About Team Robot

Peter Coley: Founder and Guy Who Writes Code
Peter was previously a founder at Virtual Chemistry, a biotech software company that supports several major pharmaceutical companies. Over the past 7 years, he’s been the primary software architect, overseeing everything from databases to UI integration.

Mr. Robot met Peter when he was theorycrafting about World of Warcraft and convinced him to be a Founder of Team Robot. Now he manages our growing engineering team while he continues to investigate new technologies to improve our products. He’s moved our hosting to Windows Azure cloud service, used PhoneGap to bring our mobile app to both the Android and iPhone, and written API’s for 3rd parties to build off of our products.

Eric Coley: Founder and Guy Who Makes the UI
Eric is a licensed Architect in the State of Illinois and has a Masters in Architecture from the University of Illinois. He spent almost 6 years working for an architectural firm in downtown Chicago, designing schools, hotels, condos, and anything in between. He is an expert in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the software packages used to implement the concept, such as Autodesk’s Revit Architecture.

Eric and Mr. Robot both like modern, clean, minimalist designs, which is why Mr. Robot recruited him out of architecture and into UI design. Eric also has a background and experience in computer science and web design from his pre-Architect days, so he is no stranger to the technical aspect of creating web sites and mobile applications.

He also teaches Tae Kwon Do to kids in his spare time.

Veronica “Vee” Tegen: CEO and The Money Girl. Vee earned a Masters in Advertising at the University of Illinois (who does that, right?) She also co-founded and taught the University’s inaugural interactive advertising course, volunteered at several after-school programs to help high school students make money on the web, and spoken at conferences to help teachers incorporate technology in the classroom.

Mr. Robot likes getting paid to build gaming websites as his day job, so he talked Vee into managing the revenue strategy. Mr. Robot recruited her because of her strong history in gaming and startups… see for yourself:

  • Xfire, later acquired by MTV: Veronica worked with CEO Mike Cassidy, a startup veteran with a talent for success.
  • Slide (a facebook game producer, the company behind SuperPoke!), later acquired by Google: Veronica joined Max Levchin’s team (Co-Founder and CTO of PayPal) to integrate advertising revenue into Facebook game sponsorships.
  • Digg: Veronica joined Digg (founded by Kevin Rose) to lead their ad product strategy for “Digg Ads” – an in-stream ad product.

 

  • ClareLane

    Hi! After reading the bios above, I’m really impressed with team robot -way to go. I’m also interested in learning more about Vee, and any possible plans for education outreach. I learned of Mr. Robot from a guildie and it’s helped my game quite a bit (as much as anything could lol!). The thing is the entire guild is comprised of educators and others who’s jobs are in the educational field. We have an assistant superintendent as a guild master, various administrators, teachers from all levels, IT people, and so on. The guild is Cognitive Dissonance (http://cognitivedissonance.guildportal.com) -this year we were nominated for a 2011 EduBlog award for best use of a social network -WoW in the classroom. I don’t know where you’re located, but it would be great to have one of you talk to students in order to broaden their horizons about gaming careers.

    • Vee Tegen / Zoopercat

      @ClareLane Hey Clare, sorry I didn’t see this message. I normally don’t check up on our bio page! I’ll stop by your build and hope I can catch you either here or there (this is Vee, btw).

      • ClareLane

        @Vee Tegen / Zoopercat Also, I’d really like to know more about what Team Robot employees do on a regular day, and how changes come to fruition.

      • ClareLane

        @Vee Tegen / Zoopercat Also, I’d really like to know more about what Team Robot employees do on a regular day, and how ideas and changes come to fruition. BTW, my WoW toon is Clarevoyant, and “Clare” is my Second Life name. hehe! The scoop on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/ClareLane

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  • mwaymaintenance

    I am quite impresed by the site. I discovered I’d forgotten to re-enchant some of my gear and missed out on my crafting bonus. However, using it on my mage Phalcore, did throw up a couple of issues. Mr. Robot was determined to get me over hit-capped, rather than risk my current set up which involves .01% chance to miss. So perhaps some kind of tolerance on capped stats would be good. Additionally when I changed my spec to look at arcane, the reforging strategy was insane. hit->crit, crit->hit, hit->mastery, mastery->crit, haste->crit, etc. I’m not sure exactly what mr. robot was trying to achieve, but it certainly looked delusional. I know the stats for the build are almost equivalent, but i would still suggest working to a priority. And trying to avoid circular reforges where possible. But then I am not 1337, so I might be completely wrong. It just needs some kind of humanising gloss to make it a 5 star site imo.

    • ClareLane

      @mwaymaintenance I noticed the same thing, and have ended up pending too much gold on reforges. If we can get correct (and consistent) stat levels for our toons and specific builds, then we should be able to reforge then as we replace pieces, decide where the numbers need to be.

    • ClareLane

      @mwaymaintenance I noticed the same thing, and spent too much gold on reforges for awhile. If we can get correct (and consistent) stat levels for our toons and their specific builds, then as we replace pieces, we should be able to reforge based on where our stat numbers need to be.

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  • magyarmedve

    ok I am lost where do I find ruthless gladiator’s battle staff for weapon

  • http://netti-kasinot.net nettikasinot

    nice motivation stories, keeps me going. Thanks.

    • Vee Tegen / Zoopercat

      @nettikasinot Working on a gaming venture yourself? We love hearing about those!

  • millerad

    hi, im wondering why i cant see my reforges for wow, they show up under my best in slot is there a way to fix this??

  • RJLEWIS

    How do I help straighten out the issues with the Death Knight Mastery Build?
     

  • RJLEWIS

    I noticed while scrolling down that people have trouble understanding the revolving reforges so let me explain being as I understood what it was doing the moment I saw it. It does this because its trying to find a balance. It may seem like your wasting gold but its actually UN-avoidable. See every time you add a new weapon or piece of gear the over all stats change so the robot tries to compensate for it and balance them out. Yes some measure of capping out specs would solve a lot of the issue it wouldn’t stop it all. Like for instance a friends hunter whom I’m helping gear got a new staff. then had to reforge 6 items. If spec caps was to be added he would have only had to reforge half at best Unless it was changed to a cap limit on everything based off class and build style some reforges would always be needed.

  • KathleenAzar

    Help – i have been able to log on but not load any of my WOW toons for at least a month. What needs to happen? Guidance please?

  • http://www.facebook.com/perlund.bt Perlund BT

    yeah for the past 2 months i have been trying to use the site but keep getting errors. well now i go on and try to upgrade my account and it says the server is down anyone able to help me?

  • http://hardik.practutor.com/ Hardik

    Great site. Lots of helpful information here. I¡¦m sending it to some friends ans additionally sharing in delicious. And of course, thank you in your sweat!

    • AskMrRobot

      Thanks, glad you like it. Mr. Robot also welcomes all new friends (he wants to be a famous movie star some day)

  • shaun

    i cannot enter my name in mr robot armory. its on stormrage us server. the name is magneto (the o is alt 148). and i cannot find where to contact anyone from mr robot

  • shaun

    i cannot enter my name in mr robot. its on us stormrage server. name is magneto (alt 148). plz help i cannot find where to contact anyone from mr robot

    • zoopercat

      Can you give me a link to your character on the blizzard armory? That will help.

  • tburton

    I can’t enter my characters name anymore. I used to be able to but not anymore I have 2 characters that in there name i use (alt 0233) for the e. One is thebatdad and the other is Massmurderer (first e uses alt 0233) Would you please check on this? Thank you very much I love your site!

    • zoopercat

      Hey, can you give me a link to this character on the armory? That will help me make sure I get the name right and see what’s up.

  • KatB

    Mage question: Why does the gear optimizer keep requesting that I reforge or gain more exptertise? What do I have to gain from this? “Expertise (also known as Exp and Ept) is an attribute introduced in Patch 2.3.0. One point of expertise decreases the chance that melee attacks made by the player will be dodged or parried by 0.25%.” How in the world does this apply to mages? Please help, or change the problem. I would really like to continue to use the gear optimizer and trust that they have recommendations that make sense.

  • mrsky

    I have seen a trend on amongst the top rated and geared enhancement shaman in my realm, and most other realms, in which they have changed the reforge priority to place haste before crit, yet Mr. Robot continues to have crit as the favored stat in its default pve build. Could you comment on this and the reasoning behind it. Has Mr. robot just not updated the default build, or are they all the top players wrong in their builds?? I have tried to SimC this to determine the answer myself, but alas, I do not have the technical knowledge to complete this task. Mr. Robot, what do you have to say?? TyVm in advance from a player who wants the best dps and confidence in a well loved web-site.

    • zoopercat

      I’m doing a little research to make sure I have the right answer for you. Stay tuned.

      • mrsky

        I have all the patience in the world, right up until 745pm on Tuesdays, lol. Seriously, thank you very much for the quick confirmation that you got my post, I have all the faith in the world in you, human or otherwise,,

        • zoopercat

          Hey, I’m trying to dig into this before your raid tonight! Hang in there – I have a lot of stats to look at today, ha!

          • zoopercat

            Sorry I missed your Tuesday raid, but we ran a bunch of simulations through SimC and wanted to get you the right answer. This is from the guy who runs our stat weights:
            “I checked it out. I don’t see any consistent evidence that you get a DPS increase by doing this. Haste and Crit are the two weakest stats – so most of your secondary stat budget is going towards hit/exp/mastery anyway – flipping the two weights won’t have much impact on your gear.

            With some sets of gear I was able to find a DPS increase by favoring haste over crit, but on some sets I was able to find a DPS increase by favoring crit over haste. We could probably revise the weights to say that crit=haste, that might be the most accurate thing to do.”

          • mrsky

            Thank you so much for taking my question, and doing the number crunching to find a solid answer. I, as I am sure most of your readers, appreciate your efforts. Keep up the good work. ps, the fist weapon didnt drop anyway! lol

  • tburton1120

    I was able to log into Massmurderer with an e that i use alt0233 but I still cant use my mage thebatdad that i use alt0233 for the e?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ross.kinlaw Ross Kinlaw

    I went and optimized my gear to the stats specified for my wind walker monk and when i hit optimize after changing them it shows an increase of my expertise by .36% but there’s no actual changes to the listings.

  • Protego

    All the Shado-Pan Assault items you list for Warlock are NOT the items offerred to a Warlock! Stats are significantly different. Please correct your database.

    • zoopercat

      Can you give me an example? What does the armory show – is that different than in game? We’ve seen a few cases where the armory has one version and in-game has another. If we get a list of these items, we can correct them to match in-game :)

  • DK

    I love AMR. For my Frost DW DK, this site is perfect. I am happy that I paid for the $12. It is totally a worthy upgrade. I see a lot other posts in here that claims about how AMR not doing the good job. I don’t see the problems on my other toons at the moment. I could tell most of the possible issue is: if you didnt REFRESH your toon after your change spec in wow that will screw up AMR to determine your gear stats; even you Click on the load character. So make sure you click on the Update from Armory even you just load it up your toon.

  • TomL

    would like to know why the site doesn’t recognize masters spellthread, it wants to me to put sanctified on my legs to get to hit cap. sorry the masters is already there and the change you recommend, changes nothing. this leaves me almost half a point short of the cap.

  • kear

    why when i update from armoury dose it not update my new piece half the time? it takes like a day or two for it to show up mean while im unreforidged and ungemmed

  • Johan

    I love askmrrobot and am a happy paying customer! One questions though, the “which bosses should I roll on” feature is great but I need an option to select multiple wings. Often I do all thunderking lfrs in one day for example. Since I only have three coins I will most likely not spend them all in one wing.

  • Cîelnoîr

    Dear askmrrobot, very nice n helpfull website. BUT: Hunter(BM): Your calculation due to pvp-resi is unfortunately wrong. 440 pvp-resi gives on your site about 2% resi but ingame its only about 0,65%! So it might be much better after 5.3 NOT to go on the yellow ones not with 80agi/80resi! Take 80agi/160crit or 160pvp-power/160crit – couldn’t test it yet…. :-) Please check it out! ;-) Thanks anyway for all the help we can find on your site! Cheers, Cîelnoîr

    • Cîelnoîr

      Of course we are talking about the greens with 80pvp-power/160crit:-)