by black catNew version updated to 3.3
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- How to Contribute
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WoW-Pro Leveling Addon: An In-Game Addon based on Jame’s Leveling Guide
Contents
- Installation
- Using the Addon
- Supplementary Addons
- Guide List
- Known Issues
- Contributing
Installation
Download and install the following Addons
- WoW-Pro Leveling Addon – The base of the addon.
- TomTom – Handles coordinates (It’s that arrow which points you to where you need to go). If you have Cartographer, you don’t need this, since Cartographer has it’s own arrow.
- Lightheaded – Makes TomTom even better, make sure to install this addon or you won’t always get a TomTom arrow to show you the way.
- WARNING: If you have QuestHelper installed, you should disable it, or at least disable the TomTom arrow option in Questhelper, or it will conflict with our addon and give you wrong directions.
If you are not familiar with the installation of addons, it can be done as follows:
- Download and unzip the addon files.
- Navigate to the World of Warcraft directory
- Windows XP: C:\\Program Files\World of Warcraft
- Windows Vista: C:\\Users\Public\Games\World of Warcraft
- Open the “Interface” folder, then the “Addons” folder inside it.
- Copy and paste the “WoW-Pro”, “TomTom” and “Lightheaded” folders into the World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons directory.
You can check in-game if you’ve installed it correctly; when you go to the character selection screen, on the bottom left corner of the screen is a button called “Addons”. Click that, then scroll down and look for Lightheaded, TomTom and WoW-Pro (it’s in alphabetical order). Make sure they’re
enabled.
It should look like this:
Once in game, you should see the TourGuide bar under your minimap:
If this is a new character you just created, the correct guide should already be selected automatically.
If this is not a new character, click the TourGuide bar, a window will pop-up with a list of guides sorted by zones and level ranges:
Pick a guide close to your level and in a zone where you haven’t done all the quests.
There you go, just follow the addon!
Using the Addon
Following a Guide
For the most part, the guide is easy to follow. A phrase will appear on the TourGuide bar accompanied by an icon. The icon meanings are as follows:
This ingame help menu can be accessed by heading to the menu, then selecting “Interface”, then “Addons” (up near the top), then expanding (click the + button) “Tour Guide” then selecting “Help” (you can see the “Addons” button and the “Help” part to the left of the screenshot)
Use Item Button
If relevant (for example, the quest Gruesome, But Necessary where you have to use the item on the mob’s corpses), a small box will appear. It will have the graphic of the item to use for the quest. You can move it by left-clicking
and dragging. Left-click on the box to use the item.
Comments
In addition, there are comments on most objectives that can be accessed by mousing over the TourGuide bar. I’ve entered them into most objectives; except, for the most part, Accept objectives and Turn-in Objectives, though I do list where each turnin block is on the first objective of the group.
It’s a good idea to be checking the TourGuide bar before you do each objective. I’m planning in future to add an indicator to the TourGuide bar so users will know if an important comment is present for an objective.
Note Objectives
Note objectives come in two types; auto-completing and non-auto completing. The auto-completing notes should be most of them. However, some will not auto-complete (and indeed are not intended to, meaning that you only click them after you know what you
should do).
These non-auto completing notes should come in three flavours: “Repair, restock and vendor junk” (a general reminder when in town and beginning a new circuit, matches those in the guide); “READ THIS” (used to convey important information about the next objective that you want to know before you start) and “Things to do” (side objectives to complete as you quest).
I’ve tried to keep non-auto completing notes to these three formats, but I’m fairly sure I’ve slipped in places, so bear with me there.
Author’s Note: Not all of these guides have been thoroughly playtested and as such there will be some errors. I do try get it right, but they do slip through. Wowhead or Jame’s internet guide will help in the case of an error.
Supplementary Addons
DoubleWide – A simple but helpful addon, it makes the quest log twice as wide and much easier to read.
This section is still just new (I know about QuestHelper but LightHeaded performs the same function), so suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Guide List
Alliance – Updated to v0.7 – 12/07/2009
- Maw’s Human Guide (1-12) | Jame | Quality: 100%
- Snowflake’s Draenei Guide (1-12) | Kinrah | Needs Improvements
- Boston’s Gnome/Dwarf Guide (1-12) | Ayajulia | Needs Testing
- Taralom’s Nightelf Guide (1-12) | Needs Testing
- Manovan’s Night Elf Guide (1-13) | Needs Testing
- Joan’s Human Guide (1-12) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Maw’s Leveling Guide (12-20) | Jame | Quality: 100%
- Boston’s Leveling Guide (12-20) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Sven’s -Bloodmyst- Leveling Guide (12-20) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Boston’s Leveling Guide (20-30) | Nuzz | Quality: 100%
- Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide (30-40) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide (40-50) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide (50-60) | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Hellfire Penninsula | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Zangarmarsh | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Terokkar | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Nagrand | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Blade’s Edge Mountains | Nuzz | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Borean Tundra | Wizerd | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Howling Fjord | Wizerd | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Dragonblight | Needs Testing – New
- Jame’s – Grizzly Hills | Laotseu | Needs Testing
- Jame’s – Death Knight | Needs Testing – New
Horde – Updated to v0.7 – 12/07/2009
- Zerinj’s Orc/Troll Starter (1-12) | Clearasil | Quality 100%
- Shinke’s Tauren Starter (1-12) | Inyurbak | Needs Testing
- Snowflake’s Blood Elf Starter (1-12) | Inyurbak | Needs Testing
- Manovan’s Undead Starter (1-12) | Romgar | Needs Testing New
- SilverKnight’s Silverpine (12-20) | Clearasil | Needs Testing
- Hosho’s Barrens (12-20) | Clearasil | Needs Testing New
- Snowflake’s Ghostlands Guide (13-21) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide (21-31) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide (31-41) | Clearasil | Needs Testing New
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide (41-51) | Plover2| Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide (51-61) | Jiyambi| Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Hellfire Peninsula | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Zangarmarsh | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Terokkar Forest | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Nagrand | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Howling Fjord (70-71) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Borean Tundra (71-73) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Dragonblight (73-75) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
- Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide – Grizzly Hills (75-77) | Black Cat | Needs Testing
Known Issues
If you have a problem, be sure to check the leveling addon FAQ page before asking a question – it only takes a minute, and the answer might be easily found there! If you still have a problem, feel free to post a comment
anywhere on the leveling guide pages and we will respond as soon as possible.
Borean Tundra
- Hellscream’s Vigil: This quest will not auto-complete for some people, due to there being a separate quest by the same name for those who did the Thrall questline in Nagrand.
- The Lost Spirits: The use item button doesn’t show up for “The Lost Spirits” quest (It’s the “Core of Malice”). This is due to the item not being in the inventory at the start of the quest.
- Drake Hunt: Again not a bug per-se, the second time you grab it (as a daily) is included as a note instead of a accept/complete/turn-in objective set because Tour Guide otherwise detects the quest as complete (due to it sharing the same name as the
non-daily version) despite quest ID, which is supposed to resolve these sorts of issues.
Grizzly Hills
- Latent Power: One of the stone’s coordinates won’t show up as it wasn’t entered correctly (the northwestern one). It can be found at (71.10,39.00). Also, the use item button is missing. These issues will be corrected in the next upload.
Contributing
If you want to help converting a section of the guide in TourGuide format, please check the following links:
Our bug reporting site seemsOur bug reporting site seems to be down for the moment, so just post any bugs (or errors in this case) you find as comments on here. Include the section you are talking about, and also if you are using the Horde or Alliance guides. Also make sure you are using the most recent version of the guides.
That’s about it, thanks for testing!
Guide – Terokkar forest aldor/scryerI’ve just finished Hellfire with my druid alt, for leveling-gear so am lvl 67 now. I want to continue in Terokkar Forest, but on the guides to Terokkar you can chose Aldor or Scryer guide. The problem is that it’s the same guide even though it in the guide menu says Terokkar Forest – Aldor and Terokkar Forest – Scryer.
So I feel kinda stuck… 😕
Testing Horde Howling Fjord GuideI just ran a Shaman (starting at level 70 with under 2% into 70) through the Howling Fjord guide. I started a little late in the guide (I believe I started it at the top of the first lift in the Bleeding Vale), but used it the whole way through. I must say, excellent work.
Now, I am working with a Warrior (starting at the same XP point 70-2%) and I have found a few errors thus far.
How would I report issues that I have run into while using this guide?
Is there any information that is useful that may seem unimportant to a tester but would be for the guide writers?
Thanks,
–Senj
No mapped coords for some stepsI’ve recently been using the ghostlands guide and then Jame’s guides to level an alt. However, in the ghostlands guide some steps (usually a go here and kill mobs, or a go here and grind quest drop) weren’t getting mapped. Now in the barrens this is even more annoying, as for a quest such as Betrayal From Within (to give an example) I don’t have coords for killing things. However, I did have coords for Dar’khan’s lieutenant.
I’ve reinstalled lightheaded (doubt that was it, as LH only does NPCs, I thought), tourguide and tomtom, but no luck.
Anyone got any ideas?
Mistake in Horde 51-60On the quest ‘Wild Guardians’ (part 2). It says you should go to ‘Owl Wing Ticket’, it should actually be: [i]’Owl Wing T[b]h[/b]icket\'[/i].
Other than that great guide! 🙂
If you open your interfaceIf you open your interface options, go to the addon tab, and find the Tour Guide section, there should be a “reset to defaults” button or something similar. That will hopefully let you find the window again.
go into the wow interface optionsin wow go to your interface options then in the addon tab look for the torguide addon and inside there you can reset the position of the things you need
Tour guide not showing on one altThis is crazy, but for some reason the Tour Guide bar isn’t showing on one of my alts. It’s configured correctly in the addons configuration in the character selection screen. I must have changed something about the interface for that alt a while ago, but I can’t remember. Does anyone have any ideas?
TIA
Works fine!Hello,
I am currently leveling a horde Druid, started with the guide at lvl 30, and I am now lvl 36. The addon works really well, and I found 2 small things that were not right:
– When I had to fly to Hammerfall and get some quests, the addon said I needed to take the quest ‘Crystal in the Mountains’. But you get the quest from an item drop, for example from the Witherbark Trolls, but the addon says you need to do that quest after this one.
– The Herculars Revenge quest, with the 3 flames. In the yeti cave are 2 flames, but when you light one of them, the addon says you need to move on already to the next step.
It are just details 🙂 For the rest, it really works fine!
Keep up the good work!
Actually, that makes senseI think that clears it up quite a bit. Just from messing around with Minion, it looks like the way it searches for addons is just a simple text search. It probably found the “TourGuide” in the title and matched it up to the actual TourGuide addon. Don’t know why it didn’t match up for me, but maybe I had a later version of the Minion engine. I didn’t download it until yesterday. And they put out a new version today as well which seems to be working better. Yesterday it was trying to update things like each individual Auctioneer component separately. Today it is seeing the Auctioneer suite as just one addon.
MinionThe horde guide was listed as well, but it said “Addon not available” next to it in red. Minion just scans your entire addon directory and tries to match them to what is on the WowI site I think. I right-clicked it and selected “Ignore Permanently” and it no longer shows up. Had to do the same thing with a few addons that I got off Curse.
The Strangeness Continues……I decided to start my Curse Client back up to fix what the beta of Minion had screwed up and was going through fixing things.
I made it to TourGuide and guess what…..Version 3.0.1.51 Beta…..Coincidence?????
James
thanks again.
btw. i:D thanks again.
btw. i noticed that the link to the “work in progress” page on this site links to the old version and not the new one (https://www.wow-pro.com/wiki/addon_in_progress). 😉
More than okay I haven’tMore than okay 😉 I haven’t looked at the new file yet, but from the sounds of it you did a great job 😉
Have played through theHave played through the guide now and there were few problems with coords and missing description where to find an npc if coords don’t work. I’ll fix it myself and have added myself to the list on the “addons in progress” page now. 🙂 Hope that’s ok?
agreed 😉 agreed
Haha, yes the WoWInterfaceHaha, yes the WoWInterface thing, not you.
Weirdness is something you should aspire to, not be ashamed of. 😉
HmmmI hope you’re talking about the whole “WoWInterface” thing being weird and not me……Although…..
I’ve been called a LOT of things….Weird would definitely be one of the nicer things I’ve been called….
Thanks!!!!
James
Now that’s just plain weird.Now that’s just plain weird.
thank youthank you
UpdateI went out to WoWInterface.com and searched for the mod there. I tried several things and it’s not listed as one of the mods for download at their site, but it is listed in the Minion.
Just an FYI.
James
I’ll make sure he hears ofI’ll make sure he hears of this, you are right I don’t think he wants this auto-updating.
You need to download TourYou need to download Tour Guide, you only downlaoded the guide itself, not the addon that reads it. On the download page, it should have links to all of the required addons – you’ll also need TomTom and Lightheaded if you want the guide to work correctly.
WoW InterfaceI’m trying out the MMOUI Minion beta from WoW Interface. One of the things I noticed is that it has “Wow-Pro Tourguide Alliance 1-80 by WoW-Pro Community” listed as one of the mods that it will update (v. 3.1.0.51Beta).
I didn’t think Jame wanted this out on the auto-updaters.
James
I have installed theI have installed the “WoW-Pro_TourGuide_Horde” and when I go to addons it says beside WOW Pro Tour Guide that the dependency is missing.
What do I need to do to fix this?
Thanks
Sure. Thanks for the quickSure. 🙂 Thanks for the quick reply.
I will go for Snowflake’s Bloodelf (1-12) Guide since I’m starting a new character. I’ll post here when I’m done. 😉
If you want to just test aIf you want to just test a guide, just pick one and post any mistakes your find here. That’s fine.
If you want to revise the guide yourself (which is even more helpful), read the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/wiki/james_leveling_guide_tourguide_style_contributing]How to Contribute[/url] page, and then post on the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/wiki/addon_in_progress]Works in Progress[/url] page with the guide you plan to revise.
It’s fine to just test though, just be sure to be very clear in the notes you make so that we can correct them easily. 🙂
New here, like to helpHello there,
I am totally new here meaning I have just created an account on wow-pro. I have been using the guides for quite a while now (also before the addon-versions were released) and I absolutely love them! Can’t imagine to level without them. 🙂
So I’d like to help out and test some of the guides that still need testing. Preferably one of the starting guides.
Is there anything I need to know when testing a guide? I have read a lot about how to write a guide but I think there are so many good leveling guides already in the addon that it’s not necessary to start a new one. 😀
I think I’ll go and play through a guide and post my experiences here if that’s okay?
Keety
Quest completHow to see if u have completed a quest or not?? example my 28 druid followed the Bostons guide 28-29
The guide told me to go to Wetlands and pick up a quest when i got there and talked to the guy i where suposed to get lightforge iron but the guy coulnt give me the quest only some other quest that the guide says nothing about help
I do not have the menu bar option under my mini map :-(If I click it nothing happens. I went into interface to open the addon/tour guide/wow pro levels/ and it ended at Horde Borean level 70-72. I am now on level 74 and trying to load that guilde, but it’s not available for me. It absololutely ends at 72. What now?
Found the problemProblem seems to be caused by some broken savedvariables so when I removed both the toon’s and account’s TourGuide saved variables it started to work again.
Delete/move following files:
World of WarcraftWTFAccountACCOUNTNAMESavedVariablesTourGuide.lua
World of WarcraftWTFAccountACCOUNTNAMESavedVariablesTourGuide.lua.bak
World of WarcraftWTFAccountACCOUNTNAMEServer NameToonNameSavedVariablesTourGuide.lua
World of WarcraftWTFAccountACCOUNTNAMEServer NameToonNameSavedVariablesTourGuide.lua.bak
Some issues (bug with TourGuide or the guides?)I am not 100% sure if this is bug in the TourGuide or in the guides LUA somewhere but on one of my toons I get this error:
Date: 2009-05-20 01:55:19
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..AddOnsTourGuideParser.lua line 88:
attempt to call field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Debug:
TourGuideDongle.lua:249:
TourGuideDongle.lua:246
TourGuideDongle.lua:1175:
TourGuideDongle.lua:1167
TourGuideDongle.lua:1197:
TourGuideDongle.lua:1184
[C]: pcall()
TourGuideDongle.lua:247:
TourGuideDongle.lua:246
TourGuideDongle.lua:337:
TourGuideDongle.lua:328
[C]: LoadAddOn()
..FrameXMLUIParent.lua:229: UIParentLoadAddOn()
..FrameXMLUIParent.lua:252: CombatLog_LoadUI()
..FrameXMLUIParent.lua:497:
..FrameXMLUIParent.lua:469
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.4.4157 (WallabyII)
TomTom, v216
TourGuide, v3.1.0.51
WoWProTourGuideAlliance, v0.6
(ck=67)
The error disappears if I disable the guides from this site. Also tried without TomTom or Swatter (Which I used to copy the error message).
DragonblightI can’t take the credit for the original guide. There were 2 of them that were posted in different places and I can’t remember which one I used. I just did a revamp on it.
James
New versionsNew versions out!
[color=#3333ff][b][size=15]Alliance[/size][/b][/color]
[list]
[*]NEW: Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide Dragonblight | JamesL85
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide Zangarmarsh | Arannar
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide Terokkar (Aldor) | Arannar
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide Terokkar (Scryer) | Arannar
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance leveling GUide Borean Tundra | JamesL85
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance leveling GUide Howling Fjord | JamesL85
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Alliance leveling GUide Grizzly Hills | JamesL85
[*]MISC: Fixed the TOC. Addon will no longer appear as “out of date” | Jahwo/Jame[/list]
[b][size=15][color=#ff6600]Horde[/color][/size][/b]
[list]
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide Nagrand | Jiyambi
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide Howling Fjord | Jiyambi
[*]REVAMP: Mannovan’s Undead Starter | Skully0815
[*]REVAMP: Snowflake’s Ghostlands | Skully0815
[*]REVAMP: Jame’s Horde Leveling Guide (21-31) | Jiyambi
[*]MISC: Fixed the TOC. Addon will no longer appear as “out of date” | Jahwo/Jame
[/list]
Bad guide linkHi all.
The “[WoW-Pro | Boston’s Dwarf/Gnome] Dun Morogh (1-12)” Alliance guide (000_1_12_Bostons_dwarf_gnome_starter.lua) refers as next guide the “Loch Modan (WoW-Pro | Boston’s 12-14)” guide – but there is no such guide, since it is named “[WoW-Pro | Boston’s 12-20] Loch Modan (12-14)”.
And I have been said that this Dun Morogh guide does not bring you to level 12 and that you need some farming to reach that level, even using the +10% experience item – I don’t know if one of you tried that.
Souricette
I’ve followed this guide onI’ve followed this guide on numerous toons and am just now trying to download this addon to make it easier. However, after installing all the addons on my mac, in game i get an error when I click on the guide i want to use. The error is: Could not parse the item link: item:188670. Any help with this would be awesome.
If you are playing the HordeIf you are playing the Horde side, there is some grinding involved at that level (though it should only be a few minutes, and that’s with zero rested XP). Jame wrote these guides when quest drop rates were lower, so more “grinding” was just included in the normal quests, so now occasionally you might fall a little behind. But honestly this has only ever happened to me on my speed leveling testing toon, where I have zero rested XP and do no instances. If you fall behind, the best way to catch up is to do an instance, if you can find people to help you. It gets you gear and XP!
I’m really sorry to sayI’m really sorry to say this, but Vista sometimes just breaks addons. It’s never happened to me, but I have a friend who can no longer get new addons due to Vista.
Check and make sure you are using the correct folder, Vista’s addon folder is:
Public/Games/World of Warcraft/Interface/Addons
Level 21 – 22 GuideI finished everything, started at level 21 and didn’t even make it to 22.
Problems with vistaI loaded all the guides as instructed. Only TomTom and tourguide show in my add on list (used the cure client). I have reloaded several times. I’m on a Vista OS. My other PC with XP worked without a hitch. Help?
Tried to reinstallTried to reinstall Lightheaded without success.
Will try checking in the TG options, very possible I’ve forgotten something there.
Cheers for the help
Hmmm. I don’t really knowHmmm. I don’t really know how lightheaded works, but I know there are like four modules are parts to it. It might be possible that you are missing one part, have you tried re-downloading Lightheaded?
EDIT: Also you might want to fool around in the in game Tour Guide options, it has some settings for Lightheaded corods there.
Its Alliance, I am at theIts Alliance, I am at the Desolace part, level 37.
TomTom is popping an arrow for where you complete with a chest or an item etc. (coords been written in manual?) Checkpoints etc is also no problem, only when picking up and handing in quests to NPC’s.
TG seems to load the QID’s proper.
When I open Lightheaded and search up quests, none of the quests I checked, have coords to their NPC.
Is there different builds for Lightheaded(used the link from this site)?
Couldn’t find anything wrong in options, though I will go over it again when I come home this evening.
Horde or Alliance? I canHorde or Alliance? I can check and make sure that section has the quest IDs listed – if it doesn’t, Lightheaded won’t be able to find them. Are other sections working correctly?
EDIT: Also are other coordinates showing up, like for quest complete steps? Check and make sure TomTom is working for other steps, and make sure everything is enabled (you’ve probably already done this bit it bears mentioning).
Using TG for the 30-40Using TG for the 30-40 range. But I am not getting any coords for many of the quest pickups and hand-ins.
As far as I can understand the addon should be getting these coords from Lightheaded. I got Lightheaded installed and it finds all the quests, but there are no coords listed for the NPC. Any tricks to fix this?
Please read the [url=]updatePlease read the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/node/2460]update post on the front page[/url]. The guide is labeled out of date but works fine as is.
UpdateHey, when will the ” WoW-Pro_TourGuide_Alliance ” be updated to work with 3.1.1?
Which?Horde or Alliance?
James
bug against nigfflevarWhen you need to complete the Q,it sends you to grizzly hills while the Q ends at explores league outpost;)
It’s Out….It is out, it’s just a manual download and install. I just finished doing the second pass through it. I fixed quite a bit, but it’s still not 100%. I’ll have the upload link updated on the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/wiki/addon_in_progress]Works in Progress[/url] page shortly.
James