Best WoW Forever Addons: UI, Quest, Bag and Combat Picks

Why use addons in WoW Forever

Forever doesn't run on the 2019 Classic client. Warcraft Wiki's Patch 1.60.1 API changes page lists the Forever interface number as 16001 and compares the API with retail patch 12.1.5. It quotes Blizzard directly: "The addon disarmament changes introduced in Midnight, including secrets, will also be active in Forever." In Blizzard's Midnight combat philosophy post, combat data becomes a "secret value": an addon can show it to you but can't read it to decide what happens next.

In practice, an addon can still reshape your interface, your bags, your map or your chat. It can't watch a fight and act on it. WeakAuras-style combat triggers and rotation helpers are the main tools that lose out. Our Midnight addons guide explains the same rules from the retail side.

There's a second reason to be picky. Many addons appeared for Forever in a short time, and some of them may never get another update. Before you install anything, check three things on its CurseForge page: Forever is listed as a flavor, the latest file is recent, and the author has other maintained projects. Every pick below passed that check on November 10.

You can also play with no addons at all. Forever works fine without them. Most players who stay addon-free still end up wanting one or two small fixes, like bag sorting or a key for quest dialogue.

Can you edit the WoW Forever interface without addons?

Yes, for the basics. Forever ships tools that used to need an addon, and the most useful one for layout is Edit Mode, where you drag interface frames to new spots and change their size. Warcraft Wiki's Patch 1.60.1 API changes page notes that Forever saves Edit Mode layouts separately for mouse and keyboard and for gamepad, and Blizzard's beta known-issues list mentioned Edit Mode layouts too.

Built-in tool	What it covers	Source
Edit Mode	Moves and resizes interface frames; separate layouts for mouse and keyboard and for gamepad	Warcraft Wiki, Patch 1.60.1 API changes
Damage meter	Damage, healing, interrupts, dispels and deaths; turn it on under Options, then Advanced Options	Game Tyrant
Cooldown Manager	Tracks your own ability cooldowns	Blizzard's beta known-issues list (beta-era note, see below)

On the Cooldown Manager, Blizzard's beta known-issues thread said in its September 18 entry that the feature "is a work in progress" and that how complete it is "varies from class to class". That note dates from the beta, so check how it behaves for your class in the live game.

This table is a starting point, not a full feature list. Check the Options menu in game for the current set. Edit Mode covers placement and size. If you want new frame styles, hidden bars or a full reskin, that's where Enhance QoL and EllesmereUI come in, both covered further down.

Best WoW Forever addons at a glance

Addon	Job	Open it with	Latest Forever file on CurseForge
Questie	Quests, map	/questie	v12.6.4, November 7
Forever Quest Tint	Quests	/fqt	0.7.3, November 10
What's Training?	Class spells	Spellbook, /wt	Listed
DialogKey - Numy Edition	NPC dialogue	Spacebar, number keys	Listed
Dialogue UI	NPC dialogue	Quest window	Listed
Spoken	Quest voiceover	Addon settings	3.8.5, November 9
Baganator	Bags	Bag key	November 8
Auctionator	Auction House	Auction House tab	November 9
Chattynator	Chat	Chat window	November 9
GatherLite	Gathering	/gather	8.4.5, November 10
DungeonJournal	Dungeons, loot	/dj	November 9
EllesmereUI: Standalone Forever Essentials	Threat, flight timers	Addon settings	9.8.4, November 10
Details! Damage Meter	Combat stats	Meter window	November 9
Enhance QoL	Quality of life	/eqol	13.19.0, November 9
EllesmereUI	Full UI replacement	Addon settings	v9.8.3, November 9

Version numbers and dates come from each addon's CurseForge page. Where an author labels files by number instead of a version, the table shows the date only, and "Listed" means a Forever file is on the page. Authors push updates often, so expect newer files when you read this.

Best WoW Forever addons for questing and leveling

Questie

Questie is the long-running Classic quest helper, and its CurseForge page lists Forever as a flavor (CurseForge). It puts quest start points, turn-ins and objectives on your map and minimap. Because Forever has its own objective tracker, the main reason to add Questie is the start points: they show quest givers you'd otherwise walk past, and Blizzard's What's Next panel recap promises "more than a thousand new quests woven throughout the level 1–60 journey" (Blizzard).

What else its CurseForge page lists:

Feature	What it does
Quest tracker	Starts tracking a quest as soon as you accept it
Tooltips	Shows quest info on map notes and on quest NPCs and objects; hold Shift while hovering a map icon to see extra details such as quest XP
Party progress	Shows group members' quest progress in tooltips
Quests by Zone	Lists a zone's finished and open quests
Journey Log	Records the steps of your leveling

Questie's tracker runs alongside Blizzard's, so you can end up with two quest lists. If you'd rather keep Blizzard's, open the settings with /questie and switch off the option called "Enable the Questie Tracker" (the option name is quoted on the HideQuestTracker addon's CurseForge page). The map notes are the part worth keeping. For a level-by-level route, see our WoW Forever leveling guide.

Forever Quest Tint

This small addon by xanastar shows you which of those quests are the new ones, which helps most if you've already leveled in Classic.

Any quest that isn't on its list of original Classic quests gets a light teal gradient at the bottom of the quest window, the color of the Forever logo. Original quests keep the plain parchment (CurseForge). It can also put an infinity marker beside the names of new quests in the quest log and the objective tracker.

• Settings: type /fqt to change the tint color, opacity and fade length, or the marker's size and position.
• Checks: /fqt id shows the open quest's ID and whether the addon counts it as original.
• Works with: Dialogue UI, Questie, EllesmereUI, Immersion and Storyline, per the CurseForge page.

The original-quest list comes from Questie's Classic quest data, and the author warns that a few real Classic quests may be missing from it, so the odd old quest can show up tinted.

What's Training?

In Forever you still learn new spells from your class trainer. Blizzard's New Player's Starter Guide tells you to "visit a class trainer to learn new abilities" as you level. What's Training?, by Fusionpit, shows what's waiting before you make the trip.

It adds the spells you can train to your spellbook, moves the ones you already know to the bottom, and shows the training cost in each tooltip. Hover over a header to see the total cost for that group (CurseForge). Right-click a spell to ignore it, which is handy for ranks you'll never use. The page also lists weapon skill trainers, a /wt window in the Classic style, and a new tab in the Professions window for Forever that lists recipes from trainers, drops and quests.

Example: you're mid-zone on a long quest chain and your hearthstone is on cooldown. Open the spellbook: if the only new entries are ranks you've already right-clicked away, the walk back to town can wait. When a spell you rely on does appear, hover its header and set that total aside before you buy anything else.

Addons for NPC dialogue and quest text

DialogKey - Numy Edition

DialogKey - Numy Edition, by Numy, turns the dialogue buttons you click hundreds of times while leveling into keyboard presses. Talk to an NPC and the Spacebar presses Accept, Continue or Complete for you. When there are several options, 1 picks the first, 2 the second, and so on (CurseForge).

The Spacebar is the default, and you can swap it for another key or add a second one. It isn't a normal keybind: when no button is on screen, the key does its usual job, so the Spacebar still jumps. The CurseForge page says the same key also answers common pop-ups, such as binding your hearthstone to a new inn, a group invite, or the warning that looting an item will bind it to you.

Two details to know:

• Custom buttons: hover over any button and type /dialogkey add to teach it to the addon. /dialogkey remove undoes it.
• No combat use: because of Blizzard's restrictions, DialogKey stops working while you're in combat and comes back when the fight ends.

The CurseForge page also notes that Foxthorn's original DialogKey is a separate project. Don't run both at once.

Dialogue UI

Dialogue UI, by Peterodox, takes the other route: instead of making quest text faster, it makes it nicer to read. Quests open in a larger, book-style frame with light and dark themes and an adjustable font size, plus a separate reader for in-game books in a Parchment or Metal style (CurseForge). You can pick options and accept quests with a keyboard or gamepad button.

The addon also moves the camera toward the NPC you're talking to. If that motion bothers you, the CurseForge page says you can switch it off in the settings. Dialogue UI can copy quest text too, and it shows lore text when you pick up a quest item.

It isn't essential. It suits players who read quest text and want Forever's new storylines to feel more like a modern RPG.

Spoken

Spoken, by rustykey, adds AI-generated voice acting to Forever and Classic. It reads quest dialogue, NPC greetings and gossip, lore for each zone, and the books and letters you find in the world, and a narrator voices things like posters (CurseForge). The CurseForge page says voices are matched to each character's personality and role, not just race and gender, and a pronunciation dictionary handles Warcraft names.

You can show the line as subtitles with a portrait, in a small window, in the large classic window, or play voice only. The small and voice-only modes let you take in the story while you run to the objective instead of standing at the quest giver.

Setup has one catch: the voice packs are separate downloads, and the addon is silent without them. Quest packs are split into Alliance, Horde, Shared and Gossip, and zone and book packs are separate too. Install the packs for your faction and the types of narration you want. The page also notes that you can't change playback speed and that lines can't say your character's name, since they're recorded in advance.

Some players won't want AI voices in a Classic-style game at all. If you usually skip quest text, though, it's a way to follow the new Forever stories.

Bag, Auction House and chat addons

Baganator

Baganator, by plusmouse, rebuilds your bags into one window. The category view groups items by type by default, and you can add your own categories with search rules (CurseForge). Each item lands in only one category, decided by the order of your rules.

Other features worth knowing:

• Alts and bank: look at another character's bags, bank and guild bank from anywhere, without logging in.
• Search: finds items by name, tooltip text, category or item level, with &, | and ! to combine terms.
• Sorting: sorts by type, quality or expansion, and you can lock slots so they stay where you put them.

Baganator needs a second addon, Syndicator, to store that data. The CurseForge app installs it for you. If you install by hand, download Syndicator too.

Example: you're about to buy Silk Cloth for a First Aid level. Search Baganator for "silk" first and you may find your bank alt already holds a stack.

Auctionator

Auctionator, also by plusmouse, is the Auction House addon most players need while leveling. You post, cancel and buy items from its own tabs, and it shows auction prices in item tooltips (CurseForge).

Tool	Use
Selling tab	Pick an item from your bags and post it at the current price
Full Scan	Refreshes prices for every item; run it from the Auctionator tab
Shopping lists	Saves searches you repeat, like reagents for your profession
Undercut scan	Finds your auctions that someone undercut and cancels them in one click
Crafting view	Shows reagent costs and profit for a recipe

Its CurseForge page also lists protection against posting an item too low. TradeSkillMaster goes much further, but it takes a lot of setup. For selling herbs, ore and green items while you level, Auctionator is plenty. Our gold farming guide covers gathering for gold and Auction House flipping in Forever.

Chattynator

Chattynator is the third plusmouse addon on this list. It does for chat what those two do for bags and the Auction House. It replaces the chat window with one you can restyle, and its CurseForge page lists a history of 2,500+ messages that stays between sessions (CurseForge).

• Look: pick from Dark, Blizzard, ElvUI and GW2 themes, and change fonts and sizes.
• History: use the arrow keys to bring back lines you typed earlier.
• Timestamps: set the format you prefer.

The Blizzard theme keeps chat close to the look you're used to. Chattynator suits players who group a lot and want to scroll back to a dungeon invite or a trade offer after logging out.

Gathering and profession addons

GatherLite

GatherLite, by Wuild, is for players with Herbalism, Mining or Fishing. It marks known node spots on the map and the minimap, with "over 26,000 gathering locations" for herbs, ore, containers and fishing pools, plus a fish database (CurseForge).

The route tool is the main draw. Pick a resource and GatherLite builds a farming loop through the zone, recommends which zone to start in, and draws the loop on your map and minimap. The page is clear about its limits: routes are measured in straight lines, and they ignore terrain, your skill level, other gatherers and the trip to get to the zone. A marked spot is also just a place where a node can spawn. Someone else may have picked it first.

Open the window with /gather, /gatherlite or /gatherroutes. Our mining guide lists ore by skill level, so you know which node to set the route for.

Dungeon and combat addons

DungeonJournal

DungeonJournal, by ExehnTV, brings an in-game dungeon guide to Forever. It shows each dungeon's quests, their rewards and the loot each boss drops. Click a quest to see where it is on the map (CurseForge). Type /dj to open it, and /dj minimap brings the minimap button back if you hid it.

The feature that sets it apart is RPG Mode. It hides a dungeon's journal pages until you've killed that dungeon's last boss, so you can run Forever's new dungeons blind and still check the loot later. Our new dungeons guide covers all nine new instances, their levels and how to reach them.

There's an older TBC-only addon called "Dungeon Journal" by a different author. Install the one that lists Forever as a flavor.

EllesmereUI: Standalone Forever Essentials (threat meter)

EllesmereUI: Standalone Forever Essentials is the Forever-only part of the EllesmereUI suite, packed as its own addon so you don't need the full interface replacement. Its CurseForge page lists two features so far, a threat meter and flight timers, and says it's still in development with more planned (CurseForge).

The threat meter is the reason to install it. Forever keeps Classic-style combat, where pulling aggro off your tank in a dungeon gets a cloth wearer killed. Our class tier list covers how much threat each tank class makes. A threat display tells damage dealers when to ease off. The flight timer counts down taxi flights, which is useful with Forever's new flight paths.

If you like Blizzard's default interface and only want the Forever-specific extras, this is the EllesmereUI piece to install.

Details! Damage Meter

Details!, by Terciob, has been a popular WoW damage meter for years, and its CurseForge page lists Forever as a flavor (CurseForge). The same Midnight rules apply to it as to every other addon. Blizzard's combat philosophy post says addons can change the size, shape and color of the "box" a secret value sits in, but can't "look inside" it. So treat Details! as a different way to view your fight, not a deeper analysis than the game allows.

Forever's built-in damage meter already shows damage, healing, interrupts, dispels and deaths, according to Game Tyrant's walkthrough. For quests and most dungeon runs, that's enough. Install Details! if you know its windows from years of raiding and prefer them. EllesmereUI's damage meter module is another option, and Enhance QoL's author offers EQOL Damage Meter as a separate addon.

A damage meter doesn't track threat. If you're a damage dealer in dungeons, pair it with the threat meter in Forever Essentials above.

Interface overhaul and quality-of-life addons

Enhance QoL

Enhance QoL, by R41Z0R, is a large bundle of small fixes, and you can switch each one on or off by itself. Type /eqol to open the settings (CurseForge).

Features from its CurseForge page that matter most while leveling:

Feature	What it does
Quick loot mode	Speeds up looting kills
Minimap button sink	Collects addon buttons from the minimap into one movable box
DELETE text confirmation	Handles the text box when you delete a valuable item
Auto repair and junk selling	Repairs gear and sells gray items at vendors, with filters by quality and item level
Quest automation	Accepts and turns in quests, with exceptions you set
Drink macro	A ready-made macro for eating and drinking between pulls
Mouse-over action bars	Hides bars until you hover over them
Custom unit frames	Player and target frames you size and anchor in Edit Mode

Don't turn everything on at once. Go through the menu once, enable the three or four changes that fix something that bugs you, and leave the rest off. If a window ends up off screen, /eqol resetframe moves it back to the center.

The author also publishes EQOL Damage Meter as a separate addon. It isn't part of Enhance QoL.

EllesmereUI

EllesmereUI is a full interface replacement, closer in scope to ElvUI than to the small addons above. Its CurseForge page lists modules for action bars, unit frames, nameplates, party and raid frames, chat, the minimap, bags, the quest tracker and a damage meter, plus reskins of Blizzard UI elements (CurseForge). Each module runs on its own, so you can keep the parts you want and leave the rest of the default UI in place.

It's a good fit if you enjoy tuning every bar and frame. It's more than most players need, though. Forever's default interface plus Edit Mode already handles moving and resizing, and replacing every frame removes a lot of the Classic look that brings many players to Forever.

Example: you like the default bars but want cleaner raid frames for your healer. Enable only the party and raid frame module and leave the action bar and unit frame modules off.

How to install addons in WoW Forever

Forever has its own game folder, _forever_, separate from _retail_ and _classic_era_. An addon has to be the Forever version and sit in that folder. CurseForge's guide to moving addons from the beta to live (October 25) names _forever_ as the live folder and _classic_beta_ as the old beta one. Many addons work on retail too, and their pages show this with flavor tags.

Install addons with the CurseForge app

1. Install the CurseForge app and open World of Warcraft in it.
2. Pick your Forever installation as the game version. If the app doesn't find it, scan for games or point it to the _forever_ folder.
3. Search for an addon and click Install. The app also installs required addons, such as Syndicator for Baganator.
4. Start Forever and check the AddOns button on the character select screen to confirm the addon is enabled.

The app is the easier option if you use more than two or three addons, because it updates all of them in one click after a patch.

Install addons manually

1. Download the file marked for Forever from the addon's CurseForge page.
2. Unzip it.
3. In the Battle.net launcher, choose WoW Forever, open the gear menu beside the Play button and pick Show in Explorer.
4. Open _forever_, then Interface, then AddOns. Create the AddOns folder if it isn't there.
5. Copy the addon folder in. The .toc file must sit directly inside the addon's folder, not one folder deeper.
6. Restart the game, or type /reload if you're already logged in, and enable the addon at character select.

Inside your game folder, the finished path is _forever_\Interface\AddOns\AddonName\AddonName.toc.

Fix an addon that doesn't show up

Problem	Likely cause	Fix
Addon missing from the list	Installed in _retail_ or _classic_era_	Move it to _forever_\Interface\AddOns
Addon missing from the list	Doubled folder, like AddOns\Questie\Questie	Move the inner folder up one level
Addon marked out of date	Classic or old retail file	Get the Forever file; a version for Forever has ## Interface: 16001 in its .toc (Warcraft Wiki)
Settings lost after the beta	Saved settings stayed in _classic_beta_	Copy the WTF folder across, as CurseForge's migration guide explains

Only tick "Load out of date AddOns" as a last resort, after you've checked there's no Forever update. An outdated addon can throw errors or break other addons.

A five-point check before you add another addon

1. Is Forever listed as a flavor on the CurseForge page?
2. Is the latest file recent, from after the November 4 launch?
3. Does the built-in UI already do it? Check Options and Edit Mode first.
4. Does it overlap with something you run? Two quest trackers or two meters just clutter the screen.
5. Can you name the problem it fixes? If not, leave it out.

New to the game? Our beginner's guide covers your first steps, and the WoW Forever hub lists our zone, class and dungeon guides for the rest of your setup.

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FAQ

Which WoW Forever addons should you install first? Start with DialogKey - Numy Edition, because it cuts out thousands of clicks on quest and dialogue buttons between 1 and 60. Add Questie if you want to find quest givers, and Baganator once your bags fill up. If you'd rather have one addon with many small fixes, Enhance QoL lets you enable only the tweaks you need (CurseForge).

Can you play WoW Forever without addons? Yes. Forever is fully playable without them, and it already has a damage meter, a Cooldown Manager and Edit Mode built in. Addons mainly save time on bags, the Auction House, quest finding and gathering.

Can you edit the interface in WoW Forever without addons? For layout, it can. Edit Mode is where you drag frames around and change their size, and Forever keeps separate layouts for mouse and keyboard and for gamepad (Warcraft Wiki). For mouse-over bars, custom unit frames or a full reskin, you need an addon such as Enhance QoL or EllesmereUI.

Where is the WoW Forever addons folder? It's _forever_\Interface\AddOns inside your World of Warcraft folder. In the Battle.net launcher, pick WoW Forever, use the gear menu beside the Play button, then Show in Explorer, to open the game folder. The CurseForge app installs there for you once you select your Forever installation.

Does WoW Forever have a built-in damage meter? It does. Turn it on under Options, then Advanced Options, in the Damage Meter section (Game Tyrant). Addons like Details! can restyle the information, but under Midnight's addon rules, which also apply in Forever, they can't read combat data the game keeps secret.

Is there a threat meter for WoW Forever? Yes. EllesmereUI: Standalone Forever Essentials includes a threat meter, and you don't need the full EllesmereUI interface to use it (CurseForge).

Does Questie work in WoW Forever? Yes. Questie's CurseForge page lists Forever as a flavor. Its map notes for quest givers are the most useful part, and you can switch off its tracker in /questie if you prefer Blizzard's.

Related guides

• WoW Forever leveling guide
• WoW Forever beginner's guide
• WoW Forever gold farming guide
• WoW Forever professions guide
• WoW Forever mining guide
• WoW Forever new dungeons guide
• WoW Forever graphics settings guide
• WoW Forever class tier list
• Best WoW Midnight addons for Season 2