No. It's a good tool for what it was built for: retail raid teams tracking item level, the Great Vault, Mythic+ and wishlists. Forever doesn't have most of those systems, so the columns that matter are different.

What should a WoW Forever roster tracker show?

Who plays what (main, alts, class and spec), which roles you can fill, who turns up, who sits on the bench, and what loot each person has had. Before launch, it should also show what people plan to play.

Yes. The roster, roster call, signups, attendance, loot history and the Discord bot are free for every guild of any size.

Where does GuildPro's roster data come from?

From the GuildPro addon in game. One member's upload lists the whole guild, because the addon reads the in-game member list. Before launch, the Discord roster call fills a preliminary roster. See the guild roster docs.

wowaudit alternative for WoW Forever guilds

wowaudit is built around retail: item level, the Great Vault, Mythic+ keys and sim-based wishlists. WoW Forever has none of those at launch, so a Forever officer needs a different set of columns: who plays what, which roles you can fill, who shows up, who sat on the bench and who got loot. GuildPro tracks those, free, from the addon and your Discord.

Post a /rostercall so everyone names a main and up to five alts
Read the Preliminary roster: count tanks and healers per role
Agree the guild’s main and alt rule before launch
After launch, get one officer running the addon and app
Set specs on the Guild roster so role counts are honest
Tie each raid to a signup sheet so no-shows and bench are counted
Check attendance and loot by person, not by character

What is wowaudit good at?

wowaudit is a strong roster tool for retail raid teams. It brings a team’s characters into one sheet-like overview and keeps it current, so an officer can see gear, weekly progress and preparation at a glance instead of opening every armory page by hand.

Its columns are retail’s columns: item level and gear upgrades, Great Vault progress, Mythic+ keystones, raid progression and wishlists built from sims. If you run a retail Mythic team, those are exactly the numbers you want, and wowaudit has had years to get them right. As far as we know it is built for retail; check their own site for which game versions they support today.

This post isn’t an argument that wowaudit is worse. It’s that WoW Forever asks different questions.

Why doesn’t a retail roster tool fit WoW Forever?

Because most of the systems it tracks don’t exist in Forever. Forever is a level 60 game with no Great Vault and no Mythic+ ladder. Per Wowhead’s overview, launch brings nine new dungeons, four new zones and the Skyborne race, and the first raids (Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia’s Lair) open on 9 December.

What a Forever guild worries about in its first months is simpler, and harder to fake:

Who is playing what. Forever adds new race and class combinations, and Paladins can tank. Your old guild’s class spread tells you very little.
Alts. The Legacy system rewards levelling several classes, so more people will have more than one character. You need to know which one is the main.
Who shows up. In a fresh game, reliable people are worth more than any gear score.
Who sat out. A raider on the bench gave up their night. That should count.
Who got loot. With 10, 20 and 40-player raids on the roadmap, fairness gets argued about quickly.

What should a Forever roster tracker show?

Five things: the plan, the roster, the roles, the attendance and the loot. Here’s where a retail tool, a spreadsheet and GuildPro start from.

	wowaudit	A spreadsheet	GuildPro
Built for	Retail	Anything you type	WoW Forever and Classic
Item level, Great Vault, Mythic+	Yes, its core	By hand	No. Forever doesn’t have them.
Before launch: who plans to play what	Starts from characters that exist	A poll you copy in	`/rostercall` in Discord, no account needed
Where the data comes from	Retail character data	Whoever keeps it up	The addon in game, plus your Discord

For the columns a Forever officer actually lives in, the fair comparison is the spreadsheet most guilds start with:

What you need	A spreadsheet	GuildPro
Main and alt per person	Typed by hand	From the addon and each player’s profile
Roles you can fill	Formulas	Can fill counts per role
Attendance	Filled in after every raid	From the addon, at every boss pull
Bench credit	If someone remembers	Benched raids count in the rate
Loot received	Typed by hand	Recorded by the addon, per person
Discord signups	No	Signup sheets with buttons
Cost	Free	Free

The spreadsheet column is honest too. A sheet does everything if someone keeps it up, and that someone is usually one tired officer. The point of an addon-fed tool is that the data arrives on its own.

How does GuildPro’s roster work?

The GuildPro addon reads your in-game guild list, and one member’s upload fills the whole roster. Officers open Guild roster and see every character grouped by class and spec, with main, alt of or unclaimed beside each name and a dot for who was online at the last sync.

Example GuildPro roster with fictional names: role counts for tank, healer, melee and ranged, characters grouped by class and spec with main and alt tags, and an attendance table with rate, bench and no-show columns — An illustrative roster and attendance view. The names and numbers are made up.

A few details that matter on Forever:

Can fill counts how many characters could play each role. A character with no spec set counts for every role its class can play, so officers set specs with Set specs to stop the tank and healer counts looking rosier than they are.
Officers can mark main or alt for the guild’s own record without overwriting what the player chose on their profile.
Characters claimed by the same account count as one person. Attendance and loot follow the person, not the character.

Full details are in the guild roster docs.

What about before launch, when nobody has a character?

Post a roster call. An officer types /rostercall in Discord and the bot posts a sheet with My Main and My Alts buttons. Each person picks a class and spec for a main and up to five alts, or Undecided. Nobody needs a GuildPro account to answer.

On a Forever guild page, Guild roster opens with a Preliminary roster card built from those answers: counts per role, a list per class, and one row per person with their main and alts. Each roster call is its own version, so you can compare October’s plan with November’s. Once characters exist, raiders claim them and the real roster takes over.

This is the part a retail tool can’t do, because it starts from characters that already exist. Our main and alt policy post covers what rule to set while the answers come in.

How is attendance counted?

Attendance compares who signed up with who the addon saw at each boss pull. The table shows one row per person with Raided, Rate, Benched, Excused, Signed, No-shows, Streak and Last seen.

The rule that matters most: a raider who signed up and wasn’t seated is on the bench, and benched raids count in the rate. Saying “can’t make it” or “late” before the start time is excused, which counts neither for nor against. A no-show is someone who signed up, didn’t appear and wasn’t benched. Our post on raid attendance that counts the bench goes further into why.

GuildPro’s roster, roster call, attendance and loot history are free for every guild, and they fill themselves from the addon and your Discord. Start with the signups and rosters page, then post a /rostercall this week.

What doesn’t GuildPro do that wowaudit does?

It doesn’t track item level, vaults, keystones or sim wishlists. Forever doesn’t have the last three, and GuildPro has no gear-score view. GuildPro also isn’t a loot council or DKP system: it records who got what, and your guild decides how. If you play retail as well, wowaudit stays the better fit for that team.

If you want class and spec advice to go with your roster, that’s Wowhead’s job, and their Forever class tier lists are the place to start.

Which should a Forever guild use?

Use the tool whose columns match your game. For a retail team, that’s often wowaudit. For a Forever guild, it’s a roster that knows mains from alts before launch and counts attendance and bench from the game itself after.

Whatever you choose, settle it before 4 November alongside everything else in our WoW Forever guild checklist.