It is baffling to me that retail people can see their characters on wow armory on website but we classic people can’t 
Seeing how often the thing breaks down for retail people I do wonder if it’s a good idea.
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I am in general strongly against people having free access to information about other characters, especially data about their achievements / performance / logs / raid progress etc.
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Atlasforge have armory for anniversary era and sod.
You always have people who link their logs and classicwowarmory with pride, and those who angrily rant about the systems. That is always answer in itself regarding their quality.
It’s like that joke about a cop saying at a recognition lineup: I think the perp is a coward with a tiny wiener, and one of the accused starting shouting about inappropriate police remarks 
À propos, if you’ve ever been in a raid that someone logged, you already have classicwowarmory anyway and people can look you up.
Like so: https://classicwowarmory.com/character/eu/thunderstrike/nicolay
Funny thing is, we have portraits with our current gear in the forum, so some sort of armory system for classic clearly exists, Blizzard just CBA to make it public.
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If you care for third party, these are a good shot:
https://hc.aotc.gg/
https://classicwowarmory.com/
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Yeah, and Hawley here has his profile hidden, Which of course is an option.
It is possible to hide your character from these websites.
Yeah I’m well aware. It’s like you can always refuse alcohol breath test to the police, but it is seen as an admission of guilt. Hiding your profile is an admission of being terrible player and an automatic grounds to not be invited.
thx .i will look into them till blizzard finally gives us armory on offical website someday
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WoW community is live example of dystopian fiction. It’s like being refused to hire, because your linkedin is private. Absolutely terrifying for someone who values a bit of privacy and feels uneasy when someone stalks over his traces in the Internet.
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No. It is not based on logs. It is based on API that blizzard provide (they added it in previous year for classic). You can see there even characters who are not max level, it is not based on raid logs.
Obviously. Why would you hire someone who hides their history? Have you ever employed people?
Have you ever formed and led a raid for that matter? You have to pick and choose people in order to get anywhere in any of the harder raids.
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That’s one of the problems of random raids, isn’t it? They don’t get to know their players properly. And if they do, the raid is no longer really random, even if it is taking place outside of any guild organisation.
So, lacking other means, they have to resort to this kind of “objective” information. Which is ok for me personally btw. Any decent progress guild would take an applicant along a couple of times to get that data and then make it part of a final decision.
And no, I’ve actually never formed or lead a raid myself. But I’ve been in charge of a guild of up to 100 players for more than 2,5 years, that featured a 25 and three 10.
And yes, I have employed people in RL during my time as lead in a team of up to 45 people. I never had to resort to any kind of online information. You always get down to what you professionally have to know in an interview. I don’t care for the rest. If I’d had to, I’d be looking for a different employer in no time.
Well yeah obviously it’s not a problem in a guild or a stable pug where the people keep coming back. Which, to be fair, every one I’ve ever been in you have to link your gear and logs to get in the first time, so actually the entire point is moot.
And I’ve only ever hired someone when they come recommended by someone else I know personally, but that’s a difference in culture I guess.
Most likely.
Personally I’d rather not involve anyone I’m related to in some way into professional matters. I’ve watched things like this ending up in embarassment for one side or the other more than once. I value my relations to other people. It’s just not worth it.
Of course, if there’s a vacant position somewhere not too close to me and I know someone I’d consider hiring myself looking for that kind of job, I’ll drop a hint to that person. But I don’t get involved any further. Actually I could make good money off this. My employer pays a decent premium in these cases. But I prefer to stay out of this.
Yes, it is based on API and Blizzard allows player to deny requests via this API. Look in your blizzard account for privacy tab or something like that.