Hearthlink

Hearthlink helps solo players and close-knit World of Warcraft groups decide what tonight is for.

It turns character progress, saved preferences, live activity hints, gear usefulness, and party sync data into a practical Tonight's Plan: a short list of useful things to do now, things that are better solo, and things that make more sense with friends.

Current Version

Current alpha version: 0.1.4

What It Does

Hearthlink is not meant to be a strict checklist or optimization tool. It is a friendly planning addon that helps answer questions like:

What is worth doing tonight?
What fits a short session?
What should I do solo?
What is better with this group?
Which weekly or gear-related tasks still look useful?
What should I save for later?

Current Alpha Features

Tonight's Plan view for scan-friendly recommendations.
Session intent dropdown with Auto, Weeklies, Quick Wins, Chill Solo, Gear Progress, Group Night, Professions, and Catch-Up.
Weighted recommendation scoring so the selected intent strongly affects what rises to the top without hiding everything else.
Solo and group-aware suggestions that shift when Hearthlink detects a party.
Activity tracking for campaign progress, Delves, Great Vault, Midnight weeklies, Prey hunts, PvP weeklies, crests, and optional currencies.
Lightweight profession planning tasks for profession weeklies, knowledge points, farming, and check-ins.
Gear usefulness scoring by equipped item level and reward category.
Mythic+ score and Delver's Journey progress as recommendation factors where available.
Cached alt status when characters have logged in with the addon.
Status, preferences, character, squad, about, and optional debug views.
Party sync with privacy options for shared character data.
Hearthlink addon icon and micro-menu button integration.

Version History

Unreleased

Updated the WoW interface metadata from 120007 to 120005 to match the current live Retail client.

0.1.4

Updated Hearthlink's in-addon version and About screen to 0.1.4.
Refreshed project documentation for the current alpha.
Cleaned up release packaging by replacing the older alpha workflow with the current Hearthlink workflow.
Added deploy tooling for smoother local release packaging.
Improved updater and release plumbing so installing test builds is less of a side quest.

0.1.3

Added the Hearthlink icon to addon metadata so WoW and addon managers can display the proper artwork.
Updated the micro-menu button to expose the Hearthlink name and icon more consistently.
Bumped packaged version metadata and docs for the 0.1.3 alpha.

0.1.2

Added the Tonight focus intent dropdown.
Added Weeklies, Quick Wins, Chill Solo, Gear Progress, Group Night, Professions, and Catch-Up intent weighting.
Added weighted intent scoring with visible suggestion reasons.
Added lightweight profession planning tasks: Profession Weeklies, Knowledge Points, Profession Farming, and Profession Check-In.
Improved task icon coverage and added fallback icon handling.
Renamed the main planning tab to Tonight.
Switched the intent selector to a native WoW dropdown control.
Improved Tonight's Focus layout and spacing.
Removed placeholder collection-planning tasks and intent. Collection planning may become a separate module or addon later.

0.1.1

Reframed the addon around Tonight's Plan rather than a simple checklist.
Improved recommendation text hierarchy across list rows, tooltips, and detail pages.
Added clearer detail-page sections for why an activity is suggested, who it helps, where to start, and expected rewards.
Added local development sync tooling for copying the addon into the WoW AddOns folder.
Split project documentation into feature, product experience, and development notes.
Added a CurseForge alpha publishing workflow.

0.1.0

Initial alpha foundation.
Added the main Hearthlink window, tabs, slash commands, micro-menu button, saved variables, activity preferences, character snapshots, and early recommendation data.
Added early party/squad sync support and privacy controls.
Added basic status, preferences, and debug surfaces for testing.

Alpha Notice

Hearthlink is currently in small-group alpha testing. Some task detection, reward values, and scoring rules may change as the addon is tested against real weekly play patterns.

Feedback is especially useful around:

Suggestions that feel too high or too low
Activities that are missing or incorrectly detected
Party recommendations that do not match what the group actually wants
Gear or crest usefulness that feels wrong
Intent choices that do not reorder Tonight's Plan in a helpful way

Scope Notes

Hearthlink is focused on practical session planning. It is not currently trying to become a full collection tracker, route planner, guild management tool, or optimization simulator.

Mount and transmog collection planning may be better as a separate module or addon because it needs source tracking, routes, lockouts, drop data, and character eligibility rules.

Privacy

Hearthlink is designed for coordination with trusted party members. Sync can be disabled, and privacy options are available to limit shared character details.

Slash Commands

/hearthlink
/hlink

Both commands toggle the main Hearthlink window.