A golden guide arrow ( ) will appear on the edge of the minimap pointing in the direction of your target. Guard directions: When you talk to a guard and ask for directions, the location will be marked on the minimap.For travel quests the arrow can be misleading, since it may point to the final destination, not to the location where you're meant board the ship, zeppelin, rocket, etc. Quest bosses appear as a yellow dot within, or at least somewhere in the vicinity of the circle if there is no yellow dot it usually means the boss hasn't spawned yet. If the objective is a specific location then it is usually shown as a blue circle. When the objective occurs over a large area, as for an item collection quest, the area is given a blue outline. Quest objectives: If you currently have objectives for a quest you're tracking then a large golden arrow ( ) will appear along the edge pointing you on where to go.Quest givers for low level (aka trivial) quests may be shown with light colored exclamation marks. Repeatable/daily quest giver NPCs show up as a blue mark ( or ) instead of gold. Quest givers: Quest NPCs will show up on the minimap as gold exclamation marks ( ), or as a question mark ( ) when you have a completed quest to turn in to them, and the tooltip will give the NPC name when you mouse over it.

Your Graveyard: If you die, but don't press the 'Release Spirit' button, there will be a golden arrow ( ) pointing towards the nearest available Graveyard.Your corpse ( ): If you die, your corpse will appear and a small tombstone on the minimap and a large red arrow ( ) on the edge of the minimap circle will point to it if it is out of view.Arrows ( ) on the edge of the minimap circle will point to raid members out of view. Raid members: If your character is in a raid, any raid members, not directly in your party, will appear as a fully colored blip with a black dot in the middle.Arrows ( ) on the edge of the minimap circle will point to party members out of view. Party members: If your character is in a party, any party members will appear on the map as colored dots (matching the color of their class).Icon colors revert to normal when you are inside the same building or cavern. While indoors or underground, the map changes to an inside view: only the inside of the building or cavern is shown. If an icon is shown in black and white it means that the location is inside a building or underground. An up or down arrow connected to the icon tells you the location is above or below you. Most of these are configurable and it may be helpful to turn some features off to avoid clutter. Rough silhouettes of buildings, or at least their roofs.Дepending on the Rotate Minimap setting, either north (N) will be at the top or the map rotates so the top represents the direction you're facing.ДЄ number of icons and arrows are displayed on the minimap to help you find your destination.Your character ( ): Your character will appear at the center as a silver arrow pointing the direction is facing.

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