Version 5.0, part one. The theme of this update, and the ones coming after it, is tying all the tools together and improving the flow of your weekly setup, assignment, and cooldown updates through more automated processes and tools. We're also adding the CD lib, a public space where users can share their CD plans.
The Planning Hub
An overview of everything relevant to planning your raid week, found at the top of the sidebar. The Setup and CD Overview pages now live in here too, accessible from the top-left of the Planning Hub. This page will keep gaining features through the rest of version 5.0, including automatically building setups, assignments, and more.
- A Weekly Overview. Your most recently edited reset, featured at the top with a per-boss status of your setup and a Copy All Notes button to export it in one click. In 5.0 part two this will be replaced with showing your calendar event setups instead.
- Helpful links. Especially for new users, we've added a few links to the Planning Hub to help you get started.
- Recently visited CD plans. Jump straight back into the plans you last worked on, so you can pick up where you left off.
The Cooldown Library
A library of cooldown plans shared by the community, found in the sidebar. Easy to share, easy to import. For your progression CDs, your raid calls, or perhaps your content creator of choice will create a plan for you!
- Browse plans by boss. Search the plans other users have shared, find a template you like, and make your own copy.
- Imports as a template. A library plan lands as a template, so you can apply it to any of your setups right away. More on templates below.
- Share your own. Publish from your CD plans menu or from the library page. It becomes a template other raid leaders can import for themselves, with your raiders kept anonymous.
Soon NSRT will also be able to adhoc export your current raid group. Where you'll be able to import a plan from the library and apply it to your current raid group, without having to create a new plan.
Publishing and importing community plans are free. Our Supporter cooldown examples for each boss appear in the Library too, marked with a Supporter badge.
Cooldown plans and templates
Your cooldown notes now come in two kinds, and which one you reach for depends on how much your roster moves.
- CD Plans: the lineup you know. Cooldowns are assigned to players by name. It's what you want for your progression team or your own personal notes, the roster that barely changes week to week.
- CD Templates (new): a roster that rotates. Cooldowns are assigned to a spec or class instead of a name, then handed to whoever's actually in the setup. Link one template to as many setups as you like and your assignments always land, even with a changing roster. Built for splits, farm kills, and soon pugs.
- Keep the same player on the same cooldowns. Set a preferred character on a slot and they take those cooldowns whenever they're in the setup, so the same person keeps the same job from week to week. With no preference set, slots fill in order: the first matching player takes #1, the next takes #2.
- Move between the two. Generate a plan from a template when you want to hand-tweak a single week, export an NSRT note straight from a template, or save an adjusted plan back out as a template. The menu for all of this got a cleaner look.
- Assign class cooldowns, not just spec ones. Put a class-wide cooldown — Rallying Cry, Anti-Magic Zone, roars, Time Spiral — on a class slot and any spec of that class can take it, even if that player is already covering spec cooldowns from another row.
In practice: a template hands Healing Tide to a "Resto Shaman" slot. Link it to your Tuesday split and that night's Resto Shaman casts it; link the same template to Thursday's farm and whoever heals there picks it up as well.
You can also assign 3 sets of time spirals to Evoker class. In Tuesday's Setup where you have 3 evokers of any combination of specs, they get split out one per evoker. And in Thursday's Setup where you only have two evokers, you get your two highest prio time spirals set to those evokers.
No reassigning, just one template plan, and easy cooldowns all week, for all your raids!
The Warcraft Logs hub
The WCL tools are now all in one hub, and the top bar lets you navigate between them more easily.
- Everything in one place. The import tool and a rundown of each WCL tool, Compare, Top Rankings, Heatmap, and Top Comps, now share the same page.
- Your filters stick. The spell categories and players you've picked are remembered, so you're not re-checking boxes every import.
Around the app
- Hide responses you don't track. Loot history can now hide responses like Transmog or Disenchant, so your awards and stats stay focused on real loot.
- Buyers live with the setup. Buyers sit as inline rows in the reset config instead of a separate popup, so paid spots are edited right alongside the roster.
- A smoother join. Open an invite link and you see the group's name and icon before you sign in, then get a nudge to claim your spot once you're in.
- Rosters from other tools import cleanly. A roster brought in from elsewhere no longer trips up the audit tables when its roles are labeled differently.
- Clear a reminder entirely. You can set an assignment's text or timer to nothing, instead of it falling back to a default.
- Raidstrats embed improvements Added numbers so its clearer who you assign to, and improved the loading of the embeds.
What's next
This is part one. Part two of 5.0 is the big one: Curio, our optimizer, working out your setups and assignments for you instead of by hand. More on that soon.
As always, feedback and ideas are welcome in Discord or on the Community page.