XE QoL - leveling guide, quest arrow, bags and more for WoW Forever

One light addon for WoW Forever that replaces a pile of others. Blizzard-looking, or clean and modern - your pick.

XE QoL brings a 1-60 leveling guide with a quest arrow, a bag and vendor sheet, auction house search, gear upgrades with stat weights, nameplates, unit frames, a cast bar, a group finder (LFG) helper, a loot roll frame, a talent guide with talent and action bar sets, city trainer pins, a world map reveal, a profession helper, a travel planner and a lot of small quality-of-life fixes - all in one download, all in one options window (/xe). Every part is one tick: what you turn off costs nothing.

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Features at a glance

• Leveling guide 1-60 (levelling route) for Horde and Alliance, with a quest arrow and waypoints
• Travel planner: flight paths, boats, zeppelins, portals and hearthstone, turn by turn
• Quest helper: quest mobs marked on nameplates, quest item tooltips, target macros for quest mobs
• Bag addon: one sheet for vendor, bank, mailbox and auction house - sell junk, auto-repair, destroy cheapest item
• Gear upgrades and stat weights: green arrows and "+12%" on every item, a gear plan and a wish list that say where to get better gear
• Auction house search for upgrades and food, the last AH price seen
• Nameplates: threat colours, quest marks, enemy buffs, flat nameplates (XE design)
• Unit frames, cast bar, action bars, resource bar, combo points, swing timer, scrolling combat text
• Group finder / LFG helper, dungeon guide, dungeon map, loot roll frame (Need / Greed / Pass)
• Talent guide with a leveling build for every class, talent sets and action bar sets for a respec or dual spec, class macros, spell rank updater
• City pins: class trainer, profession trainers, weapon master and flight master on every capital's map
• World map reveal (unexplored areas shown) and a round or square minimap
• Professions: what to craft next, reagents, recipes to learn, gathering trainers, your skill under the FPS line
• Buff reminder, party buffs, consumables bar, missing buffs
• XP bar with XP per hour and time to level, flight timer, Legacy points coach
• New look with real art (Clean or Blizzard), a setup wizard and profiles

Leveling guide 1-60 (Quest Route)

A separate add-on in the same download - untick XE QoL - Quest Route in the AddOns list if you don't level with it.

• A free leveling route from 1 to 60 for every race, both factions as simple stops: go here, grab these, kill those, hand in. Town stops are grouped by NPC; field objectives can be done in any order, and only what is left is shown.
• The arrow says what to do Now and what comes Then. About 3,000 tips where they help: where exactly, what to use, escort waves and timers, elites and rare spawns.
• Pick a guide: automatic for your race and level, class quest chains, and a route per dungeon (its quests and chains, city by city, then the entrance). Outgrow your guide and XE offers a better one.
• Pick up for later: quests of the guides just ahead that are offered near you now, under the route window, grouped by giver - never auto-accepted.
• Low-value steps: when the next steps are only grey quests far away, XE asks first - Skip them or Do them. Every skip has Undo.
• Safe automation: never hands in a quest that costs gold, never takes an escort, PvP or timed quest; hold Shift to do it yourself. Flight paths and weapon masters are steps of their own.
• Missed quests you can still do, a shopping and training list (with the spells your trainer has for you now), a quest-log clean-up, a route report to copy (/xeroute report), and [NEW] tags on the quests WoW Forever added.

Quest arrow & waypoints

• An arrow to your tracked quest or your map pin, with the distance - green when you face it. When you die it points to your corpse, across zone borders too.
• Click Arrow anywhere in XE and it drops a pin on the world map too.
• Quest givers inside a cave or mine: the arrow takes you to the entrance first.
• A refresh button checks again which step of the route you should be on.

Travel planner & flight paths (XE QoL - Travel)

• The arrow takes the real way: round walls, hills and water, turn by turn.
• It plans flight paths you know, boats and zeppelins (on their timetable after one sighting), lifts, the tram, portals, class teleports and your hearthstone.
• "Getting there" under the route's step, the way drawn as dots on the world map and minimap, and Shift + click the world map to go anywhere.
• A flight timer while you fly, and a heads-up half a minute before your boat leaves.

City pins, world map reveal & minimap

• City pins in Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus, Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff and Undercity: your class trainer, your profession trainers, the weapon master and the flight master on the city map. Hover for who it is and how far it trains (Journeyman 150, Expert 225, Artisan 300), click for the arrow.
• A City pins menu on the city's map picks what shows - only the professions you have, secondary professions, every class, the minimap too - and the pin size.
• World map reveal: every zone map shows whole, the unexplored parts drawn in the game's own map art (or softly tinted). Nothing is marked explored - the discovery XP is still yours.
• Minimap: round or square, Blizzard or XE design, size, coordinates under the map; every minimap button sits outside the map, other add-ons' too.

Quest helper: quest mobs, quest items and target macros

• Quest nameplates: a mark right of the health bar of every mob your quests need, with how many are left (3/8).
• Quest item tooltips: "Needed for: The Lost Pages 3/8", items that start a quest, and when an item is no longer needed.
• Target macros: one-click target, skull, attack macros for the mobs your quests need (kill and drop quests), made and removed for you; a Next target button and key.
• Quest guide: the zones worth being in for your level, the good reward quests there, and a filter for every quest that gives rings, trinkets, bags, shields and more.

Bag addon: vendor, bank, mail & auction house sheet

• One sheet that adapts to where you are: sell junk automatically, Sell / Sell all by category, auto-repair (guild funds optional), session earnings.
• Bank: bank and bags side by side, move items or whole categories, Match to bank. Mailbox: pick an alt, Mail all, mail rules per category. Auction house: everything you can list, with List on each row.
• Bags full? Destroy the cheapest item in one click, auto-destroy lists, keep amounts. Optional auto-open for clams, sacks and boxes. Items your route or quests still need are never sold or destroyed.
• Columns for item level, upgrade %, bind and price, filter chips, search, equipment set badges, and item counts for all your characters on the tooltip.

Gear upgrades & stat weights

• Green arrows and "+12%" on upgrades in your bags, the bank, loot rolls, quest rewards, vendors and the auction house - on every item tooltip.
• Stat weights per spec, researched for leveling and checked against WoW Forever's talents; a gold coin on the quest reward that sells for most.
• Gear plan: the best item you can get for every slot near your level, and where - the quest (and its chain), the boss or mob, the vendor, the crafter, world drops - with an arrow there. A dungeon loot view and a wish list (star any item).
• A panel beside the character sheet lists what you can wear, with stat changes and an Equip button (from the bank too).

Auction house search

• XE Auction search on the auction house: pick a slot and XE searches every armour and weapon type you can use, sorted by how much each beats your gear. XE never buys anything.
• Food & drink: the foods that give experience or stats, best for you or cheapest first.
• Shop for an alt: judge the whole search for another character of yours, then mail it to them.
• Item tooltips show the last auction price seen ("AH: 2g 50s, 3 h ago").

Nameplates & threat colours

• Threat nameplates in groups, from your point of view: as DPS or healer red = on you, green = on the tank; as tank the other way round, orange = changing hands. Your role is detected for you.
• Casters stay blue, and get a red X and a red border when they are on the wrong person.
• Choose Blizzard's plate or the flat nameplates (XE design): height, width, health % in the middle, a target marker (corner brackets or chevrons).
• Enemy buffs you can purge or steal (blue ring), E / R / B tags for elite, rare and boss, crowd-control icons with a yellow border.

Unit frames, cast bar & action bars

• Unit frames (opt-in): slim player, target and target-of-target frames in your class colour, buffs and debuffs, the target's casts, ELITE / RARE / BOSS tags, enemy buffs first.
• Player cast bar: Blizzard's, or the XE cast bar - icon, "Spell (target)", 0.6/3.0 timer, latency, custom or class colour.
• Action bars: Blizzard's, or XE bars - no artwork, square icons with a thin border, opacity in and out of combat.
• Edit mode (/xe edit): move every XE bar at once; movable windows for the bags, character sheet, map, mail, bank, talents and many more.

Combat: resource bar, combo points, swing timer, combat text

• Resource HUD: energy, rage or mana as a slim bar under your character, with the 2-second energy tick and the mana "5-second rule"; druids keep their mana bar in Cat and Bear Form.
• Combo points as squares, circles or red orbs (rogues and druids).
• Swing timer: a bar from swing to swing with a mark for "a cast started now ends before your next swing".
• Scrolling combat text: your hits on your target and the hits you take, calm (same hits merge, crits pop), each area where you put it; Blizzard's numbers over the mob tuned or off.
• Seal tracker for paladins and a range check in yards (green / orange / red).

Group finder (LFG) helper, dungeon guide & loot rolls

• A filter panel on the Looking For Group window: dungeon checklist, level range, class filter, find players or groups by the roles they still need ("needs a tank" is one preset), LFG / LFM calls from chat too.
• Whisper a ready-made "invite me" message, or Invite a solo player in one click - every text is yours to edit.
• Dungeon guide: every dungeon (the new Forever ones too) with its best level, entrance, quests and chains, "Next step" and an arrow to the entrance; Dungeon ready tells you when a dungeon's quests fit your level. Dungeon map: M inside a dungeon shows the minimap big.
• Loot roll frame: XE's own Need / Greed / Pass frame in Blizzard's or XE's design that stays where you drag it. Need big and green, Pass small and apart - hard to miss-click; an item on your wish list in gold with its upgrade %.
• Loot rolls window: every group roll in one place with the rolls and the winner - no more chat spam.

Talent guide, talent sets & bar sets

• Talent guide with a Best for leveling build for every class in WoW Forever: a Now card with your next talent, the plan as a timeline, a reminder on every level-up.
• Talent sets: save a build ("Holy", "Ret") and after a respec Fill it back in - into the talent preview, or the talent buttons marked in a valid order. A preview shows the three trees and what is missing. XE never spends a point.
• Bar sets: save your action bars as named sets and load one in a click from a dropdown under the spellbook and talent window - spells at your best rank, macros, items. Optional: load a set when your spec changes, keybindings too.
• Class macros: ready-made macros for your class and spec. Rank up: after training, your action bars get the new spell rank. Trainer spells: what you can buy now and next.

Professions & recipes

• A panel beside the profession window: your skill, the recipe to make now (in its colour, with about how many crafts it takes), the reagents you have and need, and a shopping list.
• Where to train the next rank - "Train Journeyman Mining now" with a Go button for gathering skills; a Track herbs / minerals button when that tracking is off.
• Recipes to learn: every recipe you don't know yet - Learn now / Soon / Later - and where to get it (trainer, vendor, drop, quest), with an arrow there.
• Your professions and skill under the FPS line (yellow when it is time to train), Skinnable in your skill's colour, and book pages you still miss.

Buff reminder, party buffs & consumables

• Buff reminder: the self-buffs you want kept up - click the icon to cast.
• Party buffs: who in your group is missing the buffs you can give - click a name to buff; paladin blessings follow each player's class and role.
• Consumables bar: food, water, potions, scrolls and bandages always at hand, with an Ask for buffs button that says a funny /say line.
• Missing buffs: buff food, scrolls, elixirs and weapon oils you forgot, with a warning a minute before one ends.

XP bar, Legacy points & more

• XP bar: the XP waiting in finished quests, XP per hour, time and kills to the next level, gold per hour.
• Legacy coach (/xe legacy): the best next Legacy point in WoW Forever and the one step to do now - explorer areas zone by zone, dungeons, levels and skills.
• Fast loot, class-coloured tooltips with full names, FPS & ping, and a bug report you can copy in one click (/xe errors).

New look, setup wizard & profiles

• Two looks with real art: Clean (slate-blue glass, a cyan edge) or Blizzard (dark leather, gold trim, parchment text) - every XE window and the quest route take it, switched live.
• A setup wizard at the first login: pick the look side by side, then Recommended / Minimal / Everything / Choose myself, with a live preview of every part.
• Profiles per character: a new character uses or copies another's settings, or starts fresh.
• Light: no libraries, nothing runs for a part you turn off; /xe perf shows XE's memory and frame rate.

Commands

• /xe - options · /xe edit - move everything · /xe setup - the setup wizard
• /xe legacy - Legacy coach · /xe recipes - recipes to learn · /xe macros - class macros · /xe dungeons - dungeon guide
• /xe bars - bar sets · /xe talents sets - talent sets · /xe sct - combat text · /xerolls - loot rolls
• /xeroute report - the route's state, ready to copy · /xeroute undo - bring back the last skipped step
• /xe errors - a ready-to-share bug report (also the red ! above the chat)
• /xe selftest - XE opens every window once and reports any error · /xe perf - memory and frame rate

Made for WoW Forever (Interface 16001). After an update that adds new files, restart the game - /reload is not enough.

Credits

The Quest Route's levelling routes are adapted from the RestedXP Guides (free guides, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); that route data is shared under the same licence, non-commercial. Quest levels and some spawn points come from Questie's database (GPL-3.0). The travel planner's walking maps and travel data are GPL-3.0 data from an open-source project, credited in XE_Travel\NOTICE.txt; XE_Travel is distributed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Bugs & ideas

Found a bug or have an idea? Type /xe errors, copy the report and post it on Discord (or in the comments here).