Jame's Leveling Addon - TourGuide style | Discussion thread

when i log an undead priest in trisfal glades, i get the following:

Date: 2009-10-02 20:32:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\TourGuide\Parser.lua line 88:
attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:249:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:246
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:1175:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:1167
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:1197:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:1184
[C]: pcall()
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:247:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:246
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:337:
TourGuide\Dongle.lua:328
[C]: LoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:232: UIParentLoadAddOn()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:255: CombatLog_LoadUI()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:502:
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:474
AddOns:
Swatter, v3.1.14 (<%codename%>)
Auctionator, v2.4.6
Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.130
Bejeweled, v1.1
Configator, v5.1.DEV.190
DBMCore, v
DPSMeter, v1.51
Gatherer, v3.1.14
LightHeaded, v297
Peggle, v1.02a
SlideBar, v3.1.14 (<%codename%>)
TomTom, v222
TourGuide, v3.2.0.55
TweakWoW, v2.9.1
WoWProTourGuideHorde, v0.6
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v3.2.2.30200
(ck=179)

I have no issues with other horde classes and locations. Warlock in trisfal worked ok.

I disabled wow-pro addon and tourguide loaded ok.

Just as a thought about the grinding issue and possibly switching other quests... At the spot I was referring to, one of the quests to be turned in before dinging is "Ordanus". Now, once yo uturn that in, you get a quest to fetch treasure from a barrow near Stonetalon Peak, using a key you find there. Why not do this quest instead of grinding? Plus, there is the as-yet uncollected beak of Sharptalon, the third element in the Ashenvale Hunt.

To be quite honest, while I enjoy most of the guide, there is one aspect that I find extremely annoying: the prevalence of grinding.

For example, I am most of the way through lvl 27, having just collected the Satyr Horns. The next step says that I need to grind to 25,200, in order to ding when I get to Thunder Bluff so that I may train. However, havbing followed the guide exactly, I was only around 16,800 or so when I got my last Satyr horn.

Now... getting a mob at my level nets me around 180 xp. This means that, in order to do the listed grinding, I would need to kill 50 mobs.

Jame, you and your group do excellent work, but grinding 50 mobs is something that bores me to tears. Maybe the order of some quests could be re-evaluated, even if it does mean some flying around?

Minor correction: Soothing spices have been eliminated from the game as of patch 3.1, so the step to buy one while in Tarren Mill can be deleted.

(Hillsbrad Foothills - 22-24 section of the addon)

I tried to add this to the bug report, but it was acting a little wonky for me. Please move this/delete it if I'm off the mark here.

1) The first step in the guide is to make sure you're either level 22 or close to it. Think that's supposed to be level 21.

2) Grinding Session step - This step says to grind until 1450xp from level 22. But then the next step is to go train your level 22 abilities. Maybe change it to "grind until level 22?"

That's as far as I've gotten so far - everything else has matched up and haven't had any problems.

I just wanted to make a suggestion of adding something to [Boston's 20-30] Stonetalon Mountains (24-24) in the Alliance addon. Before or after "Retrieval for Mauren", I would recommend getting the flightpath at Stonetalon Peak (36,7)

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=7674

I think that's new. BTW Nice guide.

I found this over on WoWInteface.

I editted the Interface\Addons\TourGuide\Broker.lua file, commenting out line 72, like so:

-- WatchFrame_Update()

Addon started working again after i tried this.

I have gotten the addon to work in 3.2 by doing the following:

* Open the file AddOns\TourGuide\Broker.lua with a text editor

* Change the first line

local WatchFrame_Update = select(4, GetBuildInfo()) == 30100 and WatchFrame_Update or QuestWatch_Update

to

local WatchFrame_Update = select(4, GetBuildInfo()) == 30200 and WatchFrame_Update or QuestWatch_Update

Note that the only change is 30100 to 30200.

* Save the file

* Reload the interface( I did this by logging out and back in )

I haven't tested this much, but it seems to have solved the issue.

I hope this helps until Tour Guide is officially updated.

Hi folks,

I've created a news post discussing the 3.2 patch and update information. Please direct all your questions there. I know it's frustrating, we'll get the addon working again as soon as we can.

are there any plans to update this addon to 3.2?

A friend of mine tipsed me about this guide..So I downloaded it..But I wanted to "Explore" it alittle and managed to skip whole elwynn forest (100%) Pressing the square in box where your objective is show(Like use Heart stone and such)..Any way to reset this..Because at first I tried spamm clicking Elwynn forest but it just came either above or under it..

--Why live life if not to the limit--

Hi, i tried to download your addon and im having a little trouble. When i go to my addons on the actual game, the only two addons that show up are tom tom, and Wow tour guide allaince. As you can see, im missing the tourguide file and the lightheaded file. Please help,
Nijajin.

Hi all this is my second post on Wow-pro. I am leveling a druid on my server (Always wanted one!) and am just reporting on a couple general things I have found in Boston's 10-20 and 21-30 guides respectively. I am level 24 in the Wetlands (22-23) section of his guide, and one general "issue" is that in general if quests have multiple parts, they are not recognized and I have to manually make sure part 2 or 3 are unchecked if I have the part 1 quest, etc. I don't know if these have been fixed and the next char I level I will tell you specifically where they are... but it's been almost every multi-part quest so far. Just a tad annoying.

Thanks so much for these guides and the addon Jame! I hope RL is going great for everyone here and hoping for more excellent guides from the masters here at wow-pro!

why is this not avalible on curse??? would make my life soooo much easier

started using the guides before they were an addon, now its just so easy!! What i was wondering was: Is there a addon version for dailys? Would be nice to do the lvl 80 dailys in a nice order, get em all done fast!

I'm leveling a new character using the guides and found a few bugs. So far I've submitted them to the bug tracker, but they don't seem to show up, so I'll just post this one here.

Just noticed I still had a Westfall quest that was supposed to be turned in ages ago.

http://wow-pro.com/leveling_guides/maws_alliance_leveling_guide_1220
6) Talk to Captain Grayson
* Turn in "The Coastal Menace"
-Die on purpose, and then resurrect at the Spirit Healer-
7) Talk to Gryan Stoutmantle
* Turn in "The People's Militia"
8 ) Talk to Thor
* Buy a flight to Redridge Mountains

The addon version
T The Coastal Menace |QID|104|
N Sell junk and repair |N|Close this step when you're done (57.68, 53.84) |
F Redridge Mountains |N|Fly to Lakeshire, Redridge (56.58, 52.66) |

Notice the missing step?

I only remember one of the bugs I already submitted but I'll post it here too, just to be sure.

[WoW-Pro | Boston's 20-30] Redridge Mountains (20-21)
N Rogue Poisons |N|Don't forget that rogue can now buy poisons from the shady dealer at level 20. You don't need to do any quest to unlock them now! They are a big help so don't forget them. Close this step when you're done. (80.2,70.1)| |C|Rogue|

That step puts a coordinate in Redridge, while it should be in Stormwind.

Overall I'm very happy with the work being done, makes leveling an alt a lot easier

since the release of 3.1 i no longer am able to see the green dots, used to show where u need to run to next. i have every needed addon enabled i think. to check could u tell me the name of the addon and wether or not this is a bug? ty

I have been using the guides (addon) on my Ally character just fine (mostly, except for some seeming gaps). But when I loaded up the Horde guides, and rolled a BE 'lock, I got this error..

"Interface\AddOns\TourGuide\Parser.lua:88: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)"

Huh?

I've tried making sure all my other tourguide related addons are up to date, but it still happens..

Help?

Hi there,

Does the TourGuide add-on leave anything on the local computer to track progression?

Would like to be able to play light stuff on my laptop and group/instance stuff on my Desktop and still be able to use the Add on on both.

TIA.

The addon is quite good, superior to Zygor for what I've seen, but at least on Boston part (20-30) I noticed that on one point I'm told to take the ship to Stormwind, go quest in menethil then go back to SW, but I had a quest completed before going to menethil to deliver in SW. It was the http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=1078 (Retrieval for Mauren).

Also my human priest got to 31 today after finishign Boston Guide, James promised a revamp on the 31-40 any news when will that be done? Should I keep on leveling or wait?

Hi! Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I noticed just a couple of misspellings on the Grizzly Hills guide.
For the quest "Uncovering the Tunnels", the note states to "Kill the dwarfve". Also the quest "The Runic Keystone" says to "Kill more drawves".

Ok I printed out all the guides and went through the Fjord and Dragonblight. Brilliant. I fully intended to load the addon for Grizzly Hills before I started but I just motored on and am now a dozen or so quests in.

Is it going to be a pain to load the addon now or not?

Thanks for your guides, and if there is a way to contribute offline, can you let me know how.

Cheddar

Is there any update on the 52-60 guide? I'm almost there and would like to have the TourGuide

Well imho, I though Jame's addon was a godsend. I'm still in school and am limited to a few hours a day at best and gaining levels makes me feel like I achieved something. But grinding in WoW is epically slow. Jame's guide condensed everything into one concise guide. I always feel like I accomplish something with this guide. Quests, grinding you name it .

A question I have is this? Isn't Jame's guide essentially better than the ones you have to pay for? For one, it's free, my friend's used the tourguide version for over a month now, and he's a hardcore gamer. Plays something like six hours a day. I told him about this website and he was just stunned. He gave it a crack and leveled to 40 over a period of just 4 weeks. His /played time was something like 7 to 8 days. This is something that the guides you have to pay for promise.

Kudos to Jame and black cat (who i'm assuming wrote the tour guide version) for making such an amazing and comprehensive guid to leveling. I hope this doesn't become pay to use anytime soon . That would be a real shame.

This guide is truly one of wow-leveling best kept unintentional secret.