Vortex Raid Tool Forever

The in-game half of Vortex Raid Tool, built for World of Warcraft: Forever — its own addon for the Forever client, from the same code as the Anniversary one. What a guild needs from the first login is here now; what needs the raids comes with them on 9 December.

From the first login

Who in the guild can make it. The Professions tab lists every craft of every Forever profession, Forever's own recipes included, grouped by slot the way a character sheet reads, highest skill first. Pick a profession, pick a slot, and each row names the guildmates who know the recipe, in class colour, with a green dot when they are online. Hover a row for the materials as the crafter's own window lists them; search a recipe, a material or a crafter across every profession (/vrt who copper); shift-click to link it in chat; right-click for the crafters, one click whispers.

Nobody maintains it. Open a profession window and your recipes, with their materials, reach every guildmate who runs the addon over the game's own addon channel; a client that logs in asks the guild for whatever it lacks, and asks again every half hour. This part needs nothing but the addon — no website, no account, nothing to set up.

Read off your own character, not typed into a spreadsheet: your resistance gear (worn, bags, bank), your known recipes for every character of yours in the guild, and — for whoever runs the guild — the guild bank as you saw it and the roster as the game lists it. The addon never writes in chat; everything it has to say goes to its own log (/vrt log).

With the raids, 9 December

Your own jobs for the boss you are on — who interrupts, which mark you stand on, which group you are in — with the room picture beside it, sent to the whole raid by one officer over the raid channel; a consumables check for the raid, in vanilla's rules (any two elixirs, one flask); the loot council's numbers beside each candidate in the voting frame. All of it is built the week the raids can be seen, boss by boss, the way it was for Black Temple and Hyjal on Anniversary. Until then those tabs say so instead of showing an empty sheet.

What it needs

The addon is free, and the Professions tab and the guild sync work with nothing else. What the rest displays is made on vortexraidtool.com, which your guild sets up once with a Discord login — the roster, recipes, guild bank requests and Discord from launch day; assignments and loot priority with the raids. Being straight about the money: raid assignments are part of the paid tier ($5 a month or $49 a year, 14 days free for every new guild, no card). Everything else this addon feeds is on the free tier. A guild that raids Anniversary too runs both from one setup.

A raider needs nothing but the addon. One person in the guild sets the rest up.

Installing

The CurseForge app installs and updates it like any other addon — the way to have it, so the whole raid stays on one version. By hand: extract the VortexRaidToolForever folder into the Forever client's Interface\AddOns (on the beta: World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\Interface\AddOns). Restart the game the first time; if it does not appear, tick Load out of date AddOns on the character screen.

Commands

/vrt, /vortex and /vrtf are the same command.

What leaves your game

Nothing, except to your own guild. An addon cannot make a network request — everything here travels over the game's addon channel to guildmates who have it, and reaches the site only through an officer who runs the uploader on their own PC. Every read is stamped with the client and realm it came from, so a guild that plays two games sends each read to the right site and a site never takes the other game's.

Where to shout about it

Bugs, requests and questions: the help Discord, linked from vortexraidtool.com. What changed in each version: vortexraidtool.com/changes.