QuestBeacon | A lean and performant quest helper

[Waterhermitt]

QuestBeacon - Quest Navigation Addon for OctoWoW

Hi everyone!

I've been working on QuestBeacon, a lightweight quest navigation addon built for OctoWoW / WoW 1.12.1.

The idea is to bring together some of the useful questing features from addons like pfQuest and Questie-Octo, while building a more focused tracker, map, and navigation experience around them.

Features

• Directional quest arrow with distance
• Quest tracker with sorting, folding, and watch controls
• World map quest pins and authored spawn locations
• Minimap quest objective pins
• Quest mob indicators on target frames, tooltips, and nameplates
• Available quest and turn-in markers
• Bank, vendor, repair, travel, and other service markers
• Rare mob spawn markers
• Corpse navigation arrow
• Quest completion tracking and availability filters
• SQLite-based quest database instead of loading the entire database into Lua

QuestBeacon is still in very early development, so expect bugs, incomplete behavior, and changes as development continues.

Requirements

• OctoWoW or a compatible WoW 1.12.1 client
• ClassicAPI
• HearthDB, specifically my fork

Install the requirements first, then place QuestBeacon in:

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Interface\AddOns\QuestBeacon

After launching the game, you can use:

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/qbeacon status

to check that ClassicAPI, HearthDB, and the quest database are working correctly.

Links

QuestBeacon:
https://github.com/copypasteonly/QuestBeacon

ClassicAPI:
https://github.com/brues-code/ClassicAPI

HearthDB:
https://github.com/copypasteonly/HearthDB

QuestBeacon builds on ideas, data, and work from projects including pfQuest, pfQuest-octo, Questie-Octo, Questbound, HearthDB, and The Kludge Bureau. Full credits and licensing information are available in the repository.

Feedback, bug reports, testing, and contributions are welcome!

[Sergiussent]

Hey !
Really cool thing you built.
I really like the Map Markers menu. The ability to show which mob is useful for a quest on their nameplate is so cool.

Maybe I did not understand how it works, but I couldnt add waypoints wherever I wanted like I can with tomtom using ctrl + right click on the map or on the tracker menu. Could be a great implementation.
I also wished we could chose what quest the arrow follows from the tracker.
Last thing, I wished the world map was more readable. I have a few quests on and it makes the map either look like a rainbow or with not enough informations on it, depending on the chosen settings.

Anyway, I think with a few tweaks here and there this could be a HUGE addon for Octowow ! Even probably my "go to" or "must have" Keep up the great work

EDIT : I forgot to say, adding the percentage of drops on mouseover tooltips would be goated.

[Bigobobono]

Bugged/Outdated.



ClassicAPI.dll + HearthDB.dll is in the main game directory already.

[Bigobobono]

Ok, I forgot to check the dll mods in the octowow launcher and now the addons working fine:



regards