Absolute Raid Management

# Absolute Raid Management - Changelog

## 0.2.1 - 2026-11-10
- **The guides now come with the addon**, in a new `Docs` folder: the Absolute Raid Management README and the Raid Management / Raid Companion protocol document (PDF and Markdown), plus GET-ABSOLUTE-RAID-BOT.txt. Nothing in the folder loads in game.
- **Absolute Raid Bot is needed for guild DKP between raids.** It's a free Discord bot that CurseForge can't host: get it, and every setup guide, from https://absolutegaming.store/raid-management.html#guides
- Fixed: `/arm help` and the ABOUT tab listed `/arm export log`, which isn't a separate option. They now read `/arm export [night|attendance|points|reserves|bot]`; plain `/arm export` exports the whole raid log, as before.

## 0.2.0 - 2026-11-10
- **Absolute Raid Companion support.** Raiders running Absolute Raid Companion talk to the raid leader over hidden addon messages (protocol v1, prefix ABSRAID) and a hidden guild channel, the way Absolute Olympus keeps its census out of chat. The leader's addon answers their hello, whispers each raider their DKP (and again after every award or charge), takes their soft reserves and sends the raid's loot list boss by boss. It also announces drops, takes "put me on the bidding table" (the Loot page's new Want column), opens auctions, takes their private bids and tells only the winner the price. RAID shows how many raiders use the companion, and `/arm companion` lists them.
- **Sealed bids (on by default).** Every bid goes privately to the raid leader, who alone sees the amounts. A raider's 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, unless "Say the winning bid" is ticked on TOOLS. Bids typed in raid chat are turned away with a whisper asking for a private bid. Untick "Sealed bids" for the old open bidding.
- **Reservers-only bidding.** Right-click a drop: "Start bidding, reservers only" limits the auction to the players who reserved it.
- **Presence checks.** Each boss kill, on-time bonus, "Give to raid" and presence tick asks every Raid Companion raider "are you here?" privately. ATTENDANCE shows who answered (the Companion column), and the Raid Bot export carries it. "Presence DKP needs Raid Companion" (TOOLS) pays presence DKP only to raiders whose companion answered and who aren't AFK. "Presence tick every" and "Presence tick DKP" pay DKP every few minutes while you lead a raid.
- **Absolute Raid Bot (Discord).** Load tonight's DKP snapshot from the bot (`/arm import`, or POINTS > Raid Bot...). The addon asks for it when you form a raid without a fresh one. After the raid, `/arm export bot` (or ATTENDANCE > Export... > For Absolute Raid Bot) gives one JSON document with tonight's attendance, bosses, loot and the DKP each raider earned and spent, for the bot's /import. The addon reminds you when the raid ends.
- TOOLS has a new RAID COMPANION section: sealed bids, saying the winning bid, sending raiders their DKP, answering guild DKP lookups, and asking for a Raid Bot snapshot.

## 0.1.6 - 2026-11-10
- **The raid tools bar only shows while you lead a raid or a group.** Untick "Only while I lead" on TOOLS to see it any time. Demo mode shows it.
- **Move it by holding the left button on it and dragging**: anywhere on the bar, the fold button, the target icons or the Ready/Roles/Pull/Break buttons. It is unlocked by default; "Lock it in place" on TOOLS stops dragging. It can't move in combat.
- **The fold button is now easier to spot**: an orange `<` on the left end folds the bar down to the eight target icons, and a red `>` opens it back up. The bar grows to the right, so the button stays under your mouse.
- The bar starts a little further left, clear of the focus frame. `/arm reset` puts it back there. Everyone is moved to the new spot once on this update.

## 0.1.5 - 2026-11-10
- **The raid tools bar now docks at the bottom center of the screen** and is shown by default. It stays there whether the main window is open or closed, and hiding it no longer undocks it. Untick "Dock at bottom center" on TOOLS to drag it anywhere else; `/arm reset` docks it again. Everyone is moved back to the docked bar once on this update.
- **Fold button.** The strip on the left end of the raid tools bar folds it down to just the eight target icons and opens it back up. Orange means the full bar, red means folded. In combat the bar folds or opens as soon as combat ends.
- **The pull and break bar now sits at the bottom center**, just above the raid tools bar, by default. If you had already dragged it somewhere, it stays where you put it.

## 0.1.4 - 2026-11-09
- **The raid tools bar docks under the main window** by default: it opens and closes with the window and follows it when you move or size it. Turn it off on TOOLS ("Dock under this window") to place the bar anywhere on its own. Hiding a docked bar undocks it.
- Fixed: the "Record boss attempts in raids" box on ATTENDANCE and the three note window boxes on NOTE always looked unticked, whatever the setting.
- Fixed: the `/arm export` line on ABOUT and in `/arm help` was garbled.
- Demo mode: sample item levels now look like a geared raid, whatever your own character wears, and TOOLS settings changed in demo mode stay in the demo.

## 0.1.3 - 2026-11-09
- **Demo mode.** `/arm demo` fills every tab and window with a sample 20-player raid, for screenshots or a look around: the raid check, loot with a live bid running (and the bid pop-up), soft reserves for Onyxia's Lair, two points books, four raid nights of attendance, raid notes and group layouts. `/arm demo auction` starts a fresh sample bid. `/arm demo` again, or a `/reload`, puts everything back.
- Demo mode never touches your own data, and nothing goes out to the game while it is on: no chat lines, raid warnings, addon messages, boss mod bars, ready or role checks, marks, invites or group moves. Window positions and sizes you change while in it are kept.
- The help and the ABOUT tab no longer list `note` as a tab command (`/arm note` shows or hides the note window).

## 0.1.2 - 2026-11-09
- **New logo.** The dragon emblem is now the addon's art everywhere: the round dragon icon on the minimap button, the window title, the export window and the addon list, and the full emblem on the ABOUT tab, now shown larger.

## 0.1.1 - 2026-11-09
Built around WoW Forever's own raids. The first build opened Reserves on Molten Core, which isn't in WoW Forever yet.

- **WoW Forever raids first.** The raid picker on RESERVES now lists WoW Forever's raids at the top: Barrow Deeps (10-man), Hyjal Summit (20-man) and Onyxia's Lair (40-man), all opening Dec 9. The Classic raids (Molten Core through Naxxramas) are below them, marked as in the game files with no date yet.
- **Opens on Barrow Deeps.** On WoW Forever, RESERVES now starts on Barrow Deeps. If you had 0.1.0 it moves you there too, unless you picked a raid yourself.
- **Follows you in.** When you walk into a raid it knows, RESERVES switches to that raid by itself.
- **Loot fills in as it drops.** Blizzard hasn't published loot for Barrow Deeps or Hyjal Summit yet. Until then their lists say so, and every drop worth tracking inside a known raid (blue and better on WoW Forever, epic and better on Retail; change it on TOOLS) is added to that raid's list under the boss it came from. From the first kills on Dec 9, your raid can reserve it.
- Hyjal Summit: fixed the spelling of Elder Minderel.
- Long messages in empty lists now wrap inside the list instead of running off the side.

## 0.1.0 - 2026-11-09 (first test build)
The first standalone build, for testing on WoW Forever and Retail. One borderless navy and orange window: drag it by the title, size it from the corner grip, lock it in place. Open it with `/arm` or the minimap button.

- **RAID tab:** everyone in the group with their group, role, item level, food and flask or elixir, and whether they are online. One click each for ready check, role check, pull, break, reporting who is missing food or a flask, and taking attendance.
- **LOOT tab:** boss drops are listed when you loot a corpse (blue and better on WoW Forever, epic and better on Retail; change it on TOOLS), or shift-click any item into the box. Start bidding in DKP or gold. Raiders bid from a pop-up or by typing `bid 50` in raid chat or a whisper, and a late bid adds time. You can also roll the item among the players who reserved it, open a roll to everyone, award it to anyone, or mark it disenchanted. **Announce drops** posts every open drop to raid chat.
- **RESERVES tab:** soft reserves from the raid's loot table, filtered to what your class can use. The leader sets how many items each player can reserve, locks reserves, and asks the raid to share theirs.
- **POINTS tab:** separate DKP or gold books per raid team. See standings or the full history. Give points to the raid or one player, give the on-time bonus, undo a history line, and share standings with the group.
- **ATTENDANCE tab:** every boss attempt in a raid (kill or wipe, time, who was there), raid nights, and an attendance sheet with percentages. **Take attendance** notes everyone in the raid right now, such as at raid start or for a bench check.
- **NOTE tab (new):** write raid notes, save one per boss, and send one to everyone with the addon. It shows in a small window they can move, size and lock click-through. Note codes add raid icons (`{skull}`, `{rt1}`), spell icons (`{spell:id}`), and text only one role, player or class sees (`{tank}...{/tank}`, `{p:Name}...{/p}`, `{class:mage}...{/class}`). Raid names are coloured by class, and your own name stands out. You can choose to show only the lines with your name.
- **GROUPS tab (new):** save the raid's groups as a layout, or type one in. **Sort the raid** moves everyone into place for you.
- **Raid tools bar (new):** a slim bar you can put anywhere. It has target icons (right-click removes one), world markers (right-click removes one; the last button clears all), ready check, role check, pull and break. It can be horizontal or vertical, any size, and locked.
- **Pull and break timers (new):** a countdown bar for everyone with the addon, called out in raid warning (5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Pull!), plus DBM and BigWigs pull bars for raiders who use those.
- **Invites (new):** invite the online guild members of the ranks you pick (and a minimum level), invite anyone who whispers a keyword (guild only if you like), turn the party into a raid, and give assistant to a list of players, or to everyone.
- **Combat log (new, optional):** switches on the game's combat log in raid instances for log upload sites, and off when you leave.
- **Exports:** the raid log, last raid night, attendance, points and reserves export as a navy and orange HTML page (save it as a .html file for Discord or your guild site), a Discord table, CSV or plain text.
- If you used Absolute Damage's raid log before 1.4.0, it is brought over the first time you log in.

Left out on purpose: damage and healing numbers (that's Absolute Damage's job), cooldown and reminder trackers, a visual note drawing board, aura checkers, and other extras that are heavy or don't work on WoW Forever.