New features supporting the 2008 Arena Tournament have been added to the Armory:

• The Arena Tournament ladder is updated daily with the latest standings from the Tournament realms. The new Coliseum 1 battlegroup is selectable from the Arena Ladders page.
• Team and character profiles for every Tournament character and arena team are searchable on the Armory. The PvP information on the character profiles is highlighted more prominently than for profiles on the live realms.

Several changes have been implemented to reflect the new content and functionality of Patch 2.4:

• A new Sunwell Plateau loot table page and Magister's Terrace loot table page have been added. Note that these pages are subject to the rule of how items become eligible to be included in the Armory; that is, they must be discovered in-game before appearing. Thus, the loot tables will appear quite sparse upon the release of Patch 2.4 but will gradually populate over time.
• A new faction, The Shattered Sun Offensive, should appear on character profiles.
• The Badge of Justice Rewards page has been updated with the dozens of new items available in Patch 2.4.
• Spirit-Based Mana Regeneration: This system has been adjusted so that as your intellect rises, you will regenerate more mana per point of spirit. The updated values should appear on character profiles.
• New crafted items and tradeskill recipes have been added.
• New achievement-based titles such as "Hand of A'dal" will display in your Character Profile if you select them to display from the in-game menu.

The Arena Hall of Fame has been updated to include the winners of Arena Season 2. The Arena Hall of Fame recognizes the best teams of each Arena season – those teams who finished in the top 0.5% of their team bracket in each battlegroup. These teams and their members have been permanently enshrined in a special Hall of Fame section of the Armory.

The Armory has been updated to reflect the additions and changes of Arena Season 3. Here is a rundown of the new content:

• New Personal Arena Ratings appear in Character and Team Profiles. A given character can have up to three Personal Arena Ratings at one time – one for each team type. Personal ratings are used as the new basis of eligibility for certain Arena rewards (Season 3 shoulders and weapons), and end-of-season prizes such as special titles.
• The full set of Season 3 Arena rewards, consisting of the Vengeful Gladiator armor sets and weapons, are now in the Item Database.
• The full set of Vindicator's honor rewards are now in the Item Database. These epic rewards are purchased with honor points and battleground Marks of Honor.
• The special Season 2 titles awarded to the top tier Arena teams should appear in Character Profiles if selected in-game.
• Season 2's Hall of Fame: This archive commemorating the top teams of Season 2 should appear on the Armory soon.

A new Guild Bank system has been introduced to World of Warcraft. There are two new tabs on the Guild page that are devoted to Guild Banks. This is the first "protected area" of the Armory which requires additional security measures to access.

Thus, attempting to access these tabs will take you to a separate login screen, similar to the one that displays when attempting to access Account Management.

Enter your World of Warcraft account name and password in the fields to access the Guild Banks of the characters on your account. Your character must have been granted guild bank permissions by your guild master to view the contents and transaction logs of your Guild Bank.

Learn more about this new login process at the Armory Login FAQ.

The Bank Contents page displays a grid depicting the contents of the character's guild bank, along with a search results section. Here are the features of the page:

• The slots of the grid are labeled with a basic coordinate system which is referenced by the search results below.
• Each guild bank has a maximum of six tabs of storage slots. The default view of the contents page is the first tab of the guild bank. To switch between tabs, click the icons below the grid.
• Not all tabs may be displayed, as the guild leader must purchase them in succession for them to become available.
• The search results section below allows you to see the contents of the bank in a sortable list. You can sort the items by name, type, subtype, page, and slot by clicking the column headers, and navigate between results pages with the arrow buttons.
• The "Slot" column in the results section refers to the coordinates of the bank slot on the grid.
• The drop-down menus are a different method to search for items in the guild bank of a particular quality, type, subtype, and slot. The name search field finds all items in the bank containing the text string you enter.

In the Bank Log, you can view and search the record of every transaction that has occurred within your Guild Bank. Here are the features of the page:

• In the default view, the results section displays all transactions in the most recent “group” of transactions, sorted by date and time.
• Each group is comprised of over one thousand transactions. If you have multiple transaction groups in your bank log, you can click the arrows near the results list to navigate between groups.
• Click the arrows at the top and bottom right of the results to navigate between pages of results in the group you are viewing.
• The actual transactions you can see in a given group are limited by your guild bank permissions. Thus, it is possible to see far fewer transactions in a given group than actually were recorded during that period of time.
• The results of the group you are viewing can be sorted by name, rank, origin, action, destination, item, and date.
• You can search by character, date, type of transaction, or any combination of the above in your current group of transactions – narrow your search for fast and efficient results.
• Selecting any of the filters narrows your search in real time – you should see the list of results instantaneously reflect your selections.
• The two name search fields (for character and item names) find all matches containing the text string you enter.
• The tooltips for items in the Bank Log do not display any permanent enchants or socketed gems that may be on those items.
• Click "Reset Filters" to restore the default view.

Besides the addition of Guild Banks, there have been general improvements to Guild page functionality:

• On the Guild Roster pages, new name and level range text fields as well as drop-down menus allow for more streamlined, focused sorting of guild members.
• On the Guild Bank pages, your guild's actual rank titles will be displayed after logging in to view these pages. They can be seen on the Guild Log page, in both the transaction log itself as well as in the drop-down menu to filter by guild rank.
• All guild pages now display the guild's actual tabard design at the top of the page.
• A guild's Message of the Day and Guild Information can be seen on the Guild Bank pages. Like Guild Bank information, this is a login-protected feature.

Several changes have been implemented to reflect the changes and additions of patch 2.3:

• Expertise Rating: This new combat rating replaces bonuses to weapon skill rating on existing items. Item tooltips should reflect this change.
• Bonus Healing items: Items that previously granted bonuses to healing effects now grant approximately 1/3 of that total as bonus spell damage as well. Item tooltips should reflect this change.
• A new Zul'Aman loot table page has been added. Note that this page is subject to the rule of how items become eligible to be included in the Armory; that is, they must be discovered in-game before appearing. Thus, this page will appear quite sparse upon the release of Patch 2.3 but will gradually populate over time.
• The Badge of Justice Rewards page has been updated with the dozens of new items available in Patch 2.3.
• New Titles: New achievement-based titles such as "Champion of the Naaru" will display in your Character Profile if you select it to display from the in-game menu.

Searching the Armory just got even more convenient!

With the click of a button, add the World of Warcraft Armory search field to your browser for instant Armory access from anywhere on the web! Currently supported browsers are Firefox, Internet Explorer 7, and Opera.

The Arena Calculator is a new tool that allows you to do a number of helpful calculations for when and how you can spend your arena points. You can calculate the number of arena points you'll receive each week based on your team's rating, and you can calculate exactly how long it will take you to earn enough points to purchase an item you want. Choose one of the three useful calculators to help you answer the following questions:

• How many arena points will I earn this week?
• What's the average rating I'll need to get my desired arena reward?
• When can I expect to get my desired arena reward?

For your convenience, if you have a profile pinned, many of the fields in the calculator will be automatically populated with your current arena statistics (Opera and Safari currently not supported).

On the right side of the page you'll find an arena reward cost cheat sheet for quick reference. At the bottom of the page you'll find the exact mathematical formula used in the rating calculator, as well as an explanation of how arena ratings and points work in general.

You can now access the Armory via a new shortened URL, http://www.wowarmory.com.

Along with the Armory's first major optimization, the following minor specific improvements have also been implemented:

• In a results page for "find an upgrade," a "sockets" column has been added that displays the change in number of sockets of each item on that page over the queried item.
• Certain classes are now more closely associated with the weapon types they currently have equipped when using the "find an upgrade" feature. For example, if a rogue has a dagger equipped and uses the "find an upgrade" feature, daggers will be given higher relevance than other weapon types in the search results.

The first phase of our comprehensive Armory optimization is now live. The goal of this ongoing optimization is to increase performance, functionality, and intuitiveness across the board. The first phase includes the following specific improvements:

• Improved paging and column sorting: Switching pages when viewing a results page, such as a guild roster or item search, now responds much more quickly without refreshing the entire window. This near-instant refresh also occurs when clicking to sort the results by a particular column in a search results page. This improved paging and sorting occurs on every results page except for the Arena ladders.
• Improved right panel display: After performing a search and navigating to a character profile, the panel on the right side of the Armory now defaults to that character's guild roster, rather than displaying the original list of search results. The Armory will now also remember what page of the right panel was last displayed when navigating back and forth from the profile.
• Faster item tooltips: The tooltips that appear when mousing over items in a character profile or an item search results page are now much more responsive.
• Open Armory links in new windows/tabs: Now you can open links from the Armory in their own tabs or windows for quick comparisons between profiles, items, search results, and more. Right-click the link you wish to expand and select the desired option.
• New advanced item search button: This button takes you to the Armory's powerful advanced item search options and is located in a prominent, convenient location under the main search field.
• New "tips & breaking news" text on front page: Located under the main search field, these text entries will show you the latest news and tips on the Armory.
• XML file size reduction: The XML files used by the Armory have been optimized for speed, partly by streamlining the amount of code in the files. As a result, third-party sites that mine Armory data may need to make adjustments to account for the new file configurations.
• Many general speed and performance fixes: General performance has been greatly improved in the areas of response time, loading time, and memory usage.

We hope you enjoy the improvements. As always, check the Updates page for details on the latest additions and refinements to the Armory.

The Arena Hall of Fame recognizes the best teams of each Arena season – those teams who finished in the top 0.5% of their team bracket in each battlegroup. These teams and their members have been permanently enshrined in a special Hall of Fame section of the Armory.

Items, dungeons, bosses, and factions are now searchable!

At the top right hand corner of the Armory you will see a window that is used to save a particular character profile for easy reference and some extra functionality. While viewing a character profile, click the small pin in the upper right of this window to "pin" the profile, thereby saving it to the window.

At the bottom left of the pinned profile window, there is a drop down menu that allows you to turn a second tooltip on and off. This option will be enabled by default. With the second tooltip activated, mousing over an item will display a second tooltip of the item in the pinned character's corresponding inventory slot. This will occur both in an item search results page as well as when viewing other character profiles. Pinned character profiles will also remain pinned on subsequent visits to the Armory.

Mousing over any item in a character profile will display a small arrow that turns into a button.

Found on the Advanced Items Search page, the "Desired By" filters attempt to use the most sought after stats of individual character classes to provide quick, useful results.

In this manner, you can find a "master list" of the most sought-after items for every class in each inventory slot.