Glossary

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Character approval

The website review step that lets a Discord-authenticated player accept or reject a newly imported character. An unapproved character cannot be offered for a raid.

Companion

The desktop application paired with a player's RaidManager account. It reads the addon's saved data after World of Warcraft (WoW) writes it to disk and uploads character snapshots to the application programming interface (API).

Character

A Warmane World of Warcraft character identified by realm and character name. Character-wide state includes approval, ownership, synchronization freshness, and raid lockouts.

Community

A Discord server linked to RaidManager, raiding on one Warmane realm. Everyone in the server is a member; the user who added the bot is its Administrator, and the Discord roles it maps give its roles, such as Officer or Raid leader.

Community role

A role in a community, such as Officer, Raid leader or one the community created, with the permissions it allows: Manage raids, Build rosters, Run raid night, Review conflicts and Manage community roles. A member has every permission of every role their Discord roles give them.

Role manager

A member whose roles grant Manage community roles. A role manager creates, changes and deletes the community's roles and maps Discord roles to them, except a role that itself grants Manage community roles, which only the Administrator changes.

Discord identity

The external Discord account that authenticates a platform user. The platform does not manage local passwords.

Eligibility

Whether an approved character can join a scheduled raid target. The decision compares the matching instance and difficulty lockout reset with the raid start. Missing or stale lockout data produces a needs-fresh-sync verdict, not an available result.

Officer exception

A recorded, visible reason for rostering a character whose lockout status needs a fresh sync. It does not make that character eligible and cannot override a confirmed active lockout.

GearScore

The WotLK community metric calculated for one concrete character loadout. A character can therefore have multiple GearScores.

Loadout

A raid-capable character configuration containing a specialization, role, equipment set, GearScore, talents, glyphs, combat statistics and synchronization timestamp. From the addon, each of a character's talent groups (dual specialization) is a loadout.

Raid lockout

A character-wide saved-instance state for a raid instance and difficulty, with a reset time. The synchronized record can also include extension and encounter-progress details when the game exposes them. Lockouts do not belong to a loadout.

Raid signup

A user's expression of availability for a raid, including one or more offered verified character loadouts. The website and Discord bot edit the same response. Availability can be confirmed, tentative, late, or declined.

Roster selection

The single signup option chosen by a raid leader for a user in a concrete raid roster.

Raid-start readiness

The verdict for one character and raid target at the scheduled start: available, resets before raid, locked through raid, or needs fresh sync.

SavedVariables

The WoW addon data that the game writes to a local file on reload, logout, or exit. The addon cannot send this data directly to the website.

Signup preset

A reusable selection of characters, specializations, preferences, and notes for raid signups.

Warmane realm

A Warmane game realm such as Icecrown, Lordaeron, Blackrock or Onyxia.