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GearQuest Forever

GearQuest Forever answers one question at every level from 1 to 60: what is the best thing I could be wearing in this slot right now, and where do I get it?

No spreadsheet. No alt-tab to a website.

Left-click the minimap button for the log. Right-click a character slot to see your BiS upgrades.

Your Hunts

Each row is a piece for that slot. The grey number is its rank, the same number as the (i) list. Recommended marks up to three rank #1 upgrades. - Rank #1 BiS acquired means you already have the best piece in that slot.

Where a gear piece comes from

Open a hunt for the source, the quest level, if it is a chain quest, your progression, the craft, and the materials, and more. Track pins it. Show on map opens the spot. Remove takes that hunt off the list.

Pins on the map

The pin is a real place: the quest that starts a chain, a dungeon entrance, a vendor, a rare creature, or a camp. Track a hunt and the "Guide" arrow can point the way. On another continent it points at the boat, zeppelin or air ship first.

Play your way with Play Styles

Play Styles are another type of filter that match the way you want to play; No Dungeons! hides dungeon and raid hunts, even quests that require you to go into a dungeon are excluded. Dungeon Enjoyer keeps only those hunts that require you to go into a dungeon. Get it now! waits to show you hunts until you have the reputation, or can make a bind-on-pickup craft. Manageable Quests & Manageable Dungeons are both styles that hides upgrades that typically are very hard for you to get, at least on your own. Buy it keeps vendor pieces and gear that is not bind on pickup (such as but not limited to world drops). Focus Zone always only shows you upgrades that you can get in the zone you are in right now - leaving the zone to another updates the list automatically to show you a list for the new zone. The two dungeon cards turn each other off. The button reads Play style* while at least one play style is enabled.

Filter

Hide a source like a profession or a rare NPC, or many other filter combinations. Also compatible with Play Styles.

A weapon filter allows you to define what type of weapon you'd like to see in your hunt lists - these filters differ from class to class and spec to spec.

Lookup gear in the class directory

In the Lookup tab you can search for any item that belongs to the class you are currently viewing for all 60 levels. So if you are wondering about a piece of gear and when your class/spec should hunt for it, you can search for it and your input will return a max of 10 items - the more accurate your input is, the more specific results you'l get. Hovering over the "(i)" info icon, will tell you exactly at what levels and for what specs for the class you are viewing, when the item become relevant.

Is this an upgrade?

Hover a piece of gear and you will see a line that tells you how it ranks for that slot: best is +100, worst is 0. The arrow (green-up/red-down) compares it to what you have on.

Recommended enchantments

There's an option to display the best enchant/item enhancement line "Recommended enchantment...". GearQuest will recommend the best ranked enchantment based of your current spec you are viewing. You can enable this under the Hunts settings -> Recommended Gear Enchantment.

GearQuest Index Score

The GearQuest Score bar in the log header is always the score of your equipped gear. Both the score and the bar can be turned off under General settings.

Why "that" piece ranks as it does

Hover the spec picker in the upper right corner of the GearQuest Log. Those are the weights for the chosen spec. These stat weights decide how gear is ranked for that specifc spec. A random-enchant green is ranked on its best suffix roll. You cannot edit the weights in the addon yet.

Customize your specs

GearQuest ships with its own premade stat weights for each spec, but if you feel like you wish the weights does not match the way you want to play, you can create your own spec with stat weights you completely set yourself. It will be saved to your account so you at any point can pick that spec and see upgrades ranked after the spec that use your configured stat weights.

Look ahead

The simulator is another class, spec, faction, or level. Turn off simulation brings the list back to you. The tooltip will not score your gear while it is on.

Toast when you obtain a BiS

Once you get a BiS item a toast congratulates you and you can check out all your completed hunts in the Completed list tab.

Fully Gamepad compatible

GearQuest is fully compatible with the new Gamepad mode introduced in Forever. It uses the same style of glow and pointer concept as Blizzard's own when the UI is in focus. 

How we score

Every hunt is scored for that spec. We do not rank by item level. The stats are the ones on the current Wowhead Forever tooltip.

While you level (1–59), three things matter, in this order:

1. Damage first. A hunter hunts Agility. Arms hunts Strength. A mage hunts spell power. Beast Mastery and Marksmanship hunt the bow, gun, or crossbow. Survival still hunts melee. Enhancement hunts a two-hander. Protection hunts a one-hand and a shield.
2. Survivability second. A naked +1 upgrade that leaves you squishy loses. At 22, Brawler's / Trapper's Leather Tunic beats Panther Armor because it has stamina.
3. Endurance third. Intellect, spirit, and mana per 5 matter, but they matter less than stamina..

A random enchant is ranked on its best roll. If +7 Agility would be the best shoulders, that hunt is #1, and the tooltip tells you the roll is slim. We do not hide it because the suffix is rare.

Warrior Protection does not score spell damage. Paladin Protection does. Holy paladin hunts healing on the armor they actually wear, mail and then plate, so a cloth robe only wins when stats are really good. A Set piece is on the list because the set bonus is worth the slots. Fx. Embrace of the Viper is the one most people meet in the teens and twenties.

FAQ

• Why is this the best piece?
  • Hover the spec. The hunt follows those weights. If you got feedback to stat weights please join our Discord community.
• Can I change the weights?
  • Yes! Custom specs allow you to create your own spec's stat weights. You can create a custom spec via the spec picker in the upper right corner of the GearQuest Log. Click + custom stat weight to create your own spec with your own stat weights.
• How do I hide dungeons? 
  • If you select the "No dungeons!" Play style you will no longer see suggestions that take you into any dungeon.
• How do I look ahead of my level or see another class' upgrades?
  • Use the Simulator in the 2nd tab and choose the Faction, Class, Spec and the Level you wish.
• How do I hide the minimap button?
  • Go to the Settings tab (gear icon) -> General -> Hide minimap icon.
• I already have the best piece.
  • The slot in the Hunts List says "Rank #1 BiS acquired". Lower ranks stay.
• The addon uses a lot of memory.
  • The addon consists of the main addon that contain the UI, logic and feature. Then you have 9 secondary addons (one for each class). You only activate one class addon at a time. Class addons contains thousands of items, so that a list of hunts don't become empty if you add a lot of filters or play styles at ones. We keep working on limiting that memory usages. It used to be 1.3GB, now it is down to approximately 200-400MB (depending on your class).
• I do not want a specific hunt to be shown again.
  • Open it and press Remove. You can always get it back again from the Removed tab if you wish.

Getting started

1. Install every folder from the download: GearQuestForever and the GearQuestForever class folders. Those class folders hold the hunt lists.
2. /reload.
3. Click the minimap button. Drag it if you want it somewhere else. Settings can hide it.
4. Right-click any slot in your character panel to also view upgrade in a more userfriendly way.

World of Warcraft: Forever, level 60. GearQuest never equips or moves your items. This is exclusively a Forever addon (client 1.60.1).