How BuildForge works
Trusted data, zero guessing, honest sourcing.
BuildForge is a second-screen companion: it compresses the meta into level-by-level paths and always links back to the guides that own the content.
Nightly automated sync
A scheduled GitHub Action runs the pipeline every night: Maxroll and Icy Veins guide indexes and tier lists are fetched robots-aware and rate-limited, newly published guides join the index, and if anything changed the site rebuilds and redeploys automatically.
List tiers are read, not invented
Every list placement comes from a Maxroll or Icy Veins tier list and links back to it. The sync re-reads each list nightly; if a page can't be parsed cleanly, the last good read (or the human-verified placements) stays — and the sync report says which. Builds no list ranks show a labelled BuildForge rating.
Anchored to stable mechanics
In-house level paths are written against patch-stable mechanics (talent trees, unlock levels, rotation priorities). Anything that drifts per-season is hedged and points to the live guide for exact numbers.
Every number has an escape hatch
Seasonal balance changes. Every build page carries its update date and links to its sources, and only build names, tiers and links are stored — never guide content. The source sites earn the traffic; BuildForge earns the glance.
Attribution
Where the data comes from
Maxroll
Diablo IV tier lists (endgame, leveling) and build guides — the primary tier source for D4. Maxroll does not cover WoW Forever.
Icy Veins
Diablo IV tier lists and build guides, plus the WoW Forever spec guides and tier-list hub (Forever tier lists are marked Coming Soon).
ClassicWoW.gg
WoW Forever class guides, talent calculator and itemization notes — linked alongside Icy Veins.
Wowhead
WoW Forever news and databases.
Blizzard News
Official World of Warcraft: Forever announcements, rulesets and roadmap; Diablo IV season notes.
Run the sync yourself
BuildForge is open source. The sync pipeline is a local CLI — clone the repo, run npm run sync, and it re-reads the guide indexes and tier lists. Verified tiers live in curated-meta.json (used wherever no recent live read exists); rebuild without fetching via npm run sync -- --offline.
Disclaimer: BuildForge is a fan-made project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment, Maxroll, Icy Veins, ClassicWoW.gg or Wowhead. Diablo, World of Warcraft and all related trademarks belong to their respective owners. Game data summarized on this site remains the property of its sources and is linked with attribution.