Welcome to grimHAMMER
Welcome to grimHAMMER. Our objective is to identify and track statistical information on all level 85 characters on the Eldre' Thalas realm in World of Warcraft. Acquiring and maintaining this information gives us the ability to rank characters on various criteria. You think you are the best on the realm for a given stat? We know if you are or are not. We look at the game from the cold, harsh, unshakeable aspect of numbers. For many, the news is grim. But it is the stark, naked truth.
We also have a unique ability to spot and analyze trends in the game that might not be very visible to others. We'll report on those as we find them.
We do updates on Tuesdays, during scheduled down time. Unless, of course, battle.net is down during the same period, in which case we'll update as soon as we can.
June 14, 2011
It may be a good day for an update, but really not too much is news. All the individual numbers keep moving upwards but only minor shifts in the order that they are in. The overall level 85 population is still increasing, this week at 11,580. That is up still a couple of hundred from last week. I think we are seeing it leveling off, but who knows? The number of guilds that have level 85’s has leveled off, the Alliance has only one more this week then last week, the Horde has the same number.
There was a change high up in the total Achievement rankings with the Alliance Rouge Boreas of the Epic Again guild taking second place from his guild mate Fockewolfe. The Rouge Sumguy of the Horde Echelon Guild continues to hold first place on Achievements.
Oh, and Echelon got the Realm First Sinestra on May 30. That is realm first for all the raid content on this patch, I think. And Echelon continues to control the top of the Item Level rankings, holding the top nine spots. They are the only guild with members having 370 or above rankings, five of them have 372. The Alliance guilds Epic Again and Free at Last each have a couple of members with level 369.
May 24, 2011
The level 85 population that we’ve found has passed 11,000, it is still trending gradually upwards. There isn’t a sign yet of it peaking and leveling off. It’s a dynamic situation, new players hit level 85, alts of current players hit 85, current level 85’s take time off and become inactive so we stop counting them, characters transfer into Eldre Thalas, some transfer out. We’re not sure what’s happening with the level 85 population in the World of Warcraft in total, paying accounts have dropped, but level 85’s might keep going up for a while, even if there is a down trend in accounts.
The number of guilds also continues to increase. There are now 425 guilds with at least one level 85 member in it, 266 Alliance guilds and 159 Horde guilds. Looking at the guild rankings, the rankings can change pretty quickly there as members come and go, new guilds form, and so on. This week the Horde guild Creeping Death (we assume a new guild with 5 level 85 members) took the number three spot on average Honorable Kills per member, displacing the Alliance guild S A N C T U A R Y.