GroupGuard LFG – Filters, Applicant & Raid Tools

GroupGuard LFG extends the World of Warcraft Group Finder with advanced filtering, applicant information, custom rules, PUG detection, and party/raid management tools.

Supports WoW 12.x and World of Warcraft: Forever.
Features that are not supported by the current game client are automatically hidden.

🔎 LFG Search & Filters

Improve Group Finder browsing with additional filters and result information.

Group Filters

Filter groups by the roles they still need:

• 🛡️ Tank
• 💚 Healer
• ⚔️ Damage

Player Filters

Filter solo players by:

• Class
• Role
• Class + Role combinations

Search Result Tools

• Highlight matching LFG results
• Detect configured keywords
• Detect character names
• Detect guild names
• Detect LFG titles and comments
• Detect spam and repeated unwanted text
• Detect boost / carry / sell advertisements
• Detect GDKP advertisements
• Blizzard-style filtering interface

👥 Applicant Management

Adds more useful information and controls to the applicant list.

Applicant Information

Depending on the available game API, GroupGuard can display:

Name | Role | GG | Item Level | Rating

Additional activity-specific information can also be shown when available.

Applicant Actions

• Highlight applicants matching your rules
• Manual decline controls
• Optional automatic decline
• GroupGuard status indicators
• Configurable action protection / cooldowns
• Permission-aware actions
• Unsupported actions are automatically hidden

🎯 Activity-Aware Information

GroupGuard attempts to show information relevant to the activity you are currently recruiting for.

Mythic+

Examples:

Spec · +12 · GG Status

Raid

Examples:

Spec · 2/9 · GG Status

Available information depends on the Blizzard API provided by the current game client.

🛡️ Custom GroupGuard Rules

Create your own local rules for LFG applications, search results, and group members.

Rules can use:

• Character names
• Guild names
• Keywords
• LFG titles
• LFG comments
• Spam terms
• Boost / carry terms
• Sell advertisements
• GDKP advertisements
• Other visible Group Finder text

When a rule matches, GroupGuard can:

• Highlight the player or listing
• Display a warning
• Play a notification sound
• Show a GroupGuard marker
• Mark the player in party or raid

⚔️ Party & Raid Tools

GroupGuard continues working after players join your group.

Group Monitoring

• Scan party members
• Scan raid members
• Warn when a player matches configured rules
• Display GroupGuard markers on supported group frames

Raid Management

• Quick player management controls
• Permission-aware removal actions
• Raid PUG detection
• GroupGuard status indicators
• Configurable action protection

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 PUG Detection

Dedicated tools help identify players outside your regular group.

Where supported, GroupGuard can distinguish between:

• Guild members
• Friends
• Known players
• External PUG players

Useful for quickly reviewing mixed guild/PUG raid groups.

⭐ Automatic Raid Assist

Automatically assign Raid Assist to configured players.

Supports:

• Selected guild ranks
• Manually configured characters

Actions are performed only when your character has the required permissions.

🌲 World of Warcraft: Forever

GroupGuard includes a dedicated compatibility layer for WoW Forever.

Supported Forever Features

• Native Forever Group Finder integration
• Group role-needs filtering
• Player class filtering
• Player role filtering
• Class + role filtering
• Solo-player information
• Activity detection
• Forever-specific LFG hooks
• Modern ScrollBox support
• Scroll position preservation
• Blizzard-style filter panel
• Client capability detection
• Automatic hiding of unsupported functionality

GroupGuard does not assume that Forever behaves exactly like Retail.

Features are enabled only when the required Forever API is available.

🎨 Blizzard-Style UI

GroupGuard is designed to visually fit into the native World of Warcraft interface.

Where possible it uses:

• Blizzard frame templates
• Blizzard buttons
• Blizzard checkboxes
• Blizzard fonts
• Native role icons
• Native textures
• Standard WoW tooltips
• Existing Group Finder layouts

Additional panels are positioned relative to Blizzard's original UI.

🔄 Modern WoW API Support

GroupGuard is maintained for modern World of Warcraft UI and API changes.

The addon includes support for:

• Modern Group Finder APIs
• LFG search result APIs
• Applicant APIs
• Activity APIs
• Group member APIs
• Role information
• Guild and friend information
• Modern ScrollBox-based interfaces
• Client-specific capability detection

When Blizzard does not expose enough information, GroupGuard uses safe fallback behavior instead of guessing data.

🤝 Compatibility

Designed to work alongside:

• Premade Groups Filter
• Blizzard's default Group Finder
• Modern WoW 12.x UI
• WoW Forever Group Finder

🌐 Languages

Available interface languages:

• 🇬🇧 English
• 🇺🇦 Українська

GroupGuard can automatically use the supported language matching your WoW client.

🔐 Privacy

GroupGuard only works with information available through the World of Warcraft UI and Blizzard APIs together with rules configured by the player.

It does not identify or determine:

• Nationality
• Ethnicity
• Religion
• Origin
• Gender
• Political views
• Other real-world personal characteristics

All filtering rules are configured locally by the player.