QuestBeacon | A lean and performant quest helper

[Waterhermitt]

QuestBeacon - Quest Navigation Addon for OctoWoW

Update: I won't be updating the Addon for the foreseeable future been very busy with personal stuff and I haven't been able to play much of Octowow since the DDOS attacks. This might change in the future so hopefully someone will fork this and continue updating it

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