Diplomancer changes your watched faction based on your current location. It includes faction associations for over 80 zones and over 120 subzones, covering all continents and game expansions. It also recognizes faction champion tabards inside level-80 dungeons.
For example, while you’re in Dalaran, you’ll watch the Kirin Tor. Fly down to Dragonblight, and your watched faction will change to the Wyrmrest Accord. At the Argent Tournament Grounds, you’ll watch The Sunreavers if you are a member of the Horde, or The Silver Covenant if you’re a member of the Alliance. Inside Utgarde Pinnacle, if you’re wearing a Tabard of the Ebon Blade, you’ll watch the Knights of the Ebon Blade. Head back to the Black Temple to finish up your Outland Raider achievement, and you'll watch the Ashtongue Deathsworn.
If you find yourself in a location without an associated faction – for example, if you’re a troll on a weekend camping trip in the lovely Redridge Mountains – Diplomancer will watch your race’s faction. If you would prefer to watch another faction instead of your race’s faction, you can choose your own default faction.
Usage
Options are available in the Interface Options window. You can type /dm or /diplomancer to open the window directly to the Diplomancer panel.
Localization
Diplomancer is compatible with and translated into English, Deutsch, and 简体中文.
If you play in a supported non-English locale, you will need to additionally download and install LibBabble-Faction-3.0, LibBabbleRace-3.0, and LibBabble-Zone-3.0 to provide the translated names of factions, races, and zones.
While the addon could theoretically run in other locales with reduced functionality, I have opted insead to disable the addon for locales without full functionality.
If you play in another locale and can provide translations for around 120 subzone names, please send me a PM on this site or on wowace.com.
If you encounter a problem with Diplomancer, please follow these three easy steps:
Check the ticket tracker to see if the problem has already been reported. If it has, please don’t create another ticket for the same problem, but feel free to add a comment to the existing ticket if you have more information to add.
Try some basic troubleshooting steps. Sometimes, you’ll be able to fix the problem yourself without having to wait for a response to your ticket, but even if you’re not, troubleshooting will still help you gather useful information to include in your report.
Submit a bug report ticket. Make sure you include enough information to identify the problem; I can’t help you if I don’t know what the problem is! At the very least, you should include the version of the addon you have installed, the text of any error messages that appear in-game, a description of the problem and any actions that trigger it, and a summary of troubleshooting steps you tried.
Remember to check on your ticket after a few days, as I may need more information from you in order to identify or fix the problem!
Credits
Diplomancer was inspired by Charnow’s SmartFactionWatch.
License
Diplomancer is free as in “free beer,” not as in “free software,” and you may not include it in your compilation, or redistribute it in any other way, without first getting permission. A formal copyright notice and the full license terms under which Diplomancer is released are available in the README file inside the addon’s folder.
Change Log - Diplomancer
3.3.0.58
Added zhTW localization
Updated zhCN localization
3.3.0.57
Added Howling Fjord - Steel Gate -> Explorers' League
Fixed external inclusion path for LibAboutPanel
3.3.0.54
Improved support for faction champion tabards
Added Borean Tundra - Kaskala -> The Kalu'ak
Added Borean Tundra - Njord's Breath Bay -> The Kalu'ak
Added Felwood - Timbermaw Hold -> Timbermaw Hold
Added Icecrown Citadel dungeons -> The Sunreavers/The Silver Covenant
Updated TOC for WoW 3.3
3.2.0.47
Add Trial of the Crusader zone
Fix issues with updating while in flight
3.1.3.46
Add Argent Tournament Grounds and related subzones
3.0.9.43
Add Eversong Woods zone
Remove Naxxramas zone (the level 80 version doesn't give rep with a specific faction)
3.0.8.42
Add deDE and zhCN translations
Add The Filthy Animal subzone for Dalaran
Add Crusaders' Pinnacle, Scourgehome, and Valley of Echoes subzones for Icecrown
3.0.3.34
Debugging, QQ!
3.0.3.33
Fixed "champion" tabard support for The Wyrmrest Accord
3.0.3.32
Added basic support for level 80 "champion" tabards
Added more Wrath data (still need Alliance help!)
Moved options to Blizzard interface options panel
3.0.3.26
Added lots of data for Wrath of the Lich King
2.4.3.20
Fixed racial faction for Blood Elves
Added option to skip factions you're already Exalted with
I don't know if you realize this, but tabards give you rep BEFORE 80 if you're in level 80 dungeons, like HoL, ToC, etc. So is there a way you can set it to show you those reps that match your tabard in a dungeon BEFORE 80? I use this method to gain rep with the factions I need before I hit the max, and with people helping carry you through, you can get a lot of runs in the regular level 80 dungeons before you ever ding.
The level 80 dungeons you can gain rep with a tabard before 80 are:
HoL
Occulus
CoS
UP
ToC
EDIT: Noticed the bug report feature after I posted this, but kept the comment just in case. L2 read ftw!
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Originally posted by Phanx If you have time, please gather a list of subzones that should be associated with the Frostborn (i.e. towns and places you do quests from the towns) and post that.
No problem. Here's my subjective list of Frostborn-associated subzones:
Frosthold
The Foot Steppes
Inventor's Library
Loken's Bargain
Mimir's Workshop
Narvir's Cradle
Nidavelir
The Plain of Echoes
Temple of Invention
Temple of Life
Temple of Order
Terrace of the Makers
Temple of Winter
These, as far as I can remember, are involved with both:
Temple of Wisdom
Terrace of the Makers
I would consider the latter list slightly more Frostborn-related because the Sons of Hodir pre-quests really just 'pass through' the areas, and they're mostly populated with iron dwarves/earthen/mechagnomes rather than frost giants/vrykul. However, my main character is only Honored with SoH, so there might be more stuff that I just haven't seen yet.
I'm a detail-oriented person, so let me know if there are other zones that you'd like an Alliance "check" of.
The entire zone is actually associated with the Sons of Hodir, but as I have no Alliance characters and as of yet no Alliance volunteers, that is currently overridden for Alliance characters to the Frostborn faction. If you have time, please gather a list of subzones that should be associated with the Frostborn (i.e. towns and places you do quests from the towns) and post that.
I have some concerns with the following sub-zones of the Storm Peaks:
Dun Niffelem
Valley of Ancient Winters
Hibernal Cavern
Frostfield Lake
Fjorn's Anvil
Thunderfall
Brunnhildar Village
Valkyrion
Currently (for Alliance) these zones are associated with the Frostborn faction. However, they are all directly related to the Sons of Hodir faction, and it seems more appropriate to associate them as such. While the latter two don't really have any quests that offer Sons of Hodir rep, they are associated with the pre-daily questline.
Other than that, a fantastic addon, and one I'm glad to have added to my interface!
I've just added basic support for rep tabards in instances at level 80. It will check for the presence of one of the four "champion" buffs when your zone or subzone change, while in an instance, if you are level 80. If these conditions are met, and such a buff is found, it will watch that faction instead of whatever faction it would otherwise watch.
Note that this has several limitations: it checks YOUR level, not the instance level, so if you're level 80 and you're helping a friend by running him through a lower-level instance, if you're wearing a rep tabard, it'll watch that faction, even though you're not actually getting rep with them in the lower-level instance. It also won't update immediately if you change your tabard, since it's not listening for inventory/bag update events; if you do change your tabard while in an instance, it'll detect that the next time your subzone changes within the instance, or if you zone out.
If you experience any problems with this feature, other than the limitations described above, please report them!
Also, I still need someone with a high-level Alliance character who can provide data about subzones that need to be associated with a faction other than the one the whole zone is associated with, for Northrend zones. If this describes you, please send me a PM!
Yea, some quests does gain double faction gains (some 3 gains, like Ratchet/Gadgetzan/Booty Bay quests), but most has only 1. So this might actually be better, since then the mod doesnt have to choose what faction of that that it has to watch
No. There are plenty of addons out there that change your watched faction to whichever faction you last gained rep with. Diplomancer's aim is slightly different, in that it changes your watched faction to the faction associated with the current zone you're in, before you gain rep with that faction. In most cases, this is the only faction you'll gain rep with from completing quests or killing mobs while in that zone.
New version up. Blood Elves should no longer encounter errors in Silvermoon City and unassigned zones. Factions you're already Exalted with can now be ignored if you prefer. Type "/dm" to access this and other options.
No worries, I don't consider those features to be essentials. Just thought that I'd throw them out there. Will look forward to the updated version with the Blood Elf fix.
