Find Your Flock, Faster

Character profiles now show off their achievements

Every character page now wears its earned achievements and total points with pride, pulled live from Blizzard and matched against a datamined catalog for proper names and point values. A tidy way to see who's been busy when you're not raiding.

Soft reserve a slot for the PUG who flew in late

A raid lead can now add a soft reserve for someone who never signed up, the friendly PUG who joined once the night was already rolling. Their pick lands in the list with a guest badge and flows into the Gargul export right alongside everyone else, so nobody's reserve goes missing just because they came in the side door.

A roomier group builder, and PvP sorted into Arenas and Battlegrounds

Building a group on a desktop now opens in a wider window with more room to work, while phones keep the tidy full-width view. And picking PvP no longer dumps every bracket in one pile, Arenas and Battlegrounds now sit in their own labelled groups, the same way raids and dungeons sort by expansion.

Each battleground, scenario and world boss now wears its own achievement crest

Every PvP bracket, scenario and world boss now borrows the crest from its own in-game achievement, so Theramore's Fall shows its teleport sigil and Galleon the mushan he rides. And when you build a run on a wide screen, your picks now sit in a sticky panel on the right so the list and your group stay in view together.

PvP, World Bosses and Scenarios got their own faces

Picking a battleground, arena, world boss or scenario used to land you with the same plain placeholder. Now each wears a fitting crest, Warsong its flag, Oondasta his devilsaur, so the group finder reads at a glance, while dungeons and raids keep their real instance art.

The group finder now speaks your expansion's language

Looking for group got a top-to-tail rebuild around what you actually do. Pick Raid, Dungeon or PvP first and Hootus only offers what your guild's expansion really has, with goals and difficulties that fit the activity, and all the old clutter like mount runs turning up on TBC has flown off.

Achievement runs show what they're worth

When you post a group chasing an achievement, the listing now shows its point value, with a Wowhead hover so anyone eyeing it can size up the haul before they sign on.

The last few dungeons and raids that showed a plain icon now have their art

A handful of old favourites were falling back to a generic icon because their names did not line up with the art, the Dire Maul wings, both Stratholmes, the Stockade, Sunken Temple, Hyjal and Tempest Keep. Hootus tracked down the right pictures, so every dungeon and raid in the group finder shows its own face now.

PvP brackets show up again, plus a couple of finishing touches

The PvP list was coming up empty because Hootus kept asking for brackets by the wrong name, now sorted, so the real in-game lineup appears the moment you pick PvP. World Bosses also got their own icon and Scenarios picked up a Random option.