# Start here

> Polestar is for World of Warcraft: Forever. It is a free leveling guide: install it, log in, and follow the arrow.

Page: https://polestar.guide/docs/players (Polestar docs > Players)

Polestar is for World of Warcraft: Forever. It is one addon for the whole game:
leveling guides from 1 to 60 for every race's start, class quests, professions, reputations and
collectibles, with a 3D arrow that walks real paths to your next goal. Goals
tick themselves off as you play. It is free and open source.

## Install it

### CurseForge app

1. Search for **Polestar Guides** in the CurseForge app and install it.
2. Restart the game completely. A `/reload` does not load a new addon.
3. Log in. The guide window opens with a guide for your race, level and zone.

### Windows

1. Download `Polestar-<version>.zip` from the newest release on the
   [Releases page](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/releases), under
   *Assets* (not "Source code").
2. Unzip it into the game's AddOns folder, so the `Polestar` folders sit
   directly inside it. On the beta client:

   ```text title="AddOns folder"
   C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\Interface\AddOns
   ```

   From launch, `_forever_` takes the place of `_classic_beta_`.
3. Restart the game completely and log in.

### macOS

1. Download `Polestar-<version>.zip` from the newest release on the
   [Releases page](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/releases), under
   *Assets*.
2. Unzip it into the game's AddOns folder, so the `Polestar` folders sit
   directly inside it. On the beta client:

   ```text title="AddOns folder"
   /Applications/World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns
   ```

   From launch, `_forever_` takes the place of `_classic_beta_`.
3. Restart the game completely and log in.

### Linux (Wine, Proton)

1. Download `Polestar-<version>.zip` from the newest release on the
   [Releases page](https://github.com/fitzforge/polestar/releases), under
   *Assets*.
2. Unzip it into the AddOns folder inside the game's prefix, so the
   `Polestar` folders sit directly inside it:

   ```text title="AddOns folder"
   <prefix>/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_classic_beta_/Interface/AddOns
   ```

   The prefix is wherever your launcher keeps it: `~/.wine`, `~/Games`,
   Lutris (`~/.local/share/lutris/prefixes`), Bottles, Faugus, or Steam's
   Proton prefixes under `~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata`. From
   launch, `_forever_` takes the place of `_classic_beta_`.
3. Restart the game completely and log in.

> **Tip:**
> Building from a clone instead? `polestar install` finds the client in all of
> these places by itself: see [Building from source](https://polestar.guide/docs/contributors/building).

The full steps, with the folder for each client and what to know about
updating and memory, are in [Install and first run](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/quick-start).

## Find your way round

- [What Polestar is](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/what-it-is): the guides, the arrow and the
  hub, with screenshots from the game.
- [Features](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/features): everything Polestar does, from the guide
  engine to gear advice, rares and the gamepad.
- [Talent plans](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/talent-plans): a leveling plan for every spec,
  marked on the talent frame; each [class's page](https://polestar.guide/guides/class) lists its
  plans pick by pick.
- [How the routes are made](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/how-routes-are-made): why the
  leveling routes are the ones they are.
- [Community guides](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/community-guides): guides written by other
  players, installed beside Polestar, and who to ask when one goes wrong.
- [Import strings](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/import-strings): a small community guide
  shared as one line of text.
- [FAQ](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/faq): short answers to the questions players ask most.
- [Using Polestar with AI assistants](https://polestar.guide/docs/players/ai-assistants): give
  ChatGPT, Claude or another assistant these docs, so it answers from them.

> **Tip:**
> Press ⌘K (or Ctrl K) on any docs page to search every
> heading and every word of the docs.

## Something wrong?

Click the bug in the guide window, beside Skip: say what went wrong, copy the
report (it already holds the step, where you stand and the versions) and paste
it on the [Polestar Discord](https://discord.gg/polestar). A wrong step in a
community guide goes to that guide's author instead.

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