How do you even quest with a friend in this game?

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My wife and I want to quest together. But I don’t know what quests she is on, she doesn’t know what quests I’m on, if we have any that overlap…we could go through our logs and read the names aloud, or mouseover mobs and check the tooltip to see if it has both of our names on it…

But what if we don’t happen to have any that overlap? Then we go to a zone together, and it turns out she can’t start the questline that I have there because she hasn’t completed one of the prerequisite ones, or her area is completely phased into some other state.

And if we do quest together, and she gets her X number of items done first, and turns the quest in, and takes the next one, or I do, and then we aren’t sure who is behind or ahead in the questline without pulling up wowhead…

We should use party sync then, right? Except it actually creates more problems than it solves. Sure, we might be guaranteed to be on the same quest line, but not the same step exactly, so we have to wowhead who is ahead again…and that’s not even talking about all the weird bugs and phasing issues I’ve experienced with party sync. I tried using party sync with a friend who was new to the game (level 32, leveling in BFA) and no matter what we did, as soon as we activated party sync it would phase her into a state where she was surrounded by level 50 gnolls that instantly killed her. Having a low frustration tolerance (she’s very competitive), after the third or fourth attempt, she actually quit the game on the spot and is definitely not coming back. That’s on her I guess, but the game didn’t exactly do me any favors in helping us play together.

So this thread is mostly complaining (sorry), but also a plea for help. Is there an addon, or some settings, or a strategy I can use to easily quest with my friends? Am I doing chromie time / party sync all wrong? What about for dragonflight content? I really love questing / world questing and treasure hunting in this game. It’s a lot of fun! But it’s so much work to figure out where my friends and I should go! We’re dumb, we just want an arrow pointing at our nearest shared objective.

I actually use tom tom to share destination coordinates to my party for treasure hunting together, and that’s been easier than questing, but literally requires a second monitor with a wowhead tab open that I can use to browse comments to find helpful coordinates I can copy and paste into the game.

Anyway, what have you guys tried? What’s worked? What hasn’t?

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There is a “Party Sync” option in the quest interface that allows you to sync your quests with party members. If you use that, you can work with your wife to “catch her up” to where you’re at. That sometimes works for me.

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This is a great way to show someone you only skimmed their post before replying.

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Perhaps another member of the forums will be able to direct you and your wife to a better solution. :slight_smile:

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Not that you want to do this, but you both can start at level 1 and go from there. I thought at some point the quest log showed how many people were on the same quest? Am I mis-remembering something?

Edit: Messaged my guild discord. Try Azeroth Auto Pilot

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–Starting at level 1 (or 10 for allied) and actively quest together
–Party Sync til you know you’re both on the same section
These are basically your options, and both require one other key thing in order to make it work… communication.

Back in Legion I actively lead 3 newbies from level 1 into the game, quested the whole way up to max level in Legion together without people getting mis-aligned in the questing and without addons to actively see what they were on. Communication was key, and nobody questing ahead of the other obviously as well. We only played these characters when playing together, and it worked fine, but communication goes above every other thing

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Same, but it doesn’t seem to do it anymore?

I’m trying it out just now and it’s pretty awesome. I think it solves most of the problems =) If they could add in some kind of option to just include “everything” (all quests, world quests, treasures and stuff. I know I’m dreaming) it would be a complete solution to all my complaints I think.

You’re obviously correct, but not in a way that helps me. I’m autistic and find back and forth communication like that to be really draining. As you can see from my initial post, I tend to speak in paragraphs. My wife is the same way, so we struggle when we have to verbally synchronize frequently. We do really well together if we both know our mission and our role to play (we’re gonna have +20s of every m+ dungeon done soon!), and we use tools to help us keep track of each other (interrupt trackers, raid markers over our heads, etc).

Anyway, I know that’s a weird, unexpected kind of limitation, but it’s real for us, so we have to find other workarounds.

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I can understand and respect your limitations, but you may be overthinking the solution - Link the quest in party chat, you can communicate nonverbal and still comunicate what quest you’re on with a simple 6/10 (for example for a kill 10 or gather 10 style quest)

EDIT: The issue is, some of the tools you may be seeking are common tools for multiboxing which isn’t permitted* anymore in WoW. Using such tools might inadvertently flag your account to the admins, so be advised on some tools. The mods that others have mentioned, such as AutoPilot might work as you need them to, but be very cautious on other mods or tools that will feed data between clients

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For my friend group I had to download the addons SmartQuest and Quest Announce 3 to make it easier to keep track of where they were in the quest and if we were sharing progress on certain objectives.

Can confirm though, its a tremendous PITA to quest with a group in this game. A lot of “You get progress for that?” and “What step are you on?” over Discord.

It’s tedious

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Talk to her.

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I know this is old, but while searching Google for my addon QuestTogether, I found this thread. @Lâdytíny it sounds like you would actually really like my addon.

It doesn’t solve all your problems but it does make it easier to stay in sync as you quest together. I wrote it years ago due to my wife and I experiencing a lot of the same pains you described.

Edit: Apparently I can’t share links, but you can just search CurseForge for “QuestTogether” (one word).

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