Questing Addon Cartographer

When you are tired of trying to keep track of all the thousands of quests when you need to run to reach level 70, then I have an amazing bit of information for you: you can employ the WoW addon Cartographer to boost your leveling speed by a huge feature! This has to be one of the top kept “open” secrets in all of World of Warcraft.

Cartographer is a tool that allow you to display information about WoW straight to your in-game map and minimap. Addons like this are notably use to track profession nodes such as ore veins or herb nodes. Cartographer allow addon developers to make plugging to feed it whatever information they satisfy to your in-game map, and since of this two projects were born that we are now involved in: Cartographer Quests and Cartographer Quest Objectives.

Both Quests and Quest Objectives proof the locations of quest givers and the location quests are complete in a database (lua) file on your computer. They then show this information on your map in-game, so you can observe how having this information right in face of you will speed up your questing (and consequently your leveling) QUICK. And the best thing? They are both 100% legal - you will not find in trouble with the GMs for use these.

You can download the latest versions of all three files (Cartographer, Cartographer Quests and Cartographer Quest Objectives) at the official Wow Ace site. You force need all three of these files!

Once you have downloaded them, unzip the inside of these files to your …\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\ folder. The “…” represents the directory World of Warcraft is install in. For most Windows user this will be C:\Program Files\.

Once unzipping these files your World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns folder be supposed to have these folders in it:

1. \Cartographer
2. \Cartographer_QuestObjectives
3. \Cartographer_Quests

This is sideways from any other addons you have install or the default addons such as \Blizzard_AuctionUI.

Of course, opening from scratch with these addons will not really speed up your leveling right away. You will only have a blank slate. This is why I am offering both of my personal database files below.

1. Cartographer_Quests.zip
2. Cartographer_QuestObjectives.zip

These have approximately all the quests for both Alliance and Horde, from the early areas all the way to the Outlands. Toward install these files simply unzip the contents of these two files into the follow directory, overwriting the default (empty) files which are formed the first time you log in into WoW with Cartographer installed:

1. …\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT-NAME\SavedVariables

Memo that ACCOUNT-NAME is the name of your account. Now while you log in, you must see icons for all the quest-givers and the location of where to complete your existing quests already on your map and mini map!

Of course, meaningful where to get quests and then where to total them is really only half the battle. To actually level fast, you have to know which sort to complete the quests in to minimize your travel-time in the game. That is why I discover guides like the WoW 1-70 Guide invaluable. Sideways from give many pointers about how to more effectively level, they also inform you which order to perform the quests in.

Other things to try:

1. Addons in general and all the Cartographer addons are enable. You can do this from the Addon button in the bottom left of your character collection screen. keep in mind that these settings are specific to each server, so you determination have to change them for every server you play on.
2. You be able to access your cartographer settings in-game from the mini-map symbol (screw icon labeled “Addon Preferences”) or by typing /cartographer in the chat panel.
3. If you were previously using a different Map utility like Meta Map make sure it is files are either totally deleted or totally turned off from the Addons button on the character choice screen. These may cause Cartographer to not work.