PoliQuest – Shadowlands

The following macro keybinds the PQButton as well as the arrow button that allows you to cycle through the quest items in your bags. Using the macro while not holding ctrl, alt, or shift will use the quest item, and using the macro while holding alt will cycle through the quest items in your bags.

/click [nomod]PQButton;[mod:alt]PQNext

The PQButton only updates outside of combat. If you gain or lose a quest item while in combat, then the button will update once out of combat. Likewise, the quest item bound to the PQButton can only be changed while out of combat.

The PQButton can be repositioned. It currently cannot be resized.

The PQButton currently only works for level 50-59 Shadowlands quests. I am planning to make it work for all usable quest items eventually. Currently, this button only shows quest items that are in the addon’s whitelist. This whitelist was created and is currently maintained by scraping data from wowhead with a separate program that I wrote, and then formatting it so that it is usable by the addon.

Some progress tracking will be excluded. For example, mythic plus dungeon progress and quests that track progress in the form of an Alternative Power bar are not tracked by this feature.

Automation will not happen if one of the quest rewards is not an equippable item or if the item’s item level is above the item level threshold specified on the configuration menu. The default item level threshold is 171.

After that initial check, the number of items for your current loot specialization/current specialization is counted. If there is only one item, then the automation ends right there and that item is selected. If there are multiple, then the checks continue.

At this point, automation is aborted if any of the following are true:

• item is missing from equip slot
• a quest reward has a socket
• a quest reward is a trinket
• a quest reward is a weapon
• a quest reward is a shirt
• a quest reward is a tabard

In general, trinkets and weapons will not be automated due to difficulties in determining whether or not they are upgrades. However, there is an exception when the weapon or trinket is the only quest reward among many for the current loot specialization/current specialization.

Once all of the above conditions have been met, the selection logic executes. The reward selection automation can use one of two different selection algorithms: Dumb and Pawn.

The Dumb selection logic calculates scores for all loot specialization/current specialization quest rewards and the items in the equip slots that these quest rewards would equip over. Then, it finds the greatest difference in score between the quest reward and the item in the corresponding equip slot, and selects that item as the quest reward.

The score is calculated by giving primary stats a value of 2 and seconary stats a value of 1. For example, if a piece of gear has 7 primary stat, 8 crit, and 7 mastery, then it will have a score of 2 * 7 + 8 + 7 = 29. There is no value placed on stamina unless the items being compared do not have primary or secondary stats. There is also no value placed on armor unless the items being compared do not have primary stats, secondary stats, or stamina.

The Pawn selection logic can only be used if you have Pawn installed. This feature is disabled in the configuration menu if Pawn is not installed. The Pawn selection logic simply uses Pawn to calculate upgrades. If Pawn fails to calculate a score using its smarter weights, then the reward selection automation will default to the Dumb logic.

Automation will happen even if none of the quest rewards are considered upgrades. The reward that is closest to being an upgrade will be selected because of the possibility of warforging.

I may add a configuration to this feature to select the quest reward that vendors for the highest amount in the future.

There is currently no ability to configure which quest types get accepted. I plan to add this in the future.

If the NPC with the quest dialog is an innkeeper, and the Hearthstone Automation feature is enabled, then this feature will take precedence.

Once the review process starts, the addon attempts to locate the item in the bag every 1 second. Once it finds the item, it can determine if it is an upgrade and equip it if it is. This review process is necessary because it is not possible to detect if the item is an upgrade before the quest is completed due to the fact that warforge is possible.

This feature handles edge case scenarios where multiple quest rewards are received at the same time by utilizing a buffer.
It also attempts to factor in gems, enchants, and the mechagon ring set bonus when deciding whether or not a piece of loot is an upgrade. This is done by ascribing an item level value to gems and enchants in a whitelist, with internal logic to check to see if you have mechagon rings, and with another whitelist that prevents low item level speed leveling items
from being replaced. This same method is used to give a high value to speed leveling enchants, gems, and items.

Here is the list of gems and enchants and their rough item level equivalents that I have determined. If anyone wants to do more research into this in order to come up with better numbers, then send me a message in my discord linked on this page.

Here is the small whitelist of items that will not be equipped over. If you want me to add an item to the list, then send me a message in my discord linked on this page.

On a final note, the reward detection logic for this feature isn’t up to date with the most recent quest reward selection logic changes. It works off of item level rather than stats, and Pawn selection logic is not an option here. I will probably make changes to this logic in the future.

The second quest is in Ardenweald and is called The Games We Play. It requires you to target the Playful Trickster and perform the correct emote when it gives you a riddle. This feature will automate the entire quest. Just stand in place and target the Playful Trickster.

Some of the emotes performed by this feature require that you stand still for a moment, so it is a good idea to stop for a moment and then target the unit to perform the emote.

It currently does not have the option to select which quest types to automatically track, but this is a feature that would be relatively simple to implement and I will probably add it in the near future.

Quests will be shared if you have dailies in your quest log that can be shared, you are in the zone for those dailies, and you join a party or a person joins your party. Automation does not happen if the group is a raid. Quests will also be shared if you are in a party and you accept a daily.

If you have multiple dailies in the first scenario above, then all of these dailies will be put into a buffer to be shared. The featue will await the responses of all party members before attempting to share the next quest in the buffer.

This feature tends to be a little awkward if you are queueing for mythic plus dungeons while doing dailies in The Maw. Every time a new person joins the group, the feature will attempt to share all dailies again. This isn’t a problem for people who accept those dailies. However, for the people who don’t want the dailies and decline it, they might get annoyed that you are spamming them with quests that they don’t want.

The configuration menu will still show this feature as enabled at level 60, but the addon’s internal logic will have it disabled. This makes it so that you don’t have to switch this configuration on and off between alts.

Some Shadowlands innkeepers are necessary to talk to for quests. This feature will not set your hearthstone when interacting with these innkeepers (with the exception of the innkeeper when you first reach Oribos).

Here is a list of the innkeepers for which this feature will work:

This feature is only meant for people who want to trim seconds off of the leveling process and it is disabled by default. I may make it configurable if there is another wow expansion or if there is interest in it currently.

If a new expansion comes out and I have access to the beta, then I will probably develop this feature further to allow players to more easily load the mailbox with these gems for speed leveling practice.