RouteXP — Free Horde Leveling Guide & GPS Routes (WoW: Forever)

RouteXP is a free leveling guide for the Horde, from level 1 to 60, made for WoW: Forever. It is still being worked on: the guides from level 30 to 60 are ready today, and the guides for levels 1 to 30 are coming next. For now it is Horde only.

RouteXP detects your character's level in game and gives you the right guide for it. It tells you which quest to take, where to go and what to do next, and it draws the way on the map like a GPS — the route a Google Maps would give you — so players who don't know the World of Warcraft map can reach every place the fastest way.

Languages: English (enUS), Portuguese (ptBR) and Spanish (esES / esMX). The addon follows your game client language automatically.

Best features

• Leveling routes that pick themselves: your level is detected and the guide for it is chosen for you. Speedrun routes chain the zones, and full guides cover every zone, including the new WoW: Forever zones (Riverglades, Shen'dralas, Mount Hyjal).
• GPS route on the map, like Google Maps: the route line on the world map and the minimap follows the real terrain — it goes around mountains and cliffs, avoids deep water and prefers roads — instead of a straight line. When a flight, zeppelin or boat is faster, the route includes it.
• Mark a route for your friends: hold Ctrl and click on the map to mark a route from one point to another. The route is shared with everyone in your group who also uses RouteXP, at once and without anyone having to accept anything. A very useful addon for friends who play together with it.
• Speedrun styles: skip slow quests, escorts and quests with many dropped items, or play Duo / Group, Full, with or without dungeon and elite quests.
• Auto accept and turn in by quest ID, only for quests of your guide.
• Farm timer: XP per hour and gold per hour (coins from mobs plus the value of the items you loot).
• Totally free.

How it works

1. Open the guide window (minimap button, the addon list button, or /rota / /routexp). RouteXP detects your level and suggests the guide for it.
2. Follow the list. Quests you accept, complete and turn in leave the list by themselves. The arrow and the route line always point to the next step.
3. Click any quest in the list to pick it: it gets a gold border, moves to the top, and the arrow and the route lead to it.
4. Use Guides to choose another zone or route, and Options to change the style.

GPS route on the map

• RouteXP ships a walkability map of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, built from the WoW: Forever terrain (slopes, cliffs, deep water and road textures). The route takes the shortest walkable way, so you never run into a mountain you can't climb.
• When flying or taking a boat or zeppelin is faster, the route lists the legs: walk to the flight master, fly to X, board the zeppelin, walk to the objective.
• Where there is no walking path (elevators, caves, buildings) the line goes to the closest reachable point and the last bit stays straight.
• The route is computed over a few frames, so it never freezes the game. It works from the first install.

Marked route for your group

• On the world map, hold Ctrl and right click where you start, then Ctrl + left click where you want to go (without a start, the route starts where you are).
• RouteXP draws the way in blue on the map and minimap (on foot along the terrain, plus any flight, zeppelin or boat) and lists the legs in a small window, with a button to point the arrow there.
• The route goes at once to everyone in your party or raid who has RouteXP. Nobody has to accept anything: it simply shows up. When you clear it, it clears for them too.
• Everyone needs RouteXP installed to see it, because each player's addon draws the route on their own screen.

More features

• Quest icons: the ! / ? shows the status, and a second icon shows the type (sword = kill, bag = collect drops, gear = interact, speech bubble = talk).
• Prerequisite chains: when a guide quest needs earlier quests that are not in the guide, they show up in its place, marked [prerequisite].
• Quest log counter always visible at the top of the window (e.g. Quests 23/25).
• Gold + XP farming spots (solo and duo), dungeons for your level with XP per hour, farming gear (GearQuest) and talents (Talents Forever).
• Group sharing: group members with RouteXP share the guide, quest progress and marked spots through the game's own addon channel (no internet). A Share quests button shares every guide quest in your log.
• Auction House helper: if the guide you pick for a zone has quests that ask for items dropped by mobs that can be traded, RouteXP warns you and suggests buying them on the Auction House instead of farming, with a shopping list and a one-click search. With Auctionator it also shows you the price. Support for other Auction House price addons is coming in the future.
• Abandon helpers: an abandon link on every quest, optional auto-abandon of slow or low-XP quests, and a review of grey quests in your log.
• Quiet chat: RouteXP only writes to chat when you type a /rota command, and waypoint notices from TomTom and the map pin are hidden.
• Minimize the guide to a small round icon (also on the minimap).

Commands

/rota or /routexp shows/hides · /rota help lists all commands · /rota options · /rota turnin · /rota nearby · /rota farm · /rota timer · /rota shop · /rota share · /rota en / /rota pt / /rota es / /rota auto (language)

Optional addons

TomTom (arrow and waypoints), Questie (quest data and group progress), Auctionator (Auction House prices and search), GearQuest Forever (gear), Talents Forever (talents). RouteXP works without them.

Credits and license

RouteXP is released under the GPL-3.0 with additional terms (see LICENSE and NOTICE.txt in the addon folder): keep the credit "Based on RouteXP by cleytoncl3", mark modified versions as changed, and do not use the name RouteXP or its icon for them.

AI notice: the author does not consent to RouteXP's code, guides, data or documentation being used to train AI models or to build AI datasets.

Quest, NPC and location data and the Portuguese and Spanish names come from Questie (QuestieDB, GPL-3.0). Loot tables and vendor prices come from cmangos classic-db (GPL-3.0). The terrain map was built from the WoW: Forever game terrain. Minimap button libraries: LibStub, CallbackHandler, LibDataBroker, LibDBIcon. The icon, guides, routes and code were made for this project.

Support RouteXP

RouteXP is and will stay free. If it saves you time and you want to say thanks, you can buy me a coffee — any amount helps me keep the addon updated and build the next guides.

Disclaimer: RouteXP is made exclusively for WoW: Forever (for now) and is an independent project, not affiliated with other leveling guides such as RestedXP or Zygor. This version of WoW has many new and changed quests, so the guide may still have some errors (a quest in the wrong place, a missing quest, an odd step order). It is actively being worked on and improved. Please report anything wrong in the comments, with the quest name and zone.