WoW + Facebook = Rupture.com

We all love the Armory, and many of us use Facebook. Although there's at least one widget out there that will show your characters' Armory data on your Facebook page, up until recently there was no real social networking site devoted to World of Warcraft. Rupture.com is that site -- a Facebook for WoW players.

The site design is quite similar to Facebook, except that in addition to your personal page, you also get profile screens for each of your characters, where you can friend guildies or pvp teammates, or upload your favorite screenshots. (The image above is the Rupture page for Spoh, a druid on the WSVG circuit.) Most of the data about your character is pulled from the Armory, but Rupture also has its own WoW add-on that will record and upload your /played time, your bank and bag inventories, your gear sets, tradeskill patterns, which add-ons you are using, and even the outcome of every battleground or arena match you play. You can even post to your character's Rupture blog from inside WoW itself by typing /rupture blog -- the next time you log out of game, your post will be automatically posted the next time your profile syncs. To read more about it or to download the Rupture profiler, visit their site.

Site Review: WoW Reputation Calculator

Just wanted to bring this new WoW reputation calculator tool to everyone's attention. You input your character name and server, and it uses your Armory reputation page to calculate how many more instance runs and/or quests you need to get to the next rep level for each faction. Here's a shot of my mage's Sha'tar rep, which I've been trying to work up so that I can start turning in Marks of the Illidari for Shattrath Flasks of Supreme Power.