QuestAgent
What is QuestAgent?
QuestAgent is a small LibDataBroker data provider that helps you track the quests of other party members. Rather than just give you brief updates about quests your party is on (like QuestsFu), QuestAgent gives you other party members' full and entire quest log, just as if you had the quests! In addition, QuestAgent fully integrates with LightHeaded if you have it installed.
With QuestAgent, pulling up a party member's quest and checking out the LightHeaded comments couldn't be easier. Just hover your mouse over the QuestAgent tooltip and click on the quest you're interested in. The QuestAgent quest log will pop up (which is nearly indistinguishable from the normal quest log), including the full description of the quest, all of it's rewards, and the LightHeaded box if you have it installed.
Requirements
A LibDataBroker display add-on is required. LightHeaded is highly recommended. Other party members must have this add-on installed and you must all have the same version installed.
Comments and bug reports
General comments and questions can be posted at the WowAce site. Bug reports and feature requests should be made using the ticket system.
Notes
- Initial quest synchronization takes a few minutes, depending on how many quests you have. Once you've done the first synchronization, quest updates are instantaneous!
- You can only see other party member's quests. I won't be extending this to guild/raid.
- All party members must be running QuestAgent, and they must be running the same version! As of r11 and later, QuestAgent will inform you if you join a party where someone else is running a later version of QuestAgent. Everyone needs to stay up to date! I recommend the Curse Client.
Features that will not be implemented
- Individual objective status and tracking. Use another add-on for this, like QuestGuru, Carbonite, or QuestsFu.
Known issues
- The tooltip doesn't stay detached when you reload or log out. The tooltip library wasn't working right for me, and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it just yet.
- As of patch 3.3, the QuestAgent quest log does not implement each and every quest log feature in the main game. Examples of things QuestAgent does not implement include experience rewards and reputation rewards. The game's quest log was completely rewritten in 3.3, and QuestAgent did not mirror this rewrite.
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Good luck, and thank you!
Hey folks! Not many players use this add-on, but it's been limping along since TBC, and I've tried to keep it updated as much as possible. With Warlords of Draenor coming out, keep in mind that QuestAgent will not be updated in time for the launch of WoD. I don't have two accounts which are flagged for beta, so I can't test it during beta. I'll try to get it working shortly after the release of 6.0. As usual, it may take a while, since I haven't personally used this add-on since 2008. Thanks for your patience!
Oops, I meant to remove that button entirely. Will do so shortly.
How can I get rid of the minimap button? I don't see an item in the options menu.
I wish more people would use it, but certainly my small group does. We value the information it provides us as a party.
Thank you for fixing the library problem.
Just FYI, there's no need to post both a comment and a ticket, I saw the ticket. :)
I think you're my only user of QuestAgent! Every expansion, I can count on you to find whatever is wrong with it. :) In any case, I'll to patch it up soon. It's not my highest priority right now (Energized and Rarity are much higher priority).
Thanks for reporting it!
Thank you for the quick patch for 5.0.4. My group has been seeing irregular results. Sometimes QuestAgent works for several party members, but for some there may not even be a tooltip when hovering the cursor over the broker icon. Sometimes reloading UI or logoff/logon fixes it. We haven't been seeing any errors related to QuestAgent up to now, but today when I logged on my Warlock solo, I saw this error:
QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:1756: Usage: GetAchievementCrieriaInfo(achievementID, criteriaIndex) <in C code> QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:1756: in function "GetMyAchievementStatus" QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:1769: in function "GetMyAchievements" QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:603: in function "SendAchievementUpdate" QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:751: in function "SendDiffSync" QuestAgent\QuestAgent-r64-release.lua:766: in function "?" libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:146: in function <libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146> <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4 <in C code> <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":13: in function "?" libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:91: in function "Fire" TradeskillInfo-v2.1.2\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <TradeskillInfo\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: nil
I'll make a ticket.
I am bumping the TOC for 4.3 without testing this add-on. If it's broken, let me know in the comments or as a ticket, and I'll take a look. Thanks.
QuestAgent only has the right click menu, unfortunately. Thanks for testing!
We used the new version, r55, this evening for a couple of hours, and everything seems to be working peachy!
Thank you very much, once again.
P.S. I can't recall for sure: there wasn't a QA option frame available from the Interface/Addons menu in previous QA versions, was there? I'm not seeing one now, and I can't remember if there was one before. So there should be only the LDB right-click menu, correct?
JaimSandar: I'm going to push a new build of QuestAgent now. I think I've fixed the problem, but in order to fully test it, I have to resubscribe 2 accounts. I'd rather not spend that much money just to fix this tiny issue, so I'm going to push the fix without testing in a party. Please reply here letting me know if there are any remaining issues. Thanks!
Hey JaimSandar, thanks for reporting the issue. I haven't played WoW in eight months, so I rely on reports from you to let me know when something is wrong. I do want to keep most of my add-ons functioning, so I will resubscribe for a month and fix the issues at my earliest convenience.
I'd like to say I am patiently waiting, but the fact that I am posting this message reveals that I have failed miserably in the patience department! Anyway, I hope this will be fixed for 4.1 soon. It is not working at all right now, except to display icon & text on the LDB & show a tooltip telling me about needing my party mates to be running QA, which they are.
Errors:
Thank you.
I can see how that set of sentences would read strangely to someone who didn't understand what an LDB display was. :) LightHeaded is not one, is the short answer. I personally use Fortress (search for it on Curse), but you can also use displays like Titan Panel, Chocolate Bar, and others. You can probably just Google "ldb display" to get more answers.
At some point I'll add LibDBIcon to this add-on, which will remove the need for an LDB display, but I don't have time at the moment.
Good luck!
After reading the following "A LibDataBroker display add-on is required. LightHeaded is highly recommended. Other party members must have this add-on installed and you must all have the same version installed." I installed LightHeaded. I assumed from the text that LightHeaded was a "Recommended" LibDataBroker display add-on, but apparently this is incorrect. Is there one you would recommend for use with this addon? Thanks for the help, apologies for the dumb question, but I've been looking for a party questing addon ever since cosmos went to the fjords in the sky, and took PartyQuest with it.
You also need an LDB display. Read the QuestAgent description above.
I must be missing something entirely, I downloaded and installed this addon, as well as lightheaded, and they are they only addons running on both computers, but we never see the questagent window for tracking? is there a /command to force it to display?
Don't worry, I'm not in a rush, I can live with that and after all this is a good reason to learn french :-)
Just focus on important things to do! :-)
Thanks again!
Az
Haha, I never even thought of that happening. Theoretically, I could give you English for the quests you also have. That'd be a bit of an overhaul on the add-on, though, so it's not likely to happen soon. For quests you don't have, I have no choice but to show you the text in his language. :(
I really like this addon. Does what I need and in an easy to use way.
A+
Just a side note: I play with a friend who uses the french client, and (of course?) I see quest titles and objectives in... french. Moreover, I cannot see the quest rewards.
Not a big deal but the possibility to see quests in english (at least quests I also have) would be a nice feature.
That said, really cool addon. Well done!
Azareus