0.3.4

For players#

• Ashenvale: Va'xug Firefure's A Void Path is taken once Never Coming Back is handed in to him, on the same visit, instead of together with it, when he doesn't offer it yet (thanks soockee and jiskim, and CDVolvik for the same fix in the quest data).
• Druid Cat Form: the arrow for the Great Cat Spirit's quests leads to where it stands, on the hill by the bridge in southern Moonglade, instead of a spot about 90 yards east of it (Cat Form guide, Darkshore and The Barrens) (thanks Snowiee, #1003).
• Ratchet, the Crossroads, Sun Rock Retreat and Tarren Mill: the guide binds your hearthstone at the inn after the givers beside the ones you just visited (Mebok Mizzyrix's Raptor Horns by the WANTED poster, Mankrik, Maggran Earthbinder, Apothecary Lydon), instead of sending you up to the inn and back to them (thanks Bill).
• Dungeons: "Pick up the quests" follows your own faction for every quest and giver, whatever the page's Horde / Alliance / All switch shows. Blackfathom Deeps no longer sends Horde characters to Darnassus for the Alliance's In Search of Thaelrid (thanks jiskim, #1026).
• When a level-up, or a quest you hand in, opens a dungeon's quests to you, a card on the guide window says so, once per dungeon ("Wailing Caverns is open to you: 3 quests to pick up"). Pick up the quests opens a guide for them in a new tab, and Open in Dungeons shows the dungeon's page. Turn it off on the card or under Options > Discovery > Dungeons (thanks mcclaskiem, #836).
• Arrow: from Rut'theran Village to the top of Teldrassil, the route takes the portal up to Darnassus and walks on from there. It no longer draws a walk straight up the tree, or sends you back down the portal once you're in Darnassus, round and round (thanks Dante).
• The Deadmines pick-up guide sends you for Murloc Gills before Moonbrook Espionage: Alba Fairmoon offers Moonbrook Espionage only once both Murloc Gills and The State of the Mines are handed in (thanks Slugstur, #991).
• Nameplate icons: a new setting, Options > Questing > Quests > Nameplate icon position, moves the quest skull and your progress (3/10) from the left of the health bar to its right or above the name, so another addon's quest icon no longer covers them (thanks VenoMan).
• The "You've reached the end" window no longer opens in the middle of a guide when you talk to a quest giver before handing in the quest that unlocks their next one (Regthar Deathgate and Kolkar Leaders in The Barrens, with 46 steps still to go). A guide's last step now ends the guide early only when you have really done it, not when its quest is just out of reach for the moment. A class or race quest done elsewhere no longer ends a leveling guide either: Cat Form, the last step of The Barrens (19-23) for Druids, done early in its class guide used to end The Barrens halfway. (thanks MrM00se)
• The Codex behind Lookup, Nearby services and the Dungeons pages is rebuilt only from sources we're allowed to ship (the game client, the community quest database's quest data, our recordings and public facts) and catches up with this month's fixes: Nearby services now finds food and drink, arrow, bullet, bow and gun and general goods vendors, pick-up guides follow quest chains such as The Wrath of Rath'mael's (thanks lif3l3ss and boldarblood37), dungeon pages show each quest's XP, Onyxia's attunement can be guided, lookups leave out stray spawns, and your own race's vendor mounts no longer ask for Exalted. The Forever-only racial mounts (the Reins of the Striped Dawnsaber, the White Kodo, the Black Skeletal Horse) now name their vendor.
• Quest data: The State of the Mines (Deadmines) now needs both Testing the Wells and Murloc Gills, and the Moonsilver Blade quests before Old Fire-Eye (Shadowfang Keep) are listed in their order, as players' recordings show.
• The guide window's look-ahead lines ("Then out here: …", "Then: Gakin the Darkbinder · Turn in The Binding"), Along the way and Up next wrap onto a second line instead of cutting names off with "…". Opened, a look-ahead line names only the place or the person, since its goals are listed right under it (thanks to a player on Discord).
• Party play works on Forever: Polestar now recognizes party members by their full first and last name, so party sync, the party line and the party panel see each other. In a group with someone else running Polestar, nothing needs turning on: sync starts by itself and the party panel opens the first time their Polestar is heard (close it and it stays closed; /polestar party brings it back and says why when nothing can show yet). The Characters page keeps two characters with the same first name apart, and the Recorder leaves out your last name too. (thanks uNBEx)
• With Waypoint UI installed and Options > Navigation > Blizzard waypoint on, its marker in the world now follows the guide by name: a turn-in, or a quest objective at one spot, tracks the quest itself (Waypoint UI's own quest marker); any other goal, a kill or collect among spawns included, is a pin named after the step ("Talk to Executor Arren") at Polestar's spot instead of "Map Pin". Polestar only clears the pin or tracked quest it set, never one you chose. Without Waypoint UI nothing changes.

Forge#

• forge release pack warns when Polestar_Codex was built from another reference data build than data/forever: the pick-up guides' quest chains read the Codex, so a prerequisite fixed since (The Wrath of Rath'mael after the Rear Guard Patrol chain) reaches players only with a rebuilt Codex (thanks lif3l3ss and boldarblood37).
• forge data codex no longer reads the leveling gear lists or any installed addon for a release build. It reads the item sources players' recordings show from the committed snapshot data/codex/recorded.json (only players the data build counts; --recordings <dir> rewrites it from a recordings folder), and a collectible guide's buy step names the item's vendor. forge release pack refuses a Codex that still names the leveling gear lists.