WhoCore Sender — guild data sender for WoW Watchtower (GuildTracker)

WhoCore Sender is the lightweight sender half of the WoW Watchtower guild-tracking system. Install it, join your guild, and it quietly broadcasts your character data to the guild addon channel so your guild's Watchtower / GuildTracker receiver can build a live roster: gear, spec, attunements, professions, recipes, and epic loot.

It is a standalone-addon conversion of the Watchtower WeakAura pack (wago.io/tmlB8BgJ1) — no WeakAuras required. It works on both the Classic Anniversary client and the newer Forever (retail-based) client with the same install.

📦 What it sends (SamaSync module)

Once enabled, the addon automatically sends small, compressed packets on SPYSAMA_DATA (GUILD only):

• Gear (ITEMS): all 20 equipped slots, resent on login, logout, and every gear change. No more armory checks or manual links.
• Profile (GENERAL, refreshed every 10 min): class, spec/talent split (e.g. 41/20/0 on Classic, spec name on Forever), guild rank + public note, level/XP/rested, 16 key faction reputations (Argent Dawn → Scryers), and profession skill ranks.
• Attunement quests (QUESTS): completion flags for SSC, Naxx (Honored/Revered/Exalted), Karazhan, Tempest Keep, Hyjal, and Black Temple keys/attunements. Raid leads see at a glance who still needs what.
• Recipes (RECIPES): when you open a profession window, it sends that profession's known recipes as item links. Open Blacksmithing and the guild learns what you can craft; open Enchanting and they see your enchants.
• Epic+ bag items (BAG_ITEMS): itemIDs of epic-or-better items in bags 0–4. Track Nether Vortexes, Bijous/Coins, Wartorn Scraps, Words of Thawing, and other raid materials without asking in chat.
• Version handshake (VERSION): announces protocol 1.0.25 so the receiver can filter incompatible senders.

💬 Spell-request responder (ExternalRequest module — off by default)

Enable it with /whocore externalrequest on. It answers buff/utility requests whispered to you:

1. Another player whispers you a spell link ([Blessing of Protection]) or text (Use Power Infusion).
2. You instantly reply with status: BoP OK!, PI is on CD for 42s., or Innervate OUT OF RANGE! — with a real range check and cooldown check that keep working in combat.
3. You get an on-screen popup (PI → PlayerName) you can drag anywhere (position is saved, width auto-fits long names), a slow animated violet dotted border running around their raid frame (Blizzard compact frames or EllesmereUI), and optional text-to-speech.
4. When you cast it, the addon whispers the target (I cast [spell] on you.) and clears the glow. Long-cooldown spells (25s+) are announced even without a prior request.

Full two-part character names (First Last) are supported throughout. Limitation (see box above): requests are not answered during boss encounters — only in normal combat — and pending requests resolve once the encounter ends.

⏳ Raid-cooldown tracker (Cooldowns module — Forever client, off by default)

Enable it with /whocore cooldowns on, then open /wwcd config. A full raid-cooldown tracker in the style of Method Raid Tools' ExCD2:

• Live tracker bars in plain numbered columns: who has what ready, what just fired, what's ticking — with role columns, live sorting, and click-to-whisper.
• Distributed sync: every client reports its own casts and replicates them over the addon channel — one shared picture for the whole raid, with no combat-log parsing and no protected-API calls in combat.
• Deep spell database (~800 cooldowns, rank/talent variants merged) plus a custom-spell editor.
• Full MRT-style settings: Appearance, Profiles (import/export + auto-switch), History logging, test mode, and Advanced options.

Limitation (see box above): bars track fine in normal combat but freeze for the duration of boss encounters and catch up afterwards. If you need second-by-second boss-fight coverage, this module isn't it — which is exactly why it ships disabled.

🎮 How it changes your game

• Raiders: install and forget. Your info stays current for officers with zero manual exports.
• Officers / raid leads: pair this sender with the Watchtower receiver for attunement tracking, profession/recipe search ("who can craft X?"), gear overview, and consumable/material visibility — plus a shared raid-cooldown view on the Forever client.
• Support classes: Paladins, Priests, Druids, Hunters, Rogues, Warlocks and Shamans get a clean request inbox instead of missed whispers.

⌨️ Commands

/wowsender remains as a legacy alias for /whocore. The old /spysama command has been retired.

All libraries (AceComm-3.0, LibSerialize, LibDeflate) are bundled. Data only goes to your own guild — never to party, raid, or external servers.