QuestFocus

🚧 Beta in active development. Core features work and the addon is daily-driver stable, but the surface is still evolving — expect occasional polish-level changes between releases. Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas welcome on the issue tracker.

Make the quest tracker do exactly what you want, at a glance.

QuestFocus puts a couple of small buttons on the objective tracker that narrow your watch list to what you actually care about right now — the zone you're in, the campaign you're following, weeklies you haven't finished, or any one of nine tracker modes you pick from a right-click menu. When you're in a party, every tracked row gets a coloured dot showing how the quest stands across your group: who has it, who's ready to turn in, who isn't on it at all. Hover the row and you'll see the per-member breakdown right inside Blizzard's own quest tooltip.

Retail only. Requires Midnight (Interface 120005+).

At a glance

• 🔍 Focus button + ↶ Revert button on the objective tracker and the world-map quest log.
• Right-click the lens for nine one-click tracker modes (all / current zone / campaign / daily / weekly / Important / ready-to-turn-in / in-progress / untrack everything).
• One-click revert to whatever you were tracking before, with merge semantics: any quest you accepted while the filter was on stays accepted.
• Coloured indicator dots on each tracked quest row when you're in a party — green / yellow / blue / orange tell you instantly whether your party is aligned, mixed, ready to turn in, or in a "I'm the only one on this quest" share opportunity.
• Party-state breakdown appended to Blizzard's tracker row tooltip — class-coloured names, per-member status.
• Native settings panel under Escape → Options → AddOns → QuestFocus: indicator size, shape, position, three colour palettes (incl. red-green-friendly and blue-yellow-friendly), opacity, raid threshold, and a manual-untrack-clears-snapshot toggle.

ZoneFilter

Two small buttons attach to the objective tracker and to the world-map quest log. They share state — pressing one updates the other instantly.

What it does

• 🔍 Focus (left-click) — Narrow your watch list to quests with an objective in the current zone. Quests in the zone you haven't tracked are left alone.
• 🔍 Focus + promote (shift-left-click) — Same untrack pass, plus promote any zone-relevant quest from your quest log into the watch list.
• 🔍 Tracker mode menu (right-click) — Nine one-click modes covering all the most common "show me only X" cases. Each entry previews how many quests it would track; entries that would empty the tracker flag a warning glyph.
• ↶ Revert — Restores the watch list to the snapshot taken when you first applied a filter, plus any quests you've added since (manually or via Blizzard's autoQuestWatch). Per-character snapshot survives /reload.
• Re-apply button (green ↶) — Appears between the lens and the revert button when a non-zone tracker mode is active and the watch list has drifted. One click cleans the drift without leaving the current mode.

Tracker-state indicator

The 🔍 icon colour tells you what the filter is doing:

• White — no filter applied
• Green — filter active, watch list matches what the filter left it as
• Orange — filter active, but quests have been added or removed since (it pulses briefly when this state transitions)

The lens tooltip headline shows the current state in plain language: No filter, Filter: weeklies only, Filter: campaign quests only (1 added), colour-matched to the dot.

Tracker modes (right-click menu)

The currently-active mode is annotated (active) in green or (drifted) in orange. Slash commands cover every mode for macro use.

Auto-promote

While a filter is active, any new quest entering your log that matches the current zone is added to the watch list automatically. Closes the gap with Blizzard's autoQuestWatch on event quests like Void Assaults that get pushed into your log on first progress without auto-tracking. Manually un-tracking an auto-promoted quest keeps it un-tracked — only new arrivals get promoted, no infinite-loop re-tracking.

Revert semantics

revert_target = snapshot ∪ quests_added_since

Anything you've manually accepted or tracked between filter-apply and revert is preserved. Quests the filter itself added get cleaned up. Strict by default: if you manually un-track a quest that was in the snapshot, revert restores it. Flip the per-character setting Manual un-track also clears the snapshot if you'd rather revert respect your manual removal.

PartySync

When you're in a party, every tracked quest in the objective tracker gets a small coloured dot. The colour tells you at a glance how the quest stands across your group:

• 🟢 Green — aligned: every partymate is on the quest and progressing
• 🟡 Yellow — mixed: some partymates are on it, some aren't (coordination opportunity)
• 🔵 Blue — ready to turn in: at least one partymate has the objectives complete
• 🟠 Orange — shareable: only you have it, and at least one partymate is in the same zone (share the quest)
• no dot — no actionable group state, or you're solo

Hover any tracked quest row as you normally would — Blizzard's tooltip appears with the quest description and objectives, and PartySync appends a "Party state:" section below: each member's name in their class colour, with their state on the right (Ready to turn in / In progress (K/N) / Not on quest). "You" comes first, then partymates sorted by state. In groups of 10+ members the section is hidden automatically (configurable threshold). The indicator dots themselves are click-through — they're visual signals only, not separate hover targets.

PartySync attaches to both the regular quest tracker and the campaign quest tracker.

BNet visibility caveat

C_TooltipInfo.GetQuestPartyProgress, the API PartySync relies on, only returns real data for partymates who are BNet-visible to you. If a partymate has set themselves "appear offline" on Battle.net, they'll show up as Not on quest regardless of their actual state — and the aggregate dot may misfire (e.g. show orange "shareable" when they actually have the quest). In practice this matches the audience: cooperative questing is almost always between BNet friends who are visible to each other. If you spot inconsistent data, check BNet visibility before filing a bug.

Slash commands

/qf                          apply ZoneFilter to current zone (narrow only)
/qf promote                  same plus promote untracked zone quests from log
/qf revert                   restore pre-filter watch list (merge semantics)
/qf status                   print filter active / restorable counts

/qf all                      track every quest in the log
/qf untrack                  untrack everything
/qf campaign                 track only campaign quests
/qf daily                    track only daily quests
/qf weekly                   track only weekly quests
/qf important                track only Important quests (purple triangle)
/qf ready                    track only ready-to-turn-in quests
/qf inprogress               track only in-progress quests

/qf module list              show enable/active state of both modules
/qf module enable <name>     enable a module (PartySync applies live; ZoneFilter needs /reload)
/qf module disable <name>    disable a module

/qf party debug              toggle per-quest aggregate-state diff prints (PartySync)
/qf party broadcast on|off   reserved; not yet implemented

/questfocus                  long alias for /qf

What it doesn't do (yet)

• ZoneFilter has no auto-on-zone-change mode.
• PartySync covers tracker rows only — no world-map quest log indicators.
• PartySync doesn't broadcast over addon channels (consequently can't see BNet-hidden partymates).
• Doesn't collapse tracker sections.
• Doesn't call any API during combat. Buttons disable visually and become click-through.

Technical notes

• Tracker pair: parented to ObjectiveTrackerFrame.Header (with fallback to HeaderMenu / ObjectiveTrackerFrame itself on older builds). Inherits visibility from the tracker — when nothing is tracked and the tracker hides itself, the buttons hide too. Edit Mode movement and scaling carry the buttons.
• Quest-log pair: parented to QuestMapFrame, anchored directly above QuestMapFrame.QuestsTab. Visible whenever the world map is open. Shares state with the tracker pair — pressing one updates both.
• Zone-relevance check: a quest counts as relevant if info.isOnMap, info.hasLocalPOI, or C_QuestLog.IsOnMap(questID) returns true. The third fallback catches completed quests whose turn-in is in the current zone.
• Taint posture: no custom field writes onto Blizzard frames. Indicator dots are addon-owned CreateFrame widgets parented to tracker blocks for visibility-inheritance only; release re-parents to UIParent.

Changelog

v0.9.0-beta

New features:

• Native settings panel. Find QuestFocus under Escape → Options → AddOns → QuestFocus. Or Shift-Right-click any of the filter buttons.
• Tracker mode menu. Right-click the focus (🔍) button to pick from nine one-click tracker modes: Track all, Track current zone, Track current zone + promote from log, Track campaign quests only, Track daily quests only, Track weeklies only, Track Important quests only (the purple-triangle quests Blizzard marks), Track ready-to-turn-in only, Track in-progress only, Untrack everything. Each entry previews how many quests it would track and flags actions that would empty the tracker.
• Active-mode awareness. The menu shows which mode is currently in effect ((active) in green, (drifted) in orange). The lens tooltip headline now reads what the filter is doing right now — No filter, Filter: weeklies only, Filter: campaign quests only (1 added), etc. — colour-matched to the lens dot.
• Re-apply button appears between the revert and lens buttons when a tracker mode is active and the watch list has drifted. One click cleans the drift without leaving the current mode. Hidden otherwise.
• PartySync visual settings. Tune indicator dots in the settings panel: size (6 / 8 / 10 / 12 px), shape (square / diamond), position (top-right corner / right of title / left of title), three colour palettes including red-green-friendly and blue-yellow-friendly variants, and a 40 %–100 % opacity slider. Inline style preview shows the current look; on-tracker preview button previews on real rows.
• Quest-log autopilot. Quests that complete or get abandoned are removed from filter state automatically.

Improvements:

• Optional revert behaviour: new per-character setting Manual un-track also clears the snapshot. When on, manually un-tracking a quest while a filter is active means revert won't restore it. Off by default (preserves the original behaviour where revert restores the exact pre-filter watch list).
• Drift pulse. When the filter transitions from clean to dirty (e.g. a new quest is auto-tracked while a filter is active), the lens icon briefly flashes to draw attention.
• Raid handling. In groups of 10+ members the per-member tooltip section is hidden automatically (it'd be too long). Indicator dots still show. Configurable threshold: always show / hide at 10+ / hide at 20+.
• Quest-icon clearance. Left of title text indicator position now offsets 30 px to clear the quest-type icon column instead of overlapping it.
• Click-binding hints in the menu — the two zone-filter rows are labelled [Left-click] and [Shift+Left-click] so it's obvious which menu entry corresponds to which keyboard shortcut.
• Slash commands for every tracker mode: /qf all, /qf untrack, /qf campaign, /qf daily, /qf weekly, /qf important, /qf ready, /qf inprogress (existing /qf, /qf promote, /qf revert, /qf status still work).

Fixes:

• The triangular re-apply button no longer overflows off the world-map quest log's frame edge.
• PartySync indicators no longer attach to account-shared (warband) or bonus-objective quests where party state has no meaning.

Behind the scenes:

• State model and tracker-mode plumbing consolidated; reduces the chance of "you forgot to update X when Y changed" bugs as the addon grows.

v0.3.0-beta

• PartySync module — coloured dot on every tracked quest row when in a party (green/yellow/blue/orange/hidden). Hover the row and Blizzard's normal quest tooltip gets a "Party state:" section appended: class-coloured member names with their state (Ready to turn in / In progress (K/N) / Not on quest) and a BNet-visibility footer when relevant. Attaches to both QuestObjectiveTracker and CampaignQuestObjectiveTracker, so campaign quests get the same treatment.
• Auto-promote in ZoneFilter — new quests entering the log while the filter is active are added to the watch list immediately if they're zone-relevant. Closes the autoQuestWatch gap on event quests like Void Assaults.
• Module-toggle slash commands — /qf module list, /qf module enable|disable <name>. PartySync hot-toggles; ZoneFilter still wants /reload.
• Source restructured under ZoneFilter/ and PartySync/ namespaces.

v0.1.x

• Initial ZoneFilter feature: filter/revert buttons on the tracker and the world-map quest log.
• Merge revert semantics: pre-filter snapshot ∪ quests-added-since.
• Tri-state filter indicator (white / green / orange).
• Restorable-count badge on the revert button.
• Slash commands: /qf, /qf promote, /qf revert, /qf status.

License

GNU General Public License v2 (see LICENSE).