Lotro Gear website updated

[stingray69]

Well it's been a busy time for me recently but I finally got around to updating the Lotro Gear site!

http://lotrogear.appspot.com/

changes;
* Added gear from level 0 to 40. It felt a bit mean to cut out new players from the site, so its no longer just level 40+. That means it should now list ALL armour, jewellery and weapons (apart from legendary) in the game. (thats around 23,000 items btw!)
* Updated lists with all recently added items (e.g. the new armour sets from Great Barrows, Helegrod etc...)
* A bunch of fixes and tweaks behind the scenes to make sure things stays fast

Let me know what you think
Cheers

[stingray69]

P.S. I've got some ideas for what Id like to do next but would like to hear what people would most like from the following;

1) Customise the Rating - The 'Rating' that's shown for each item is currently fixed. Id like to add a UI to let users set which stats are important to them to customise the rating to their personal tastes.

2) Armour/Item sets - A new page showing armour/item sets grouped together (along with set bonuses and set totals)

3) Savable/linkable lists - A feature that lets you save a link after you've filtered down to a list of gear you like. You could then save the list for later or share it up to forums/mates/the web etc

4) More filtering - some extra ways to filter data e.g. per column - so you could show only items with +agility of 30 or more


Note that my time is limited atm and I dont know when if ever ill get to do this stuff - i.e. when I can grab a spare moment here and there when not working/sleeping/eating/pooing/playing lotro

[Snorii]

I think the ability to Customize the Rating would probably be the best addition. You might get a lot of good feedback on what the default should be as well by allowing this.

Naturally, I think all four are great ideas for the future.

Love the slide bar for the level ranges, don't think that was there last time I looked at the site. Keep up the great work (when you can, of course).

[stingray69]

Customizable ratings seems popular - looks like that'll be next

[thinkingbear]

Wow, that's a handy tool. Very slick. Worth a bookmark and a +rep. Thanks!

[RFlagg]

Very useful site.

I noticed that the level is wrong on the Ornate Lebethron ranged weapons. They are the Woodworkers guild weapons and they are level 41 not 44.

The weapon tooltip there even has it at 41.

[KrustyKlown]

Wow, I never notice this website before. Definately worth visiting. I hope someone could contribute since it will male LOTRO more fun.

[stingray69]

Very useful site.

I noticed that the level is wrong on the Ornate Lebethron ranged weapons. They are the Woodworkers guild weapons and they are level 41 not 44.

The weapon tooltip there even has it at 41.

Yeh, looks like Im using the wrong 'level' from the data pulled from the lorebook - meaning the levels for ALL items are currently a bit off. Ill fix that when I next do an update.

Thanks for letting me know!

[Rouven]

Looks nice! The first thing I get is a warning though, and since I am illiterate when it comes to these things ... maybe it helps you:

Data Tables warning: Unable to re-initialise DataTable. Please use the API to make any configuration changes required.

[gcpate]

Same thing for me. 1415 Eastern time Sunday 14 Nov. IE8 version 8.0.7600.16385.

[MilkPudding]

Very nice site. Thanks for putting it together.

[Grendaran]

Bookmarked!

[Vilost]

sweet site

also got this: "DataTables warning: Unable to re-initialise DataTable. Please use the API to make any configuration changes required."

[stingray69]

hmm - Looks like the site is currently broken for IE (IE8 included). While I sort that out it will at least work fine with FireFox and Chrome.

[Seraphella6]

I love you for this site. Thanks a lot to you and anyone else that may have helped on it!

[Vysion34]

Thanks for this website stingray69. It's a very useful tool, and it has a very easy to use interface. You did a great job developing it.

The customizable ratings would be a big plus. However I think you did a pretty good job on the default rating set.

I can't wait to see what enhancements you add to it in the future.

[Rouven]

Be sure to let me know when it's up and running on IE.

Thanks!

[DelgonTheWise]

Very nice site! Well done, quite helpful.

I second the request for ability to somehow compare armor by set. For example for Captains, the Helegrod armor is rated really poorly by the site. But most high level captains I see are sporting at least 4 pieces of the set for the 4 piece bonus... Maybe you could somehow score the bonuses???

[stingray69]

IE8 is working again - yaay!

Also some extra new stuff;

* Improved search - should be lots more flexible now. using the all/any picker you can do AND/OR style searches. (if you're a bit techy and know what a Regular Expression is, you can use them too). btw searches are across all columns so u could enter 'medium' to see only medium armour
* Level - the level column should have the correct data now
* column colours - tweak to table styling so group related stats
* search settings (like level range) are being saved now so you dont have to keep setting them to your favourite place after refresh the page or come back later

next up is changable ratings, followed by armour sets. To be done "soon"

[stingray69]

Just added a new feature to configure the gear ratings

Now you can set which stats are important to you and personalise the rating column to your tastes. Note though - changes aren't being saved yet (so when you refresh the page they will be gone). This is temporary until the next release - I figured it was better to get something out early that people could play with rather than wait until it was all done.

Thanks again for all the feedback and encouragement. It's good to know the site been of some use to more people than just me

[Hesiod_LOTRO]

Would be nice if a person could create a custom item and see where it would be ranked in the table. Or if the formula is published somewhere then I could just add it up by hand.

Great site though.

[stingray69]

Several people have asked me to show the actual numbers next to the sliders in the ratings dialog. I was trying not to clutter the panel up too much but I guess if interested enough to be playing with ratings sliders you probably want to know what the actual value is!

This should help explain the rating formula better. The rating btw is the value of each slider (on the rating panel) multiplied by the value of its stat and then all added together. So a helmet with +20 Will & +100 Morale with sliders set to 2 (for will) and 0.5 (for morale) would create a rating of 90 (20x2 + 100x0.5).

So the math is fairly simple but that's intentionally so as the rating is only meant as a rough guide to the potential worth of an item. Play style, gear build, intended activity, skill level etc all have massive effects on best item to choose that rating could never account for.

[Rouven]

Works for me now, nice!

Going to start to play around with it, thanks!

[Snoman73]

id like to see set bonuses factored in in some way, other than that, i LOVE this site

[geoboy]

Love your site, I use it often.

It's great for when you want to look up some item, like the other day I wanted to check out high agility bracelets - there isn't another resource that so easily finds what you're looking for. Nice work.