Absolute Raid Management

Absolute Raid Management is the raid leader's addon. Everything you juggle as a raid leader, in one navy and orange window, built for WoW Forever's raids and working on Retail too.

Who installs what

Raiders without Raid Companion can still take part: they bid from this addon's pop-up (if they run it) or by whispering the raid leader a number.

Sealed loot bidding

• Bids go privately to the raid leader. Only you see the amounts.
• Raiders bid from Raid Companion, from the pop-up, or with a whisper. A new bid replaces their last one, and passing takes it back.
• The highest bid wins (the earliest on a tie), and only the winner hears the price.
• "Reservers only" auctions, a late bid that adds time, and DKP or gold.
• Roll an item among its reservers, open a roll to everyone, award it directly, or disenchant it.

Absolute Raid Companion support

• Raiders see their DKP live, updated after every award and charge.
• They reserve loot and join the bidding table from their own window.
• Drops, auctions and results reach them over a hidden addon channel, never in chat.

Presence checks

• Each boss kill and DKP tick asks every Raid Companion "are you here?"
• Attendance records who answered, and presence DKP can require it.
• Optional presence ticks every few minutes while you raid.

Absolute Raid Bot (Discord): required for guild DKP

The bot is the guild's DKP book on Discord: registrations, standings, adjustments with a reason that's kept for good, an audit log that can't be erased, PDF reports and backups. It isn't on CurseForge. Get it free from our website.

How to get it:

1. Go to absolutegaming.store, open Addons → Absolute Raid Management, and scroll to Guides and downloads (direct link: https://absolutegaming.store/raid-management.html#guides).
2. Download Absolute Raid Bot and the guides you need:
   • Setting up Azure and the Azure quick setup file, to run the bot 24/7 on a small Microsoft Azure VM (a paid Microsoft service, about $12 to $15 a month)
   • Setting up the Discord bot
   • Admin registration and recovery (two-factor is built into admin registration) and Raider registration and recovery
   • Admin guide, User guide and Importing and exporting data
3. Set it up once: run sudo arb-setup on the VM, then pair it with your server in Discord with /dkpadmin pair.

Every raid night:

• Before the raid, an officer runs /dkpadmin snapshot in Discord and you load it with /arm import. The addon asks for it when you form a raid.
• After the raid, /arm export bot makes one file with attendance, bosses, loot and DKP, and an officer uploads it with /dkpadmin import.

After setup, everything happens in Discord. Nobody needs to sign in to Azure to run raids.

Everything else a raid leader needs

• Raid check: group, role, item level, food and flask for everyone. Ready check, role check, pull and break in one click.
• Soft reserves from the raid's loot table, filtered by class. You set the limit and lock them.
• Points pools: a DKP or gold book per raid team, with standings, history, raid-wide awards, an on-time bonus and undo.
• Attendance: every boss attempt (kill or wipe, time, who was there), raid nights, and an attendance sheet.
• Raid notes: a note for every boss, with lines only one role, player or class sees.
• Groups and invites: save layouts and sort the raid in one click, invite by guild rank or whispered keyword, and auto-assist.
• Raid tools bar: target icons, world markers, ready, roles, pull and break. It shows while you lead, drags anywhere and folds down to the target icons.
• Exports: HTML, a Discord table, CSV or text.