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World of Warcraft addon · free · open source

PandaQuest, in the game

The quest helper behind this site. An arrow to your next objective, waypoints over the NPC you want, every quest in the game with its chain, the mobs your quests still need, where an item drops, flight times and gathering nodes – and, if you want, your runs shared with these pages.

Get it on CurseForge The sync app

Latest release: 0.2.448 · Works in

What it does

Each part has its own switch, so the addon is as small as you want it. Shown for Classic Era.

  • An arrow to the next objective

    Points at your next unfinished objective, a quest ready to hand in or the nearest quest you can pick up, with the distance and the time it takes at your speed. It hides itself in instances, on flights and in pet battles.

  • Waypoints over the NPC

    The NPC you are heading for gets a label with chevrons over its nameplate up close, and a column of light with the distance from further away. /way sets a point of your own, written the way TomTom writes it.

  • Every quest in one window

    /pq opens the quest browser: every quest by continent, dungeon, class, profession and event, with filters for level, side and kind, and a page per quest with its text, givers, rewards and a map of where it starts, ends and what it wants.

  • Quest chains New

    A quest's page says which step of its chain it is and names the next quest. Hover for the whole chain, with the steps you have done and the ones in your log marked; click to walk along it.

  • Quest pins on the maps

    Objectives, turn-ins and quests you can pick up on the world map and the minimap, merged where they share a spot, with the current target highlighted.

  • Quest mobs marked

    The creatures your quests still need get a mark on their nameplate and a line in their tooltip; NPCs to talk to, turn-ins and quest givers with a quest for you get their own marks.

  • Tooltips that know the quest New

    NPC and item tooltips list the quests they start, end or count towards, with your progress. Item tooltips also say where the item comes from: the creatures that drop it, where it is found and who sells it.

  • Gathering nodes and respawns

    Ore, herbs, fishing pools, chests and rares for the professions you have, with a countdown until a node or a mob you took is back.

  • Flight times

    The flight master's tooltip says how long a flight takes before you fly, and a bar counts down during it: your own times first, then players' measured times from this site, then an estimate that says so.

  • Only the parts you want

    Every part has its own switch under Modules, and a part that is off runs nothing. Settings are per profile, searchable, and also in the game's own AddOns settings.

  • Share your runs, if you want

    Off until you say yes. Then the addon writes your quest progress, flights and gear to a file on your computer, and the PandaQuest sync app uploads it to this site: the routes, timings and flight times on these pages come from it.

What the new parts write

The lines the addon adds, set the way the game sets them. Text, not screenshots.

An item's tooltip says where the item comes from.
A quest's chain on its page in /pq, and every step on hover.

One download, four games

The same addon carries a file for each game, and each game loads only its own quest data.

  • Everything, including the archaeology dig-site bar and distances on the quest tracker.

    Folder: World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns/PandaQuest

  • Everything but archaeology, which TBC does not have.

    Folder: World of Warcraft/_anniversary_/Interface/AddOns/PandaQuest

  • this page's game

    Everything but archaeology, which Classic Era does not have.

    Folder: World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/PandaQuest

  • The quest database arrives with the game's launch; until then the addon loads and says so once. The recipe reader and kill counts are off there for now.

    Folder: World of Warcraft/_forever_/Interface/AddOns/PandaQuest

Retail World of Warcraft is not supported.

Install it

  1. Get the addon from CurseForge

    Search for PandaQuest in the CurseForge app, or download it from its CurseForge page and unpack it into World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/. The CurseForge app keeps it up to date.

  2. Start the game and type /pq

    Or click the minimap button. The arrow starts working at once; /pq opens every quest and the settings. If the game was running while you installed it, quit and start it again: /reload does not load new files.

  3. Share your runs, if you want

    Say yes to sharing in /pq → Synchronisation, and install the PandaQuest sync app. It uploads what the addon recorded after you play, and the quest routes, timings and flight times here get better for everyone.

What's new

The feature releases. Data updates come every two hours and are listed on the changelog.

0.2.267

  • quest browser a quest's page says which step of its chain it is and names the next quest
  • quest browser a quest ID typed in the name box finds that quest
  • tooltips item tooltips say where the item comes from: drops, chests, containers, vendors

0.2.242

  • core new files of an update made while the game ran did not load: PandaQuest now says to restart
  • quest mobs kill-credit objectives mark their own group, not another creature of the quest twice
  • quest mobs talk-to NPCs, turn-in NPCs (?) and givers with a quest for you (!) are marked too

0.2.241

  • games PandaQuest runs in Classic Era, TBC Anniversary and WoW Forever, beside MoP Classic
  • games features a game does not have stay off there: archaeology and the dig-site bar are MoP's
  • saved data MoP data copied into another game's folder is set aside whole, never deleted

Questions

Does it cost anything?

No. PandaQuest is free and open source (GNU GPL v3), and the sync app is free too.

Does the addon send anything about me?

It cannot: the game lets no addon send anything. Sharing is off until you say yes; then the addon writes your quest progress, positions outside instances, flights and gear to a file on your own computer, and only the sync app, which you install and run yourself, uploads it. No chat and no other players' names. The privacy statement has the details.

Do I need the sync app?

No. The addon works fully without it. The app is for sharing your runs with this site and for reading its news and bugtracker on your desktop.

Does it work with Questie, TomTom or other addons?

With TomTom installed, PandaQuest can mirror its target into TomTom, and /way stays TomTom's. With the QuestieDB addon installed, PandaQuest can fill gaps in its own quest database from it. If you run another quest helper beside it, switch off the PandaQuest parts you do not want twice under /pq → Modules.

Which games does it run in?

Mists of Pandaria Classic, Classic Era, TBC Anniversary and WoW Forever, from one download. WoW Forever's quest data arrives with the game's launch on 4 November 2026. Retail is not supported.

I updated it and something is missing.

Quit the game completely and start it again: the game reads an addon's file list when it starts, not on /reload. PandaQuest says so in chat when it notices.

Where do I report a bug?

On the bugtracker, with what /pq status prints and the Lua error if there is one.

PandaQuest is a fan project, not made or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment. The icons on this page are the game's own.