WoW Reviews & Guides

World Map

All the tasks QuestHelper wants you to do are displayed on the World Map. There are ‘marching ants’ connecting the objectives, showing you the order QuestHelper thinks you should complete them in.

You can right click on an objective to get a list of options for it.

Menus

Using the menus should, hopefully, be obvious. The only catch might be that they don’t automatically disappear if you click on something else.

You can right click anywhere on a menu to hide it, or select the Close Menu command from the end of the menu.

Priorities

There are 5 different priority levels an objective can have: “Highest, High, Normal, Low,” and “Lowest”.

Most objectives default to “Normal”. Objectives for timed quests default to “High”. User created objectives default to “Highest”. QuestHelper will try to arrange the objectives so that higher priority objectives get done first.

You can use priorities as hints to get the objectives in an order you’d prefer, without the need to micro-manage the route list.

Filters

There are 7 filters you can use to automatically ignore quest objectives, which you can turn on and off using the slash command /qh filter.

The first filter is “level”, which by default is on. It will cause QuestHelper to ignore any objectives that your current party probably isn’t high enough to complete. You can adjust the level offset used by this filter with the command /qh level "offset".

The second filter is “zone”, which by default is off. It will cause QuestHelper to ignore any objectives that aren’t in your current zone.

The third filter is “done”, which by default is off. It will hide objectives for any quests that aren’t complete. You can use this if you don’t want to quest and just want to turn the quests you do have in.

The fourth filter is “blocked”, which hides blocked objectives, i.e. ones that can’t be done yet, such as quest turn-ins for incomplete quests. This is probably most useful if you prefer to hide the “ant trails”, as the route it will compute will be somewhat of a lie.

The fifth filter is “watched”, which hides objectives that you are not currently tracking via WoW’s built-in quest tracker. This gives you a lot of control over which quests QH shows, but may limit you to fewer quests tracked at once.

The sixth filter is “group”, which by default is on. It will cause QuestHelper to ignore group quests while you’re not in a group. By default, it permits 2-player group quests, but not more. This can be adjusted with “/qh group”.

The seventh filter is “wintergrasp”, which ignores Wintergrasp PvP quests if you are not actually in Wintergrasp at the time.

You can force QuestHelper to show an objective that otherwise would have been filtered by typing /qh hidden and selecting “Show” from its entry in the menu.

Sharing

Sharing allows you to share your objectives with other party members, allowing you to combine your routes and work together effectively.

Note that sharing only tells your peers what objectives you have, your completion progress for them, and the priorities you have assigned to them. Information such as item drops and monster locations are not shared.

Each peer will take this information and calculate their own route from it. Assuming you stay together and work cooperatively, which was the whole idea behind this feature, your routes should end up being almost completely identical, and you can follow it and rest assured that nobody is getting left behind. Objectives shared by multiple users won’t be removed until everybody has completed it.

See the AddOns section for downoad.