How to Record World of Warcraft with DOR: Official Guide (2026)

World of Warcraft records automatically once DOR is installed: launch the game and the AI handles recording. You do not install a recording addon or set up OBS scenes. From the moment you log in until you quit, raids, Mythic+ keys and arena games all end up in one video. This guide walks you through the routine in order: installing DOR, confirming the recording, saving kills, reviewing pulls, making a kill video and sharing it with your guild. Even a four hour progression night is kept in full, wipes included, so you can see exactly which phase broke before the next pull.

• Keep a whole raid night on video, from forming the group to the final boss kill.
• Save your first Mythic final boss kill, a timed key or a 3v3 arena comeback as a clip on the spot.
• Use AI Voice Notes to find lust calls and battle rez calls in raid comms and jump straight to that moment.
• Combine battle rez saves, battleground flag caps and mount drops into a season recap.
• Post the kill to your guild Discord with a single dor.gg link so everyone can watch it.

Before you record World of Warcraft: install and recording mode

World of Warcraft is fairly light on hardware, so running a recorder alongside it rarely costs you raid frames. DOR is a free Windows app and never adds a watermark. Because DOR records the screen and audio from outside the game, you do not need a recording addon in WoW, and changes to your addon setup never affect the recording. WoW uses full session recording, so leaving a raid instance and zoning into a key does not break the video. It runs until you close the game. Raid nights mean recordings that last for hours, so read recording long gameplay without stutter ahead of time.

Record World of Warcraft with DOR: step by step

1. 1Install DORDownload and install DOR. It takes about a minute and is free. Leave it running afterwards, so forgetting to open a recorder before raid never costs you a kill.
2. 2Launch World of WarcraftStart World of Warcraft from your usual launcher and pick your character. As soon as DOR detects the game, recording begins, so even the time you spend in a capital waiting for the raid to form is captured.
3. 3Check the recording before the first pullBefore you zone in, glance at the DOR app once to confirm the recording. If nothing starts, follow what to do when the recorder does not detect your game. After that, focus on the raid leader's calls and the boss mechanics.
4. 4Clip the kill right after it happensPress the clip save shortcut right after the boss hits zero and the kill banner appears, or right after the last boss of a key dies inside the timer. The last stretch is saved as a clip, so you never have to hunt through four hours of footage for the kill.
5. 5Log out and open My ClipsWhen raid is over, close WoW. The full session and every clip you saved appear together in My Clips in the DOR app. The night you got the first kill and the night you wiped ten times on the same phase are filed the same way.

Find your recordings

Your recordings live in My Clips in the DOR app, also called the library. Each login to logout becomes one session, and kills you grabbed with the clip save shortcut appear as separate clips underneath. To review a wipe, find the time of the bad pull in a log tool such as Warcraft Logs, then open the recording at the same point to see the real screen and hear the calls side by side. Set a start and an end point to trim the pull you need, then export it as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. The full steps are in how to trim game clips. Like the video of your first kill. When space fills up, older videos you have not liked are cleared first, so your progression history stays.

Save the moments you want to keep

Even with the whole raid on record, clipping the moments you will pass around the guild saves time later. Press the clip save shortcut and the last stretch of gameplay is saved as a clip. The default length is 30 seconds, and you can choose 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds in settings. In WoW, good times to press it are right after a final boss hits zero, right after the key timer stops, right after an arena match ends and the rating change shows, and right after a mount drops. To capture a long final phase, set 60 seconds. A quick reaction to a mount drop only needs 15. Saving after every arena match leaves one clip per game, which makes comparing them later easy. See saving the last few seconds instantly for which length suits which moment.

Find what was said with AI Voice Notes

Raid calls go over Discord voice. Lines like 'lust on phase two push', 'rez the healer, not me' and 'wait for the tank to gather, then AoE' repeat every pull. DOR records game audio and your mic together, and AI Voice Notes writes those calls onto the recording timeline as text. When you are working out why the raid wiped, select 'lust' in the timeline text to jump to the call and see on screen whether it came late or people missed it. The 'two minutes on the key' moment in a dungeon is found the same way. To record your raid mates' voices too, see recording Discord call audio.

Build a montage with AI Highlight

In a week your guild makes progress, turn saved clips into a raid recap. In the library, check the first Mythic final boss kill, the battle rez save, the timed key, the 3v3 arena comeback and the mount drop, then select AI Highlight. DOR joins them into one montage. Adding one wipe clip before the kill shows the road to that boss in a few seconds. To set the order yourself, see how to merge game clips.

Edit in DOR Studio

DOR Studio opens in your browser with nothing to install. Put a punch zoom on the frame where the boss hits zero, then add your guild name and the kill date as text. Merging several pulls into one 16:9 kill video is quick, and glitch transitions between a wipe and the kill carry the progression story naturally. Export an arena comeback in 9:16 and it fits Shorts. Download the finished video as an mp4 or share it as a link straight away.

Share with a dor.gg link

Send trimmed moments as dor.gg links. Whoever opens one plays it in the browser without installing anything, so a link in your guild Discord's announcements channel is enough for the whole raid to watch. A raider who missed the night can catch up on the kill from that one link. Tips on pulling only the kills and timed keys out of a three hour recording are in sharing WoW raid kill videos, and posting to Discord is covered in sharing clips on Discord.

World of Warcraft recommended settings and troubleshooting

The default 1080p at 30fps already captures boss mechanics and ground effects clearly in WoW. For fast content like arena or Mythic+, switch to 60fps for smoother footage. If you raid on a laptop, the 720p/30fps mode keeps the load down. Fullscreen, windowed and borderless windows all record, so keep the game's display settings as they are. Where anti cheat blocks game capture, DOR switches to monitor capture and keeps recording. DOR uses GPU hardware encoding, so its effect on your raid frame rate is small. Raid footage adds up fast, so to move recordings to a roomier drive, see changing the recording save location. DOR has no cheat features and never touches your game files or play data.