Gear score system

One thing that has really bugged me since I launched Path of a Hero is the unreliability of obtaining gear scores from beImba. No offense towards the site, it does an awesome job of providing a very detailed audit of your character, but the web service always provides cached scores instead of up-to-date ones. Relying on an external site like this is also another point of failure.

I am sure most of you would have seen the multitudes of 'zero' gear scores that occurred because people did not manually update their score on the beImba site. Also beImba does not provide gear scores for characters lower than level 70. On top of that for quite a while there was no support for levels beyond 70.

Well all of these problems have now gone away my friends, for today I am launching the first cut of Path of a Hero's in built gear score system. It is based at the moment off of the Fubar in-game gear rating mod however it will be diverging soon as I make it more intricate. Now every single journal entry will be given a gear score greater than zero. This should make rivalries on the site more interesting and also make the search sort on gear score accurate.

But wait there's more...

What I am going to be in the process of doing over the next day is updating the gear scores on all existing journal entries. That's right all of your journal entries will be updated to have an accurate gear score and you will be able to see how your gear score has grown over time. This was of course my original intention with including a gear score in the first place.

Enjoy!