Curse

Explore the World is an addon that attempts to encourage exploration since most of the end game is spent waiting for LFR/LFG/BG, completely missing all the detail and work that has been put into the world. To do this the addon provides you with questions, but unlike a regular trivia addon, you're forced to be at the relevant location in order to answer the question. This is done with the help of different categories as seen below.

DISCLAIMER

This addon is in active development and the addon will be regularly updated with more content. I'm always looking for more people to help with creating more questions so scroll down to the bottom of this page if you're interested in helping out.

Introducing challenges

Challenges are now in the addon in their first draft, currently holding two challenges: singleplayer and multiplayer. Let me know what you think about them in the comment section below.

Slash commands

These commands will bring up the main addon frame

• etw
• exploretheworld

Important, please read

The addon will NOT work on non-english clients since I can't store subzones by ID and thus cannot localize it for the whole addon. Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Categories

These are the different categories of questions that exists within the addon

Tracking

The Tracking category is exactly what it sounds like, it involves you tracking down an NPC (by targeting it) to answer the question. Clues are given as well as 3D models.

Investigation

The Investigation category might be slightly less obvious what it's about. The goal of it is to locate an area and answer a question related to its surroundings: "What's carved into the wall", "What is hidden between the walls" and so forth. These questions usually have multiple answers since you write the answer yourself.

Exploration

The Exploration category should also be pretty self-explanatory; it's about locating a zone. The zone you look for is very rarely a "big" or "known" zone such as Stormwind, Zangarmarsh and so forth. It's usually something like Gurubashi Arena, Aerie Peak and similar, called "sub zones".

Group questions

This category adds nothing new other than you need to be 2-5 players in a party in order to answer them. So if you have a group question of the Tracking category then it might require you to track down individual members of a family (or something of the sort). The question can then only be answered once all members of the party has found one member of the family respectively and are in the correct zone etc.

Additional features

Additional features of the addon include:

• Challenges. A new kind of objective that reuses already unlocked questions in order to unlock more. They have a shared cooldown which can be reduced by completing questions.
• Unlockable questions. The majority of questions are unlocked by exploration: entering a zone, targeting an npc, reading a book/scroll/tombstone, completing a question and so forth.
• A sense of progression. You will be able to keep track of your progress through ranks as well as a counter of your completed questions.
• Inspecting/Comparing. You will be able to see the progress of other players and see their ranks, allowing for comparison of competition.
• Teamwork. You can always link questions to your friends so they can quickly bring it up in their addon and help you explore, and of course group questions encourage additional teamwork :)

Bugs

Please report any bugs you find with the Curse ticket system

Becoming part of development and giving feedback

If you want to help out with creating more questions and get your name on the credit list or create new questions yourself that can later be put into the official version of the addon, then there's more information within the addon help menu (in-game) on how to do so.

Supporting me

Explore the World only has one developer (me) and it's very time consuming for me to create content as it involves many parts such as coming up with a question, making unlock attributes, 3D models and whatnot. Developing this addon is (unfortunately) not my full-time job. However, I will keep creating content but it might not be in the fastest pace possible, but if you want to show your support in me in to keep actively creating more content feel free to make a donation.