Key Scout

Your next group is one button press away.

Key Scout is an addon that works while you continue to play. Each step needs a real key press, the way Blizzard requires, and you choose which keys count.

KeyScout: Mythic+ groups without the stress

You know how it goes: you apply to five groups and wait. Two decline, one delists, one fills your role while you're still waiting. So you search, cancel, reapply and refresh. Half an hour later you've done nothing but click listings in Silvermoon.

KeyScout turns the key presses you already make into Group Finder steps: one search, apply or cancel per press. Keep questing, farming or doing world content while your five applications stay filled with the best groups. When an invite pops, accept it and you're in.

Get started in three steps

1. Pick your key level/range 
2. Paste KeyScout's search text into Group Finder once.

   Blizzard doesn't let addons type in that search box, so KeyScout shows you the exact text (like +09 10 for +10s only). Click it, press Ctrl+C, paste it into the search box and press Enter. The panel turns green when it's set.

3. Click ON if not already on and play the game you love

While you play and press keybinds...

• Your slots stay full. Up to 5 applications, refilled with the next best match when one is declined, delisted or expires or you manually swap one in.
• It trades up. A clearly better group replaces your weakest application.
• It cleans up. Applications whose role filled, or that no longer fit your settings, are withdrawn.
• Every group gets a Match score: your level and dungeons, what the group still needs and what you bring (Lust/Hero, battle res, a missing dispel), the leader, and how fresh the listing is.
• Sellers and carry teams are skipped by default. You can turn that off in Filters > Advanced.

You choose what triggers it

Under Applying > Key Press:

• any action button (the default);
• only the keys you pick;
• only KeyScout's own keybind, for example your mouse wheel.

Clicking the panel always works too. KeyScout never accepts invites for you, and it never posts in chat unless you turn that on.

Once you're in

You're in! shows:

• the dungeon and key level;
• each player's rating, item level and best run in that dungeon;
• whether the group has Lust/Hero, battle res, interrupts and dispels;
• Group Readiness score;
• Grouped with someone before? You'll see how those keys went.
• a one-click teleport if you've earned it.
  
  After the key, you get a result score next to the readiness you started with. 

For key pushers

• Insights: how your groups did by readiness, basic needs, experience, rating, gear, affix and dungeon.
• Group leaders: who invites you, how fast, and whose keys get timed.
• Vault Goals and Plan by Dungeon: aim for exactly the key levels or dungeons you need.

See exactly why

The Listings tab shows every group from the last search, with its Match score or the reason it was skipped, plus a button that opens the setting behind each skip.

FAQ

Does KeyScout pause? Yes: inside dungeons and raids, while you're in a group, during a Mythic+ key, and while an invite is waiting. It keeps working in open-world combat.

What role does it apply as? Your current spec's role, or pick roles under Keys > Apply As.

Does it send a note to the leader? Blizzard's application note goes with every application. KeyScout can't type it, but whatever you last wrote there is sent, and the Chat tab shows it.

Does it need other addons? No. If you have Raider.IO, KeyScout also recognises players whose main character is rated higher.

Languages? It works in every game client language. The interface is English for now; translations are welcome.

Commands

• /ks: KeyScout panel
• /ks menu: settings
• /ks group: your group's summary
• /ks help: every command

Early access

Key Scout is in early testing. Your Feedback is important to me.

• Join the in-game beta community search for "Key Scout"
• Join us on Discord and provide your feedback: https://discord.gg/h7CR82kQK
• Or email us Bugs and/or ideas for either addon at support@keyscout.dev
• The free BugSack addon makes error reports much easier.
• Enjoying it? Support development on [Ko-fi donation link].