Auto Quest Tracker Mk III

Auto Quest Tracker Mk III

Auto Quest Tracker Mk III is the continuation of a continuation (last version: Jan 2021) of the original Auto Quest Tracker addon (last version: Jan 2018).

If you’re not familiar with the original Auto Quest Tracker: What it does is basically move the quests that belong to your current zone into the quest tracker, and move them out when you leave the zone.

The addon works with most known quest trackers, like Quester, Kaliel’s Tracker and of course Blizz’s built-in quest tracker. If using with Kaliel’s Tracker, make sure to have Kaliel’s Auto Zone feature disabled.

I have updated Auto Quest Tracker, because – in my experience – it works better than all other similarly featured addons I’ve tried over the last years. For example, it’s the only one – again: in my experience – that properly handles Callings and account-wide pet quests. (When I’m in Shadowlands, I do not want to see my Pandaria Beasts of Fable pet dailies popping up in the tracker, and when I’m pet battling in Pandaria I’m not interested in seeing my Maldraxxus Callings, …)

Quester + Auto Quest Tracker is my preferred combo.

New in version 2.0 (“Mk III”)

Some minor new features

• Loading message (at login/reload) that shows the current state (enabled/disabled) of AQT. This can be disabled/enabled with /aqt loadingmessage (account-wide setting).
• The /aqt slash command now shows the current state of AQT (enabled/disabled). As before, it also shows all available slash commands.

Enable/Disable AQT

• You can now disable/enable AQT with the slash commands /aqt off / /aqt on (or shorter /aqt d / /aqt e) This is a per-char setting.

Temporarily disabling AQT can be useful for example if you have a bunch of quests that you want to keep focused as you move back and forth between adjacent zones. You could also just re-track the quests manually (AQT allows this and keeps them tracked), but this can get tedious.
It can also be useful if you simply have too many quests that technically belong to your zone, but you’re not interested in at the moment.
What happens when you disable AQT is that the two main events become unregistered, i.e. this is close to unloading the addon, but without the need to reload.

Option to ignore instance (dungeon and raid) quests (new in v2.2)

• To toggle, enter /aqt in or /aqt instances. This is an account-wide setting.
• Enable this to keep the quest tracker free of dungeon quest spam. (Technically, instance quests are on a specific map and have map POIs like any other quest. However, from a player’s point of view, these quests aren’t tied to a specific zone in the same way as normal quests, as in most cases you enter dungeons via LFG, which is location-neutral.)
• “Ignore” means that instance quests will not be removed from your tracker when you enable this option, but if you remove them, they won’t come back when you zone into the quest’s map. (And if you put them in the tracker, they will stay there wherever you are).
• This is a new feature and may still need some fine-tuning.

For more slash commands (quest list, debug mode), enter /aqt in the chat.

Mini API

You can now enable/disable AQT in your scripts with the global function addon_aqt_enable():

• Enable with addon_aqt_enable(true)
• Disable with addon_aqt_enable(false)
• Toggle with addon_aqt_enable(not AQT_CharDB.enabled)

On wago.io you will find an (exemplary) companion WeakAura using this function that you can place onto your Quest Tracker:

• The Aura’s icon shows the current state of AQT (on/off)
• Left click: toggle AQT
• Right click: toggle Quest Log

More info on the Aura download page.

Feel free to post suggestions or issues in the GitHub Issues of the repo!
Please do not post issues or suggestions in the comments on Curseforge.