PlayerTracker: Know Who You've Run With, and How They Actually Play

Every WoW Classic player knows the feeling. You zone into a heroic with four strangers from LFG, and twenty minutes in somebody ninjas a BoE, somebody else has pulled without a flask for the third boss in a row, and the tank ragequits on a wipe. You vaguely remember running with two of them before. Which ones? Were they fine? Were they the reason last week's Karazhan fell apart?

You have no idea. Your brain is not a database.

PlayerTracker is. It's a brand-new KATforge addon for TBC Classic that sits quietly in the background, watches every player you group with, and builds a persistent profile on them forever — across every character, every session, every server reset. By the fiftieth heroic you run this month, every stranger in your LFG channel is either green, yellow, or red at a glance.

The main PlayerTracker window showing a sortable list of tracked players — The /pt window. Class-coloured names, Trust Scores, roll behaviour, consume compliance, and inline whisper/invite — every tracked player in one sortable table.

The Observation Problem

The reason PlayerTracker works is that it asks nothing of anyone else. No opt-in, no shared database, no server sync, no cooperation from the people you're watching. The moment you share a group with a player, you silently start recording: their rolls, their loot, their deaths, their role, their buff bar at the start of every boss pull, and whether they were still online when the group disbanded.

A single run is noise. A hundred runs is a pattern.

The design principle is simple: what someone claims in their LFG macro is worthless. What they actually did across thirty pulls is not. Every feature in the addon exists to widen the gap between those two things.

The Trust Score

Every player you've grouped with gets a single number, 0 to 100, colour-coded throughout the UI — green for reliable, yellow for neutral or thin data, red for consistent problems. That number is the sum of seven behavioural factors: death rate weighted by content difficulty, Need-roll percentage, completion rate (clears ÷ entries), heroic and boss experience, consume compliance, time grouped, and quest cooperation.

Expanded row showing Trust Score breakdown — Click any row to expand. The top of the expanded view shows the Trust Score and the three factors that deviated most from a neutral baseline — so you can see at a glance *why* a player scored what they scored.

The score is blended toward 50 based on how often you've actually grouped with the player, so one lucky run can't push someone to 95 and one bad night can't send them to 5. At one grouping the score is mostly neutral; by ten groupings the raw math dominates. Your own positive/negative rating gets applied on top as a ±20/−35 modifier, so your direct judgement always wins over the algorithm.

The Consume Score

Separate from the Trust Score, every player gets a Consume Score: a passive, 0–100 measurement of how consistently they show up buffed. At the start of every boss pull, PlayerTracker queues a buff scan of every group member. Flask, battle elixir, guardian elixir, food buff, weapon oil, and scrolls are all checked. The scan is only committed on a boss kill — wipes don't count — so over time you build a real per-player percentage for each consume type.

Activity section showing grouping history, clears, deaths and role breakdown — The Activity section splits runs across Normal, Heroic, and Raid, with per-content clear rates and a death ratio weighted by difficulty — Normal deaths count 1.0×, Heroic 1.5×, Raid 2.5×.

The end result is that the one player in the PUG who has been stealthily skipping their flask for the last three months suddenly has receipts.

Loot, Rolls, and Disconnects

Three of the things people lie most about in pugs are loot, rolls, and disconnects. All three get tracked automatically.

Loot and roll behaviour breakdown for a single player — Every blue-or-better item that dropped while grouped (Seen), what the player got (Got), and their lifetime Need/Greed/Pass ratio — captured directly from in-game roll messages.

A ninja looter reveals themselves across dozens of runs without you having to remember a single incident. A chronic bailer shows up in the disconnect column the next time they join your group — PlayerTracker counts every online→offline transition mid-instance, and yes, it cannot distinguish a rage-logout from a real disconnect, so both count.

Per-player loot history with item links and roll method — Every item that dropped in front of a player, paginated with item links, roll method, and time-ago. The full canonical Classic/TBC DE-mat list can be filtered out when you only care about real drops.

Instance History and Relationships

Every dungeon and raid you've run with a player is tracked separately, with entries and clears split out. An audited 372-boss lookup table — covering every Classic and TBC dungeon and raid through Sunwell — turns boss kills into real clear data. Repeatedly entering Karazhan without ever finishing it is a completely different signal from actually clearing it, and PlayerTracker makes that distinction explicit.

Per-player instance history grouped by Normal, Heroic, and Raid — One line per dungeon, grouped by type. Runs and clears reported separately, so you can tell the difference between "has been there" and "has actually finished it."

Every player record also includes the full set of other players you've ever run alongside them, each with their own score. Over time this becomes a social graph of your server — useful for spotting guilds that travel together, and for noticing that the highly-rated healer you trust keeps bringing the same two DPS you don't.

List of players you have grouped with alongside this player, each with their score — The co-presence list. Every score here is the Trust Score PlayerTracker has for that other player — so the company a stranger keeps is also a data point.

Acting on It

A database is only useful if it's fast to query in the moment. Three features push the data back into chat and tooltips where decisions get made:

World tooltip integration. Hover any tracked player anywhere in the world, and their Trust Score and note are appended to the standard WoW tooltip. No window to open.

Right-click menu. Right-clicking any name in the list opens a single-purpose menu — no submenus, no hunting. Rate the player, edit their note, whisper them, invite them, post their stat line to Party, Raid, Guild, Say, or any channel you're joined to.

Right-click context menu with Send Stats to submenu expanded — Right-click a name to rate, note, or share. Send Stats lets you drop a full stat line into Guild, Say, or any custom channel — the menu colours match WoW's default channel colours on purpose.

Group-entry banner. When a group forms and you zone in, PlayerTracker posts one line per player it has a record for, including your note on each of them. If you've flagged someone negative, that note is now sitting in your chat window before the first pull.

PlayerTracker chat lines posted on group entry, one per tracked player — Zone in, and every tracked group member gets a one-liner — rating, groups together, role mix, deaths-per-group, loot ratio, and your note. The last one here, *best healer druid innervates mage*, is exactly the kind of note worth writing once and reading forever.

!ptwho — Chat Queries for the Whole Group

Any guild, party, or raid member can type !ptwho Playername in chat, and PlayerTracker will post a full stat line back to that channel. It's a small feature with an outsized effect — a guild officer vetting a PUG applicant mid-raid can pull every officer's collective memory of that player into guild chat with seven characters of input.

!ptwho chat query response — An !ptwho response — plain text, safe for every channel, throttled to 3 seconds per name to keep chat clean.

The Privacy Line

PlayerTracker is local. Your database lives in WTF/Account/<you>/SavedVariables/PlayerTracker.lua and is never transmitted anywhere. Your ratings and notes are yours alone, forever.

There is exactly one thing the addon broadcasts without your explicit action: if "Announce PT" is on (the default), zoning into a new instance posts a single banner line to party or raid chat like PlayerTracker active! Played with:3 New players:2. It's there so groups know the feature exists — pugs are visibly more honest when they know someone is recording. If you want completely silent operation, flip the checkbox off and the only thing that ever reaches chat is what you explicitly send yourself.

Announce PT banner posted in party chat on new instance entry — The opt-out banner. One line, posted to party or raid chat on zone-in, letting the group know PlayerTracker is watching — and giving you a free social nudge toward better behaviour.

Get It

PlayerTracker v1.10a is live on CurseForge for TBC Classic 2.5.5, tested on Dreamscythe. Install it, group with a few people, and come back in a week — you will already be surprised by what the data shows you about the players you thought you knew.

Download PlayerTracker on CurseForge →

If you're upgrading from an older version, no export or import is necessary — /pt selftest runs five structural database invariants at every login and auto-heals stale state. If you were already using CharacterNotes, /pt importcn pulls every note and rating across in a single pass, non-destructive by default.

Groups you've already run don't show up retroactively. The clock starts the moment you install. Every PUG after that is a data point.

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