TLDR
This is our World of Warcraft: Shadowlands release, with support for every new zone, and continuing support for all the old zones.
WoW-Pro Guides is a set of addons which bring guides written by the WoW-Pro community since Cataclysm into both the Retail and Classic releases. The Classic release includes a version of the famous Jame's Leveling Guides back-ported to Classic, since they were written for BC and WoLK.
Currently, the only supplied module for the WoW-Pro add-on on Curse is the leveling guide module. The addon is designed to provide easy, streamlined questing and leveling in a completely customizable package. The Curse release does not have the Achievements, Dailies, Profession and World Events guide addons. Those can be found on our Discord in the #releases channel.
Note: We currently require either TomTom or Carbonite to also be installed.
Features
- Automatic detection of objective completion
- Detect quest accept, completion and turn-in; Detect travel (in any form)
- Detection of flight point discovery and Hearth point change
- Conditionals based on player's class, race, gender, completed quests, and item possession
- Highly customizable frame
- Display many steps or only one; Step explanations can be displayed always or only show on tooltip
- Text can be customized: font, color, and size can be changed; Spacing and padding of the guide window can be customized
- Border and background texture can be changed or removed; Background color can be changed
- Titlebar displaying zone and progress can be removed
- Integrated quest tracker (can be disabled if desired); Integrated quest item, target and zone abilities buttons
- Easily accessed view of entire guide and Sortable guide lists
- Automatic mapping of coordinates with TomTom or Carbonite
- LDB quick open/close button
- Profile management for display settings
Support
- Bugs should be reported in Discord on the #classic-bug-reports or #retail-bug-reports channel as appropriate
- Confused and just want to ask a quick question? Go to Discord on the #general channel
- Want the latest full release? Go to Discord in the #releases channel
- Comments posted here or issues on Github do not get regularly looked at!
Just wanted to say Thank you for keeping this addon updated. I have been using it since BC when there were only online written guides by Jame. For me wow-pro is the only trustworthy and reliable leveling addon.
so is the main addon updated for shadowlands because i installed it but not guide available that i could find
In reply to shilum:
Yes.
Does this work for all of the expansions in Chromie Time as in Legion, WotLK, TBC, etc or is it for just one specific expac?
In reply to Martok73:
This has been around since BC, we have all guides, though some haven't been updated in years, with chromie time we've been trying to go back and touch up old guides to bring them up to snuff but it's a work in progress. For the most part it should work fine.
In the WoD questline there appears to be a bug where it tells you to talk to Durotan for the quest "Secrets of Gorgrond" where he doesn't actually offer that quest. It brings the entire Frostfire Ridge questline to a grinding and most frustrating halt.
In reply to merancapeman:
I ran into that problem also, Here is how i fixed it:
Slid the guide from 1 to 2 in the option where you want bare minimum questing or more stuff to do, Then gradually it guided me thru the rest of the story to unlock that phase in
In reply to dethklok1981:
I actually tried that and it worked for a few quests. Now it's all broken and none of the quests that appear are actually there. :(
In reply to merancapeman:
A fix is on it's way, we are not sure what happened, but some quest got hidden in a Rank 2 for the guide. It is on the list to be re-run through with the Pre-SL changes. A update is available from the the GitHub repository, but an update will be pushed through in a few days to the other sites.
You are always welcome to join our Discord channel to also report issues.
** As of late 10/21/2020 a update was pushed out, fixing this issue and a few others **
In reply to merancapeman:
I also had that problem, but i just switched back to the gorgrond guide on the guide list..... And I broke the guide, or the addon. But now the interface of the guide is all buggy and the arrows always point to where I am, the objectives don't show properly, etc... If I close the guide and open it again, the buggy visuals go away till i complete that step, and the arrows just don't appear anymore. Only happens with the gorgrond guide.
Edit: Doing what dethklok1981 says only fixes for 1 step, then becomes visually buggy and with the wrong arrow again.
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What do you mean with
"IMPORTANT - THE VERSION ON CURSE.COM DOES NOT HAVE ALL THE ADDONS!"
?
Assuming that with "curse.com" you mean "curseforge.com", I downloaded the add-on (Retail version) from curseforge via the Twitch client (as most of my add-ons).
Then I downloaded it from you web site (big Download button at http://wow-pro.com, also Retail version). Then I compared the folder sizes of both downloads and they seem to be identical. Then I did a complete file comparison (by timestamps) and they still seem to be identical.
I'm a bit confused now. How/where do I get the stuff missing from the curseforge download?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but it is the first time I install your add-on.
In reply to Portalbendarwinden:
Originally we were just distributing the core wow-pro and leveling module, so the others such as achievements/professions ect were not included. This requirement had to do with the original creators original vision and the lead maintainer respecting those wishes that he wanted a community to goto a website and collaborate ect. But times have evolved, we actually have a pretty healthy discord community now and use the website less and less. There were lots of people that told us they would love to use the addon but they won't use an addon that isn't on curse and they had to manually install. With safety concerns on malware/viruses this is a legitimate gripe in this day and age so last year we decided to put the full wowpro w/leveling module on curse which is what 95% of users use anyway, and left the full product available on the website. That was thought of a compromise to adhere to the original creators wishes still. But apparently at some point the releases here started including them. I wasn't even aware until I saw your post here lol. It may be by mistake, i'll have to check on this.
In reply to elidion:
> But apparently at some point the releases here started including them. I wasn't even aware until I saw your post here lol. It may be by mistake, i'll have to check on this.
Well, I hope it was not by mistake. Because, honestly, I also prefer to get my add-ons via Curseforge/Twitch.
Not so much because of safety concerns (a central repo that hosts thousands of add-ons is probably a more attractive target for malicious attacks than a website that hosts just one single add-on), but rather because it is extremely convenient to get updates automatically.
I have 433 folders in my Retail AddOns folder (of course, not all add-ons are used at the same time!), and if I had to check for updates and download updates for each add-on individually on the homepage of each add-on, well, than I hadn’t anymore time to actually play the game ;-)
So, I really hope you leave the complete thing in the Twitch repo.
Many thanks for the info you provided.
– Tom
In reply to Portalbendarwinden:
Unfortunately it appears it was a mistake lol. Trust me i'm with you on this, hopefully there will come a time in the future that will change.
But I will say, 99% of the work is on the leveling guides, Just looking at the github repo it looks like the only real changes of any significance is on the Achievement guides, looks like an exploration, Long Forgotten Hippogryph and hivemind was added for BFA, but dailes and professions hasn't been touched in years, which is strange because I could have swore someone was working on a professions guide for Classic but it may have never been uploaded...well obviously it hasn't.
In reply to elidion:
> Unfortunately it appears it was a mistake lol.
OK.
> But I will say, 99% of the work is on the leveling guides, Just looking at the github repo it looks like the only real changes of any significance […]
OK, didn’t know that the source/releases are on Github. This makes it something better, since I’m a regular Github user and could set my notification settings accordingly.
But, in any case, it is a bad decision to require the user to take care of updates. (Not in general for software distribution, but considering that there exists a very well working deployment repo with that feature, aka Twitch/Curseforge, it is.)
If the reason for all this is to get ad clicks on your page, I understand that. But there must be better ways to get the two things together (ad-revenues and availability of the add-on + update-notifs). Don’t you think?
Started to actively use your add-on with two leveling toons yesterday, and it is … really good. (Northrend zone, so far). But if you cut off the users from automatic updates (or update notifications), the result will be that 90% of the users are using a 6-month old (or worse) version of the add-on.
This would be really pity, considering the amount of work that goes into that. Do not hide this add-on from potential users! (And with “Hiding” I mean also things like posting it at Twitch and saying that the user has to go to another site to get the complete thing. This is BS. Sorry. 5% will do that.)
If you really plan to take it off from Twitch, then at least you could build in a notification that alerts the user at every 23 of the month. (Assuming you are updating your add-on every 24 of the month. I think I have read this static date somewhere on your page.)
– Tom
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The 50-60 guide seems to be lacking I mean the 53-54 one had 20 steps I'm gonna guess you can't get a level with 10 quests.
I tried the Horde guide for Stonetalon Mountains 21-30 by Hendo, and for some reason this one is seriously glitchy. It constantly keeps skipping steps and breaks my tomtom addon frequently with error codes.