Guild Scout

Guild Scout is a recruitment assistant for World of Warcraft Anniversary. It helps guild recruiters discover nearby guildless players, maintain prospect records, inspect equipment, and organize recruitment workflows.

The recruiter database persists across reloads, relogs, and future play sessions. All data remains local in World of Warcraft SavedVariables.

Find Potential Recruits

Scan nearby players and discover characters matching your recruitment criteria.

Filter the Recruitment table by:

Level range
Class
Recruitment status
Observation status
Minimum GearScore when TacoTip is available
Player name or notes

Friendly Name Plates must be enabled for nearby-player discovery. Guild Scout documents this requirement but never reads or changes the setting automatically.

Scanning can be started or stopped from the workspace header or by right-clicking the minimap button. Automatic scanning at login is optional and disabled by default.

Persistent Recruiter Database

Guild Scout maintains records containing:

Notes
Recruitment status
Main and off spec
Last-seen information
GearScore
Equipment snapshot
Inspection status
Meaningful record-update count

Status, specs, and notes save automatically. Records remain available until removed through Selective Purge or Factory Reset.

Equipment and Spec Inspection

Inspect a supported nearby player to capture a timestamped equipment snapshot and detect their primary spec from their talent trees.

Captured equipment remains available after the player leaves and supports standard item tooltips.

For a faster workflow, right-click a Recruitment row to open the player record and begin inspection immediately.

Recruiter Interface

The Selected Recruiter window uses a compact, Classic-inspired equipment layout with:

Class and race portraits
Level and GearScore
Presence and last-seen information
Main and off-spec controls
Recruitment status
Scrollable notes
Equipment tooltips
Whisper and Inspect actions

The Recruitment and Selected Recruiter windows can be positioned independently.

Minimap Button

The draggable minimap button supports both round and square minimaps:

Left-click: Open Guild Scout
Right-click: Start or stop scanning

The button changes color to show whether scanning is active.

Backup and Transfer

Export recruiter records for backup or transfer, then import them later.

The text transfer format includes recruiter data but excludes equipment snapshots. Back up Guild Scout SavedVariables when a complete backup, including captured equipment, is required.

Settings also provides:

Selective Purge with preview and confirmation
Select All support
Factory Reset with confirmation

Diagnostics and Support

Use:

/guildscout debug

This produces a sanitized scanner report containing lifecycle state, aggregate unit counts, filter statistics, and scanner errors.

Diagnostic reports do not include player identities. Development builds also include a Diagnostics panel; stable releases keep diagnostics available through the command.

Slash Commands

Open Guild Scout with:

/gst
/guildscout

Additional commands are available for scanning, status, configuration, exporting, filtering, and diagnostics.

TacoTip Integration

When TacoTip is installed, Guild Scout automatically imports cached GearScore values during scans. No additional configuration is required.

Blizzard API Boundaries

Guild Scout assists recruiters without automating player interaction.

It does not:

Send whispers automatically
Target players automatically
Inspect arbitrary offline characters
Change Friendly Name Plates or other game settings
Upload player data anywhere

Inspections and whispers require explicit user actions and supported Blizzard unit information.

Privacy

Guild Scout only stores information available through Blizzard’s addon API or entered manually by the user. All records remain local in your World of Warcraft SavedVariables.

Feedback

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome.

When reporting scanner problems, include the sanitized output from:

/guildscout debug