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Addons for WoW Forever

Forever is built on the modern game client, which leaves most Classic addons flagged out of date and many of them broken. These are the ones with a Forever version, sorted by what they do, plus how to install them and what to do when one misbehaves.

84 addons39 built for Forever
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Our addon for Top Gear: it copies your character, gear, bags and bank as one block of text.

Install it like any other addon, type /stillsixty in game, copy the text and paste it into Top Gear. Open your bank once so its items are included.

Download 1.0.0

Built into the game

Forever brought these over from the modern client. Switch them on before you go looking for an addon.

  • Quest objectives on the map

    On by default

    The map shows where to go for every quest in your log. Questie or Forever Quest Pins is still needed to see quests before you accept them.

  • Cooldown Manager

    OptionsAdvanced OptionsEnable Cooldown Manager

    Puts your cooldowns and buffs on icons you can move anywhere on screen; choose which ones with /cdm. Six classes are supported (druid, mage, priest, rogue, warrior and warlock) along with racial abilities, and every rank of a spell counts as the same spell.

  • Damage Meter

    OptionsEnable Damage Meter

    Damage and healing for each fight. Move it with Edit Mode. Meters such as ForeverMeter read from it.

  • Edit Mode and combined bags

    Game MenuEdit Mode

    Move and resize the default frames. In the bag menu, Combine Bags puts every bag in one window; Forever Bag Mover lets you move that window.

Addons that work on Forever

Each name opens its download page in a new tab. Pick the file marked for Forever.

86 addons

Beta fixes9

Quests & leveling12

Interface21

Maps & rares10

Combat & classes18

Professions & trade8

Gear & errors8

Install an addon

  1. Step 1: Open the beta’s AddOns folder

    The beta has its own folder next to your other WoW versions. In the Battle.net app, pick the Forever beta, open the gear menu and choose Show in Explorer (Show in Finder on a Mac). Then go to:

    World of Warcraft\_classic_beta_\Interface\AddOns

    No Interface or AddOns folder yet? Create them, with exactly that spelling.

  2. Step 2: Download the Forever version

    On the addon's CurseForge page, open Files, filter by the Forever game version and download the newest file. A Classic or retail file with the same name is not the same thing: it will load as out of date at best.

  3. Step 3: Unzip it one level deep

    Extract the zip into AddOns. Each addon is a folder with a .toc file directly inside it:

    AddOns\Questie\Questie.toc        works
AddOns\Questie-main\Questie\...   not found

    Some downloads hold several folders (a core and its modules). Copy all of them.

  4. Step 4: Turn it on at character select

    Start the game, click AddOns in the bottom-left corner of the character screen and tick the addon. If it is marked out of date and has no Forever version, tick Load out of date AddOns at the top.

  5. Step 5: Reload after you change settings

    Type /reload after installing or configuring an addon in game. Its settings are saved when you reload or log out normally, not when the game crashes.

When something breaks

The usual suspects, and what to try first.

  • 1

    The addon is not in the list

    It is in the wrong folder. Check that you used the beta's _classic_beta_ folder, not the live game's, and that the addon's .toc file sits one level inside AddOns, not in a second folder of the same name.

  • 2

    It says “Out of date”

    The addon was written for another version of the game. Look for its Forever version first; if there is none, tick “Load out of date AddOns”, and expect errors.

  • 3

    Red Lua error pop-ups

    Install BugSack and BugGrabber so errors stop interrupting you. Then turn addons off one at a time to find the culprit, and send the copied error to its author.

  • 4

    Green or blank map, empty character sheet

    Both are beta bugs on clients that are not in English. The beta fixes above repair them until Blizzard does.

  • 5

    WeakAuras will not load

    It has no Forever version. Split the job between ForeverAuras, EllesmereUI and the built-in Cooldown Manager.

  • 6

    The game feels slow after installing

    Big suites (full interfaces, auction scanners) cost the most. Disable what you do not use on that character from the AddOns button at character select.

Addons are made by their authors, not by us. We list each one with its author and link to its own download page; install only from there.

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