"QuestHelper/Carbonite" - Blizzard Edition

[Cralor]

A project Blizzard intended to finish for Patch 3.2 is now ready for Patch 3.3.

Take a look at this image: http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ber/questz.jpg

They have integrated there own QuestHelper/Carbonite-type addon into the World Map. Looks pretty cool! Check it out yourself! Discuss!

Head on over to www.mmo-champion.com to find more info

[Petrah]

Fiddling with it on the PTR, I'm not impressed with it.

[Cralor]

I haven't actually seen anything but that picture, so don't take my words for granted... yet...

[Bluspacecow]

Cralor if you have look at my 3.3 thread I had a play with this.

First things first it does not come turned on by default.

You need to click a few boxes in the Interface options to turn it on.

You can also easily turn it on and off on the map itself if you don't want to look at the quest tracking features.

Another thing - it only does the basic "here's where you go for this quest". I don't think it can handle any quests more complicated then that. Escort quests would probably stump it as would quests requiring you to use objects in certain places or using objects that drop on other objects.

No what I'm excited about is the fact it puts there where to go to turn in a quest. If this can be exposed in the wow addons api it means that quest addons would become more efficient

[ricks322]

But, does this new version make QuestHelper/Carbonite obsolete in their current config? Surely now they can have new versions with alot less memory/cpu requirments.

[Cralor]

No I would not say it is replacing either of them. I don't think Carbonite would have any changes besides maybe including any new API which makes things easier. As for QuestHelper, I wonder if there will be more significant changes, or just the same API enhancements like Carbonite. Just my guess.