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# EZLaunch
**Skip the launch-day zerg.** When WoW: Forever opens, Northshire will be packed: hundreds of players fighting over every Kobold and wolf. EZLaunch takes your Alliance character down a different path: exploring, death skipping and a handful of quick quests, picking up flight paths and professions on the way. You never have to fight anyone for a mob tag.
It's a lightweight, step-by-step guide in one small box: an arrow to the next spot, what to do there, and a check-off when it's done.
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## 🧠The route
Based on **Rothie Forever's** exploration leveling route. Full credit to them for the idea, so go watch the original:
- â–¶ [Improved Alliance Exploration Leveling Guide for WoW: Forever](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mqMtonKK8)
- â–¶ [Rothie Forever on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@rothieforever)
In short:
1. **Northshire:** two quick turn-ins, sell your starting gear, train Skinning, grab a knife. Optionally kill a few wolves for extra money (and pick Herbalism or Mining).
2. **Goldshire:** set your hearthstone.
3. **East through Elwynn:** Crystal Lake, the Tower of Azora, Eastvale, Ridgepoint Tower.
4. **Redridge, Duskwood and Westfall:** exploration and death skips, with the Lakeshire, Darkshire and Sentinel Hill flight paths.
5. **Back through Elwynn to Stormwind:** the Trade District courier quests, the Friend of the Library books, the Stormwind flight path and an optional profession.
6. **Goldshire:** the Fargodeep and Jasperlode Mines, Camping 101, Fishing and Cooking, then gear up for your adventure.
## ✨ Features
- **Arrow navigation.** A movable arrow points to every stop, following hand-recorded waypoints between them, with the distance and map coordinates.
- **Steps check themselves off:**
- discovering an area (once the "Discovered … experience gained" message appears)
- picking up a flight path
- accepting, completing and turning in quests
- setting your hearthstone, learning a skill (or reaching a skill level)
- having the right items, being resurrected after a death skip
- **Auto quests.** The route's quests are accepted and turned in for you, and only those. Reward choices are made for you where the route names one (the Small Pumpkin).
- **Auto resurrect.** Talk to a Spirit Healer as a ghost and you're back on your feet.
- **Auto hearthstone.** Talk to the innkeeper at the right step and your home is set.
- **Auto vendor.**
- Shops open when a step needs them.
- Your starting armor, junk and food are sold in Northshire. Never your weapon.
- Route purchases are bought for you: Skinning Knife, Mining Pick, fishing kit, wand materials.
- **Money plan.** See how much money you should have at every step on Forever, next to what you actually have. Purchases are placed where you can afford them.
- **Step timer.** Time since login, logged for every step (`/ezl times`), great for speedrun practice.
- **Professions.**
- Skinning, with an optional second profession: Herbalism, Mining, Leatherworking, Tailoring, or Enchanting (an early wand for Mages, Priests and Warlocks).
- Your Camping 101 quests are accepted and handed in along the way.
- **Your class only.** Steps that aren't for your class or professions are passed by automatically.
- **Setup.** One-click enemy and critter nameplates, and the new-character cutscene is skipped.
Hold **Shift** while talking to an NPC to do anything by hand.
## ⌨️ Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `/ezl` | Show or hide the box |
| `/ezl list` | Every step, with what's done and the money plan |
| `/ezl times` | Time since login at each step, and how long each took |
| `/ezl step <n>` | Jump to a step |
| `/ezl skip`, `/ezl back` | Move between steps |
| `/ezl reset` | Start the route over |
## 🎮 Game versions
- **WoW: Forever:** what it's built for.
- **Classic Era:** works for practising before launch. Forever-only things (the library books, Sam Sarsaparilla, the junior trainers) tick off when you reach their spot.
- **Burning Crusade Anniversary and Mists of Pandaria Classic:** the addon loads, but MoP's world was reshaped by Cataclysm, so some spots won't match.
Alliance only. Humans start in the right place; other races should travel to Elwynn Forest first and type `/ezl reset`.
## đź’¬ Feedback
Found a spot that's off or a step that doesn't tick? Leave a comment with the step number (`/ezl list`) and what happened.
EZLaunch Team
