Armory temporarily disabled to cut server load
by Eliah Hecht 
May 16th 2009 at 12:45PM
Today being BlizzCon ticket sales day, Blizzard is anxious to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. In an attempt to lessen load on their web servers, they've temporarily disabled the Armory. In fact, this has been the case since last night, when I went to check out our main tank's armory after the raid (he had just gotten Shieldwall of the Breaker and I wanted to see what he was upgrading from).
This is going to be inconvenient for those of you attempting to form PuGs, especially PuG raids. Hopefully BlizzCon tickets will sell out relatively quickly, and this madness will be over, and our beloved gear-checking, snobbery-enabling service returned to us. How will you be vetting players in the mean time?
Filed under: Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZaVaZ May 16th 2009 12:50PM
Its just about GO time!!!
jfofla May 16th 2009 12:55PM
As a Dual Spec Pally who constantly shifts between four sets of gear and logs out in whatever....
I have often wondered how can the Armory accurately show my capabilities when it is limited to whatever I was wearing when it scanned my character.
Grady May 17th 2009 2:56AM
Usually I find it is best to logout in your main spec and the appropriate gear for that spec.
Roland May 16th 2009 1:17PM
/inspect
...four greens?
/kick
...oh wait, Naxx is cake.
/invite
Paradoxx May 16th 2009 1:29PM
hmmm... Armory usable by 11 million+ paying players against Blizzcon tickets for an event attended by MAYBE .004% of players.
way to prioritize Blizzard.
asleep May 16th 2009 6:46PM
It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Paradoxx May 16th 2009 1:41PM
updated:
12+ hours of Armory downtime for 30 minutes of server rush?
Its sad that someone is getting paid for that. I'm waiting for the day when Blizzard can get any major action right.
$15 a month from 11+ mil people and they can't get a patch, an expansion or maintenance done without screwing something up.
Grady May 17th 2009 2:58AM
Would you rather the majority of players be stuck at Authenticating like yesterday?
Todd May 16th 2009 1:57PM
Ok tickets are sold out. Can I has armory back? Damn I'm hungry.
Flamewhisker May 16th 2009 2:07PM
http://www.wow-heroes.com/
'Nuff said.
artifex May 16th 2009 10:23PM
You know that that site depends on a working armory for updated info, don't you? I'd been trying since last night to force it to see my PvE gear since it had my PvP gear cached.
bdaneila May 16th 2009 3:18PM
Come on Armory, I need to download stuff into Rawr so that I can look at it before raiding tonight. Get on with it!!!
Tego Zanduba May 16th 2009 5:00PM
They really need to take advantage of the cheap cloud computing options out there. They could have added 50 servers for the 2 hours they needed them for $0.10/hour /shrug
WTB Armory online -- I've got things to track in Hearthstone.