# World of Warcraft Quest Atlas > An interactive visualization of World of Warcraft quests in three independent worlds: Retail, from the original game to Midnight; Mists of Pandaria Classic, through level 90; and WoW Forever, through level 60. An independent fan project by Kirell Benzi Studio, version 1.0. The Atlas is a set of views to explore, not a quest database or a leveling guide. It publishes no quest lists or data files. ## Views - Home: https://kirellbenzi.com/experiment/wow-quest-atlas/ — the Atlas and its two ways in. - Compass: https://kirellbenzi.com/experiment/wow-quest-atlas/compass/ — quests on one dial. Zones sit round the rim in the direction they lie on the game's map. Retail has twelve rings, the original game and eleven expansions through Midnight. Mists of Pandaria Classic has five expansion rings and its own recorded quest levels, 1 to 90. WoW Forever runs outward by level, 1 to 60. The rings lift into a 3D armillary sphere. Nodes can be coloured by faction or level in all three worlds. - Journey: https://kirellbenzi.com/experiment/wow-quest-atlas/journey/ — zones as streams: by expansion in Retail; by recorded level, 1 to 90, in MoP Classic; and by level, 1 to 60, in WoW Forever. Alliance lies above and Horde below. Plan a leveling route through the streams; a map traces it, and the route can be shared as a link. - Data: https://kirellbenzi.com/experiment/wow-quest-atlas/data/ — switch between Retail, Classic and Forever counts, charts and source coverage. Classic has its own level and faction profile. Retail and Forever include quest-chain stories and classification coverage; Classic has no inherited theme classifications. Every source has its pinned provenance and licence. ## Links into the views The views open where a link points. `world` is `retail`, `classic` or `forever`. Classic means the independent Mists of Pandaria Classic dataset, not the original-game ring inside Retail. - A world: `?world=retail`, `?world=classic` or `?world=forever` - A zone drawn out on the Compass: `compass/?world=&zone=`. Retail links also retain `&ring=` so a shared zone name returns to its selected expansion. - The Compass in 3D: `compass/?view=3d` - A selected quest: `?world=&quest=`, where the index belongs to that world's own Atlas list, not the game's quest ID. Retail selects and lights the chain in its quest list. Classic and Forever open details only when genuine objective or story text is available. The views write these links when a quest is shared. - A leveling route on the Journey: `journey/?world=#path=…`, written by the Journey's "Copy link" ## In numbers - Today's World of Warcraft: 34,342 current quests at patch 12.1.7, counting the ones a player can see, across Classic (2004) and eleven expansions, from The Burning Crusade (2007) to Midnight (2026). - Mists of Pandaria Classic: 10,906 starter-backed quests, 9,960 with map positions, across five expansion rings through level 90. The pinned QuestieDB Mists build covers all MoP phases; availability for an individual character is not evaluated. This is an independent dataset, not Retail levels rescaled or Forever quests reused. - Today's quests by the expansion that added them: Classic 610, The Burning Crusade 1,698, Wrath of the Lich King 2,044, Cataclysm 4,846, Mists of Pandaria 1,765, Warlords of Draenor 2,145, Legion 4,467, Battle for Azeroth 4,999, Shadowlands 3,299, Dragonflight 3,673, The War Within 2,731, Midnight 1,990 (so far); 75 have no known expansion. - Battle for Azeroth added the most still in the game (4,999), then Cataclysm (4,846) and Legion (4,467); only 610 still date from the original game. Midnight has added 1,990 so far, The War Within 2,731 and Dragonflight 3,673. - Zones: today's quests sit in 145 zones and cities across 17 lands, from the Eastern Kingdoms to Quel'Thalas; WoW Forever has 46 zones. - The longest quest chain in today's game starts with Fear to Tread, in Shadowlands: 95 quests in a row, 604 in all, across 10 zones. In WoW Forever, Welcome to Shen'dar Village runs 30 in a row. - WoW Forever: 5,232 quests in QuestieDB's Forever build of 2 November 2026: 4,244 carried over from Classic and 988 new. World of Warcraft: Forever is Blizzard's own game, launched on 4 November 2026; the count grows as the community database fills in. - WoW Forever's 2,298 characters: 1,500 of them give quests; the busiest, Owen Thadd in Undercity, gives 36. - Of the 4,244 Classic quests WoW Forever keeps, 3,166 are gone from today's game: Cataclysm remade the old world. - A language model read every WoW Forever quest for its themes: 35 kinds of story; most are about craft, war and honour, the fewest about love. - Counts depend on definitions: the wikis' "more than 34,000" or "40,000" include hidden, removed or never-released quests that these leave out. ## Sources and licences Open community data, each source fixed to one version: - AllTheThings 5.4.6 (MIT): today's quests, expansions, zones, sides. - TrinityCore TDB1210.26091 (GPL-2.0 or later): who gives today's quests, and their chains. - QuestieDB v1.0.10, Forever build (GPLv3 terms, per its licence statement): WoW Forever's quests, chains and characters. - QuestieDB v1.0.10, Mists build, with the pinned Questie MoP availability policy and native MoP map tables: Classic's independent quests, original levels, objectives and geography. Character-specific availability is not evaluated. - AzerothCore (GPL-2.0): the quest texts in the views' quest card. - Fonts: STIX Two Text and DM Sans (SIL Open Font License). ## Fan project WoW Quest Atlas is an independent fan visualization. It is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft, and its names, characters and places, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Quest texts and names belong to their owners. ## Made by Kirell Benzi Studio, a creative technology studio for interactive installations, data art and data visualization: https://kirellbenzi.com