RalpbQuest my own addon

It has been a while since I've last posted on my blog. However I do got some great news to share with you all. I recentely bought a book called World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons. This book helped me understand more about the addons being made for World of Warcraft. So far I didn't see any reason to make my own addon because there are so many addons out there who already supply in my needs.

So since a week my cousin and I are leveling both a char together and only when we are together online. Quite some time I've asked him how much kills he still needed or how much questitems he needed for a specific quest. He got tired to tell me all the time and I was wanting to keep track of the progression. In the days back during the TBC period there was an addon called FastQuest Classic. This addon tracks your progression. However FastQuest Classic does use the old Quest Tracking System to track the progression and completion of quests. Since blizzard changed the game mechanism for the tracking system FastQuest Classic didn't work anymore. So I've decided to create my own addon which does basicly do the same. The addon I made is called RalpbQuest. I have released version 0.3 to the public since it is a stable and working version for World of Warcraft version 3.1.

However version 0.3 won't be the last verion. I will update RalpbQuest regulary with new options and abilities. The following things will be included for the next version:

• Create a possibility to enable/disable the quest progression into the chat
• Add the possibility to write in the guild or raid chat aswell.

The person who helped me create the stable version of this addon is Obli. He tested the addon together with me. And without him I was not able to make this addon.

Leveling addon

World of Warcraft is a game which you can your own addons for. There are really a lot of addons released. A lot of those addons don't add anything to the game and have been made by authors. However some of them may be really useful. Since a couple of month I try to experiment with quite some addons. Mainly the leveling addons as I do like to level some of my alts.

There are two leveling addons that are quite good in my opinion. The first one and the one I tried first is the addon called QuestHelper. This addon will give some additional options to your map. On the map there will be place serveral icons. Those icons give you the location where you need to do things in order to complete a quest. Unfortunately I don't have a good screenshot of it so you can either check out the screenshot on the Curse website I've just linked or try the addon yourself.
The second great addon for leveling your alts which I currently uses the most is the addon from Jame's Leveling Guides (WoW-Pro). It is an addon that is based on two other addons called TourGuide and TomTom. This addon will show a big green arrow on the screen so that you know which way you have to walk (Like TomTom in the Real Life). And Jame's Leveling Guides has been optimized for the TourGuide together with the TomTom addon you can level really really fast. Maybe this way is the fastest way there exists at this moment. You can find the addon from Jame here. There is also writen how to install and configure this addon.

This is basicly the end of this message however I've just orderen a book called 'World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons'. This is a book which you introduce in writing addons for World of Warcraft. For more information check their website here. I peronally want to create an addon which strips the current UI and make everything more clear. Just to try as experiment to make new and bigger addons near the future.