Level Time & Level Time Goals

Level Time is a World of Warcraft addon that shows how your leveling is really going: play time, XP per hour, kills, deaths, quests and gold for your current level, your current session and the instance you are in, with a history for all of your characters. I build it as “Nerzal” in game and as an open-source project on GitHub. The companion addon Level Time Goals turns goals into cards on your screen. Both are free on CurseForge.

Download: Level Time on CurseForge · Level Time Goals on CurseForge · Source on GitHub

Who is Level Time for?

  • Levelers who want to know their real XP per hour, time to the next level and which zones or activities pay off.
  • Speedrunners who want LiveSplit-style splits, gold splits, a personal-best comparison and a LiveSplit export.
  • Streamers who need an overlay-friendly display, a chroma-key background for OBS, hidden names and on-screen goals.

The live window

A small, movable window shows one scope at a time: the current level, the session or the instance. Play time is synced to the server’s /played, so it is correct even if you install the addon mid-level. Every row can be switched on or off, and there are seven layouts: table, info bar, compact, text only, clock, XP bar and tiles.

Level Time tiles layout showing leveling stats as a grid

The tiles layout.

Level Time compact layout with play time, XP bar and a few values

The compact layout: time, XP bar and up to three values you choose.

Level Time text-only layout without background

Text only: no background, outlined, made for streaming overlays.

Level Time info bar layout as a single horizontal line

The info bar shows everything in one line.

Level Time slim XP bar

A slim XP bar, with text always, on hover or never.

Hover the XP bar for exact numbers: current and required XP, XP missing, rested XP and the XP of quests you can turn in.

Level Time XP bar tooltip with exact XP numbers

The XP bar tooltip.

There are also themes, fonts, bar textures, visibility rules (for example hidden in combat or at max level) and an edit mode (/lt edit) to place every display with grid and snapping.

History and charts

Open the history with /lt history or Shift-click on the minimap button. It lists levels, sessions, kills, deaths with cause, quests, loot, instances, zones, reputation and money for every character, and shows charts such as time and XP/h per level, kills per day, death causes and a heatmap of when you play. Personal records, a character comparison and CSV export are included.

Speedrun splits

For leveling runs there is a LiveSplit-style split list with gold splits, a comparison against your personal best or your other characters, a forecast for the next bracket and speedrun.com records shipped as a snapshot. You can set your own splits, import and share runs, and export to LiveSplit as .lss.

Timers, alerts and reminders

Level Time can count down eating (Well Fed), campfire and sleeping bag rest, and show flight times. Alerts and reminders cover rare and elite kills, epic loot, missing food or class buffs, full bags, low durability and break reminders. Most of these are off by default; the timers for campfire and sleeping bag exist on WoW Forever only.

Level Time timers shown on screen

On-screen timers.

Level Time campfire countdown

Campfire countdown (WoW Forever).

Level Time eating timer countdown until Well Fed

Eating countdown until Well Fed.

Level Time sleeping bag rest countdown

Sleeping bag rest countdown (WoW Forever).

Level Time hint card reminding about a missing buff

Hints and reminders appear as cards.

Comfort features

Inspired by Leatrix Plus, but with their own code and all off by default: automation (repair, sell junk, quest handling), social and chat options, interface tweaks, hiding Blizzard frames, flight times and counters for Need, Greed and Pass on loot rolls. Every change to game settings is reversible: turning a feature off restores your previous value.

Level Time loot roll counters next to the roll frames

Loot roll counters.

Built for streaming

Stream mode (/lt stream) turns on big alerts and hides names in one step. A chroma-key background helps with OBS, and a session recap card (/lt recap) summarizes time, levels, XP, kills and deaths.

Level Time Goals

Level Time Goals lets you set goals for your stream and shows them as cards on screen, so viewers see what you are working on and how far along you are. A big alert appears when a goal is reached. It needs Level Time, so install both.

Level Time Goals logo

Goal types include reaching a level, kills, loot, gold, quests, professions, exploration, bosses, reputation, battleground wins, rules that can fail (such as no death), checklists and free text. Goals can have deadlines, daily or weekly repeats, rewards and points. You can also play bingo with 3x3 or 5x5 cards whose fields tick themselves, or let a wheel of fortune pick your next goal. Type /sg to start.

Level Time Goals bingo card

A goal bingo card.

Supported game versions

One download works on Retail, Classic Era, TBC Anniversary and WoW Forever. Features a game version cannot provide stay off quietly. Retail and WoW Forever hide some values from addons, so a few features, such as near-death tracking, are not available there. The interface is available in English, German, French and Spanish.

Download and install

  1. Install with the CurseForge app or download from Level Time and, for goals, Level Time Goals.
  2. For a manual install, extract the folders into the Interface/AddOns directory of your game version. On Windows that is inside your World of Warcraft folder, for example _retail_\Interface\AddOns; under Wine or Linux it is the same path inside your WoW prefix.
  3. Log in and type /lt for the settings or /lt help for commands.

Bugs and ideas are welcome as GitHub issues.

How it’s built

Level Time is a Lua addon with Go tooling around it. The four-part series explains the engineering:

  1. Addon architecture
  2. Testing Lua with Go
  3. The release pipeline
  4. Goals and the public API