Quick start
- Install it one of three ways:
- The CurseForge app: search for
Polestar Guides and
install it, then skip to step 3.
- The Polestar Client: a small app for
Windows, macOS and Linux that finds the game, installs Polestar and keeps
it up to date, community guides included. Skip to step 3.
- By hand: download
Polestar-<version>.zip from the
newest release,
under Assets (not "Source code").
- Unzip it into the game's AddOns folder, so the Polestar folders
(
Polestar, Polestar_Guides, Polestar_Codex, Polestar_Nav and the
others, with one Polestar_<language> folder per client language such as
Polestar_deDE) 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.
In the game's AddOns list they all sit under one "Polestar" heading,
which its arrow folds away.
- 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. A click on the Polestar button
on the minimap's edge hides everything Polestar shows, and a second click
brings it all back; right-click it for a short menu (the guide window, the
arrow, whether hiding keeps the arrow), drag it to move it (Options, Map,
Guide & quests, Minimap button turns it off)./polestar skip moves on for good; /polestar next and prev only look
ahead or back.- Updating: the CurseForge app and the Polestar Client update Polestar for
you. By hand, delete the old Polestar folders, then unzip the new release
the same way. Coming from 0.2.x, also delete the
Polestar_Guides_deDE,
Polestar_Names_deDE kind (one of each per language): Polestar_deDE and
its siblings replace them, and Polestar reminds you at login while they are
still there.
- "No guides installed" or "Polestar Guides is turned off": Polestar
Guides is unticked in the game's AddOns list. The list shows it indented
under Polestar, and ticking Polestar (after Disable All, say) does not
tick it. Polestar asks once at login, and the guide window and the guide
menu have a Turn on Polestar Guides and reload button that turns it and
its parts back on for all your characters. By hand: tick Polestar Guides
and the rows under it, or right-click Polestar in the list and pick the
option that enables its whole group.
- Memory: the arrow's walking routes (
Polestar_Nav) load after login,
never in combat, and each continent's walking maps load when you get there.
Walk real paths (Options, Arrow & routes) off never loads them.
- Optional:
Polestar_Recorder (Polestar_Recorder-<version>.zip in the
same release, or from the Polestar Client) records your play for the
recording program that improves the routes. With the Polestar Client it
records while sharing is on, which it is by default (one click in the
Client stops it, and /psrec off always wins); on its own it stays off
until you type /psrec on.
- Community guides are routes other players publish for Polestar, on
polestar.guide: 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 the window too, and issues
are welcome as well. The release's SHA256SUMS holds the zips' checksums.
What it is
Polestar is one addon for the whole of WoW: Forever. It carries 256 guides:
61 leveling guides that take both factions from 1 to 60 from every race's
starting zone (Zephras Isle for the Skyborne included), 82 class guides for
every class's quest chains and class mounts, the twelve professions from 1 to
300, 27 reputations, 7 exploration guides, the Legacy challenges, 64
collectible guides (mounts and pets) and 2 miscellaneous guides. Every one of
them can be read step by step on polestar.guide.
Around the guides it adds a 3D waypoint arrow that walks real paths (on
Polestar's walking maps, with a router that started from Shortest Path
Forever's by Cillian Berragan) and a travel planner, quest markers on the map,
gear advice on tooltips, quest rewards and bags, a search for where any item, mount or pet comes from, a dungeon
quest journal, rare alerts and the quality-of-life helpers a long leveling
session needs. Its interface and its guides read in English, German, French,
Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean and
Chinese (simplified and traditional).
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