Raid plans: draw your boss strategy on the raid's map, and show it to the whole raid live
· ForeverDB
Raid leaders can now draw their own plan for every boss on the raid's real map: routes, curved arrows, circles in yards, raid markers and notes, in steps. Press Show to the raid and every member's map follows, on ForeverDB and in game. Raid night live adds a real-time log of the night.
Explaining a fight in raid chat only goes so far. From today a raid leader can draw the plan on the raid's own map, step by step, and the whole raid sees the step they're on as they move through it: on ForeverDB, on the guild's Raid night live page, and in game with the ForeverDB addon. It's part of guild tools, free like the rest. The full tour is on Raid plans.
Drawing tools
- Pen and Route draw freehand and smooth the line when you let go. A route ends in an arrow, for where to run.
- Curved arrows: drag from start to end, then drag the middle dot to bend the arrow round a pillar or a pack.
- Circles measured in yards from the map's own scale, filled areas for fire and safe spots, and a Measure tool for any distance.
- The eight raid markers, tank, healer, melee and ranged dots, your members by name in their class colour, bosses, adds and text.
- Colours, line widths, dashed lines, undo and redo, and zoom for the big raids.
Notes, like comments in a spreadsheet
Pin a note anywhere on the map, or put one on a drawing: a route, an arrow, a circle. A drawing with a note gets a small red corner flag, and the note shows when you point at it. The map stays readable and the detail is there for whoever wants it.
Steps, and the whole raid on the same one
Each boss gets up to 12 steps, such as the pull, the bats and the landing, each with its drawing and a short note, plus a written guide for the fight. A plan belongs to the guild and the boss, so next week's raid uses it again. When an officer presses Show to the raid, every member's plan moves to that step, and moves again when the officer goes to the next one.
In game, the ForeverDB addon's new Raid plan window (version 0.58.0) draws the same plan over the instance map. When the raid leader or an assistant moves to a step, every raid member's window follows. The plans come with the raid code from the event's raid page, and the leader's addon also sends each boss's plan to raid members who run ForeverDB.
Raid night live
Every guild page has a Raid night live page for the members who can't make it and anyone following along. A raider turns on Live logging and presses Feed my live logging, and the page shows the night's kills, wipes, deaths and pulls, with the damage and healing meters while a fight is on, updated every few seconds. Beside it, a mini map shows the plan's current step to the guild's members, and below sit up to four streams and the guild's Discord chat. More on Raid night live.
Getting started
Open guild tools, pick your guild and choose Raid plans. Officers whose rank has the events permission can draw and present; every verified member can see the plans. Maps are ready for 46 raids and dungeons, stitched from the WoW Forever client's own minimap art.