Features

Vanguard is built from parts called modules. Each one replaces or adds one piece of the game's interface, and each can be turned off on its own under /vg → Modules.

The current release is 0.3.0. The addon has moved on since that release: 35 more modules and 18 more commands are written and waiting for the next release, which isn't out yet. This site marks those Next release. They are not in v0.3.0.

The name and first line of each module are the ones the addon shows on its Modules page. The longer text under it describes the module as it is in the newest version, so v0.3.0 may not have every detail yet. Every module is on until you turn it off, except where it says Off until you switch it on. The Settings page shows exactly which options each release has.

16 modules in v0.3.0 · 51 in the next release.

Unit frames

Unit frames In v0.3.0

Player, target, target of target, focus, pet and party frames.

Player, target, target of target, focus and party frames, plus up to five boss frames in a column from the top-left corner, each shown while its boss is in the fight. On WoW Forever they show levels colored by difficulty and health as a percent, and a diamond marks elite, rare and boss targets.

The game's own boss frames are hidden. The player and target frames are sized for a 1080p screen at the 80% UI scale that first-run setup picks. Player and target sit either side of your character, with your cast bar and swing timer between them, the pet and target of target outside them and the focus above the player.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Cast bars In v0.3.0

Your cast bar, and your target's and focus's.

Cast bars for you, your target and your focus, with a spark, the seconds left, your latency at the end of your own cast, and a gray edge on a cast you can't interrupt.

Your own cast bar sits between the player and target frames, with the swing timer. Like every Vanguard frame, each cast bar can be moved with /vg unlock.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Target and focus auras In v0.3.0

Buffs and debuffs under the target and focus frames. Needs Unit frames.

Debuffs sit under the target and focus frames: a crowd-control slot first, then yours, soonest to expire first. Turn "Only your debuffs" off to see everyone else's too, dimmed. The target's buffs sit above its frame.

Each row wraps at the frame's width. Timer numbers are off by default, since the dark sweep shows the time left, and can be turned on. With the Masque addon installed, Masque skins these icons instead, as a group with its own skin.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Your buffs and debuffs Next release

Your own auras and weapon enchants, left of the minimap.

Your buffs sit in rows left of the minimap with timers, and your debuffs on a row under them, edged in their type's color. Right-click a buff to cancel it. Weapon enchants (poisons, stones, oils and a shaman's imbues) sit in front of the buffs.

They replace the game's buff frame, and you can move them with /vg unlock. On WoW Forever a shaman's imbues show here too, which the game's own enchant cells miss. With the Masque addon installed, your buffs, debuffs and weapon enchants are a Masque group with their own skin.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Combo points Next release

Rogue and druid combo points above the player frame. Needs Unit frames.

Combo points for rogues and druids, above the player frame.

Five small pips light up in the energy color, and the row shows only while you have points on your target. Other classes don't get the row.

Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page and the addon's own feature list.

Class bars Next release

Shaman totems, and druid mana in forms, under the player frame. Needs Unit frames.

Shamans get their totems under the player frame (icon and time left; right-click one to destroy it), and druids their mana while bear or cat form shows rage or energy.

The game keeps totems and a druid's mana inside its own player frame, which Vanguard replaces, so they get bars of their own. The druid mana bar is a thin bar in the mana color just under the player frame, shown only while you're in a form. Each class gets only its own bar.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Power bar sparks Next release

The five-second rule and energy ticks on your power bar. Needs Unit frames.

A spark on your power bar counts down the five-second rule after each mana spell, or crosses the bar with every two-second energy tick.

The mana spark is timed from your spells, not your mana: only a spell that costs mana starts the five seconds again. The energy spark starts again each time your energy goes up, so it stays in step with the energy ticks. When a druid changes form, the spark switches to the new kind of power.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Swing timer Next release

A row per hand that swings, from WoW Forever's own swing events.

One row per hand: main hand, off hand, and ranged for a hunter's Auto Shot. It's on for warriors, rogues and hunters, and can be set to always or never.

It runs on WoW Forever's own swing events. It sits between the player and target frames, with your cast bar.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Readouts Next release

Threat on your target, and your pet's happiness. Needs Unit frames.

Your threat on your target as a percent above the target frame, in the threat colors once you have aggro, and a dot on the pet frame for a hunter pet's happiness: green happy, orange content, red unhappy.

Each one shows only where your client answers. The threat number sits just above the top-right corner of the target frame, and the mood dot in the pet frame's top-right corner.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Party pets and targets Next release Off until you switch it on

Small tiles for each party member's pet and target, above the party (switch it on under Unit frames).

A small tile for each party member's pet and target, one row per member, above the party frames. They show only in a party.

Turn it on under Unit frames in /vg. Each tile shows only while its unit exists.

Settings: Unit frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Raid and group

Raid frames In v0.3.0

Raid (and party) tiles sorted by group or role.

Tiles laid out in zones that never overlap: the name at the top, missing health, Dead or Offline under it, and the power bar along the bottom. By default, class colors are softened into the panel color so tiles read at a glance. A raid of more than 10 is drawn smaller so all 40 fit, and groups can be laid out as columns or as rows, so a big healing raid is wide and short.

Party and raid frames grow up from just above your player frame, centered on it. A raid of more than 10 is drawn at 80% size, or 72% above 25. A thin line in the full class color runs along each tile's top, so close colors like shaman and mage blues still tell apart; you can also pick dark bars with class-colored names, or bright class colors. Tanks get a small shield and healers a cross before the name, and the raid's main tank gets the shield in your accent color.

Settings: Raid frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Raid debuffs and HoTs In v0.3.0

Debuffs you can dispel, and your heals over time, on the tiles. Needs Raid frames.

The first debuff you can dispel, then up to two others (boss debuffs included), and your heals over time, lit while they're in their refresh window. A debuff you can dispel washes the tile in its type's color.

These small icons have no timer numbers. The color of a debuff you can dispel washes the tile from the bottom and colors its edge.

Settings: Raid frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Raid heals and aggro In v0.3.0

Incoming heals, shields, aggro and missing raid buffs. Needs Raid frames.

Incoming heals and shields, an aggro strip, and a mark for a missing buff (hidden while the game hides auras, so it never cries wolf).

Click casting and hover keys work on the tiles, and a hover key can carry Shift, Ctrl or Alt: with the pointer over a player, Shift-Q casts on them. Your target gets an accent edge, and the tile under the mouse a faint wash.

Settings: Healing
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Raid marks In v0.3.0

Range fade, raid icons, ready check, resurrection, leader. Needs Raid frames.

Players out of range fade, with raid target icons, the ready check (a check, cross or three dots), a resurrection mark, a gold crown for the leader and a small diamond for assistants.

The ready check and resurrection marks show big in the middle of the tile, and the missing-health text steps aside while they do. The ready check marks are drawn in the theme colors.

Settings: Raid frames
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Main tank frames Next release

In a raid, the main tanks and assists as small tiles at the top left, with what each is targeting.

In a raid, the players marked main tank or main assist get small tiles at the top left, with health in their class color and what each one is targeting beside it. Click one to target them.

They sit beside the raid tools. Move them with /vg unlock, or turn them off under Modules.

Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page and the addon's own feature list.

Raid tools Next release

For the leader and assistants: ready check, pull timer, role check, target icons and world markers.

For the group's leader and assistants: a ready check, a 10-second pull timer (right-click cancels it), a role check, a button that turns your party into a raid, the eight raid target icons and the eight world markers.

Click a raid target icon to mark your target; the last button clears it. Click a world marker to place or remove it and right-click to clear it; the last button clears them all. The bar shows and hides out of combat.

Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page and the addon's own feature list.

Click casting In v0.3.0

Cast on a frame with a click or a hover key.

Set it up without typing a spell: a grid of mouse buttons and Shift, Ctrl and Alt, filled from your own spellbook or with one click from a starter layout for your class. Add hover keys, try a binding on a sample tile without casting, and share your bindings as a string.

Spells bind by name, so one you haven't learned yet starts working the day you learn it, and left click stays Target and middle click the unit menu. A spell with ranks binds at its highest rank unless you open its ranks and pick one; the cell then says "Flash Heal (Rank 3)". Bindings are per character and spec, and changes apply at once, or when the fight ends if you're in one. Where your client has its own click casting, a switch at the bottom of the page (off by default) uses the game's bindings instead.

Command: /vg binds this spec's click-casting and hover-key bindings (set them in /vg > Click casting)
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Boss mod docks Next release

Two spots you can move for boss mods' timer bars; /vg dock lines up Deadly Boss Mods' bars with them.

Two spots for boss mods' timer bars: the normal bars right of center above the action bars, and the big bars a timer moves to as it runs out, top center. In unlock mode they show as handles, so you move them with the rest of your layout.

/vg dock lines Deadly Boss Mods' bars up with them through DBM's own settings. For BigWigs, chat says where the spots are so you can drag its anchors there. Nothing moves on its own, and nothing moves in combat.

Command: /vg dock line up Deadly Boss Mods' bars with the Boss timers spots (move those with unlock); for BigWigs, where to drag its bars
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Action bars

Action bars In v0.3.0

Eight bars with their own size, layout and visibility.

Eight bars, each with its own number of buttons, buttons per row, button size and visibility: always, on mouseover, in combat, or hidden (a hidden bar's keys still work). Empty slots stay out of sight until you drag a spell or item.

The bottom bars stack with bar 1 on top, and a bar with bigger buttons or more rows pushes the ones above it up. In keybind mode (/vg keybind), hover a button and press a key to bind it; it works out of combat only. The right-edge bars (4 and 5) start off, and show on mouseover once you turn them on. With the Masque addon installed, Masque skins the buttons instead.

Settings: Action bars
Command: /vg keybind keybind mode: hover an action button and press a key to bind it; Escape leaves
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Pet, stance and extra buttons In v0.3.0

Restyles the game's special buttons, places the pet and stance bars, and adds the vehicle exit.

Restyled pet, stance and extra action buttons that keep the game's active-stance, attack-flash and auto-cast marks, plus a vehicle exit button. The pet and stance bars get spots of their own at the bottom left, above the chat.

They get their own spots because the game's spot for them lies over the bar stack. Move them with /vg unlock, or turn that off under Action bars to leave them to the game's Edit Mode, where your client has it.

Settings: Action bars
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

XP and reputation In v0.3.0

Thin experience and reputation bars.

Thin experience and reputation bars under the action bars. The game's own XP bar is hidden while Vanguard's shows.

Hover a bar to see its numbers: your level, XP and rested XP, or the watched faction's name and progress. The XP bar shows rested XP as a lighter strip and hides at the level cap; the reputation bar takes its standing's color and shows only while you watch a faction. They're always shown unless you pick another visibility (On mouseover, In combat, Hidden or the action bars' row of conditions), one setting for both.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Map and HUD

Minimap In v0.3.0

A square minimap with the zone and coordinates.

A square minimap with brass diamonds on its corners. Tracking, mail, dungeon difficulty and the group finder eye move onto its corners.

The addon compartment moves onto a corner too, and the expansion button, which has nothing to show in vanilla content, is put away. The game's emptied minimap frame at the top right stops taking mouse clicks. The brass corner diamonds take your accent color.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Waypoints Next release

/way puts a waypoint on the map for the game's arrow; your and the cursor's coordinates on the world map.

Type /way with coordinates, such as /way 45.2 61.8, to put a waypoint on the map you're on, and the game's own navigation arrow points to it. While the world map is open, a line along its bottom shows your coordinates and the cursor's.

Name a zone and a title too, as in /way Elwynn Forest 42 65 Inn, and /way clear removes the waypoint. If another addon such as TomTom already has /way, use /vg way instead. Both are on by default, under Bars, map, chat.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg way a waypoint on the map that the game's arrow points to (a zone by name, or #<map id>); way clear removes it
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Broker strip Next release

Other addons' data feeds (LibDataBroker) along the top edge, the ones you pick.

Other addons' data feeds, the kind Titan Panel shows (gold trackers, durability, guild counts and so on), in a thin strip along the top edge of the screen. Pick up to four.

Each feed shows its icon and text, its own tooltip on hover, and takes your clicks. Pick the feeds under Bars, map, chat → Data from other addons, and move the strip with /vg unlock. The addons that share feeds bring what the strip needs, so with none of them installed it stays hidden.

Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page and the addon's own feature list.

Info strip Next release

Durability, bag slots, fps, gold, ammo or soul shards and the time, under the minimap, your XP and gold per hour while you level, and your DPS and its place if you like.

Durability, free bag slots, frame rate and latency, gold, ammo or soul shards, and the time. While you level, a row adds your XP and gold per hour and the time to your next level. A fourth row can show your DPS in the last fight (off until you turn it on). Each part can be turned off.

Durability turns orange at 25% or less and red at 10% or less; ammo shows for hunters, warriors and rogues, and soul shards for warlocks. The leveling row waits a minute for the numbers to settle, and the XP figures hide at the level cap. In a group, the fourth row can also show your place in the last fight's DPS ("#2 of 5"), also off until you turn it on. The strip is always shown unless you pick another visibility for it, like On mouseover or In combat.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Menu and quest tracker Next release

The game's bag and menu buttons on framed slots in one corner bar, and the quest tracker under the info strip.

The game's bag and menu buttons share one bar in the bottom-right corner, each on its own framed slot, with a thin bar showing how full each bag is. The game's double XP bar, durability figure and clock are hidden while Vanguard shows its own.

The bags sit in a row centered over the menu buttons, with the key ring too where your client has one. A bag's bar turns red when it's full (a soul bag or quiver counts only its own slots), and the backpack shows how many slots your bags have free. Vanguard's line icons can stand in for the game's menu icons; they're off until you switch them on. The bar is always shown, or you can pick On mouseover, Auto-hide after 10 s, In combat or Hidden under Bars, map, chat.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Minimap drawer Next release

Other addons' minimap buttons gathered into a drawer beside the map.

Other addons' round minimap buttons are gathered into a drawer beside the map. The small "..." button on the map's left edge opens it.

The "..." button only shows once there's a button to gather. Click "..." again to close the drawer. Buttons that other addons make late are gathered too: the drawer looks again a few seconds after you log in.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Chat

Chat In v0.3.0

Themed chat windows and tabs.

Vanguard's skin on the chat, which starts in a spot at the bottom left under the frames. Chat has its own Small, Medium or Large text size on top of Vanguard's text size.

Chat is sized once in its spot; after you move it with /vg unlock, the game's own layout and your resizing are left alone. You can switch the spot off under Bars, map, chat. If you prefer, chat keeps the game's own chat size instead. /vg status shows how many pixels tall chat text draws on your screen.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Chat extras Next release

Clickable web links in chat, and a Copy button for the recent chat.

Web addresses in chat become links you can click to copy. A Copy button over the chat (or /vg copy) opens the recent chat as plain text. Optional short channel names, and Ctrl + mouse wheel jumps to the top or bottom of a chat window.

Short channel names are off until you switch them on: [2. Trade - City] shows as [T] and [Guild] as [G], and clicking the short tag still opens the channel. The game's own chat timestamps and class-colored names can be set from /vg too, under Bars, map, chat → Chat. Chat the game hides from addons in instances is left untouched, never shortened, and left out of the copy.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg copy the recent chat as plain text, ready to copy
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Chat watch Next release

A sound and a toast when a phrase you watch for is said in chat; click to whisper.

Add phrases (for example "LFM") and pick the channels to watch. When someone says one, the whisper sound plays and a small toast shows who said it; click it to whisper them. Your own lines never ring.

Add phrases under Bars, map, chat → Chat watch or with /vg watch add LFM; numbered channels such as Trade and LFG, and yell, are watched by default. A match ignores case and works on item links too; the toast stays for 8 seconds, and right-click dismisses it. There's one alert per sender and phrase every 30 seconds, for up to 20 phrases of 40 characters. In dungeons, raids and encounters, where the game hides chat from addons, nothing matches.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg watch Chat watch: phrases that ring a sound and show a toast when said in chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Items and money

Bags In v0.3.0

One combined bag, in sections by kind of item, with a Sort button.

One combined bag, with a Sort button, items bordered in their quality color, and sections for quest items, equipment, consumables, trade goods, other, junk and empty slots. The bank gets the same look.

The combined bag is switched on once, not at every login, and given back when you switch the module off. Sort sits beside the search box where the game can sort bags, and search dimming is kept. In combat the bag keeps its layout and catches up when combat ends. One switch under Bars, map, chat gives back the plain grid at once.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Merchant helpers Next release

Repair, sell gray items, and a quieter error line.

Repairs with your own gold and sells your gray items. The error line drops what the action bar already shows (ability not ready, not enough rage or energy, no target). Each part can be turned off.

Selling is tried again a few times, since the server limits how fast items sell. Errors you can act on stay, shown by the game's own error line.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Errands Next release

Train all at a trainer, keep items stocked from merchants, and time your flights.

A Train all button on the trainer's window learns everything you can afford in one click. Keep stocked tops up items you name from merchants who sell them, while you can pay. The flight timer counts down to landing on routes you've flown before.

Train all says what it cost, and buying and training stop in combat. Type /vg stock, shift-click an item and add a number (say 20) to keep that many in your bags; ammo comes 200 at a time. The flight timer's bar can be moved. Each has a switch under Bars, map, chat.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg stock items to keep in your bags; a merchant tops them up (0 removes, clear empties)
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Inventory Next release

Remembers your characters' bags and bank; item tooltips say who else has the item.

Vanguard remembers what each of your characters on a realm and side carries and keeps in the bank, and an item's tooltip lists who else has it under the count of your own.

Each character gets one line, with the name in their class color and a count such as "5 (bank 3)", up to six, then "+N more" and the total. The bank is read only while it's open, so each character's bank is as it was on their last visit. /vg inventory lists the characters remembered, and /vg inventory forget or /vg inventory clear drops one or all of them. While the Forever beta loses saved settings between sessions, other characters won't be remembered from one session to the next.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg inventory your characters remembered here and when their bags were read; forget drops one, clear forgets them all
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Gear upgrades Next release

Compares gear with what you wear by stat weights for your class and role: a tooltip line, and arrows in the bag and on quest rewards.

An item's tooltip says how it compares with what you wear, such as "Upgrade +12%", an arrow marks upgrades in the combined bag, and another marks quest rewards that are upgrades. Items are scored by stat weights for your class and role.

Rings and trinkets compare with the weaker of the two you wear, a two-hander with both hands, and an empty slot is always an upgrade; gear you can't wear is left alone. The default weights are a starting point for Forever's vanilla-style stats, not simulated values. /vg weights shows the weights in use, /vg weights set changes one, and export and import share them as a string; each profile keeps its own.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg weights the stat weights gear upgrades use for your class and role; change one, go back to the defaults, or share them
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Vendor memory Next release

Remembers what each merchant sells; tooltips and the stock list say where to buy.

Once you've visited a merchant, item tooltips say who sells an item and where, for example "Sold by Thomas Miller (Elwynn Forest, Goldshire)", with "limited stock" when they carry only a few. It's remembered for every character on the account.

Up to three merchants show per item, the one you saw last first. The Keep stocked list (/vg stock) says where to buy each item too. /vg vendors says how many merchants are remembered, and /vg vendors clear forgets them.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg vendors how many merchants Vanguard remembers (for tooltips and the stock list); clear forgets them
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Auction helper Next release

Shopping lists, a sell card that suggests an undercut and posts, prices in tooltips from your scans, and an undercut check on your auctions.

A panel beside the auction house window. Shop: shopping lists searched one item at a time. Sell: suggests a price just under the cheapest and posts. Your auctions: marks the ones someone undercut, each with a Cancel button. Scan: prices from your scans in item tooltips. It only posts or cancels when you click; buying stays in the game's own window.

Up to 20 shopping lists of 50 items are kept for the account, and a list is searched at most one item a second, well under the game's limit. The asking price is 1 silver under the cheapest (or 1 copper, 1 %, or the same price), or under your 7-day low when nothing is up. A full scan is allowed once every 15 minutes, the game's own limit, and after one, item tooltips everywhere show the price, like "AH: 1s 0c · market 1s 50c (today)". Prices are kept per realm and faction, since each has its own auction house, with each day's low, units up and market value for 30 days.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg ah shopping lists (pick or make one, add an item: a link, an ID or a name; rename, copy, delete, export or import the list in use; recent: the last 20 items searched); scan the auction house (while it's open); forget the prices
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Quests

Quest dialog Next release

Talking to quest givers in Vanguard's own dialog: numbered lines, reward cards, keys 1-9 and Space.

Talking to a quest giver opens Vanguard's own dialog instead of the game's quest and gossip windows: the NPC's portrait and name, the text, numbered lines, reward cards and the money and XP you'll get. Press a number to pick, Space for the main button and Escape to say goodbye.

It sits just above the frames around your character, clear of the cast bars, and can be moved with /vg unlock. Long text scrolls with the mouse wheel once the dialog reaches its greatest height. Hiding the whole UI with Alt-Z hides the dialog with it and keeps the conversation open. Switch it off under /vg → Quests to get the game's windows back.

Settings: Quests
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Quest tracker Next release

Your watched quests under the info strip: levels in difficulty colors, objectives, quest items, nearest first if you like.

Each quest you watch, with its level in its difficulty color, its objectives (green when done) or "Ready to turn in", and its quest item as a button beside it. Left-click a quest to open it, right-click to stop watching it, and order it as the game does or nearest first.

A quest item's button shows its cooldown, and a red tint while the target is out of range. In combat the counts and text keep updating, and the item buttons take their new places when combat ends. With Questie loaded, Questie's own tracker shows instead and Vanguard's stays out of the way, so there are never two; With Questie loaded, under Quests, picks Vanguard's instead. The game's tracker is hidden while it shows; switch it off to get the game's back, in Vanguard's look.

Settings: Quests
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Quest log Next release

Your quests by zone, each quest's text, objectives and rewards, with Track, Share, Abandon and Map.

Your quests under their zones (click a zone to fold it), with the chosen quest's text, objectives and rewards, and Track, Share, Abandon and Map buttons. The game's quest log key and /vg quests open it.

The quest log button on the bag and menu bar opens it too, and clicking a quest in the tracker opens it here. A quest ready to turn in gets a check, and Abandon goes through the game's own confirmation. A long list and a long quest text scroll with the mouse wheel. Switch it off under /vg → Quests to keep the game's.

Settings: Quests
Command: /vg quests open or close Vanguard's quest log (the game's quest log key does too)
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Quest automation Next release Off until you switch it on

Accept, turn in, pick the best-selling reward, skip chatter; each off until switched on.

Accept quests, turn in finished ones and skip the chatter when an NPC has just one quest for you. It never picks a reward for you unless you also switch on taking the one that sells for most. Hold Shift while talking to skip it.

Each part is off until you switch it on, under /vg → Quests. Each says in chat what it did.

Settings: Quests
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Comfort and more

AFK screen Next release

While you're away, the screen dims to a card with your character, zone, time away and XP.

While you're away, the screen dims to a card with your name in your class color, your level and class, the zone, how long you've been away, the time and your XP bar. Moving or a fight brings everything back.

It shows when you type /afk or the game marks you idle. A click or a key puts it away until you're next away. It only shows out of combat and never hides the game's own frames.

Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page and the addon's own feature list.

Auto-accept Next release Off until you switch it on

Accept summons and resurrections, decline duels, loot faster (each off until you switch it on).

Accept summons (out of combat), accept resurrections, decline duel requests, and loot faster. Each one is off until you switch it on, and the first three say in chat what they did.

Turn each one on under Bars, map, chat. Accepting a resurrection closes the game's prompt, whichever kind it was. Faster auto-loot works while the game is auto-looting and takes every slot at once; an item still being rolled for stays in the loot window, and a bind-on-pickup item still asks first.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Game alerts Next release

Loss of control and the talking head in the Vanguard look, each in a spot you can move; Hardcore death notices restyled; a rare nearby announced if you like.

Loss of control and the talking head on flat panels (or the talking head hidden). On a Hardcore realm, death notices take the theme's font and red. If you like, a rare that shows up on your minimap is announced once, out of combat.

Loss of control (stunned, feared...) shows a little above your character and the talking head at the top center; hiding the talking head is your choice under Bars, map, chat. The rare announcement is off until you switch it on under Bars, map, chat; it plays the raid warning sound with one chat line, out of combat and once per rare.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Instance prep Next release

A checklist of what's low (ammo, reagents, food, bandages, potions, your stock list) when you enter an instance or a ready check starts.

Stepping into a dungeon or raid, a card lists what you're short of: ammo, soul shards, your class's reagents, food and drink, bandages, potions, worn gear and your stocked items. A ready check or /vg prep always shows it, saying "Everything's packed." when nothing is short.

Each item you're short of gets a red mark and "have / want", and the reagents are your class's for your level. With nothing short it stays away. The card fades after 20 s or on its close button, never checks in combat, and moves with /vg unlock. /vg prep want food 30 sets how many to carry.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg prep the Instance prep card now: what you're short of; want sets how many food, bandages, potions, ammo or shards
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

The game's tools Next release

The game's Cooldown Manager and damage meter, restyled and placed to fit the layout.

The game's Cooldown Manager gets square icons and the theme's font, with its rows between the player and target frames. The game's damage meter gets a flat panel above the bag and menu bar.

Turn the Cooldown Manager on in the game's Options (Gameplay Enhancements), or with Vanguard's switch "Show the game's Cooldown Manager" under Bars, map, chat. With the damage meter there, the tooltip corner moves just above it. Move them with /vg unlock; where your client has Edit Mode, Vanguard stands aside while it's open, and one switch leaves placing them to Edit Mode.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Fight history Next release Off until you switch it on

Your DPS and place in each fight this session, as a strip of bars under the damage meter (off until switched on).

A row of bars under the damage meter, one per fight, as tall as its share of your best. Hover it for each fight's length, your DPS and your place in a group; /vg fights prints the same. Fights are forgotten when you log out.

Turn it on under Bars, map, chat. The latest fight is in your accent color, and a fight whose figure the game kept hidden leaves an empty slot. Fights are kept even while the strip is off, and it has its own visibility and moves with /vg unlock.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Command: /vg fights your DPS, length and place in each fight this session, newest first
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Game windows Next release

Character, merchant, quest, loot and other game windows, popups and the breath bar in the Vanguard look.

Character, merchant, mail, trade, loot and roll windows, the game menu, the ready check, popups, the spellbook, the breath bar and more get a flat Vanguard panel, title and buttons, and so do the windows that load later, like the auction house and professions.

Friends, the dressing room, the flight map, books and letters get the same look, with pages in light text on the dark panel. The quest and gossip windows get it only when Vanguard's quest dialog is switched off. The character pane shows each worn item's durability on its slot, colored like the info strip's. Their own layout and buttons stay as the game has them.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Tooltips In v0.3.0

Themed tooltips in a movable corner.

Themed tooltips with class colors and a target line. Item tooltips show what the stack sells for and how many you have in your bags and bank, with an optional item ID line.

Vanguard's text size slider (under General, 70% to 130%) sizes tooltip text too. The sell price is left out where the game already shows a price.

Settings: Bars, map, chat
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Nameplates In v0.3.0

Flat plates with levels, your debuffs, casts and threat.

Class, reaction and threat colors, the name in outlined text with the level, your debuffs with timers and your crowd control, casts, the raid icon, an accent border and diamond on your target, and a gold "!" by units your quests need.

The level is colored by how hard the unit is for you, and your target also gets a 2-pixel accent glow. The quest "!" shows only when the game says so plainly, and a switch turns it off. A plate first drawn during a fight uses Vanguard's own icons, and switches to the game's when the fight ends.

Settings: Nameplates
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its options and the addon's own feature list.

Situations Next release

Different frame spots and settings for solo, party, raid, PvP, instance and resting, applied out of combat.

Record a different layout and settings for raids, PvP, instances or resting: pick what to record for, move frames and change settings, then save. They apply out of combat as you move between them, and leaving puts your own layout back.

One situation holds at a time: the first of PvP, Instance, Raid, Party, Resting and Solo. /vg situation record raid starts recording, and /vg situation stop saves it. Only what you changed is kept, and only frames' spot, scale and opacity, the info strip, menu bar and XP bar visibility, the info strip's parts and the nameplates' levels, threat colors, target border and quest marks can be recorded. Your profile is always saved and exported with your own values, and profiles carry their situations.

Command: /vg situation Situations: record a layout and settings for solo, party, raid, pvp, instance or resting
Turn it off: /vg → Modules, then reload

Source: Vanguard's own Modules page, its commands and the addon's own feature list.

Screenshot comingraid frames and the options window