Introducing Uber Search!

There have been so many great suggestions for Path of a Hero so far and thus today I went about implementing a couple of them.

The suggestions I targeted were

• Add filters to Character Search
• Let people search by Realm for other players
• make it possible to show a link to a random profile

All up this equated to 107 user votes.

Enter the Uber search
To satisfy the first two suggestions I modified the Search page to allow both simple and uber search. Simple search is what existed before and is still preserved to provide quick and direct access to users. Uber search allows users to search on any combination of

• Character name (note that this searches for character names *containing* what you enter)
• Zone, US or EU
• Realm
• Gender
• Faction
• Race
• Class
• It also allows you to order the results on either gear score or level

The results are also displayed in pages to make browsing easier.

I am really excited about this new functionality because it enables you to create some really interesting search queries, for example

• Give me the human mages on Khaz'goroth US ordered in descending gear score
• Give me all the paladins on EU realms
• Give me all female orcs
• etc

I think people are going to be able to have a lot of fun with this feature.

Speed Browsing
I noticed a new suggestion on UserVoice the other day to allow jumping to random journals. I instantly loved this idea and since it is not very difficult to implement, I decided to quickly add it. You can now 'View Random Character' from the Search and Rivalry pages. You can also just type in the url

http://www.pathofahero.com/random/

It is very entertaining browsing around and reading everyone's interesting journals.