Story Mode

1.7.0

Classic Era

• Added four lower-level Classic/TBC storylines: Arugal and Shadowfang Keep, The Tower of Althalaxx, Raene's Cleansing, and Battle of Hillsbrad
• Added Classic/TBC story level guidance using minimum required quest level through maximum quest level, shown on story cards and story introductions
• Sorted stories within each category by their lowest suggested level so earlier Classic stories appear higher in the list
• Added Consumed by Hatred to the Lost in Battle Mankrik story
• Fixed Continue Story on Classic/TBC so quests already in the player's log open the selected quest log entry instead of only printing chat guidance

Maintenance

• Split Classic level-guide formatting into Code/Core/LevelGuide.lua and loaded it from all TOCs
• Split questline registration and story-data normalization into Code/Core/Registry.lua
• Added stable story IDs for saved selection, progress-cache invalidation, and normalized quest metadata
• Cached chapter, campaign, and next-quest progress calculations between quest-log events
• Returned structured tracking results from quest tracking while preserving existing chat behavior
• Split event, slash-command, and quest-completion handling into Code/Core/Events.lua
• Added registry-backed story quest lookup indexes for quest IDs and quest names
• Added UI refresh hooks for story cards/current detail plus coalesced detail layout scheduling
• Added Classic faction IDs for Timbermaw Hold and Brood of Nozdormu to the metadata audit map
• Added shared keyed scheduling/debounce helpers, story-state snapshots, and a reusable UI frame-pool helper
• Split the loading-screen browser and achievement/story-state resolution out of StoryMode.lua
• Split story-list card building, selection, scroll restore, and targeted row refresh into Code/UI/StoryList.lua
• Updated quest accepted/completed events to refresh the affected story row when the changed story is known
• Fixed Retail login-time story registration so faction/race/class stories are not filtered before player identity is ready
• Fixed Retail expansion availability so stories are not hidden by an early or unstable expansion-level API value during login
• Fixed Retail story registration so Classic/TBC-only data gaps do not stop later Retail stories from appearing
• Fixed the Classic/TBC Begin Story button by using the normal click path there instead of the Retail secure waypoint overlay
• Centralized Classic/Retail client checks behind compatibility helpers and refreshed story state on level-up
• Added _Dev/tools/check-core-behavior.mjs to guard TOC module loading and the StoryMode.lua local-count budget
• Added _Dev/tools/validate-story-data.mjs for local story schema and TOC coverage checks
• Refactored StoryMode.lua to reduce main-scope locals and avoid Lua's 200-local limit