it will be back up and functional soon.
Nicholas Abstraction Sep 6th 2008 12:51PM
Well your gearing for karazhan guides ARE good. Except theres no Rogue one. Its indefinitely under construction. :(
Runstadrey Sep 6th 2008 1:09PM
The site is probably working, it's just under tremendous pressure from all the hits. This wouldn't be the first site to struggle because of a mention on Wowinsider.
Maybe in the future the WI team could give the proprietors of the featured sites a little heads up so they can do whatever is done to websites to prepare them for greatly increased loads.
Mike Schramm Sep 6th 2008 1:58PM
In our defense, he sent it to us as a tip. But yeah, I know -- we're big enough now that we can take small sites and apps down. Sorry about that -- like I said, bookmark it and check back in a week, and it should be fine then.
Sydera Sep 6th 2008 1:44PM
This gear wishlist was done by a guildie of mine (yay Bonkers!!!) and I'm psyched to see it profiled here. I've been using it for quite some time, and I find it incredibly helpful :)
Bonkers Sep 6th 2008 2:42PM
I'm the author of the site, thanks for the link! It is hosted on Google AppEngine, the dashboard reports it is using 65% of its quota but almost all requests are failing with "OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available." right now.
It fetches (and caches) the armory character sheet, but the gear rankings themselves are stored in a local database.
Bonkers Sep 6th 2008 3:46PM
Something magical happened on the server side and the error rate dropped to zero (with higher load than earlier).
Gryphon Hall Sep 7th 2008 10:17AM
It also doesn't seem to be handling special characters well for those names with them.
But, when it works, it's very good... so keep up the good work and hope for the best (concerning international characters, that is). ^_^