WoW Forever leaderboards: how to get on the board

Which WoW Forever leaderboards are there?

Two walls of boards: World at /world and PvP at /pvp. Each board ranks one stat, shows the top ten, and links through to the full standings. Forever has its own tab, and a Forever character is never ranked against a player from another game.

The walls hold more boards than this. Some of them, such as the biggest crit, damage dealt and interrupt boards, can’t be filled on Forever. More on that below.

How are the stats recorded?

The addons count in game, the game saves to disk, and the companion app uploads the file. Nothing leaves the game on its own: addons aren’t allowed to send data anywhere.

1. The addon records in memory. The World and PvP addons count as you play, in the open world and in instances.
2. The game writes the file. WoW saves addon data only on /reload, logout or quit. Kill a hundred murlocs and keep playing, and they exist only in memory.
3. The app uploads it. The app checks the saved files every two seconds and uploads a changed one within seconds. The boards show what was uploaded.

Uploading twice is safe. Each fact has an id that comes out the same every time, and lifetime totals are sent as absolute numbers and replaced, so nothing is counted twice. The details are in how sync works.

Why are some boards empty on Forever?

Because Forever doesn’t let addons read the combat log, and the addons don’t guess. Forever runs on the modern engine. In combat, addons can’t see the combat log, and health, power, auras and threat are hidden from them. Our WoW Forever addons guide explains the rules.

So on Forever, the World addon leaves alone the stats only the combat log could tell: damage and healing dealt, crits, interrupts, dispels and critter kills. Those boards stay empty for Forever characters. An empty board there is the honest state, not a bug.

What the addon can still see covers a lot: mobs it saw die while you or your group were fighting them, experience messages, loot and roll messages, movement, quests, gathering and time played.

What counts as a kill in PvP on Forever?

On Forever there is no killing blow without the combat log. A kill means an enemy player died while you were fighting them, and an assist means they died while fighting your group, or the honor message credited you. The board keeps its name, but that’s what it measures on Forever. In battlegrounds the game can hide enemy names from addons during combat, so some battleground kills can go unrecorded. Our PvP on WoW Forever post goes further.

How do I get on the board?

Install early, then make sure your sessions are saved and uploaded. The addons count from the moment they’re installed, so a character levelled before the install starts the boards from zero.

• Install before launch night. The app installs into the Forever client as soon as it finds it. The steps are in install GuildPro for WoW Forever.
• End sessions properly. A logout or /reload saves the file. A crash loses everything since the last save.
• Keep the app running. It starts with Windows and sits in the tray. If it was closed, it uploads whatever is on disk the next time it starts.
• Play everything. Dungeons, quests, gathering, duels and the open world all feed different boards. Forever’s nine new dungeons and four new zones are a lot of distance and a lot of mobs.

There’s nothing to apply for, and nothing to pay. Every board and every stat is free.

Are my stats public?

Yes, like an armory page, with two things private until you turn them on. Once a character has been uploaded, its page shows its PvP and world records and trophies, and it can appear on the boards. There’s no switch to hide a character’s page.

• Gold boards show “Anonymous” unless you tick Show my character names on gold boards on your account page.
• Your characters aren’t linked to each other in public unless you turn that on.
• Your Discord account is never shown on a public page.

See privacy controls for both switches.

What do I get for being on a board?

A rank, and trophies. Trophies are tied to the same numbers the boards use. When a stat passes a threshold, the trophy appears in your character’s trophy case, on a ladder from grey to orange, and the Best of the best board rewards being high on many boards rather than one.

When do the boards fill up?

From launch, as players upload. WoW Forever launches on 4 November, per Wowhead’s roadmap. Until Forever characters have uploaded, the Forever tab shows empty boards. That’s the real state of a new game, and it won’t stay that way for long.

If your guild wants to put its members on the boards together, add the install to your pre-launch list. It’s one of the steps in our WoW Forever guild checklist.