fitzforge / polestar

A free, open-source guide addon for World of Warcraft: Forever : leveling routes for every start, found by simulation and written step by step.
 On CurseForge , or from the Releases page. Questions, feedback and bug reports: join the Polestar Discord .
 Polestar is free; if it saves you a few hours, you can buy me a coffee .
 Quick start ·
 What it is ·
 A look inside ·
 Features ·
 How the routes are made ·
 Community guides ·
 Building from source ·
 Contributing ·
 Data and licensing ·
 Discord 
 Play Install the addon and follow the arrow. 
 Write guides Publish your own routes as a community addon. 
 Work on Polestar Fix a guide, build the addon, run the tests. 
## Quick start
1. **Install it with the CurseForge app** (search for
 Polestar Guides),
 then skip to step 3. **Or download** `Polestar- .zip` from the
 newest release on the
 Releases page, under
 *Assets* (not "Source code").
2. **Unzip it into the game's AddOns folder**, so the Polestar folders
 (`Polestar`, `Polestar_Guides`, `Polestar_QuestDB`, `Polestar_ItemDB`) sit
 directly inside it:
 `World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns/` on the beta client,
 `_forever_/Interface/AddOns/` on the `_forever_` client. The same zip
 works for both; if you have both clients installed, unzip into each one.
3. **Restart the game completely** (a `/reload` does not load new addons) and
 log in. The guide window opens with a guide for your race, level and zone:
 follow the arrow, and the goals tick themselves off as you play.
Good to know:
- `/polestar guides` opens the hub: every guide, Lookup, Dungeons and Rares.
 `/polestar options` holds every setting; quest markers on the map are off
 until you turn them on under **Map**.
- `/polestar skip` moves on for good; `/polestar next` and `prev` only look
 ahead or back.
- **Updating:** delete the old Polestar folders, then unzip the new release
 the same way.
- **Memory:** the arrow's walking routes (`Polestar_Nav`) load after login,
 never in combat: about 34 MB for the walking maps, and while a walk is being
 searched up to about 45 MB more for the stretch of map it crosses, released
 when the search ends. **Walk real paths** (Options, Arrow & routes) off
 never loads them.
- **Optional:** `Polestar_Recorder- .zip` from the same release
 records your sessions to improve the routes. It does nothing until you turn
 it on.
- **Community guides** are other people's guides for Polestar, each a
 separate addon from its own author: see
 Community guides.
- Something wrong? Click the bug in the guide window, beside Skip: say what
 went wrong; the report already holds the step, where you stand, your other
 addons and the versions. **Copy report** and post it in **#bugs** on the
 Polestar Discord — a bot files it for the
 developers and replies in your thread when it's fixed. **Get the invite** is
 there if you're not in the Discord yet. Have a GitHub account?
 **Open on GitHub** pre-fills a new issue with your report. `/polestar report`
 opens th