The Model in Two Sentences
A raid week holds your plans. A plan holds setups, and a setup can point at a calendar night, which is where its signups come from.
That is the whole system. Everything on the Planning Hub and in the planner is one of these four things:
| Word | What it is |
|---|---|
| Week | The container. One raid week per reset, numbered per season, shown as a timeline on the Planning Hub. |
| Plan | One named plan living in a week. Most guilds run one plan per week; split raids or prog pushes can hold several. |
| Setup | A variant inside a plan: who plays each boss for one run. "Thursday Heroic", "Split A", "Mythic prog". |
| Night | A calendar raid night. Signups and absences live on nights, never on plans. |
Where to find it
Your weeks live on the Planning Hub, and each plan opens in the Setup Planner. Raid nights live on your group page under the Calendar tab.
Start Your Week
The Planning Hub leads with the current week. One click gets you raiding:
Start this week
If last week has a plan, Start this week carries it forward: your setups and cooldown notes are cloned into the new week, and last week stays untouched. No plan yet? Start blank instead.
Adjust in the planner
The new plan opens in the Setup Planner. Update the roster, swap who is in on each boss, and tweak the cooldown notes where this week differs.
Publish when it's ready
Keep a plan as a draft while you're still building it. Raiders only see it once you publish.
Need a second plan in the same week, for splits or an extra prog night? Use New plan on the week row or the hero card, or New plan in Week N from the planner's week switcher. Each week can hold as many plans as your week needs.
Point a Setup at a Night
A setup can be anchored to one calendar night, or float on the plan's week:
- Night-anchored: the setup is for that night. Its attendance badges and benches come from that night's signups.
- Week-floating: no single night, useful for split raids and prog planning. Attendance falls back to the week's next upcoming night, and the planner labels which night it is showing (for example "Signups: Tue, Jul 7").
Anchor a setup from its tab in the planner: the night chip asks "Which night is this setup for?" and lists the week's nights.
It also works from the other direction. Open a raid night on the Calendar and use Plan a setup: if the night's week has no plan yet, one click creates a plan in that week with a setup anchored to the night, and drops you in the planner. If plans already exist, link one of them instead.
Signups Flow Into Your Benches
Raiders answer their nights on the Calendar. The planner reads those answers wherever a setup is anchored:
- Absent and late raiders show ABS and LATE badges on the setup's roster, labeled with the night they come from.
- Update Roster pulls your latest roster into the setup and benches whoever answered absent for the anchored night, in the same pass. The toast tells you exactly who was benched.
- The bench popover next to the roster lets you bench by hand from any night of the week.
So the loop is: raiders keep their signups honest, and your setup keeps itself honest.
Carry the Week Forward
Each reset, carry your plan into the new week. Copy-forward clones everything and keeps the old week intact:
- Default names advance with the week ("Week 16" becomes "Week 17"); custom names like "Main" stay as they are.
- Night-anchored setups re-anchor to the new week's night on the same weekday, when one exists. A setup whose night has no match becomes week-floating with a nudge to pick a night.
- The source plan is never changed. Last week stays exactly as you raided it.
Been living in one plan for weeks?
That keeps working. When your plan's week falls behind, the planner offers a quiet Start Week N from this plan shortcut that carries it forward for you, so you get a fresh week without rebuilding anything.