Players
Install Polestar, learn the guide window and the arrow, and add community guides.
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Polestar is for World of Warcraft: Forever. Install it, write community guides, or build it.
World of Warcraft: Forever © Blizzard Entertainment
Try
Guide authors
Write guides in plain text, test them in the playground and publish them as your own addon.
- Writing a community guide
- Your checker notes
- Handbook
- Guide format cheatsheet
- Guide format
- Community guide format
Contributors
Fix a guide, build the addon from source, and learn how the modules, the toolchain and Forge fit.
- Contributing
- Building from source
- From source to game
- Map and glossary
- Architecture
- The addon, file by file
Reference
Every command, option and key binding, the command line, the guide format, every release, and the credits.
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- PlayersInstall and first runInstall Polestar from the CurseForge app or a release zip, restart the game and follow the arrow.
- PlayersFeaturesEverything Polestar does: the guide engine, navigation, quests and the map, gear advice, Lookup, Dungeons, Rares and more.
- PlayersCommunity guidesGuides written by other players: install one, find its guides, turn it on or off, and know who to ask.
- Guide authorsGuide format cheatsheetThe guide format on one page: every header line, goal and condition, with what it does and a short example.
- ReferenceOptionsEvery setting in the options window, page by page, with its default and what it does.
- ContributorsContributingWays to help, a good wrong-step report, fixing a guide, setup, checks, branches, commits and pull requests.
Read from the code
The references are built from Polestar itself, so they can't drift from the addon you install.
Asking an AI assistant? Give it polestar.guide/llms.txt and it answers from these docs. Using Polestar with AI assistants
The docs come from the Polestar repository (next at 2644456a3), so they change when Polestar does. Browse them on GitHub (opens in a new tab)