I tried to update but the web page says that I've already been updated for today!
If you get the error that your character cannot be updated because it's already been updated today, there are a couple of reasons this may happen:

• In addition to the characters automatically updated each night, there are periodic processes which do update characters in an automated fashion.
• Since anyone can update anyone else's character, someone (like perhaps a guildmate) might have already added or updated you today.

Why do I have to manually update myself? Why can't you do it for me?
Let's say there are eventually 80,000 of each class listed. Multiply that by 9 classes and that will be 720,000 characters. To update each character each day would mean I would have update 8.3 characters per second... That's simply something I can't do. A large portion of the userbase is quite casual and probably only gets an equipment maybe once a week.

If you see someone who you know isn't up to date, help out and manually update them. I'm working on something that will hopefully expand the range from which the top characters of each class get updated, but I'm not sure what sort of resource limitations I'm going to run into.

My server isn't listed? What's up with that?
If your realm isn't listed, it's because no one from your realm has made it into the database yet. Add your character using this link and type in your realm instead of using the drop down box.

The next time the database cache refreshes, your realm will be added to the dropdown box.

Why only level 70s?
There are millions of people who play World of Warcraft, and probably almost all of them have more than one character. Even just counting level 70 characters, I estimate there will eventually be almost 1,00,000 profiles listed. The database simply isn't powerful enough to include anyone else.

Is every character who is level 70 listed? Someone I know is missing.
There is no way as far as I know if you aren't a Blizzard employee to magically generate a list of everyone who is level 70 on a server. Character names are obtained from a number of sources, but the best thing you can do if you know someone is missing is to add them manually yourself to the database.

Are you going to add other classes?
Yes, though each class takes time because I have to take into account talents, as well as some other class-specific data. Also, because Blizzard's itemization is currently bugged for a lot of +spell power items, I'm holding off on any of the healing classes until the next patch comes out.

Are buffs included in your profiles? Doesn't that really skew things?
Showing some people with buffed stats and others without would definitely skew things, so all profiles are shown without any buffs. Yes this means that some warlocks with a 30% bonus to fel armor won't have any representation, but on the whole it puts everyone on a level playing field.

If you don't include buffs, why do you include talents?
Initially I wanted to have profiles be without talents. But doing this would cause a couple problems. First, it would be hard to tell if the parser was actually coming up with the correct numbers, since the armory will never show untalented stats (barring a respec followed by logging out). Additionally, it made it very hard to calculate some things, such as the spellfire set bonus "Add 7% of your total intellect to your damage bonus." In the end, I decided to leave talents in, though I may revisit this in the future.

I play on a European server. Can I still be profiled?
At this time, I'm not looking at the European armory. It's something that in theory wouldn't be hard to set up, but I'm concerned about how much CPU adding Europe would be. Once I finish all the classes for the US servers, I can see how much resources I'm taking up and whether adding Europe would be feasible.

Are you still updating this site?
Yes, probably. You can always see the most recent things that have changed by looking at the development notes.