Up and running in five minutes.

1. 1

   Download and install

   Grab the latest PQ-Companion-Setup-x.x.x.exe from GitHub and run it. The installer handles everything — no Go, Node, or Docker required. After install, PQ Companion auto-updates in the background.

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2. 2

   Point it at your Project Quarm folder

   On first launch, open Settings and set your Project Quarm install folder (the one containing eqgame.exe) and your character name. That's the entire setup — everything else is automatic.

3. 3

   Turn on the combat log in-game

   In Project Quarm, type /log on so the game writes your combat log to disk. The DPS meter, spell timers, NPC info overlay, and trigger engine all read from this file. No log = no live data.

4. 4

   (Recommended) Install Zeal

   Zeal is a separate community project that exports your spellbook, inventory, AAs, and stats to JSON. PQ Companion uses these to power the Spell Checklist, Inventory Tracker, and Character Progression pages. The app still runs without Zeal — those features just won't have data.

5. 5

   Open the Overlay Dashboard

   From the sidebar, open Overlays. This is your one-stop dashboard — DPS, spell timers, NPC info, and trigger alerts in a single layout. Drag panels around to taste, then pop any of them out as a click-through transparent window above the game.

Where to go next

Once the dashboard is up, these are the next places worth poking around.

• Database Explorer

  Press Ctrl + K from anywhere for global search across items, spells, NPCs, and zones.

• Custom Triggers

  Open Triggers, enable a built-in pack (e.g. enchanter mez/charm breaks), or import a GINA pack as JSON.

• Character Progression

  Once Zeal has exported, head to Character for stats, gear paper-doll, AA tracking, and a per-character to-do list.

• Config Backups

  Open Backups and snapshot your .ini files before any risky UI or hotkey change.

• Roll Tracker

  Open Roll Tracker during raid loot to bucket /random results per item, with optional auto-stop timers and Highest/Lowest winner rules.

• Players

  Open Players to see every player you've spotted in /who output — class, race, guild, last zone, level history. Anonymous sightings keep what you already knew about each player.

• Spellsets

  If Zeal is installed, open Spellsets to view and rename your saved spell layouts, or import another character's spellsets from their .ini file.

• Wishlist

  Star any item from the database to add it to a per-character wishlist. The wishlist page groups entries by slot in collapsible drag-reorderable cards, plus an All Items view for cross-slot prioritising.

• Keys & Keyring

  Open Keys for a live per-character /keys snapshot plus a quest-based component checklist for VP, Sebilis, Howling Stones, Arx Seru, Sleeper's Tomb, Vex Thal, and more.

• Lockouts

  Run /sll in-game, then open Lockouts for live per-character countdowns on loot and legacy lockouts — so you know when an instance or flag is available again.

• CH Chain & Metronome

  Raiding with a Complete Heal chain? Toggle the CH Chain and CH Metronome panels in Overlays to track the rotation live from heal callouts — cast-to-land bars, measured cadence, and a stall warning before it breaks.

• Loot Tracker

  Open Loot for a running list of drops as they land. Click any drop to open the item's database entry, or jump straight to the source zone.

• Chat History

  Open Chat for a searchable, multi-channel log of your tells laid out as conversation threads, with per-character tabs.

• Move to a new PC

  Under Settings → Backups, use App Backup & Restore to export your entire setup (settings, triggers, characters) to a single .pqcb bundle. Import on another machine to land exactly where you left off.