Pug-O-Matic

Stop typing "LFM Mana-Tombs need heals" every thirty seconds

The Burning Crusade never had a dungeon finder. You post in the LFG channel, you whisper six people, four of them are already in a group, and twenty minutes later you are still standing in Shattrath.

Pug-O-Matic is the dungeon finder TBC never got. You tell it what you can play and where you want to go. It does the rest.

How it works

Everyone who wants a group joins one shared queue. Pug-O-Matic watches that queue and assembles complete parties out of it — one tank, one healer, three damage — then sends the invites.

There is no advertising and no applying. A group does not exist until the matcher has all five players, so you are never pulled into a half-formed party that falls apart before the summon.

1. Tick the roles you can play
2. Pick your dungeons — the order is your priority
3. Join the queue and get on with your quests

When five players fit together, everyone is invited at once.

Your priority actually matters

Pick as many dungeons as you like. The order is what the matcher uses.

Put Mana-Tombs first and Sethekk Halls second, and you will be sent to Mana-Tombs whenever the group can agree on it. When five players want different things, the dungeon with the best overall ranking across the whole group wins — not simply the one the most people shouted for.

Adding a second and third choice costs you nothing. It only makes you easier to place.

Bounties: pay your way to the front

Waiting for a tank is the oldest problem in the game. Pug-O-Matic lets you do something about it.

Pledge gold for the seat that is missing. Ten for a tank, five for a healer, whatever you think it is worth. Everyone queued for the same dungeon has their pledges added together, so five damage dealers offering ten gold each means a fifty gold pot for the tank who turns up.

The board shows what is on offer across the whole queue before you join, so a tank can see at a glance which dungeon is worth their time.

Payment is arranged between players. The addon shows the pledge and keeps the running total — it cannot hold or transfer gold, and it does not pretend to.

Watch it happen

A live panel shows the party filling up while you wait: which seats are taken, who is in them, and what the pot is worth. No wondering whether anything is happening.

It knows the rules

• Roles follow your class. A rogue is never offered the healer slot; a druid can queue as all three.
• Entry levels are enforced. No queueing for Outland below 58, no heroics below 70. Locked content stays visible so you can see what is coming.
• Heroic is a separate pick. Queue for normal, heroic, or both.
• Party composition is understood. Five player content needs one tank, one healer and three damage, and the matcher fills the scarce seats first.

Job board

A quiet notice board for everything that is not a dungeon run: boost offers, crafting, enchants. Pin a note, browse what others have posted, whisper whoever you need.

It never interrupts you and never matches anything automatically. You open it when you want it.

Details

• Built for TBC Classic Anniversary (interface 20506). Loads on the other Classic flavours as well.
• No dependencies. ChatThrottleLib ships inside the addon.
• /pom opens the queue · /pom jobs the board · /pom skin switches between two looks · /pom help lists everything
• Two visual styles: one built to match the game's own group finder, and a quieter flat one.

Before you queue

Everyone in a group needs Pug-O-Matic, and the queue is per realm. The addon builds its own network between the people running it, so it finds players it can see — the more of your realm has it, the faster it fills.

Nothing is sent anywhere outside the game, and no setup is required beyond installing it.

Early version

Pug-O-Matic is young. The matching, the level rules and the bounty maths are covered by automated tests, but a queue only proves itself with people in it. Expect the occasional rough edge, and tell me about anything that looks wrong — it gets fixed.