Currently at the prototype stage, the aim of this project is to allow players to evaluate equipment sets and item enchantments outside of the World of Warcraft game.

The character builder should allow players to try out item combinations without wasting in-game resources (items, money or time).

• Ideas
• Bluesky ideas
• Data sources
• Technologies
• Implementation

Functionality ideas (in no particular order):

• Set comparator - compare a number of item sets and view differences
• Profile loader - certain web sites allow in-game character profiles to be downloaded as XML.
• Automated set generator for given characteristics
• 'Shopping' list generator, with associated in-game viewer addon
• Listing of 'similar' or 'alternate' stat items, also allow items that are 'fixed' or 'already obtained'
• Ranking of items based on 'difficulty to obtain'

'Blue sky' ideas

• Inspect-copy, make in-game inspected profiles available for view outside the game
• Group builder, apply above but to groups (multiple groups?)
• Regen calculators, scenarios for casters (continuous casting, burst casting, priest healing tactics, etc)

Data sources

• Allakhazam

Technologies

• RIFE:Home web framework
• RIFE:Generic Query Manager Bean persistence and querying
• http://xstream.codehaus.org XStream XML/Java serialisation

Implementation

• REpresentational State Transfer (REST)