With the introduction of the Diablo 3 Armory, Blizzard has supplied an API to allow website developers to grab information from the Armory and display it for its own purposes. A website called DiabloProgress was created, in a way to show how your character stacks up against the rest of the world’s Diablo 3 players. Out of curiosity, I headed over to the site and punched in my Battletag to add my character to the database to see where I stood. Initially, my DPS ranking was in the top 50, which surprised me since every piece of my gear also has Magic Find on it.
I did some quick research and realized that the API has a 3000 request-per-day limit, which means that while DiabloProgress is aggregating a great amount of data, it’s relying on users to add their Battletags in order to get more. So while it’s the best thing we have out there, it’s not as comprehensive – yet. Given a few more weeks, it should be quite the complete site and it’ll be interesting to see how users stack up against one another at that point.
I noticed that almost all of the highly ranked Demon Hunters had Sharpshooter enabled when their profile was added, so I did the same to see how my Sharpshooter damage ranks with the rest of them. I’m pretty sure my ranking has already been bumped down since I took the screenshot, but I was surprised to even be #30 in Americas. A quick scan of all the players above me showed that none of their gear had Magic Find on it.
The creator is working on showing unbuffed damage, which is nice. I suggested that they work in some sort of formula that pulls profiles that have more than 100% Magic Find to see how high DPS can get while you’re in actual Magic Find gear. To me it’s pointless to farm without Magic Find, even if you have some astronomical amount of damage. I’d rather get triple the drops and kill in half the time.
Look! I’m on the first page of the Diablo 3 rankings… well, probably not anymore.
