It was still API based as it would read the iLvl of everyone near you and when you moused over them, you could immediately see their iLvl.
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OK, fair enough. I didn’t realize two things. One, that addons could make API calls from within the game. And two, that back in the day, Gearscore wasn’t just combining ilvls, gems and enchants to come up with a score.
Then I concede my point to the person that posted earlier. This game has nearly always depended on the API and external sites for these sorts of things.
There may have been an addon too, but Gearscore was a website.
Okay. I think I am talking about something else. I never visited a site to check anyone. Back when I used to use the thing I just moused over people to see their score. If I was looking for 10k or whatever, it was easy enough to see.
And an addon. I think it still exists today.
There was however an addon called GearScores that Breakbeat may be thinking of as well. There seems to currently be quite a few roaming around from 2016 and before.
Blizzard did a massive change to the API calling because of Gearscore pulling to much data and causing issues for people playing the game. They did the change during the WotLK expansion when the addon was in high popular use.
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Personal attacks indicate you have nothing of value to contribute. If you had anything of value you would have posted it instead.
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I’ve been bumping these threads all week . And it’s not a personal attack. I want the service that I pay for to work.
Is now a good time to say that the API isn’t a service you pay for, then? 
That data is provided free, as well as the support they have across all their games.
The API (or Armory, if you will) wasn’t available until 8 years after the game was released, in fact. Announced in June of 2012.
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And you’re getting it. You have access to the servers that is the only thing you pay for.
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Saying someone is “bootlicking” is a personal attack.
Customer Support does not fix bugs in the game, on the webpage, or the API. Bumping this thread does nothing for the issue. Nothing.
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Can you log in to the game and play on a character? Then you are getting the service you paid for. They even state that in the ToU and EULA that you agreed to in order to play the game. Everything else is just them providing things that they don’t have to and could easily take away at any time. The Armory being down does not make it so you can’t play…it makes it so you can’t play the way you want to play. It isn’t your game, it’s Blizzards game.
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You’ve been given accurate information on how the rules and regulations work. If you don’t like it, use the links that were provided numerous times for feedback.
This forum is peer to peer support, not a dumping ground for misinformation and insults.
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wut?
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Perhaps you should learn definitions before erroneously posting things about others. We are not posing as customers, we are customers.
Neither are we praising Blizzard by telling you where to post so that the people who need to see your issue can.
Calling us shills IS however against the rules as is calling others boot-lickers and is considered trolling which you agreed that you would not do in order to post on the forums in the first place. Violating the rules to report others for violating the rules is not the way to ask for assistance.
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Move aside for… who, exactly? The people that fix the bugs are not the same people that post on the forums.
They simply post information when that information has been given by those fixers.
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You’re completely missing the point here. Or being willfully obtuse, not yet entirely certain.
The people that post here, the ones you’re claiming are incompetent… are not the ones that are doing any work on the website. Zero, zilch, nada. They are simply passing information on. They are neither hindering nor assisting.
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Maybe you should realize crying to someone who’s job is not to fix anything is really unproductive.
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It’s late night and the troll’s are starved looking for scraps to feed on.
I say we put them on a diet.
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Two steps ahead of you, no worries. 
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