30 03 08 306 W - + 1 - 1 WoW Live Signature Generator

Okay, I've had this for some time now, but I figured I might as well do a post about it!

To make this interesting for the general public, I'll explain a bit about it.
(Just press the Read more link.)

For the WoW geeks, here's a short explanation:
It automatically displays your stats based on which class and spec you play.
For instance, for PvP it displays your Resilience, for PvE DPS it displays your (Spell) Hit Rating and tanks will have all of their vital stats.

You can find the signature generator on WoWLiveSig

The creators of World of Warcraft have put up a little thing called the armory,
The armory basically shows you stuff about the characters in the game.
Those of you familiar with role-playing in general will recognize stats like agility, intellect, stamina and strength.

So, back to the armory.

If you use a modern browser which supports XSL, the armory just returns XML with a reference to the XSL files to render it.

I decided to write a tool to parse the info and display some of the stats available.

But, alas, there are plenty of those around...
So, I decided to do something special!

In WoW, you can choose a class to play and you can choose a role (talents) for your char, so in one case you can be a healer, someone who does damage (commonly called DPS) or someone who makes sure all the monsters (mobs) keep focussed on them so others can damage that mob (tank).
Each role has specific statistics to indicate what their "strength" is.

My signature generator does exactly that and does it fully automatically!

It's a fun way to do some stuff with XML parsing, image generation (using GD) and handling a large variety of information to choose from! :)

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