A Raid-Helper alternative, built only for WoW Classic.
Raid-Helper schedules your raid and does it well. Hootus picks up the parts a scheduler was never built to cover: armory verification, signup validation, attendance from raid voice, loot fairness, and recruitment. All of it WoW-native, in Discord and on the web.
Raid-Helper is good at the job it was built for.
It has been the default raid scheduler on Discord since 2019, and for good reason. Post the weekly raid, collect class and spec signups, manage the waitlist, run recurring events. It nails that one job, it is trusted by hundreds of thousands of servers, and it works across any game. This is not a page about it being bad.
It is a page about a different job. Once a WoW Classic guild gets serious, the raid stops being the only moving part. Now there is a soft-reserve link nobody can find, a loot addon in another tab, a recruitment queue somewhere, and attendance nobody actually tracks. That is the part a general scheduler was never trying to cover. That is the part Hootus is.
What a WoW-specific bot adds.
A general scheduler posts the event. Hootus knows your class, your roster, your loot, and your recruits.
- Collects the class and spec a member types in
- Loot lives in another tab, if anyone logs it at all
- Signup posts and waitlists, recurring events behind premium
- Works for any game, on any server
- One job, posting the event, done well
- Confirms the character against the Blizzard armory
- Loot logged from Gargul, items won lined up against raids attended
- Class- and spec-aware validation on every signup
- Roster pulled from Blizzard, synced every hour
- The whole guild: verification, loot, recruitment, lifecycle
Framed at the category level on purpose. The left column is what a general event scheduler does, not a list of things any one bot cannot do. The right column is verified against what Hootus actually ships.
Everything on the right, in detailThe WoW-native parts are free.
Raid-Helper is free to start, with twelve features behind a premium that is per-server and sold by duration: 3, 6, or 12 months, or €55 forever. Fair enough, it is a big tool with real bills.
- Premium features, free here
- 7Premium features, free here
- He does not do at all
- 3He does not do at all
- To buy today
- 0To buy today
Hootus draws the line somewhere else. Seven of those twelve are free here, custom templates among them, three he does not do at all, and the parts a scheduler leaves to your other tabs, verification, recruitment, the planner, loot logs, and analytics, are free at the core and mean to stay that way. There is nothing to buy today, and the everyday raid-night basics never move behind a wall.
If a paid layer ever lands it will be for heavy extras, clearly drawn, never the basics. The honest version lives on the Feed the Owl page.
What keeping the bot online costs
A scheduler collects who is coming. Hootus confirms who they actually are.
Six things a general scheduler leaves to your other tabs. Each one ships today, none of it is a promise.
Sometimes it is the better pick. Honestly.
Switching cost is real and so is fit. Four times a general scheduler is the right call, listed plainly instead of buried at the bottom.
And you do not have to choose. Keep Raid-Helper for posting the weekly raid if your guild loves it, and let Hootus handle verification, attendance, loot, and recruitment alongside it. Lower switching cost, same raid night.
- You run a community that plays more than WoW. Hootus is WoW Classic only, Classic Era, TBC, and MoP, and a multi-game server is a poor fit.
- You want pure scheduling and nothing else. A guild that only needs "post the raid, click to sign up" has less to learn with a dedicated scheduler.
- You live in Google Calendar. Raid-Helper syncs to it and Hootus does not, so if your week is planned in a calendar rather than in Discord, that is a real gap and not one to talk you out of.
- You value a long track record. Raid-Helper has been the default since 2019 across hundreds of thousands of servers. That reach and reliability are real, and worth respecting.
Add the WoW-native half of your stack.
Verified rosters, signup validation, attendance from voice, loot fairness, and recruitment, in Discord and on the web. Add Hootus, walk the wizard, and let your scheduler keep doing what it does best.