RealmRanker

RealmRanker was a site that attempted to rank players, guilds, and realms based on completed achievements. The system generated a score for an achievement based on the percentage of players on the realm that had completed it. The more players that completed the achievement, the fewer points it was worth.

RealmRanker was not designed to be a raid progression tracking system, rather it was designed to give a measure of skill and/or dedication of a given guild. The theory behind this was that the fewer people who have a given achievement, the harder the achievement must be to get. This worked for most cases, however it did not work for all.

One case where ranking achievements in this way fell apart was in the "100,000 Honor Kills" sort of achievements. While there's something to be said for a player having 100,000+ honor kills, it's not so much a measure of player skill, rather it was a measure of the time the player has been playing World of Warcraft and how much they PVP. These sorts of achievements were included in the score generated by RealmRanker, giving older characters a boost over younger ones.

As with many WoW fan sites, this one has gold seller ads, but they are not pervasive or intrusive.

• Response from realmRanker: It's very hard to get Google AdSense to filter out all gold sellers, if I could, I would =(