Changelog

v1.2.0

Requires QuestieDB: download QuestieDB-Forever.zip from https://github.com/Questie/QuestieDB/releases/latest and extract its QuestieDB folder into Interface/AddOns.

• Community guides: Ding can now run guides written by other players. A guide pack is a small addon that depends on Ding; once installed, pick it in the settings.
  • The Guide tab now has two lists: the guide (Ding's built-in guide first, then the installed packs, with their author and the levels they cover for your character), then its section (for Ding's guide, the leveling zone).
  • Picking a guide starts the right section for your character, where you really are. Ding remembers the guide of each character; if a pack is disabled, Ding goes back to its own guide.
• Writing a guide pack: everything is explained on GitHub, with a complete example pack and an offline checker: https://github.com/moust4ki/DingWowForever/blob/main/docs/guide-packs.md
• /ding list shows the sections of each guide. New /ding where prints your position as a step ready to paste into a guide.

v1.1.2

Requires QuestieDB: download QuestieDB-Forever.zip from https://github.com/Questie/QuestieDB/releases/latest and extract its QuestieDB folder into Interface/AddOns.

• Keyboard and mouse players can use every setting. Without a gamepad, nothing could be confirmed: the settings only showed gamepad buttons.

  • Click to choose, toggle or confirm (the button says "Click again to confirm").
  • Right-click a setting to put it back to its default, or a key binding to unbind it.
  • Escape closes the settings.
  • A key binding already in use: click to replace it, right-click to cancel.
  • Moving the guide window, the arrow or the item button: drag it, then click Save (or Cancel, or Reset); Enter saves and Escape cancels.
  • The help at the bottom of the settings is made of buttons you can click: "A Select", "B Back", "Y Reset" and "LB/RB Tabs" do what their gamepad button does, in the move mode too.
  • A gamepad enabled in the game's options but not plugged in no longer counts: the help then speaks of the mouse and the keyboard, and switches back when you plug it in.

• Guides regenerated with the latest QuestieDB data, which marks 13 Forever quests as not available to Humans:

  • they are no longer in the Human guides (Northshire, Elwynn, Westfall, Loch Modan);
  • the Dwarf and Gnome guides keep the ones in their zones;
  • the shared Alliance guides for Redridge and Duskwood leave them out for every race.

  Ding finds your place again in the updated guides.

v1.1.1

Requires QuestieDB: download QuestieDB-Forever.zip from https://github.com/Questie/QuestieDB/releases/latest and extract its QuestieDB folder into Interface/AddOns.

• Quests above your level are no longer held back: holding them until you reach their level meant far too much grinding. They show in orange with their level, and Ding takes them as usual. Quests taken on the way, ahead of the guide, still have to be at your level.
• Right-click the guide window: "Mark as done" or "Skip, do it later". A step you marked done shows in violet when you come back to it, a skipped one in amber; green stays for what the game confirms. "Take this guide up where I am" clears these marks: what is not really done is to do again. On a gamepad, the "Next step" and "Skip step" bindings do the same.
• Closing the guide window hides the arrow too. The minimap button, your binding, /ding or the new "Show the guide and its arrow" box (Settings, Guide tab) bring both back.
• With "Hide in dungeons", the arrow now hides in dungeons as well. It used to stay, showing only its target's name and "?".

v1.1.0

Requires QuestieDB: download QuestieDB-Forever.zip from https://github.com/Questie/QuestieDB/releases/latest and extract its QuestieDB folder into Interface/AddOns.

• Ding now speaks German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, as well as English and French: the interface and every guide follow your game's language. Quest, NPC and item names come from QuestieDB in that language.
• Korean and Chinese clients use the game's own font, which has their characters.
• Never a quest above your level, in game too: if you are behind the guide (skipped quests, deaths), a quest above your level shows in grey with "level N required" and a reminder to finish your level on nearby monsters first. Ding no longer takes it for you, and the guide goes on.
• Quests taken on the way: when an NPC offers a quest the guide takes later, Ding takes it now if it is not above your level and your quest log has room. It saves a trip back.
• The objectives of a finished quest now show as done (green, full counter) in the guide window, also when you go back to a past step after turning the quest in. They stayed red at 0/10 before.
• Taking a guide up where you are no longer skips the quests you still have to turn in: quests from earlier in the guide that are in your log, ready or not, are finished and turned in first. At login, Ding now waits for your quest log before placing you, so it cannot skip them either.
• After an update that changes a guide, Ding finds your place again instead of keeping a step number that now points elsewhere.
• Some place names have no official translation we could confirm and stay in English: corrections are welcome on GitHub.

v1.0.0

First release of Ding, published during the WoW Forever beta.

Before you start

• Install QuestieDB first. It is a separate addon, not Questie, and it is not on CurseForge: download QuestieDB-Forever.zip from https://github.com/Questie/QuestieDB/releases/latest and extract its QuestieDB folder into Interface/AddOns. Ding does not load without it.
• Levels 30 to 60 have not been played in game yet. The Forever beta stops at level 30, so the guides beyond 30 were only checked by our offline tools: every quest, prerequisite and route is verified against QuestieDB, and the whole chain is played by a simulated character up to 60. Expect rough edges there, and please report them on GitHub.
• The routes are cautious: never a quest above your level. Some zones come back later in the guide, once their higher quests are open.

What's in it

• Alliance 1–60: Human, Dwarf/Gnome and Night Elf starting zones up to level 20, then a common route to 60.
• Horde 1–60: Orc/Troll, Tauren and Undead starting zones up to level 20, then a common route to 60.
• Routes generated by our own optimizer for XP per hour, including the new quests of Forever.
• Guide window: one line per action and objective with counters, quest card on hover, minimizes to one line, opacity, size and width settings.
• Waypoint arrow: distance and time, "turn around", hunting areas, leads your ghost back to your corpse. TomTom's arrow can be used instead (optional).
• Automatic accept and turn-in, missing prerequisite quests, optional skipping of gray quests, resume where you really are.
• Quest item button with cooldown and range.
• Built for gamepads: keybinds, settings driven with the gamepad, focus mode for the guide window, Xbox or PlayStation button names.
• Minimap button, English and French.

Bugs and suggestions: https://github.com/moust4ki/DingWowForever/issues