After a year away from WoW I decided to play again in the expansion. And now that I have couple weeks until it comes out I intend to finish what I have started two years ago. FastQuest is back!
What is FastQuest:
It is a small, stand-alone addon that displays quest levels, removes quest fade delay, adds and removes quests to and from quest tracker window, allows you to move the tracker window anywhere, complete quests automatically (this us useful for turn-in quests). It can also notify party/raid members or those near you of your quest progress.
Extra functions in quest log:
Right Click Add/remove quests to/from quest watch
Ctrl+Left Click - Will display quest information (e.g mobs killed) to your party, raid, etc
Shift + Left Click- will paste quest objectives into the chat message you are typing.
Options:
(Titan panel is fully supported and you can toggle all options there, Fubar support may be added in a future.)
/fq displays list of options.
/fq levels toggles display of quest levels
/fq delay toggles quest fade-in delay
/fq colors toggles between default blizzard color mode (gray, green, yellow, red) and extended color mode that uses hundreds of different shades of these colors to represent the level difference of these quests. It will also highlight the green quests that would turn gray next level.
/fq autoadd toggle automatic quest watch
/fq progress toggles display of your quest progress to your party, raid, guild, or those around you
/fq output toggles between default chat to report the progress to
/fq autocomplete when on will automatically hit continue and compete quest buttons when you are turning in a quest. This is very useful for massive turn-in quests. This option is off by default and not saved.
/fq drag allows you to drag the quest watch window around the screen. The location is not saved so reloging will reset it.
/fq reset resets all options to defaults.
P.S. I localized it for EN, if you can translate it to other languages let me know and I will add them to release.
FastQuest 3.09c minor changes.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...