QuestBeacon | A lean and performant quest helper

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QuestBeacon | A lean and performant quest helper

Post#1 » Wed Sep 09, 2026 5:21 am

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!

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