TOG Profession Master — Guild-Wide Profession & Cooldown Tracker for WoW Classic

Stop whispering every alchemist in the guild to ask "is your transmute up?" and stop opening five different alts to remember who knows the recipe you need. TOG Profession Master keeps a live, shared view of every guild member's professions, recipes, and cooldowns — and lets you mail reagents straight to the crafter without typing a single character name.

The Problem

WoW's built-in profession UI shows you exactly one thing: your own professions on the character you're currently logged into. The information you actually need — who in my guild can craft this, whose cooldown is up, what reagents do they need — is scattered across whisper requests and guild-chat noise.

For active guilds with crafting alts, this gets worse fast. Multiple alchemists each on a 24-hour transmute cooldown, four leatherworkers with different specialisations, alts spread across connected realms, and no good way to coordinate without spamming every member.

The Solution

TOG Profession Master uses a hash-then-fetch peer-to-peer sync protocol over the guild addon channel to keep every member's view of guild professions and cooldowns up to date in real time, with near-zero ongoing bandwidth. Recipe metadata (names, reagents, item links) syncs once on first contact and stays cached forever; only crafter membership and cooldown state flow over the wire after that.

Every guildmate's data is relayable — if Alice is offline, Bob's cached copy of Alice's cooldowns can serve them to Carol when she logs in. Cooldown coverage no longer requires the data owner to be online.

Core Features

Cross-Guild Profession Sharing

• Share professions between two allied guilds — for communities split across two socially-linked guilds that can't see each other over the normal guild addon channel. An officer or the guild leader sets the allied guild under Settings → Cross-Guild (members see the list read-only) and their crafters appear right alongside your own.
• Bilateral by design — data only flows when both guilds list each other. A one-sided config does nothing, and a guild you don't list can't pull or inject anything. With no allied guild configured, the addon does nothing cross-guild — purely local.
• Whole-guild, not just you — the allied-guild list propagates across your guild automatically, and allied rosters are shared, so every member sees the allied crafters — not only whoever set it up.
• Live diagnostics — a panel on the Cross-Guild tab (and /togpm xgdiag) shows known rosters, crafter counts per guild, and dependency status at a glance.
• Requires the auto-installed DeltaSync and GuildRoster dependencies. Same faction only.

Crafting Tab & Cost-to-Craft

• A full crafting screen in TOGPM's style — a clean Crafting tab that pre-populates a dropdown from your known professions and lists every recipe with a difficulty-coloured name and an orange→yellow→green→grey skill-up tier column. By default TOGPM stays out of the way when you open a profession — Blizzard's window (or TSM / Skillet) keeps the window, with a TOGPM button on it to jump to the tab. Prefer the old behavior? One setting opens straight into the TOGPM tab; another hides the Crafting tab entirely if you craft with another addon.
• Craft queue — queue recipes and craft them top-down, click-drag to reorder, with completion tracking so the queue keeps itself current.
• Cost-to-craft with profit preview — every recipe shows total material cost and current AH sell price, with profit calculated in real time (green if you'd profit, red if you'd lose gold). Prices come from Auctionator, TSM, Auctioneer, TOGPM's own AH scan, or the built-in vendor price table.
• Built-in AH scanner — no other addon required — TOGPM can scan the Auction House itself and build its own price database, or integrate seamlessly with Auctionator / TSM / Auctioneer if you already use them.
• Powered by LibProfessionDB — recipe details (names, reagents, difficulty tiers, enchant effect text) come from the standalone offline database, so crafting works for any known profession with no scan wait.

Guild Profession Browser

• Master-detail layout: scrollable recipe list on the left, full recipe drilldown on the right
• Filter by profession (Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Leatherworking, Mining, Tailoring, Inscription, Jewelcrafting)
• Search box for fast item-name filtering, with persistent filter preference per character
• Recipe rows show every guild crafter who knows the recipe — online (white), offline (grey), and your own characters (purple, with "You (AltName)" disambiguation when multiple alts know it)
• Drilldown panel shows reagent list with bag counts, bank stock, and shopping-list quantity controls
• Right-click a crafter row to whisper them with one click
• Virtual scrolling for performance on guilds with thousands of recipes

Missing Recipes Tab

• Pick a character and a profession and see every recipe scroll they haven't learned yet — no more wondering "what am I missing"
• Each row shows the scroll icon, the skill level required, and where to obtain it (vendor, drop, quest, crafted, container, fishing)
• Search by name, filter to a single profession, or toggle whether trainer-only scrolls show
• Shift-click a row to insert the scroll's link into chat; [Bank] button when your guild bank has it in stock
• Defaults to the currently logged-in character; switch to any tracked alt on your account
• Smart filtering: rank-up books (Expert / Artisan / etc. for Cooking / First Aid / Fishing) hide automatically once you've outgrown them

Cooldown Tracker

• Cross-character cooldown panel: every guild member's active and ready cooldowns in one view
• Tracks transmutes (per expansion), Mooncloth, Salt Shaker, Spellcloth/Shadowcloth, Northrend / Inscription Research, Icy Prism, Titansteel, Dreamcloth (all 5), Truegold, Living Steel, JC daily cuts, Magnificence — with grouped rows for multi-spell cooldowns (click [+] to expand)
• Two-level filter: pick a profession, then narrow to a specific shared-timer cooldown (Transmute, Mooncloth, Salt Shaker, Dreamcloth group, JC daily cuts, etc.)
• "Ready Only" filter to hide active cooldowns; ready cooldowns sort A-Z by name for stable ordering
• Sortable columns (Character, Cooldown, Time Left)
• Spell tooltip on hover, item tooltip on the reagent
• Right-click to whisper the cooldown owner
• One-click [Mail] button per row — opens a pre-composed supply mail to the cooldown owner with the right reagent attached from your bags
• Multi-reagent transmutes (Arcanite Bar = Thorium + Arcane Crystal) expand to one row per reagent so you can mail or bank-request each independently

Reagent Tracker & Shopping List

• Add any recipe to your personal shopping list with the "+" button on the recipe row
• Floating Reagent Tracker window aggregates every reagent needed across all queued recipes — have from your bags, need from the shopping list, color-coded green / yellow / red
• Reagent Watch list: pin any item ID to track its bag count separately
• Shopping-list alerts: chat notification when all reagents for a queued craft are available
• Shift-click reagent names to insert item links into chat

Auction House Scanner

• Scan AH button on every tab — walks through whatever's relevant to that tab (your shopping list reagents, the cooldown reagents on screen, the missing recipe scrolls) and queries the AH for live listings, throttled at one item per 1.5s so it's rate-limit-safe
• After the scan, an [AH] button shows up on every row whose item is actually for sale right now — click to jump the AH browse search to that item with no typing
• Works on the [+] Transmute popup too: each transmute reagent gets its own [AH] button when listings exist, so multi-reagent transmutes like Arcanite (Thorium + Arcane Crystal) get one button per reagent
• Toolbar button shows Scanning N/M progress while running; click during scan to cancel
• Auto-clears scan results when the AH closes (listings go stale fast)
• Supports Vanilla through Mists of Pandaria via the legacy AuctionFrame UI

TOGBankClassic Integration

When the optional TOGBankClassic addon is loaded, TOG Profession Master surfaces guild bank stock everywhere it matters:

• [Bank] button next to every reagent in the recipe drilldown, cooldown panel, shopping-list expansion, and Reagent Tracker — visible only when the bank actually has stock of that reagent
• Click [Bank] to open a request dialog, pick the banker, set quantity (capped by the configured maximum-percent), and send the request to TOGBankClassic
• Auto-detects when TOGBankClassic data isn't loaded yet and refreshes bank buttons once it is

Crafter Online Alerts

• When a guildmate who can craft something on your shopping list comes online, you get a chat alert with their name
• Toggle alerts on/off; configure exclusions (login-burst suppression, stealth-mode opt-out)
• Drives off real OnMemberOnline callbacks from LibGuildRoster-1.0 — not WHO polling

Item Tooltips

• Hover any item in your bags, the AH, a vendor, or a chat link, and TOG Profession Master appends a list of guild crafters who know how to make it
• Includes profession, skill rank, and online status per crafter
• BoP items skipped automatically

Profit Planner (new in v0.9.0)

• See which recipes make gold at a glance — dedicated Profit Planner tab shows all recipes your characters know, with craft cost, current Auction House sell price, and profit (green if profitable, red if losing gold) in one sortable view
• Live AH vs. Historical pricing — switch between real-time auction prices and long-term averages to spot short-term flips or stable moneymakers
• Filter and search — multi-select profession, crafter, and pricing source filters let you narrow to exactly what you want to see; search by recipe name to find specific crafts instantly
• Works with your pricing addons — pulls prices from Auctionator, TradeSkillMaster (TSM), Auctioneer, or TOGPM's own built-in AH scanner — use what you already have or let TOGPM handle it
• Smart profit tracking — recipes with missing prices stay visible (so you know what needs scanning), and the "+ Profit only" filter hides anything that's currently unprofitable

How It Works

v0.2.0 Sync Protocol (Hash-Then-Fetch)

Most guild profession addons broadcast their full data on a timer. With 50 active guildmates each broadcasting 30+ KB every 30 seconds, that's ~1.5 MB of guild-channel traffic per minute even when nothing has changed. TOG Profession Master's v0.2.0 sync protocol does this differently:

1. L0 broadcast (every 10 minutes) — each peer sends a tiny ~600 B leaf-hash list on the guild channel. The list is differential: only leaves whose content has actually changed since the last broadcast are included. A settled guild generates near-zero traffic.
2. Mismatch detection — peers compare incoming hashes against their local cache. When a hash differs, they whisper a small handshake to the broadcaster.
3. Drill-down — for roll-up mismatches (e.g., guild:cooldowns), the broadcaster responds with per-character sub-hashes so the receiver can pinpoint exactly which characters have differing data.
4. Per-leaf data response — the chosen sender broadcasts only the differing leaf's data on the guild channel (BULK priority). Every peer with stale data for the same leaf merges for free; no per-recipient whisper bottleneck.
5. Content-aware merge — cooldowns merge with max(local, incoming) per spell, crafter sets union-add for relayed data, recipe metadata preserves richest non-nil per field. Receiving from any peer always converges to the same state, regardless of who sent the data.

Whispers carry only handshake control messages (offers, requests). All bulk data flows on the guild channel where AceCommQueue-1.0 handles throttling. The protocol scales smoothly to 300–500 character guilds with 50–100 concurrent users.

Recipe metadata is treated as immutable

Once any peer has scanned a recipe, its metadata (name, icon, reagents, item link) is hashed into a per-profession recipemeta:<profId> leaf. After initial guild bootstrap, this hash matches across every peer and never re-transfers — freeing all ongoing wire traffic for the dynamic part: who knows what (crafters:<profId>) and what's on cooldown (cooldown:<charKey>).

Multi-Version Support

All Classic versions share one codebase. Version detection via GetBuildInfo() at startup; per-expansion static tables for skills and cooldown IDs; compat shims for C_Container, C_AddOns.IsAddOnLoaded, and trade-skill APIs. Supported interface versions:

• Classic Era / Anniversary (1.x)
• The Burning Crusade Classic (2.5.x)
• Wrath of the Lich King Classic (3.4.x)
• Cataclysm Classic (4.4.x)
• Mists of Pandaria Classic (5.5.x)

Slash Commands

• /togpm — Open the main profession browser
• /togpm reagents — Open the floating Reagent Tracker
• /togpm minimap — Show the minimap button
• /togpm sync — Force a fresh broadcast (bypasses the 10-min debounce)
• /togpm status — Print sync / comm diagnostic info
• /togpm versioncheck — Broadcast a version check across the guild and print responses
• /togpm purge — Open the purge-data dialog (purge all or just one character)
• /togpm debug — Toggle debug output
• /togpm help — Show the full command list

Diagnostic commands for advanced users / bug reports:

• /togpm dumphashes — Print the local L0 hash list for cross-peer comparison
• /togpm dumpcooldowns [charKey] — Dump stored cooldown bucket for a character
• /togpm dumprecipe <name> — Dump a recipe's stored fields and full reagent table
• /togpm forcebroadcast — Force a full (non-differential) hash list broadcast immediately
• /togpm backfill — Run the reagent itemId backfill pass
• /togpm spellcache — Print the spellbook name→ID cache

Requirements

• Ace3 (AceAddon-3.0, AceComm-3.0, AceDB-3.0, AceGUI-3.0, AceTimer-3.0, AceConsole-3.0, AceConfig-3.0, AceLocale-3.0, AceHook-3.0) — auto-installed by CurseForge
• DeltaSync — data sync library (v2.0.3 / MINOR≥9 required for v0.2.0 protocol). Auto-installed by CurseForge; transitively pulls in AceCommQueue-1.0
• GuildRoster — provides LibGuildRoster-1.0, the guild-roster engine (membership, online state, roster callbacks). Auto-installed by CurseForge
• VersionCheck-1.0 — auto-installed by CurseForge
• WoW Classic Era, TBC, Wrath, Cataclysm, or MoP — all versions supported via compatibility shims

Optional integrations:

• TOGBankClassic — enables [Bank] buttons everywhere reagents appear
• GreenWall — cooldown announcements relay to the confederate guild channel

Recent Updates

v0.10.6 (Latest — 2026-06-12) — Cross-guild profession sharing & crafting hands-off

• new: Cross-guild profession sharing. Share recipes and crafters between two allied guilds that can't reach each other over the normal guild channel. An officer/GM sets the allied guild under Settings → Cross-Guild (members see it read-only); once both guilds list each other their crafters appear alongside yours. The config and allied rosters propagate across your guild so every member sees them, gated bilaterally so a guild you don't list gets nothing — and with nothing configured the addon stays purely local. Requires the auto-installed DeltaSync & GuildRoster dependencies.
• new: Crafting hands-off mode (on by default) — TOGPM no longer forces a crafting window when you open a profession, so it won't pop up beside TSM / Skillet. The TOGPM toggle button still rides on Blizzard's window, and the Crafting tab stays available from the main window. A second setting hides the Crafting tab entirely. If you used "open the TOGPM tab automatically," untick hands-off to keep it. Requires /reload.
• fix: Browser is now instant. The recipe list is built once and cached (pre-warmed in the background after login, sliced so it's invisible), so opening the Professions tab and switching professions are instant, and searching just filters the cache — no more multi-second load or per-keystroke freeze as cross-guild data grew the crafter lists.

v0.10.5-beta (2026-06-09) — Roster propagation & Browser search fix (beta)

• new: Sister-roster propagation. A member who holds an allied guild's roster broadcasts it to the rest of your guild, so everyone — not just whoever pulled it — can see allied crafters (the visibility gate needs the roster). A recently-seen-by-hash suppression keeps it to ~one broadcaster per interval, and receipt is gated by your allied-guild list. This makes the whole guild churn-free without each member pulling.
• fix: Browser (recipe) search no longer freezes on each keystroke. The search now debounces (~200ms) and applies the cheap version + name/effect filters before the expensive per-recipe crafter-list build, so typing stays responsive even as cross-guild sharing grows the crafter sets.

v0.10.4-beta (2026-06-09) — Cross-guild bilateral federation gate (beta)

• new: Bilateral federation — both guilds must list each other. Cross-guild data only flows when both sides have configured each other as allied guilds. A one-sided config does nothing, and a stranger / accidental / malicious puller from a guild you don't list gets nothing. Enforced on every path: serve (mutual-consent proof + anti-spoof), accept, per-crafter merge (unlisted data is dropped even when relayed), and roster persistence. Removing a guild tears down its data.
• new: No allied guilds configured → purely local operation — with an empty list the addon does nothing cross-guild at all.

v0.10.3-beta (2026-06-09) — Cross-guild config propagation & churn fix (beta)

• new: Allied-guild config propagates across your guild. The allied-guild list you set under Settings → Cross-Guild is broadcast to the rest of your guild (on change, every ~12 minutes, and via a new Sync now button), so every member participates — essential once editing becomes officer-only. Last-writer-wins by timestamp.
• fix: Relayed cross-guild crafters no longer churn under mixed addon versions. A guildmate on an older build re-broadcasts relayed crafters with the tag stripped; the merge now treats an explicit tag as authoritative and never lets a tagless broadcast overwrite an attribution it already holds, so known cross-guild crafters stop flipping in and out. All participating beta players need this build.
• improvement: Diagnostics orphan breakdown — per allied guild, how many crafters match the roster vs. are orphaned (with example keys).

v0.10.2-beta (2026-06-09) — Cross-guild relay attribution & diagnostics (beta)

• fix: Cross-guild attribution now survives relays. The crafter sync leaf now ships each crafter's origin guild tag, so a member who holds allied-guild data can rebroadcast it into their home guild without those crafters being re-stamped as the wrong guild (and then hidden). Hash is unchanged so old/new clients stay in sync, but both ends of a relay must run this build. Requires DeltaSync v3.1.0+ and GuildRoster v6+.
• new: Cross-guild diagnostics panel on Settings → Cross-Guild — live dependency status, known rosters with member counts, configured allied guilds, crafter counts per guild, and a Pull-from-player field. Plus /togpm xgdiag to dump the same info to chat.

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