Purity Challenge AddOn for World of Warcraft: Classic Era

Purity is a hardcore challenge addon for World of Warcraft: Classic Era that allows players to opt into strict, class-specific and global challenges. These challenges are designed to be completed from level 1 to 60, testing your knowledge of the game and forcing you to play in new and interesting ways.

The addon is lightweight, modular, and designed to provide a verifiable path for proving your accomplishment.

Links

• Download on CurseForge
• Join our Discord Community
• Official Purity Challenge Leaderboard & Verification Website

Features

• Global & Class-Specific Challenges: Unique, thematic challenges available to all players, plus specific vows for all nine original classes.
• Live Player Roster: See other Purity players on your server, their class, level, and current challenge status in real-time. The roster automatically refreshes when you view it.
• Specialization Paths: Many challenges require you to choose a specific sub-path, further restricting gameplay and offering diverse experiences.
• Real-Time Violation Monitoring: The addon actively monitors your actions, talents, and spells to ensure the rules are being followed. A single violation fails the challenge permanently for that character.
• In-Game Status UI: Use /purity status to view your current standing, uptime, and other important information.
• Web-Based Verification System: Upon challenge completion, a unique verification code is generated. Post this code on our official Verification Website to have your run automatically verified and posted to the public leaderboard.
• Extensible Design: The addon is built to be expanded with new class and global modules.

How to Use

The addon will automatically present the challenge selection screen to you at level 1. If you decline, you can use the /purity slash commands to interact with the UI.

• /purity : Shows a summary of your current challenge status in the chat window.
• /purity status : Opens the main interface to the Status tab.
• /purity rules : Opens the main interface to the Rules tab.
• /purity roster : Opens the Roster tab and automatically refreshes the list of online players.
• /purity verify : Opens the verification window with your completion code.

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Global Challenges

The Ascetic's Path

A challenge of self-denial where you must limit your reliance on material possessions by choosing one of three paths.

• Path of Humility (EASY): Only items of Common (white) quality or lower may be equipped.
• Path of Endurance (MEDIUM): No armor may be worn. Weapons and shields are permitted.
• Path of the Unburdened (HARD): No items may be equipped whatsoever.

Fisherman's Folly

The devoted angler. You have forsaken all worldly possessions in pursuit of the perfect catch.

• Key Prohibition: You may ONLY equip items that you have personally fished from the water (vendor-purchased fishing poles are an exception).

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Class-Specific Challenges

Druid

• Pact of Purity: The Avenger of Nature

  • Description: Forsake the celestial balance of the moon, relying only on feral instincts and restorative powers.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not kill any creature of the 'Beast' type.
    • After level 10, you may not use any Balance spells.
    • You may not equip any Leather armor.

• Astrolabe of Purity: The Celestial Weaver

  • Description: Forsake your primal connection to focus on a cosmic balance, alternating between Nature and Arcane damaging spells.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not use Bear Form or Cat Form.
    • You may not learn or use any Restoration healing spells.
    • You must alternate between Nature and Arcane damaging spells.

Hunter

• Bond of Purity: The Primal Savage

  • Description: Forsake cowardly ranged weapons and clever traps to fight in melee side-by-side with your pet.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not equip any ranged weapons or use ranged shots.
    • Your pet must be active during all combat.

• Quiver of Purity: The Lone Wolf

  • Description: Face the world on your own, relying only on marksmanship. No pets or melee weapons allowed.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not equip any melee weapons or use melee abilities.
    • You may not use a Hunter Pet or complete the Tame Beast quest.

Mage - The Tome of Purity

• Description: Choose a tome to dedicate yourself to a single school of magic, forsaking all others. This decision is permanent.
• Key Prohibition: You may ONLY use spells and talents from your chosen school of magic (Fire, Frost, or Arcane).

Paladin

• Oath of Purity: The Selfless Shield

  • Description: Forsake retribution and personal glory, vowing to never be the aggressor.
  • Criteria:
    • Do not initiate combat; enemies must strike first.
    • No learning or using Retribution spells or talents.

• Libram of Purity: The Undead Bane

  • Description: Dedicate your sacred might solely to purging the impure Undead from the world.
  • Key Prohibition: You may ONLY land the killing blow on creatures of the 'Undead' type.

Priest - The Testament of Purity

• Description: A true vessel of the Light, sworn off the corrupting whispers of the Shadow.
• Key Prohibitions:
  • No weapons or physical attacks (including wands).
  • No learning or using Shadow magic spells or talents.
  • No killing Humanoid creatures.

Rogue

• Contract of Purity: The Honorable Duelist

  • Description: Forsake the shadows and underhanded tactics. Every fight is a fair duel.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not initiate combat from Stealth.
    • You may not learn or use any Poisons.
    • You may not use "cheap shots" like Backstab, Gouge, Kidney Shot, etc.

• Foil of Purity: A master of single-blade combat

  • Description: Forsake the use of an off-hand weapon and all ranged weapons.
  • Criteria:
    • You may not equip any item in your off-hand slot.
    • You may not equip any ranged weapon.

Shaman - Communion of Purity

• Description: The Spirit Walker. Your power flows purely from your spells and maintaining active totems in combat. No weapons of any kind.
• Key Prohibitions:
  • You may NOT equip any weapons of any kind.
  • You must always maintain at least one active totem while in combat (after totems are unlocked).

Warlock - Grimoire of Purity

• Description: A crazed demonologist focused on fire, brimstone, and demons. Souls are fuel for summoning and nothing else.
• Key Prohibitions:
  • No learning or using forbidden spells (Shadow, most Curses, etc.).
  • No spending points in the Affliction talent tree.
  • Soul Shards may ONLY be used to summon or subjugate demons.
  • Healthstones and Soulstones are forbidden.

Warrior

• Brand of Purity: The Berserker

  • Description: No shields or defensive stance. All combat must be initiated with Charge.
  • Criteria:
    • You may NOT use shields or Defensive Stance.
    • After level 4, you must initiate combat with Charge.
    • After level 20, equipping two-handed weapons is forbidden.

• Bulwark of Purity: The Ardent Protector

  • Description: Forsake two-handed weapons and the Fury talent tree to become a bastion of defense.
  • Criteria:
    • You may NOT equip Two-Handed weapons at any time.
    • You may NOT allocate any talent points in the Fury talent tree.

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Installation

1. Download the latest version from CurseForge.

2. Unzip the package.

3. Copy the Purity folder into your World of Warcraft/_classic_era_/Interface/AddOns/ directory. The final structure should look like this:

   .../Interface/AddOns/
       |-- Purity/
           |-- Purity.lua
           |-- Purity_Ascetic.lua
           |-- Purity_Druid.lua
           |-- Purity_Fishing.lua
           |-- Purity_Hunter.lua
           |-- Purity_Mage.lua
           |-- Purity_Paladin.lua
           |-- Purity_Priest.lua
           |-- Purity_Rogue.lua
           |-- Purity_Shaman.lua
           |-- Purity_Warlock.lua
           |-- Purity_Warrior.lua
           |-- README.md
           |-- LICENSE
   

License

This addon is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.