Jame’s Leveling Guide: Addon Version – Cataclysm Ready

Ran trough borean and howling fjord todayi did a full run trough the borean/howling guides today, found no additional errors other than the ones caused by the phasing engine. excellent quality, good job and thanks alot! waiting eagerly for the dragonblight one.

Updated the file, it can beUpdated the file, it can be downloaded [url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/000_1_12_Zerinj_Orc_Troll_Starter.lua?attredirects=0]here[/url]. Also fixed the warrior quest, which I had the warriors picking up and turning in twice. Fail!

Yeah, I realized that todayYeah, I realized that today when looking through the coding guide. I’ll fix it today or tomorrow if someone doesn’t get to it before me. Can’t do it right at this moment since I’m at school about to start work on my plant design project >_<

I’m testing the Orc/TrollI’m testing the Orc/Troll guide right now and found that the Shaman class quests are a bit broken.

Since the quests “Call of Earth” and “Call of Fire” are multi-part quests, they need to be split up like other multi-parters (“Call of Earth (Part1)” and so on). This need to be done to prevent all of them becoming flagged as done, when the first part is completed.

and let us not forgetAnd let us not forget the feedback.
If you would keep your addon updated trough another site (* who makes money with it ) , you would hardly come by and check on the updates. Also this would mean, that since you are not visiting ayways, many would not be very inclined to log in and post a comment.
Comments either being a simple thank you, or a comment that would enable jame and others to improve the guides, fix bugs etcetera.
This would also slow down perfectioning and keeping this site and all its guides optimal and up to date.

Slowly but steadyly i would think the progress and great benefit this site has to so many people would come to a grinding halt. And thus in the long run, no one, not the users, not the posters, not jame, no one…. would benefit from putting it on such a site in the long run.

Hmmm, no idea what’sHmmm, no idea what’s happening with the arrows, hopefully someone else can help with that.

As for WoWMatrix – I am fairly certain Jame does not plan on adding this to any site or service such as WoWMatrix or Curse. The reason is that this would severely drop the traffic to this site. This was the original reason Jame was against having the addon in the first place.

There are several reasons for this. First of all, the reason this site can exist and be a place to share these guides, and the reason Jame can continue to do the great work he does, is from revenue from adds. If no one comes to the site, that revenue disappears.

Possibly more importantly, there are “paper” guides on this site that are very useful but could not be put into the addon format, such as class or instance guides. Reducing traffic to the site from the leveling guide crowd would mean these other high quality guides that the WoW-Pro community has put a lot of time into would get little or no exposure.

Hope this helps to answer your question!

Thanks and QuestionsFirstly, let me thank all of you for helping make the best WOW leveling guide in the world even better. Having it in this format has greatly improved the gameplay for me while following the guides.

I have been using an add-on called Carbonite for 8 months now and Tour Guide meshes with it perfectly. This is instead of using TomTom. However, I have had one bit of a problem. I am running through the Maw’s Human guides. I noticed a problem when I reached Loch Modan. It seems that when there are “Follow the arrows” waypoints, they are exactlly backwards. This is from the run from Ironbad’s Excavation to the Farstrider’s Lodge. It happened every time after that. Wasn’t sure what was going on.

One more thing to note: Would it be possible to get this add-on added to WowMatrix, as I use this to manage the updating of all of my add-ons. It would make things a lot easier with all of the updates.

Thanks again.

Sorry.Sorry to tell you, but with that many problems, I am sure you wasted your time with the TourGuide guides that come with the add-on. To find the official james guide you must scroll down. Don’t worry though, I am on it now.

Arathi Highlands 35-37I was playing through the guide on my Pally and came across some errors. I updated the 35-37 section of the Arathi Highlands, it’s by no means perfect but if anyone wants a slightly updated version it can be found [url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/002_35_37_Jame_Arathi_Highlands.lua?attredirects=0]here[/url].

“The Ashenvale Hunt” deprecatedThe quest “The Ashenvale Hunt” is no longer avilable from the warcaller patrolling the city. I have checked diverse forums and it seems to be a change related to the 3.0.2 patch. This should be fixed in both the addson tour guides and Jamies leveling guides! I think the quest is still there, but you now do it differently and you definitely can’t pick it up at level 21 after having talked to Senani Thunderheart!

Ghostlands testedTravel to Tranquillien: no arrow!

Taking the quest Spirits of the Drowned: waypoint is about 20 yards off.

Down The Dead Scar: arrow missing! And there should proberly be a note here telling you to keep all the Rotten Hearths you find.

Goldenmist Village: arrow off by about 70-90 yards

The Plagued Coast: arrow missing! The arrow should point westwards, as it is where the beach starts and when you arive, it should point southwards.

Curbing The Plaque: note is unnessecary and confusing at best. The arrow is spot on and is all that is needed.

Getting the quest Underlight Ore Samples: arrow off by 20 yards

Trouble at the Underlight Mines: there should be a note about the patrolling shaman and generally a note about the high difficulty of this quest. And perhaps also a note about that it’s not safe to stand close to the questgiver.

After completing the above mentioned quest: you should use your hearthstone to get back to Tranquillien! (I might be wrong though, as you are told to use your hs after the next quest run, which ends farther away and proberly takes less than an hour to complete)

After getting back to Tranquillien: the quest turn in and take order is illogical and needs to be reworked.

Turning in Tomber’s Suplies: arrow off by about 26 yards

Turning in Goldenmist Village: arrow off by about 20 yards.

The next time you return to Tranquillien, the turn in and quest take order is illogical and needs to be reworked!

Quest turn in: Delevering the Plans to An’telas: the arrow is confusing and leads the player to a dead-end. The player should be lead east first, then to the location!

Attack on Zeb’Tela: arrow missing!

Taking the quest: Escape from the Catacombs: arrow off by about 300 yards! (Starnge thing: I died and had to retake it: this time the arrow is correct. Note: the arrow seems to point randomly on one of the many dots that mark the path. Tehre should only be one dot (at least until you actually take the quest.))

Deactivating An’Owyn: the note should tell about the drop you have to aquire.

Thanks Jame.

Note that IThanks Jame.

Note that I didn’t play every class through that first guide, but I am *mostly* certain that the class quests should work fine. If anyone has trouble with them please let us know!

If you’re right…DOH!

I’ll let you know 😉

Boston’s 12-20 AllianceI tested this guide, works fine and got my new toon to 20 super fast :p

Scroll down, you’re probablyScroll down, you’re probably using the (slightly annoying) Tourguide guides, that come with it. The real Wow-Pro guide will have something along the lines of: Wow-Pro: Hosho’s 12-20 Barrens Guide. Hope that solves yoru problem 🙂

Hosho’s Barrens 12-20Is it just me or is the 12-20 guide to the barens not by Hosho?
I know that guide by heart and there were no hapries involved anywhere.

I’m currently following this guide with a shammy and the quest loops are small, spread apart and vary between slightly to high and too low of a difficulty, whereas the real Hosho’s guide was much better…

Horde updated to v0.3[color=#ff6600][b]Horde[/b][/color] updated to v0.3:

*Added SilverKnight’s Silverpine 12-20 | Coder: Clearasil | Needs testing
*Zerinj’s Orc/Troll starter 1-12 IMPROVED | 1st Revamp: Clearasil Final Revamp: Jiyambi | Quality should be PERFECT.
*Fixes made to Hillsbrad Foothills 22-24 | Jiyambi
*Fixes made to Ashenvale 24-25 | Jiyambi
*Fixed .xml for Hosho’s Barrens 12-20. It should now properly appear in the list

Thank you!Thank you! 🙂

ThanksThank You Jiyambi for the feedback.

BTW…BIG gratz to you on the promotion!

Yup, that step is out ofYup, that step is out of place. I made that and a few other revisions to the guide and uploaded a new version, I think Jame will include it in the next release.

In case you want to use the two revised guides I’ve worked on before then, I’m keeping all of my revisions here: [url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions]Jiyambi’s Revisions to the Horde Leveling Guide[/url].

A couple of things really….First, I’d like to announce that I figured out the tourguide addon(yay me). If you seen any of my earlier posts, I could never get the guides to scroll, not to mention, not having all the guides load. What I ended up doing was, going into the tourguide file prior to unzipping it, delete the horde version, unzip file, and wouldn’t you know it, it worked!!(p.s….whoever added the scroll bar, you are offically my new hero)

Secondly, I was running the 21-31 Horde-Jame version of the addon(with my shiny new hunTER), and noticed a step out of place. When first enetering Tarren Mill, it’s telling me to grab the “Souvenirs of Death” quest. Now, I might be mistaken, but I believe you don’t get that quest until you return to Tarren Mill after your first circuit.

Just wanted to give a heads up. The rest of the guide, to that point obviously, is point on(was actually using the site version as well as the addon version, for comparison). Sorry if this error was pointed out in a earlier post.

Lightheaded does work withLightheaded does work with the german client so I don’t see why it should not work with the french… After all it uses, as you said, the quest ID and therefore is independant from the language.

I don’t think that lightheaded is the problem, but maybe I’m wrong, as I don’t have a clue what could be the mistake =/

Souricette, it’d be nice if you could give some more information about what addons you have installed and maybe give a short code snippet?! 🙂

Jahwo

It’s french specific. ThereIt’s french specific. There is a TomTom arrow guiding you for every quest accept / quest turn in step in the english version.

And I think I know why it’s not working with the French localization.

See, we don’t put coords for Quest Turn-in and Quest Accept steps in the .lua, because Lightheaded does it for us. Lightheaded tracks the quest ID and automatically creates a waypoint to the quest NPC related to this quest ID. Which is great becauses this saves us a lot of time when coding the guide in .lua

And sadly, it appears that Lightheaded doesn’t work with the french version (or maybe you didn’t install Lightheaded ?)

Other language localization – feedbackHi Jame (and others).

I put my hand on an attempt to (start to) localize the Human’s Maw 1-12 guide to French, since it’s the most achieved one for now. I only localized the first steps, to see what happens.

I created my character, I enabled the addons, I chose the guide.
My first feeling after having selected the guide was: “so, what?”

I was expecting to have “something” shown somewhere – a point, an arrow, something… But nothing.
Of course I had “Adjoint Willem” with his yellow “!” in front of me, but nothing was indicating me that I had to speak with *that* guy.

So, I took “Menace intérieure” (the french quest name). Next step appeared: . Again, no indication, besides the nice yellow “?”…

I validated and took the following quest, and then next step was “Go and take quest Eagann Tannepeau”.
But once again, no direction – and my minimap was displaying 2 yellow “!”, so which one to choose?

I don’t know if that lack of direction is a french specific thing – the TomTom arrow and map/minimap point appeared when I took the “Eagann Tannepeau” quest, and was present in almost all the following steps, but that lack of direction for the first steps was my greatest surprise…

Second point, there is a specific thing related to french (and other languages as well): a “Warrior” can be either a “Guerrier” or a “Guerrière”, according to the sex of the character. It means that we have to duplicate all the class-specific Addon “rules” for both versions of that class to have them display correctly for all of them. I guess the same goes for races specific rules if there are any on other addons.

These are the only problems I noticed for now – I can manage the “duplicate class/race specific rules” thing, but I wonder if the “no visual indication” at the start of that guide is french-specific or if it’s a “standard” addon thing.

Souricette

I’ll add them in the nextFor some reason, your files still use the old naming format. Even though I changed it all in the last version I uploaded.

Anyway, it’s not a problem, I’ve just replaced the body of the file with yours. But I’m just curious as to why your files still have the old naming style.

Slight revisionsTwo guides with very minor revisions (and with that quest moved a little later) uploaded:

[list][*][url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/22_24_Hillsbrad_Foothills_Jame_2131.lua?attredirects=0]Hillsbrad Foothills 22-24[/url]
[*][url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/24_25_Ashenvale_Jame_2131.lua?attredirects=0]Ashenvale 24-25[/url][/list]

Horde howling fjord guidejust tested the howling fjord guide and there are a few wrong locations!

the guestgiver for “against nifflevar” is located wrong. this problem only happens on turn-in!

the guestgiver for “beachfront property” is located in howling fjord by tomtom!

warsong hold shows up in howling fjord by tomtom!

This is definitely true, theThis is definitely true, the quest is not available until after you turn in the first Battle for Hillsbrad. I am making some other minor corrections to this part of the addon as I go, I will upload it someplace when I’m done.

I think the best place toI think the best place to leave feedback about mistakes would be under the List of Works in Progress section.

Ideally, you can also send a PM to the person who wrote the section to make sure he/she doesn’t miss it 🙂

Well, 3days 15hours to 60 ISWell, 3days 15hours to 60 IS entertaining, imho! :p

Now it is, just download theNow it is, just download the latest version 😉

The undead starter guideThe undead starter guide seems good, I only tested the last two levels tough as I started with the paper guide.

I also want to say that the guides I converted don’t have all the coords necessary for each step. If you want to help, please pm me the coords that are missing for each step and I’ll update them!

Okay, going through theOkay, going through the Hillsbrad part of the Horde guide with my warlock. I found an issue and wondered if there was a place you would prefer issues to be reported. For now I’ll put it here, but you may want to add a note so people can all five feedback in the same place.

In the Hillsbrad part of the 20-30 guide, where it tells you to get “Souvenirs of Death”, the quest is not available for me yet. I seem to recall on other characters that you have to do the first part of Battle for Hillsbrad first – I’ll confirm that as I go.

Thanks Jame!Thanks Jame!

Every little helps!

You canEvery little helps!

You can upload the guide on any upload site like Filefront, Megaupload, googlecode, etc.

Or you can mail it to me directly. Either works!

Big UpdatesBig Updates today!
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[color=#3333ff][b]Alliance[/b][/color] v0.5 changes:

*Howling Fjord now COMPLETE! + Quality improved | Coder: Wizerd | Needs further testing
*Minor fixes to Maw’s 12-20 | Jame / Mishab
*Minor fixes Taralom’s 1-12 | Mishab
*Fixed the bug with the Dustwallow Marsh 38-41 section – Should load properly now | Mishab
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[color=#ff6600][b]Horde[/b][/color] v0.2 changes:

*Added Jame’s 31-41 | Coder: Clearasil | Needs testing
*Added Jame’s 41-51 | Coder: Plover2 | Needs testing
*Added Snowflake’s Blood Elf 1-12 | Coder: Inyurbak | Needs testing
*Added Zerinj’s Orc/Troll 1-12 | Coder: Clearasil | Needs testing
*Added Manovan’s Undead Starter | Coder: Romgar | Needs testing
*Added Hosho’s Barrens 12-20 | Coder: Clearasil | Needs testing
*Fixed file names. Please follow this naming format from now on.
*Fixed file names INSIDE the files. Please follow this naming format from now on.
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Enjoy. Please test them well and leave feedback!

I just read your standardsI just read your standards and I’ll help out with the revamping of the guides as much as I can while I level my mage. I can only start from lvl 40+ which is unfortunate because with all the work and effort you put into this you do deserve a break.

Also where do I post the edited guide.lua when I’m done?

-Lucifel

Testing Update1-60 with 2 minor problems which i managed to hotfix by renaming a few things (as stated by other wow-pro users)

The addon is working very well, not AS entrataining as your written guides, granted, but 1-60 Enhancement Shaman in 3days 15hours and 22 minutes

That’s easy to fix tooYou need to rename the file using the format for the other file names.

I believe the broken filename is
the Tanaris file.

002_48_50_Tanaris_Jame_4050

I named it that and it worked.

confirmedrecently i have used maw’s 1-12 leveling guide and as stated it is 100% working with no faults.

borean tundra 70-72 is also working with no faults on any quest.

and finally Teldrassil 1-12 appears to be okay(im only 83% done, will update that)

Iceymage
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Edit: Woops, used addEdit: Woops, used add comment instead of reply.

Are you using the hordeAre you using the horde guides? Then it was probably mine who was doing the fix ;P I’m currently using the guides to level some of my toons and improve the guide as I go.

Can you tell me exactly what is wrong in the guide? I haven’t tested that part yet as I don’t have a character in that level (yet).

Use Maw’sUse Maw’s. The quality is simply higher 🙂

Maw’s or Boston’s? You’ve added both Maw’s and Boston’s 12-20 guides. Which is best to use? Or does it not matter?

Regards.

Wasn’t something I didWasn’t something I did =)

Sorry I have been too busy to really work on the addon, plus I have been sick =(

Feel free to send me a PM if you have any questions with the tourguide editor.

Check out our new website! http://www.mmoaddict.com

Testing UpdateI have successfully tested with 100% (after doing a hot fix mentioned by a user in the Dustwallow Marsh section) success up to the “Hinterlands 47-48” part… I have got that part down, but the next part is missing/not working as needed.

The one in the Feb 6 packageThe one in the Feb 6 package isn’t a full Howling Fjord one. (Unless he changed it)

tourguideYour guides are soo well done and was wondering when will the rest of Howling Fjord (WoW-Pro | Jame’s 72-74) guide be finished? Since there is only a few quests in the beginning that it goes too.

Kudos :DKudos to bigmikemage.

Thanks for the help

:):)

I am using the latestI am using the latest package as of 02/06/09.

Sorry i have not taken any notes on which quest i have done in other orders.
But hey its an awesome sork you are doing. And its is not that anoying. I will take notes from now on 🙂