Hunter's Field Guide

By
Alezyzz

A beast journal for hunters in WoW Forever and Classic Era: record tameable beasts, reveal their abilities with Beast Lore, and see where they spawn.

All 18 pet families, with how many of each you have found. Shown in the Forever spellbook style.

Each family shows its stats, diet, abilities and every beast you can tame, with level ranges. Rare beasts are shown in blue. This is in "reveal all" mode.

Family page in "Immersive" mode

Each beast shows its level, attack speed, what it teaches, where it is found and its diet, with a map of where it spawns. It can also be added to favorite.

Model view of the different beasts is also an option.

Every pet ability, including the ones new in Forever. Open one to see its ranks and which beasts teach them. In "Reveal all" mode.

Every pet ability, in "immersive" mode

Each ability shows its cost, what it does at every rank, which families can learn it, and every beast that teaches the selected rank.

Targeting a beast for the first time adds it to your journal. Cast Beast Lore on it to reveal its abilities.

Prefer the original spellbook? Switch to the classic look in the settings. Everything works the same, just styled like the old 1.x spellbook.

Description

Hunter's Field Guide is a beast journal for hunters in WoW Forever and WoW Classic Era.

Play it your way

The first time you open the journal, you choose how much it shows and which extras you want. You can change everything later in the settings (the gear in the journal, or /fg config):

Immersive mode (the default): beasts, their locations and abilities stay hidden until you find and study them yourself. The journal fills in as you play.
Reveal all mode: everything is shown from the start, as a complete reference of every beast, where it lives and what it teaches.

Your progress is tracked either way, so you can switch back and forth without losing anything.

Field Guide is made for hunters and stays quiet on your other characters. If you want it on every class, turn on "Use Field Guide on characters that are not hunters" in the settings.

How it works

Target a tameable beast and it is added to your journal with its name, level, family and location. Cast Beast Lore on it (a mouseover macro works too), or tame it, to reveal the abilities and ranks it teaches and its attack speed.

Features

Every tameable beast: 656 in 18 families in Forever (including the new Fox family and abilities), 556 in 17 families in Classic Era
Family pages with stats, diet and your progress
Ability pages showing every rank, its pet level and which beasts teach it
Hints for where to find the next rank of an ability your pet knows
Tracks which ranks your pet already knows, and the beasts your pets were tamed from
Your progress: beasts found, beasts studied and ability ranks known
3D model of each beast
Favorites, and a filter for fast, rare, learnable and nearby beasts
Spawn map in the journal, including dungeon maps for beasts that live in dungeons
Click a spawn area to set a waypoint (TomTom if you have it)
Search by beast, family, zone or ability
Beast info in tooltips, and an optional panel under the target frame
A separate journal for one character, if you want a fresh start on an alt
Choice of the classic or the new Forever spellbook look (Forever)
In English, Korean, German, French and Spanish
Controller support (WoW Forever): type /fg bind, then hold one controller button and press another (for example LB + D-pad down) to open the journal with that pair. In the journal, the D-pad moves, A selects, B goes back and LB/RB turn the page.

On the world map

Each of these can be turned on or off in the settings:

Pins for beasts that teach you something new, which disappear once you have learned everything from them
Pins for every beast you have found, which open the beast's page
Ammo vendors, with the arrows and bullets they sell and the level each needs
Stable masters, hunter trainers and pet trainers
NPCs in the same town share one pin. Click it to fan them out, then click one to set a waypoint

Commands

/fg opens the journal
/fg config opens the settings
/fg bind sets the controller shortcut that opens the journal (WoW Forever)
/fg export exports beasts, locations, ammo vendors, stable masters and trainers the addon did not know about

Feedback

Please report any issues in the comments. If the addon logs a new beast, zone, ability or NPC, you can share it with /fg export so it can be added in an update. Translation corrections are welcome too.

Credits

Data built from open sources: the cMaNGOS classic-db (GPL-3.0), Blizzard's own game data, and pfQuest (MIT, © Shagu). New Forever beasts checked by hand, and some from the EG Link dataset by Efficient Games (CC BY 4.0). Some spawn points from warcraft.wiki.gg (CC BY-SA 4.0) and QuestieDB (GPL-3.0). Controller navigation works the way Easy Controller - Forever drives its own windows.