Jame’s Leveling Guide: Addon Version – Cataclysm Ready

You can try adding theYou can try adding the
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line a second time. This would probably still make the guide auto-load, but it would also appear in the list.

Fix for this plus other issues in Horde Outland guidesI have a fix for this and several other quests in the Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, and Terokkar guides. I can send patchfiles for the guides, but don’t know who to send them to. Who’s handling updates to the Horde Outland guides?

Weird noteIn the 20-30 Alliance guide, part Wetlands (25-26), right after you turn in Uncovering the Past, there is a note that says “From now on, kill on sight. Close this step.”

I think there should be a mob name in there. Alternatively, if you are meant to kill absolutely every mob you see, “kill everything on sight” would be clearer.

I found a temporary fix for the problemI believe that something in the Blood Elf guide causes it to be removed from the guide list along with the original Tourguide guides. WoW-Pro_TourGuide_Horde.lua is the name of the file that seems to remove the other guides. If you remove the file that causes just the Wow-pro guides to load, the BE guide is selectable again (along with all the old tourguide guides as well). You can find it within the *World of WarcraftInterfaceAddOnsWoW-Pro_TourGuide_Horde folder.

Hope this helps. These guides are great!

ThanksThanks 🙂

Sorry…Alliance side, I don’t play as the hordies…

Could you please tell us forCould you please tell us for which faction this is? …

thank you Could you use thethank you 🙂 Could you use the “reply” function the next time? It’s hard to relate comments if they are not replied to each other. 😉

The thing is that theThe thing is that the wow-pro packages remove the standard guides, which are not available in any way, unless you disable the addon. I think that could be a reason for making it disabled by default 🙂

But thanks for the info!

Hmm that’s weird. Maybe it’sHmm that’s weird. Maybe it’s an issue with the new feature that the standard guides are removed, but I really don’t know. We’ll look into it..

I am following the guide,I am following the guide, and I have sofar 2 comments, and I will add more when I find them: In Howling Fjord, you tell the player to do the quest “Of Keys and Cage” but the quest itself is actully called “Of Keys and Cages”.

Also prior to this, you say that you should do:

Finish “Tridents of the Son”
Turn in “Tridents of the Son”
Finish of “And You thought Murlocs smelled bad”
Turn in “And You thought Murlocs smelled bad”
Turn in “Bring down those Shields”

But when you go to kill the mob Rotgill (for Tridents of the Son) you pass the turnin point for both “and you thought murlocs smelled bad” and “Bring down those Shields”. Soo wouldn’t it be better to turn them in then, since you are gonna HS after anyway?

Anyway, love your guides!!

It’s alliance side, in theIt’s alliance side, in the 48-50 section of jame’s leveling guide addon

Yep I know what it means,Yep I know what it means, but since previous version were enable by default, I havent been checking it at login screen and thought there is something wrong. So just wanted to give you little info in case someone got same problem / in case it was not intended (cant imagine what would be pros of having it disabled by default?)

I am having the same problemI am having the same problem as well.

Something is wrong with theSomething is wrong with the loading of the Blood Elf starter guide.
When starting a new character, this guide is loaded, instead of no guide. Also, this guide does not show up in the guide selection list.

That’s nice but could youThat’s nice but could you tell us a bit more specifically in which guide and on which faction this is? 🙂

The quest Pristine Yeti HideThe quest Pristine Yeti Hide with tourguide tells you to go to tanaris, when the correct location is still Feralas, just helpin =) will report any other issues i find

This line only means thatThis line only means that the addon is not enabled in the ingame AddOns list by default. Meaning that it is not ticked and you have to do it manually.

Disabled by defaultHello, Im not going to repeat how amazing these guides and addons are (as we all already know 🙂 ), just wanna quickly thanks to all who contributed on these projects and here is little thingy I just found installing v0.61 of alliance guides:

In the WoW-Pro_TourGuide_Alliance.toc file there is:

## DefaultState: disabled

I dunno if its intended but it made me 30 mins of starving to addons folder trying to find out why there is no wow-pro guide in-game 🙂

Typo/missing quest in alliance Howling Fjord guideThanks so much for the tourguide guides. Working on yet another alt, and even though I’ve used your website for leveling before, not having to tab back and forth saves even more time!

While using the Alliance Howling Fjord guide (Jame’s 72-74) I came across a quest that I wasn’t told to pick up – ‘Of Keys and Cages’ from Father Levariol. The guide lists this quest as ‘Of Keys and Cage’ (note the missing s at the end). I’m guessing just adding the ‘s’ to make it ‘Cages’ would properly flag the quest as something to pick up.

Thanks!

Many thanks, oh quick fixer!Many thanks, oh quick fixer!

He probably means what hasHe probably means what has been mentioned in a comment in your blog before. A video of you, leveling from 1 to 80 *yawn* 😉

Guys, please remember thatGuys, please remember that you still can use the PAPER version of the guides when TourGuide fails.

I know the addon is more fun and faster than having to alt-tab, but come on, the paper versions are still totally viable!

And bam, new versionAnd bam, new version includes Sven’s 12-20 Bloodmyst guide!

I really have no clue whatI really have no clue what you’re talking about 😛

You’re replying to a comment where I mention a bunch of improvements to the addon, and you say I need to work on my guide. Does that make any sense? ^^

I also have no idea whatsoever what you mean by making a “testing video”. Wth is that?

New versionNew version uploaded:

[color=#3333ff][b]Alliance v0.6.1[/b][/color]

WoW-Pro-TourGuide_Alliance v 0.6.1 — Short fix

*Snowflake’s Draenei 1-12 should now load properly
*Added Sven’s Bloodmyst 12-20 | Coder: Culin23 | Needs testing

Definitely not, from what IDefinitely not, from what I understand Bloodmyst is the best place to level period. I think that guide accidentally got left out of the Guide file in this version, I’m sure Jame will fix it in the next day or so and have the new file available for download.

New versionThanks Jame, I’ve been using your guides for several years now, they are good.

But i miss the Dranei guide 12-20 (think it was snowflake that made it) in the new version of tourguide.
Or do you recomend got to Kalimdor or Eastern Kingdom for lvl 12+ ?

YesI second that motion 🙂
No further comments.

With all due respect, usingWith all due respect, using words like “ur” does not inspire confidence in your help. Jame works his butt off on these guides, and a lot of other folks have put in a lot of time and energy into them. If you are going to criticize, at least give some useful input and feedback.

Making a testing video would be nice, but it’s probably not high on Jame’s list of priorities right now. It’s more important to get the guides polished, and I know lots of folks are looking forward to some more guides for Northrend and even Outland (Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley). If you want to make a video, and it’s high quality and professional looking, then Jame would probably be interested in it – but please don’t imply that he is not working hard, nor that his guides are not of high quality. Because frankly they are the best guides on the internet right now, paid or free.

dude, Jame ur a really 😛 dude, Jame ur a really nice guy but you really need work on ur guide. I could help you making a “testing video”.

It’s broken!!With the removal of the included guides, we are now missing the Draenei 12-20, however, upon starting a new Draenei, The old snowflake 1-12 is still loading for me. They’re not in the list though.

Yes but that’s not the issueYes but that’s not the issue at hand.

The issue is that when you put several coords in the same step to make a “circuit”, it doesn’t always follow the order in which you put the coords, it always jumps to the closet next coords, which is fine most of the time, but not always.

TomTom arrows always automatically switch to the next coords when you reach the current location, that we know. But the tourguide step doesn’t autocomplete upon reaching a certain coordinates. The only way to have a tourguide step auto-complete when going to another location is when you change zone or subzone, which is not always the case when making small “Follow the arrows” circuits.

Thanks Jame! UnfortunatelyThanks Jame! Unfortunately I’ve already found some issues with the Barrens guide, I’ll upload a new file as soon as possible. Keep in mind I am only now testing it, my previous revamping was done out of game. But the problems are mostly minor – most importantly so far is that it used “Crossroads” instead of “The Crossroads” and things weren’t auto-completing as they should.

New versionNew version uploaded!

[color=#3333ff][b]Alliance v0.6[/b][/color]

*BIG CHANGE: The default guides will no longer appear on the list. WoW-Pro guides will now appear on top of the list. Thank you Jahwo!
*NEW: Added Boston’s 20-30 | Coded by jame | Quality should be very high!
*Fixed all the file names
*Added NLX3647’s Icecrown 79-80 | Warning: This is not really a wow-pro leveling guide, it’s closer to a default TourGuide guide | Needs testing
*Fixed Tanaris 48-50 .lua. Should now load properly

yes it canThe coords should auto complete when you get close enough,
even in the same subzone, it would be a matter of experimenting with accuracy.
a 4 digit or 8 digit or 6 digit.
aka
28,46
24.1,24.1
24.15,24.15

The larger the flex i the sooner the arrows will go to the next point but the more accuracy you miss.
This is of course assumig a run to point go to coords
instead of go to zone

New version uploaded!

HordeNew version uploaded!

[color=#ff6600][b]Horde v0.4[/b][/color]

*BIG CHANGE: The default guides will no longer appear on the list. WoW-Pro guides will now appear on top of the list. Thank you Jahwo!
*REVAMP: Zerinj’s Orc/troll starter 1-12 | Jiyambi | High Quality, test it!
*REVAMP: Hosho’s Barrens Guide 12-20 | Jiyambi | High Quality, test it!
*Fixes made to Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide 31-41 | Jiyambi

Had a hard time followingHad a hard time following the replies. Thanks for the answers. I totally understand about the update sites.

I’ll get on thatWell I plan on leveling using your guides from outland to northrend so I will point out any errors I or my friend run into. 🙂

Probably due to the questProbably due to the quest name being typed in correctly. I’ll fix it eventually if no one gets to it, but I won’t be running through those guides for quite some time, so it would be nice if someone else would.

Terrokar GuideSo me and my friend dommycakes, err I mean Dom were running your terrokar guide and the guide told us to get the quest [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10251]”The Master’s Grand Design”[/url]. But when the quest text opened it said this quest is not listed in your current guide. This also happened like a few quests later but i forgot witch one it was. I am fairly certain it was [url=http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=10914]”A Hero Is Needed”[/url]. I am 100% certain on The Master’s Grand Design. Just thought i would point that out.

Oh. Well fail then.Oh. Well fail then.

Problem is that theProblem is that you stay in the same sub-zone while making those mini ciruits with arrows, so the R steps do not auto complete.

Just great Jiyambi, butJust great Jiyambi, but damn, you must be even more of a masochist than I am. Crazy handicaps :p

R steps automaticallyR steps automatically complete when you enter the correct zone. I’d have to look at the guide in question, but I’m reasonably sure we could make it work.

Very well put.Very well put.

Oh dear, I’m that tired?Oh dear, I’m that tired? Sorry Elmo!

And yes, it could be solved by making several R steps, but that would require checking off every step, which is what I was trying to avoid, but anyway, I’ll pretty much do something in between. All you have to do is be careful when putting several coords on the same step, make sure that the next coords are the closest from the previous coords, or they will be skiped. If that’s unavoidable, then you have to use multiple steps.

Now that is just silly.Now that is just silly. Besides the fact it was Elmo who helped answer the question, not Jah (though he is in general full of awesome).

PS. The arrow problem could probably be solved by making multiple |R| steps or something.

The thing with the arrows isThe thing with the arrows is something I need to fix. What happened is I put several coords on the same step, so that you get a “Follow the arrow” circuit within a single step, without having to click.

The problem is that past the first coords, TomTom will automatically send you to the CLOSEST other coords in that step, instead of following the order where I put them.

And sometimes this messes up the order.

Anyway, I’ll fix it in a later release.

And about WoW-Matrix, Ji and Jah (mwahah, I’m gonna refer to you both as JiJah from now on!) answered your question perfectly. 🙂

Durotar Guide Speed TestingIn case anyone is interested, I did a speed leveling test of Zerinj’s Durotar Guide 1-12. The end result was [b]4h 14min[/b], and I’m a little disappointed in this time when compared to the human starting area time of 2h 54min. If you’d like the full story, check out my [url=http://fiannaguild.blogspot.com/2009/02/leveling-speed-horde-leveling-addon.html]blog post[/url] about it.

I also made a few more corrections to the file as I went, the newest one be found [url=http://sites.google.com/site/jiyambi/horde-leveling-addon-revisions/000_1_12_Zerinj_Orc_Troll_Starter.lua?attredirects=0]here[/url].