Field Guide Forever

Field Guide Forever gives every creature in WoW: Forever a coat, and the target frame and nameplate show it the moment you see one. Most are bronze, but 1 in 25 spawns is silver, 1 in 100 gold and 1 in 1000 shiny. Every kill goes into a journal of Azeroth's creatures, zone by zone, and it is cosmetic only: it never grants power or changes combat.

Field Guide needs Questie or the standalone QuestieDB addon for its creature list. Without one, the window says what to install.

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It needs Forever Core, which CurseForge and Wago install with it.

A silver, gold or shiny spawn wears a laurel ornament around its target portrait, from a plain silver ring with one oak sprig to a full gold laurel, and on shiny a pearl laurel with a slow light sweeping across it. Its nameplate gets the same mark beside the health bar.

Every catalogued zone has its own page of creatures, with your kills and research rank for each. Pick one to see its level, zone and how far you are towards Mastered. The bar at the bottom is the zone's completion.

Creatures and Instances share the side rail. Silver, gold and shiny are filters, and each entry shows all four coats a spawn can wear.

Records keep when you first and last saw a creature, how many deaths you recorded and the best coat you have found.

Your first silver, gold or shiny of a species, a species reaching Mastered and a zone with every creature recorded each get the game's achievement toast. Click one to open the journal there.

Guild and group members who run the addon share their totals, ranked by kills this week or all time.

These images are generated previews of the Field Guide UI.

Features

• Rarity marks. A silver, gold or shiny spawn wears a laurel around its target portrait and the same mark to the right of its nameplate's health bar, and silver and shiny keep the game's rare silver frame. Health bars, names, the game's own rare, elite and boss art, and every bronze creature look exactly as they always did.
• The coat ladder. Every spawn is bronze, silver (1 in 25), gold (1 in 100) or shiny (1 in 1000), fixed for that spawn and the same for every player who sees it. The journal keeps how many of each you have found.
• Journal. Creatures across outdoor zones, dungeons and raids, with their level, rank and zone, opening on Discovered so a new character starts with what they have actually met. Search by name, filter by status or coat, and switch between the Creatures and Instances tabs.
• Research ranks and zone completion. Kills move a species through Discovered (1), Observed (3), Studied (6) and Mastered (10), and the count keeps going after that. Each zone shows the share of its species you have recorded.
• Records and tracking. Each creature keeps its first sighting, first kill and best coat per character, with a sighting log for the current session. Track Species puts the one you are working on in the Forever tracker column every Forever addon shares, with its zone, sightings toward Mastered and kills.
• Discoveries. A first kill is announced at the top of the screen and tagged New in the journal, and silver, gold, shiny, mastery and zone milestones get the game's achievement toast. Both can be turned off in the options.
• Instances. Bosses the game reports when an encounter ends, with first clears, attempts and kills by difficulty. It is a personal record, not a verified world-first board.
• Sharing. Totals and first records are exchanged with guild and group members who run the addon, and Forever Leaderboards shows this week's progress, the all-time total and peer values marked as reported. Sharing is on unless you turn it off in the options or the window; local tracking carries on.

How kills are counted

Field Guide counts the kills it can see: a creature you have targeted, or whose nameplate is showing, dies and nobody outside your group tagged it first. A rare also counts when its map marker, seen alive, turns dead while it is on your minimap. Each death counts once.

A creature that dies with no nameplate showing and not targeted is not counted. Turn on enemy nameplates (V) to catch everything you fight.

Usage

Type /fg or /fieldguide, press Shift-F, or click the Field Guide button on the minimap rim; drag it around the rim to move it, or hide it in the options. /fg preview shows every creature as silver, gold or shiny for this session, /fgf leaderboard opens Forever Leaderboards on the Field Guide tab and /fgf help lists the commands. Options are under Options > AddOns > Field Guide Forever.

For a bug report, paste /fgf report.

The Forever addons

Each one works on its own, and they work together when you install more than one.

Bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are welcome on each addon's GitHub. Everyone whose report or idea ships is thanked by name in the addon's credits and changelog.

For help, ideas and each day's release notes, join cjber's Workshop on Discord.

Source code and issues: github.com/cjber/field-guide-forever. Licence: GPL-3.0-or-later.

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