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Story Mode

Relive Your Adventure

File Details

v1.8.8

  • R
  • Jun 14, 2026
  • 6.19 MB
  • 372
  • 12.0.5+3
  • Classic + 2

File Name

StoryMode-v1.8.8.zip

Supported Versions

  • 12.0.5
  • 12.0.1
  • 2.5.5
  • 1.15.7

## 1.8.8

### Classic Era
- Added **The Hakkari Trail**, covering Yeh'kinya, the Mosh'aru Tablets, Hakkar, and the road to Zul'Gurub
- Added **The Scythe of Elune** as an Alliance story linking Ashenvale, Velinde Starsong, Duskwood, and the worgen mystery
- Adjusted chapter portraits to prefer the first quest giver's face when NPC display data is available
- Corrected **Raene's Cleansing** to use the Blackfathom Deeps loading screen cover
- Corrected **The Scarlet Crusade** so **Tyr's Hand** uses Nathanos Blightcaller's Classic portrait
- Added **Scholomance** coverage for the Skeleton Key, Sarkhoff/Kirtonos chain, Ras Frostwhisper, and Barov inheritance quests
- Added **Maraudon** coverage for Vyle corruption, the Scepter of Celebras, Theradras, Zaetar, and the Seed of Life
- Added **Secrets of Uldaman** coverage for Hammertoe, the Shattered Necklace, the Tablet of Will, and the Platinum Discs
- Added full supported-locale coverage for the new Classic story text

### Quest Guidance
- Corrected **Compendium of the Fallen** so undead characters do not see it, while other Horde characters can pick it up without a prerequisite
- Clarified **Hearts of Zeal** chat guidance so **Going, Going, Guano!** is named as the prerequisite

### Localization
- Filled remaining supported-locale story and content fallbacks for German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian
- Fixed second-pass German and Spanish prose QA findings where generated translations left English source sentences in localized story text
- Removed invisible generated spacing artifacts from supported locale files
- Corrected mixed English title residues in localized prose, including Ebon Hold/Ebon Blade references, **The Way Forward**, **The Search for Baine**, **The Argent Crusade**, and Gracina Spiritmight name splits
- Updated **The Writhing Deep** title and recap text to official localized quest names in all supported locales

### Maintenance
- Added a dev-only localization fill tool and tightened the localization audit so English fallback keys fail validation
- Added dev-only localization quality-pass tooling for official quest-name lookups and glossary drift candidate reports
- Added a dev-only prose quality audit to catch source-sentence and embedded source-title residue in localized content
- Expanded localization validation to fail hidden Unicode spacing artifacts
- Hardened official quest-title QA to skip Wowhead English fallback names before suggesting replacements
- Bumped addon metadata to `1.8.8`