Trivial Quest Markers

Gameplay Quests
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My eyes are not the best, and I can’t see the trivial quest markers on the mini-map. Is there any way to make them brighter or a different color?

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Sadly, no, but I wonder if there would be an addon that could adjust it.

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You may want to try fooling around with the color blind options a bit but they will affect more than just the mini-map.

i would, however, suggest using the in-game suggestion tool under the help menu to request that Blizzard allow custom colors for map icons and npc quest giver markers. Blizzard has been more responsive than most gaming companies to vision impairments in the past.

You might also want to try the two addons Wholly and Grail (they are used together). They are typically used by people going for the loremaster achievement. They mark all available quests in a zone on the main map in the bright yellow and ones you do not meet requirements for in red.

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There was an addon that swapped it back, but I couldn’t find an up to date version. (And using an old version will mess up your minimap icons badly.)

If you are willing to do a bit DIY and have some basic image editing skills you should be able to update it yourself.

Here’s the addon:

Keep in mind that it does not install like most normal addons. The “MINIMAP” folder goes directly into your Interface folder, and the “LowLevelQuestIconColors” folder goes into your addon folder.

This addon works by replacing the image file that has all of the minimap blips on it. The problem is that Blizzard has gotten in the habit of moving the blips around on the file pretty much every patch. (Which means for example that using the image from last patch will do thing like replace the “?” for completed quests with the reagent vendor icon.)

So, updating the addon means updating that image file, which means you need to find the current version of the file. There are a couple of options:

You can get the new image file directly by downloading all of the interface art using these instructions:

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Viewing_Blizzard%27s_interface_code

In this case, the file we’re looking for is:
Interface/Minimap/ObjectIconsAtlas.BLP

You’ll need a program that can read .blp images (there are some tools on wow-interface that can do the conversion.)

You can also look and see if you can find a place where the files have already been extracted and just grab the one you need.

For example, here they are on github:
https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-textures

And here is the file itself, which is from the current patch:
https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-textures/blob/live/MINIMAP/ObjectIconsAtlas.PNG

This one is in PNG, so you should be able to open it without converting.

Once you’ve got the file, you need to edit it to replace the darkened quest icon with a brighter one. Save it as a TGA (and make sure the name matches the one in the MINIMAP folder you installed with the addon) and replace it. You should now have bright quest icons until the next patch when you’ll likely have to do this all over again.

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Thank you all–these were so helpful! Loremaster is, in fact, what I am shooting for. I will try Wholly/Grail first, and if that doesn’t work, will try editing the file. I also put the suggestion in to make the map a little more adjustable. I really appreciate your replies.

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Grail is a quest database and Wholly is the interface to it. The default marker for trivial quests on the main map is grey but you can click on the color in the options for Wholly to set it to any color you want.

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