Quest spoiler addons

If you want to make your questing go faster, there's a group of four addons that work together very well.

• QuestHelper is a general purpose addon that makes it easier to organize your questing. Puts icons on the map showing you where you need to go to find quest turnins, special mobs, etc. It will even compute optimal paths for you if you have a lot of quests.
• LightHeaded imports the best rated Wowhead comments right in your quest log. It's a big help to be able to read people's comments on a quest right in the Wow UI. Even better comments often contain coordinates, which you can then click on to locate on your map.
• TomTom is a map UI mod that helps you keep track of where you want to go. You input waypoint coordinates into it and it puts dots on your map. Even better it puts a big floating arrow on your screen telling you which way to run.
• Doublewide is a simple quest UI mod that gives you more space to view your quest log.

Putting these all together, questing becomes awfully simple. Take the quest, read the LightHeaded comments, click on the coordinates. Follow the arrow, kill/loot, then follow the arrow back.

Of course this is all massive spoilers and you may be ruining the fun of figuring out quests. Personally I like all the new stuff, but I have no patience for hunting around trying to find something. So these mods work great for me.

PS: there's an alternative to this group of mods called Carbonite. I've never tried it.

Comments

[Locoflora]

I never thought I would use or enjoy an addon like QuestHelper. Indeed, when I first tried it, there was so much "crap" on my screen I just immediately turned it back off. With the xpac release, I gave QH another shot, after 2-3 days of marathon WotLK leveling, I can say I don't want to go without it!

Some things that increased my enjoyment:

* Open your map and click the QuestHelper button to hide/show the addon
* Right click the QuestHelper button to bring up the settings menu
* Disabling the waypoint arrow
* Disabling the quest tracker
* Enable the Zone Filter (I wished this worked for the tracker too)

Now, the only thing I see is when I bring up my map. I can see the quest objectives clearly and the marching ants tells me what QH thinks is the closest thing to do.

I had to turn off the QH tracker because it became cluttered when I had quests in other zones and /or dungeons that I didn't really care about. I still use QuestsFu for tracking the quests that I manually say to track.

I still feel like I get to enjoy the storylines behind the quests without the BS of finding something hidden in a conc shell on the bottom of a lake. ;-)

[bob]

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/07/16/addon-spotlight-tourguide/

Use tourguide instead of Questhelper. Questhelper is having some issues right now and uses a ton of memory.

[Flyv]

Questhelper's working OK for me. But always interested in something new! Does TourGuide have good data for Northrend yet?

[Faerun]

I think I've been having issues with LightHeaded lately and I can't figure out what they are. It keeps telling me it has detected addon conflicts, but won't tell me which addon they're complaining about. Maybe it's quest helper.