15 Jul 2026 · v1.49.0 to v1.49.3
Shout It From the Perch
No more typing the same recruitment shout every week and counting characters on your fingers. Pick the classes and specs you want, set the reserves, and the planner stitches you a tidy copy-paste post with your signup link and a live counter. When the pugs roll in, the approval card names which door they walked through.
1 New
The planner writes your LFM shout for you
Every raid on the planner now has an LFM message button. Pick the classes and specs you want, set your reserves, and Hootus stitches it into a clean copy-paste post with your signup link and a live character counter so it always fits, with per-raid hard-reserve presets and both TBC and MoP covered.
2 Improved
PUG approvals now tell you where they came from
The approval card has a new Source line showing which link a pug walked in on, the general signup or a specific raid's, and it flags when they clicked one raid's link but applied for another. The character name links to a working armory now, and open approvals get refreshed with all of this when Hootus wakes up.
The LFM builder learned a couple of new tricks
The recruitment tool no longer makes you type the time, it knows when your raid is and drops in a Discord timestamp that shows in everyone's local time. Hard reserves now come pre-filled per raid too, so Tempest Keep already lists its mount, recipes and vortexes without you lifting a talon.
1 Fixed
PUG approvals stopped crying wolf
The approval card got smarter about where a pug came from. It no longer flags a "wrong link" warning when someone came back on a Hootus nudge or their raid had already ended, it names the actual source, and it only warns on a genuine switch between two live raids.