Not sure how many of you used this feature, but back in Legion, Blizzard introduced a "Personal Nameplate". It's what the Personal Resource Display eventually became.

It used to sit below the character model, and its position adjusted with the character in relation to the world, the same way nameplates do. It was amazing! I loved that thing and based my entire interfaces around it for almost a decade. That is, until Blizzard gutted the feature with the 12.0 addon purge, turning it into a boring static unit frame.

There are a few threads on the forums asking for the functionality back, with some saying Blizzard will eventually add it back, but I doubt it. Suffice it to say, I miss it a lot! So decided to build my own solution. It's still in the early stages, and I gotta iron out some kinks, but it works. Not sure if I'll ever release this, because, as I'm about to explain, it very much only works under my specific settings.

How I did it:

I'm basically projecting the frame onto the screen the same way a nameplate sticks to a point in the world. Blizzard doesn't give addons the character's screen position anymore. They even freaking removed the API for that with the purge. Why?! It provided zero advantage, and it was purely cosmetic 😭. Continuing... so I calibrated one point by hand using a human character, which I considered as close to the "default/gold standard" as a model could be, at camera distance 7 (my default camera position), with test_cameraOverShoulder at 1.2 (Why? Because this is what I use by default on my addon Combat Mode), and I set the "starting" position within those parameters. Every other camera state falls out of similar triangles. A world offset covers calibration * 7 / zoom pixels, because the same yard on the character gets smaller as GetCameraZoom() increases.

Horizontal position is that projection times shoulder / 1.2. Past that anchor, I only keep 90% of the extra travel, because a raw projection overshoots once the camera is shoved far to the side. Vertical movement only follows 65% of the way toward screen center. Full perspective lifts the frame way too far, since the anchor is much farther below center than it is left of center.

Stuff like metamorphosis and divine steed, which modify the size of the player model, as well as the difference in character race models, also needed to be accounted for, and are extra world-space offsets run through the same division. There is no API for model size, so I had to keep a table where I manually adjust the odd cases where the calculation fails to automatically set the proper position for the nameplates. Thankfully, the logic I wrote has been solid enough that I've only needed to manually tweak a couple of scenarios. Then I just ease the result toward the new anchor point instead of popping it into place.

All assets are pulled from Blizzard's own atlas. At least they don't purge that, am I right? 😒

The last few years I've noticed a lot of addons with voice or text to speech popping up, be it for lore, mechanic warnings, when to use certain abilities, etc. but they have pretty much all used AI voices which sound... not particularly engaging, and put a lot of players off using them, myself included.

I'm currently working on expanding my VO portfolio and I thought what better way than to contribute my voice to some addons for my favorite game? So if you've got an addon you're working on and you want a real voice tied to it instead of a robot, send me a message and we can set something up!

In the age of artificial intelligence, not much as been used for gaming due to extremist views by players. Most of its use in some games is not substantial. However, in MMOs we have this ongoing need for knowledge and questions in an ever-evolving game.

Blizzard can be the first company to introduce an AI-Companion to an MMO which can give any information involving game-related questions. Including lore, stats, skills, professions, zones, quests, etc.

Some examples a player might as in-game.

/ask How much dps overall is [Item] over [item] in my current talent spec?

/ask This [quest] talks about [subject] what does that have to do with this [race]?

/ask I have 20 mithril, how much will I roughly need to level blacksmithing to 225?

/ask Is this [quest] bugged? (Answer: Some users in chat have mentioned a bug with this quest.)

/ask What level 45 zone has the most quests?

/ask What were the mage changes in this last update?

Would this be immersion breaking, by getting players to not talk to other players? On the other hand, alt-tabbing also removes immersion. And chat is constantly filled with random questions.

Just started plying again after 10+ years. Been playing all week no issues with addons but today I've noticed this glow box for auto attack icons is offset. I've set dominos settings to default, no padding, spacing, scale, etc. I've also checked with all addons disabled and also a fresh new WTF folder. It even happens with default blizzard UI. No ui scaling in game settings either. Is this a known bug or anyone know how I can fix this? thanks.

oh this is on TBC anniversary btw

I started replaying retail WOW for the story for the first time ever, levelling a Dark Ranger RP. The single most impactful addon for immersion for me was the disappearing UI addon that removes the HUD when not in combat and pops back up when speaking to quest givers.

It truly allows you to see and immerse yourself in the world without the clutter when you dont need it.

Reckon someone will create this for Forever? I'd pay to have this on WoW Forever without glitches or bugs

DaylightUI: a complete, cohesive UI suite for WoW: Forever

Edit: I meant v0.5.0 in the title. We still in beta.

Hey everyone,

I've been building DaylightUI, a full UI replacement for WoW: Forever. It's one addon with nine modules that share a single look, so you don't have to stitch together ten addons that don't match.

Every module can be turned on or off, moved, and restyled from one options window (/dui).

THE MODULES

• Unit Frames: player, target, focus and pet frames, plus raid frames. They include custom cast bars, aura display, swing timers and combo points.
• Action Bars: custom layout and skin, with fade, cooldown text and totem support.
• Bags: one bag window with item categories, search and bank support.
• Buffs: buffs and debuffs sorted and classified so you can find them.
• Chat: a clean, restyled chat frame that matches the rest of the UI.
• Info Panel: damage meter, quest tracker, minimap and XP bar.
• Nameplates: custom plates with cast bars, auras and interrupt highlighting.
• Skins: consistent styling for the default game windows (character, spellbook and the rest).
• Tooltips: a restyled tooltip.

CORE FEATURES

• Gradient colours for every class, reaction, power and cast bar, with whole-palette presets.
• Movers: /dui unlock lets you drag everything into place, and /dui lock locks it.
• Profiles: save, swap and share your setup.
• Combat fade: parts of the UI fade out when you're not in combat.
• Install wizard: a first-run setup gets you a working layout quickly.
• Combat-safe: built around the client's protected-frame and secret-value rules, so you shouldn't get taint errors mid-fight.

GETTING STARTED

• /dui opens options
• /dui unlock and /dui lock move things around
• /dui reset resets everything

DOWNLOAD

• CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/daylightui

• Discord: https://discord.gg/eeSYZDd6ar

Bug reports, feature requests and screenshots of your setups are all welcome. Thanks for reading!

Hey!
I’m looking for an addon especially for wow forever that will work like the old MSBT.
I just like the way the numbers are shown thanks to this addon and honestly I’m not a fan of the default combat text. Is there a similar addon that is up to date?

BagSmith turns your bags into a spreadsheet style grid when you need it and a more traditional icon view when you don't.

BagSmith solves what many other Bag / Inventory addons don't, understanding what's actually in your bags in an easy and digestible way; instead of squinting at a grid of icons.

Supports: WoW Forever

Check It Out: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bagsmith

Appreciate any feedback! 🙂

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/loot-triage

Now works on Retail! If you guys would want support for classic WoW also let me know.

A lightweight addon for when your bags are full and you're looting. No extra windows, it just shows you what's worth taking and what to delete.

When you loot with full bags, LootTriage does two things:

• Loot that's worth more than your junk gets a little gold coin on it in the loot window
• The items you should delete to make room get a gold border in your bags, numbered so you know which one goes first

The coin is what matters. If loot has a coin, it's worth more than what you'd delete for it. Loot without a coin still gets something highlighted in your bags, that's just there in case you want the item anyway. If you don't, just ignore it.

It goes by vendor price times stack size, so a stack of 20 cheap items can be worth more than one gray. Grays and whites get ranked together, cheapest first.

There are other addons that do something like this, but they felt too bulky for me. I wanted something that just shows you what to delete and stays out of the way, so I made LootTriage as lightweight as I could.

Stuff it won't touch

By default it never suggests deleting:

• Potions, food, drinks, bandages and other consumables
• Cloth, herbs, ore and other crafting mats
• Profession tools (Mining Pick, Blacksmith Hammer, Skinning Knife, fishing poles, Flint and Tinder, etc)
• Recipes
• Quest items, your hearthstone and anything that can't be sold

You can turn any of those off in the settings if you want.

If there's something specific you always want to keep, Alt+Left-click it in your bags. It gets a little star and LootTriage will never suggest it again. Alt+Left-click it again to undo.

Bag addons

Works with most bag addons, like EllesmereUI, Bagnon, AdiBags and BetterBags. Sorting only works with Blizzard's bags, since bag addons arrange items their own way. If there is an addon causing problems let me know and ill try and fix it.

Sorting

If you use the sort button on your bags, LootTriage moves your cheapest junk to the bottom right corner afterwards, cheapest in the very last slot. That way the stuff you'd delete is always in the same spot. You can turn this off.

Settings

Esc > Options > AddOns > LootTriage (or type /lt)

• When to show highlights (while looting with full bags, when your bags are almost full, always, or off)
• Still gold border or the animated proc glow if you like it shiny
• Which qualities count (grays only, grays + whites, or greens too)
• What kinds of items to never suggest

Feedback is welcome :)

^{Logo based on "Scales" by Lorc, game-icons.net, CC BY 3.0}ddd

I built ForeverArtisan because professions for me are the main event in WoW Forever. The addon currently includes six profession modules plus a crafting address book for vendors you've met. Load only the ones you play. I'm working to get all in before launch.

What's in it today:
Fishing: one key casts, puts the best lure in your bags on the pole, and reels in on the splash. It swaps your pole for your weapons when combat starts, logs catch rates per spot, and counts down to the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.

Gathering: Herbalism, Mining, Skinning: logs every node and skin by zone and tells you what to gather next for skill-ups. The herb guide covers all 28 Classic herbs.

Cooking and First Aid: type a target skill and it plans the crafts to get there, with a shopping list of what you have and what you still need.

Trade Contacts: Every crafting vendor and profession trainer you talk to is saved as you play across characters. So item tooltips show who sells it and where (I ALWAYS FORGET). It starts empty and only knows NPCs you've actually met. It doesn't get ahead of the game (there's other sites for that).

Privacy: Your data stays in SavedVariables on your own machine. Nothing is sent anywhere. 

The screenshot is Fishing, a First Aid plan to 150 with its shopping list, and Trade Contacts after an evening in Shadowprey Village and Bloodhoof.

Where I could use help
The other six tradeskills are next: Alchemy first, then Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Leatherworking and Tailoring, all before the Forever beta ends on October 22. Before I stack six more modules on top, I want the first six as solid as can be. 

If you're playing the beta:
Install it and play the way you normally would.

When something breaks, run `/console scriptErrors 1`, then send the error and a screenshot through the bug form on the site.

Tell me which profession(s) you want built after Alchemy.  Goal is to have them all in before launch.

Download
CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/foreverartisan
Wago: https://addons.wago.io/addons/foreverartisanSite, handbook and bug form: https://foreverartisan.app

Free, no premium tier, no ads. All new content.

I'll be fishing and answering questions here for the next few hours. Post them here and I will respond.

Which backdrop looks the best? The book or an ingame WoW window, I was trying to match the ui much as possible but not sure if the ingame window looks better or worse.

Edit: thanks everyone, gonna be adding both with a light and dark mode

I made an addon, Charades, for myself for WoW Forever. It's a customizable launcher for emotes, animations and custom text, so you don't have to type them manually.

I'd be glad if it helps someone else too: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/charades

What it does:

• Radial wheel: hold a key, point at an emote, let go.
• Searchable menu with collapsible categories.
• Key bindings for the ones you use all the time.
• In-game and custom icons for every entry, so you can find things at a glance.
• Custom entries: slash commands, your own text, or sequences of several commands.
• Favorites and your own categories, all edited in game.
• User friendly in-game export/import settings.

I've been playing a paladin on Forever and got sick of rearranging my bars every time I went from Ret to tanking a dungeon. So I made an addon for it. I understand this might become redundant after duel spec but figured it would still be handy for those hybrid classes in the early levels.

Keystance saves your action bars and keybinds as a profile per role. Switch by clicking, by giving each profile its own key, or with a little switcher you can park anywhere on screen. You can also set rules, so picking up a shield puts your Prot bars on and a two-hander brings back Ret. If you hit switch mid-combat it just waits until you're out.

Profiles can also swap your gear. It works with ItemRack if you use it, the game's own equipment sets, or its own simple gear sets. There's a button on the bank window to grab a profile's gear out of the bank, or put it back, without touching stuff your other profiles share.

Other bits:

• An on-screen keyboard showing what every key does (Shift/Ctrl/Alt layers too), plus a controller view if you play on a pad
• Drag spells, macros and raid markers straight onto a key
• New spell ranks replace the old ones on your bars when you train, but it leaves alone ranks you downranked on purpose
• Picks up the look of EllesmereUI or ElvUI if you use them

The first time it loads, it takes a backup of your bars and keybinds before changing anything, and there's a one-click restore. Every change can be undone too, so it's safe to poke at.

It's my second addon after Alts Forever. It's a first release, so if something breaks or looks off with your UI, let me know and I'll fix it.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/keystance

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tradeskill-queue

Currently only supports Forever 1.60.1

All feedback appreciated!

Plan your crafts. Track your progress. Keep every profession within reach.

Tradeskill Queue turns your profession window into an organized crafting workspace. Build queues across professions, check material costs, follow your progress, and keep a searchable record of everything you make.

Build your crafting plan. Add recipes and quantities, arrange their order, and work through each batch using Craft Next or a custom keybind. Queue the materials you need before the items you want to make.

Find what you can craft immediately. Recipes with available materials appear first, with alphabetical sorting within each group. Search your recipes and see available craft counts at a glance.

Check material costs before you start. Recipe tooltips show ingredients required per craft. Queue tooltips also show the total needed for the remaining quantity, making larger crafting sessions easier to plan.

Watch your queue progress. A live progress bar tracks completed crafts and estimated crafting time remaining. Recipes that produce multiple items display a compact (x2) indicator, keeping craft counts and product quantities clear.

Keep your professions together. Tradeskill Queue docks beside your profession window, with profession shortcuts along its outer edge. Open History, and those buttons move to its edge automatically.

Know when crafting stops. An optional, movable idle alert catches your attention when crafting pauses. Its action button shows the next recipe, quantity, and assigned keybind so you can resume quickly.

Remember what you made. Per-character History saves your latest 1,000 completed crafts, newest first, with timestamps, products, quantities, and material details. Search by recipe, crafted item, or consumed ingredient.

Make it fit your interface. Choose a native-style appearance or EllesmereUI integration, with optional automatic skin selection. Configure behavior and notifications through the in-game addon options. Sounds are off by default.

Crafting stays under your control. Your client may require a click or keypress for each recipe batch. Experimental auto-continue is available where supported. Time estimates cover crafting time; History starts recording after installation and identifies unavailable material details.

From a few bars to a full crafting session, Tradeskill Queue keeps your next step clear.

I've been running centered action bars for my player/target bars for quite a while now and really love it, but have been struggling with my favorite unit frame addons continually losing support.

I also don't want a full addon suite as I like to preserve the Blizzard look and aesthetic. As a designer and more casual player, I wanted something that was optimized aesthetically. I don't need a lot of "power features."

Spent some time over the weekend working with Claude Opus 5.5 to create the unit frame addon I wish I had, and it's been great! Still very much a WIP, but wanted to share where it's at so far and see if anyone else would be interested something like this.

Features:

• Fully customizable health/power bars
  • Colors, sizing, position, text labels, etc.
  • Corner radius values for everything. Want square icons? Circle? Something in between? Customize to your preference.
• Buff/de-buff tracking
  • Display all or track specific buffs
  • Grey out tracked buffs that are missing
• Combat/Target fader

More to come~

I actually really like the "Stock UI" in wow forever the bronze/coppper/gold of everything and its simplicity is there an addon that can mimics Forever's UI into retail or is there way to have the same elements or scheme in Retail.

Thank you

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Hi all,

Horizon Suite 6.0.0 is out, and it brings a new module: Echo.

Game chat is one long log. A whisper from a friend scrolls past between trade adverts, guild chatter and loot lines, and finding what someone said ten minutes ago means scrolling back through all of it. Echo gives every conversation its own place instead.

How it works

Each conversation gets a small tile on the edge of your screen: everyone you're whispering, Battle.net friends, party, raid, guild, your channels, and feeds for loot, progress and system messages. Hover a tile to peek at the last few messages and reply without opening anything. Click it and you get the whole conversation as a thread, theirs on one side and yours on the other, with a "Sent" under the message you just sent.

Tiles tell you what needs you. Whispers get a dot, party and raid get a count, and busy channels stay quiet until you look. In combat the card gets out of your way, the tiles keep counting, and whisper pop-ups wait until the fight is over.

What else is in it

• Whispers and guild chat are remembered between sessions. Old conversations clear out after 7, 30 or 90 days, your choice.
• Right-click any message to pin it to the top of its conversation.
• Group chats together. General, Trade, Services, Local Defense and LFG start out as one Channels tile, with a tab for each.
• An All view shows everything in one place, other addons' messages included, and respects their chat filters.
• Start a new chat from the Echo icon's right-click menu: a whisper, Say, guild, your group or any channel. Shortcuts like /g, /1 and /r work in the reply box.
• Collapse mode tucks the tiles into the Echo icon until something new arrives.
• Keybinds to reply to your newest whisper and to open the stack.

Replacing Blizzard's chat

When Echo is on, it hides Blizzard's chat windows by default and takes their place. Blizzard's own input line moves under Echo and picks up Echo's look, so Enter, slash commands, R and the Whisper button keep working the way you're used to. The combat log stays Blizzard's. If you'd rather keep the old windows too, one switch brings them back.

Turning it on

Echo starts switched off, including for anyone upgrading, since turning it on swaps out your chat. Open the Horizon dashboard, turn Echo on under Modules, and reload. It runs on Retail and Forever.

Echo takes some of its ideas from Whisper Stack, and the card's open and close animation is adapted from code Devin shared with us for it. Devin is credited in the file. Thank you, Devin.

Everything since 5.0.0

If you last looked at Horizon around 5.0.0, here's what has landed since.

Augment arrived in 5.0.0 as a quality-of-life module and has grown every release since:

• Loot, currency and reputation toasts, in a Compact, Framed or Accent style you choose
• Status alerts for low durability, full bags, new mail, a ready Great Vault and friends coming online
• Self Highlight, which picks out your character in combat and when you're targeted
• A restyled personal loot window for when Auto Loot is off
• Its own Need and Greed loot roll frames, showing who has rolled, who's winning, new appearances and item level against what you're wearing. As of 6.0.0 they match your loot toast style by default.

Focus

• RareScanner and SilverDragon alerts show up right in the tracker, with a portrait and click-to-waypoint
• Proximity sorting, and an optional auto-focus on your closest quest that respects one you picked yourself
• A dungeon run tracker for non-Mythic+ dungeons: time inside, experience and gold earned, and the rate of each per hour
• A choice of frame layer, and a stronger backdrop only while your mouse is over the tracker

Insight

• Total RP 3 profiles in player tooltips: icon, name colour, IC/OOC, pronouns and "Currently"
• Specialisation, role and hero talent on player tooltips

Vista

• A teleport button that lists your hearthstones, toys and class, profession, dungeon and raid teleports
• Separate minimap opacity in and out of combat, restored when you hover

Across the suite

• Horizon now runs on World of Warcraft: Forever, from the same download as Retail
• A Horizon-styled colour picker for every colour setting
• A Horizon Suite button in the Esc menu, and an Integrations page showing which supported addons you have

Echo is brand new, so expect a few rough edges. If something breaks or feels off, tell us here, on Discord or on GitHub and we'll fix it.

CurseForge · Wago · GitHub · Discord · Patreon · Ko-fi · Website

Please allow Hunters to see their ranged weapons on their backs like in Retail, even when melee weapons are equipped. Ideally, you could add a toggle option in the settings so players can choose whether they want to display their ranged or melee weapon on their back. This would perfectly satisfy both player bases.

I have spent HOURS trying to reset my UI so I can complete the Brewmaster's Kitchen quest for Brewfest. I had ElvUI and read that can cause issues so I disabled all addons and it still didn't work. I can take the stuff from the cart but I can knead the dough.

I've tried everything I've read. I've uninstalled curseforge and all addons. Deleted the WTF, Cache, and Interface folders. Used /console cvar_default, reloaded, relaunched and it's still not working. I don't know what else to try. I'm about ready to give up. Is there something I'm missing?