Azeroth Explorer - Leveling Guide

Version 3.3.16–3.3.18a

Custom UI Overhaul & Refinements

• Introduced a distinctive midnight-blue, teal, and antique-gold visual theme with custom panel backgrounds and border graphics.
• Redesigned the main guide viewer, options window, floating step panel, setup window, and dynamically created guide and action buttons.
• Unified button states, text contrast, panel styling, and progress-bar accents for a more polished and readable interface.
• Refined the custom frame borders and panel insets to address transparent gaps and improve the appearance of the guide viewer and step panel.
• Removed the tiled gold edge texture responsible for unwanted lines and box-like marks along the frame edges while retaining the existing backgrounds and accent graphics.
• Reduced the minimized step panel to a compact, 38px-high branded bar.
• Kept the Azeroth Explorer logo and maximize button visible and functional while minimized.
• Made the minimized step panel narrower (250px) and restored its original expanded dimensions when maximized.
• Preserved guide logic, quest tracking, waypoint navigation, progression, saved settings, and existing functionality.

Version 3.3.15

• Standardised 86 character-level milestones to use Reach Level XX.
• Removed 92 redundant upfront collection steps across six Horde professions.
• Streamlined Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking and Tailoring guides.
• Preserved Horde-specific trainers, recipes and crafting progression.
• Improved consistency and readability across profession guides.
• Performed basic Lua structure checks.

Version 3.3.14

Improved automatic completion for collection steps across the guide library.

• Collection steps can now verify the required item count in the player's bags when the matching quest-log objective is unavailable.
• Collection progress displays the detected inventory count when item data is available.
• Existing quest-log objective tracking remains the preferred source of truth, so quest objectives continue to complete from the game's own progress rather than guide wording alone.
• Kept manual progression available for steps whose completion cannot be reliably inferred from the Classic Era client.

Compatibility and scope

• Applies to the shared progression engine, so the behavior covers Alliance, Horde, class, dungeon, profession, reputation, and event guides wherever a step uses supported collect syntax.
• Guide routes, coordinates, faction/class conditions, and existing guide IDs were preserved.

Version 3.3.13

Main Guide UI & Navigation Refinements

• Removed waypoint coordinates from the main guide's step text in favour of the floating step panel.
• Removed redundant navigation controls from the main guide window, keeping step navigation in the floating panel.
• Preserved the existing guide data, waypoint controls, vendor pricing and other v3.3.12 features.
• Version 3.3.12

Waypoint Controls & QoL Cleanup

• Updated the Extra Waypoints button to display only when a step has multiple waypoint choices.
• Replaced the waypoint dropdown indicator with a clear > symbol.
• Removed unreliable automatic quest acceptance and quest turn-in functionality.
• Preserved the working vendor-value tooltip, including individual item values and total carried-item value.
• Retained the guide content and media from the v3.3.11 baseline.

Version 3.3.11

Vendor Values & UI Refinements

• Added vendor-value information to item tooltips, showing individual item values and the total value of carried items.
• Refined the waypoint and step-panel interface.
• Used the existing v3.3.11 build as the baseline for subsequent waypoint and QoL improvements.

Version 3.3.10

Waypoint Selection Improvements

• Added an Extra Waypoints dropdown for choosing between available waypoint destinations.
• Included the default destination as an option where applicable.
• Simplified the step-panel presentation by removing redundant coordinate text.
• Improved access to alternative destinations without cluttering the main step instructions.

Version 3.3.3–3.3.9

Incremental Improvements & Maintenance

• Continued development and refinement of the custom Azeroth Explorer interface and step tracker.
• Maintained the guide navigation, waypoint system, objective tracking and quality-of-life features introduced in earlier releases.

Version 3.3.2

UI Refinements & Layout Fixes

• Fixed step progress bar positioning to keep it within the guide panel boundaries.
• Improved panel layout, spacing and alignment for a cleaner interface.
• Refined text widths and spacing to help reduce UI overflow when resizing panels.
• Introduced a custom visual theme featuring midnight-blue backgrounds, teal accents and gold detailing.
• Improved the progress indicator's appearance to complement the updated interface.
• Retained the existing Azeroth Explorer emblem and overall fantasy-adventure identity.
• Preserved existing guide content and addon functionality.

Version 3.3.1

Step Navigation, Completion Tracking & UI Improvements

• Added support for navigating backwards through previously visited guide steps.
• Improved step completion tracking so completed steps can remain marked when revisiting them.
• Prevented completed-step navigation from automatically forcing players forward.
• Updated guide reset behaviour to clear recorded completion markers.
• Added Azeroth Explorer branding to the main window and step tracker.
• Refined the interface header and added gold accent separators.
• Improved the visual presentation of the step tracker while retaining its movable and resizable functionality.
• Added objective-completion sound feedback.
• Preserved existing guide data, waypoint navigation, objective tracking, class guides, dungeon guides and profession guides.

Version 3.3.0

Quality-of-Life Features

• Added an option to automatically hide completed guides from the active guide list.
• Added warnings for quests that may be too high-level for the character.
• Added optional waypoint-arrival sound or visual notifications.
• Added a compact guide-list option to display more routes with less scrolling.
• Added an option to hide completed steps while retaining route progress.
• Added remembering the last-used guide tab.
• Added optional objective-completion sounds.
• Added per-guide reset controls to clear one guide's progress without affecting other guides or characters.

Version 3.2.0

Guide Display & Progress Options

• Added configurable automatic quest-step advancement, enabled by default.
• Added an option to show or hide the floating panel's step progress bar.
• Added optional quest ID display in step details, disabled by default.
• Added an option to show or hide waypoint-arrow distance text without disabling navigation.

Version 3.1

Expanded Guide Categories & Route Data

• Added guide tabs for Dungeons, Professions, Reputations and Events, reusing the existing guide filters, progress storage, quest tracking, step panel and waypoint navigation.
• Added 623 unique Alliance and Horde route entries converted into Azeroth Explorer guide data, including faction, level range, supported step conditions, quest IDs, actions and available destination coordinates.
• Added objective and quest ID indexing across the new guide routes.
• Added automatic progression for profession skill thresholds.
• Restored faction, race and class icons while preserving the changes introduced in v3.0.

Version 3.0

Guide System Expansion

• Continued development of the guide system and integration of expanded route data.
• Established the foundation for the expanded guide categories and route functionality carried forward into v3.1.

Version 2.9.1

Waypoint, Guide Loading & Filtering Fixes

• Fixed waypoint-distance calculations when travelling between zones.
• Fixed loading issues affecting Dungeons, Professions and Reputations.
• Added dropdown filters for improved guide selection.
• Corrected guide wording and cleaned up malformed guide data.
• Fixed duplicate guide registrations.
• Validated the packaged addon and its expanded guide collections.

Version 2.8.0

• Made flight path, Hearthstone, purchase, learning and travel instructions easier to read.
• Fixed collection objective tracking and path start/end navigation.