Best new WoW Forever addons: 10 player-made picks from Reddit

Screenshot by OpenMap’s author, jigrobbulus, from its CurseForge page.

OpenMap stitches Blizzard’s original Vanilla map art into one world map you can zoom and pan across. Its author, u/cheddacheeze on Reddit, says the zone maps were aligned and blended to make the seams as invisible as possible. Close in, it can blend in minimap detail, and it can keep unexplored areas hidden. The map window is resizable, and the black bars in full-screen mode are gone. To find dungeon and raid entrances outside the game, see our WoW Forever map.

Pros

• One continuous world map instead of separate zone maps, in the original art.
• Open source under the MIT license.
• The October 15 release post has 2,060 upvotes, the most of any addon post we found.

Cons

• Still a beta: the latest Forever file is v0.7.5-beta from October 23.
• The author says Claude helped write the code.

Screenshot by conoar from the Forever Loot Sparkles CurseForge page.

According to its CurseForge page, picking a graphics preset in Forever turns the outline mode back on and hides the sparkle on lootable quest items such as crates, sacks and plants. Forever Loot Sparkles notices the change and switches the sparkle back on about a second later. It also checks at login and waits until combat ends.

It can also put golden glints on the herb or ore vein you approach, with the game’s gathering icon above it: dim out of reach, bright in reach, grey when your Herbalism or Mining skill is too low. The license is GPLv3; the latest file is v1.3.0 from October 21.

Pros

• Fixes one specific Forever problem: graphics presets hiding the quest-item sparkle.
• Glints on herbs and ore veins, plus optional ones on quest objects, all set under Esc → Options → AddOns.
• The second most downloaded addon on this list.

Cons

• The gathering glints use Blizzard’s soft targeting, so they reach only about 15 yards.
• Per the CurseForge gallery, switching the quest-item sparkle off again needs a game restart.

Screenshot by Krelock from the Node Sight CurseForge page.

Node Sight puts the herb’s or ore’s own picture on each gathering dot on your minimap, so you know what it is without hovering over it. A dot turns red when your Herbalism or Mining is too low, and the tooltip names the skill it needs. An arrow to the nearest node and sparkles on nodes in front of you are both off by default. Version 1.5.0 came out on October 30. The same author made Enemy Frames, listed further down.

Pros

• You can read every gathering node on the minimap without hovering over it.
• Red dots show the nodes your skill cannot gather yet.
• Updated October 30, the most recent file on this list together with Social Diary.

Cons

• Unlike GatherMate, it does not remember old nodes; it shows the ones that are up right now.
• The author, u/MaxTheBunnie, notes that the sparkles change some game settings.
• The author’s disclaimer says AI tools were used.

Screenshot by Dldvlpr from the Musca Auras CurseForge page.

When we checked the addons that list a Forever build on October 27, WeakAuras itself had none. Musca Auras is a WeakAuras fork for WoW Forever that its CurseForge page says keeps working in combat, with a one-click HUD for all nine classes. It is GPLv2, and version 1.14.0 is from October 22.

Its developer also built an Aura Builder site that checks an aura string and says whether it will work on Forever before you import it.

Pros

• The closest thing to WeakAuras on Forever that we found.
• A ready-made HUD for each of the nine classes.
• The Aura Builder site checks an aura string before you import it.

Cons

• In the October 29 post, the developer says the exported auras have not been tested in the game yet.
• Not every WeakAuras string will work; that is why the Aura Builder check exists.

Screenshot by flowmotion_x from the NeedRoll CurseForge page.

NeedRoll is an AtlasLoot-style loot browser with tabs for Dungeons, Raids, PvP, Factions, Collections and Professions. Its author, u/PLAYBoxes, says the drop tables started from the cmangos classic database and were updated for the changes Forever made. The CurseForge gallery also shows dungeon quests, raid attunements and talent trees. The latest file is v0.16.2-forever from October 23.

Pros

• One window for dungeon and raid loot, dungeon quests and attunements.
• The author says the tables were updated for Forever’s changes.

Cons

• The data started from the cmangos Classic database; Realm First has not compared it with our own item pages.
• The author says AI coding was used, mostly for the interface; none of the art is AI-generated.

Screenshot by vattiss from the Glowing Bars CurseForge page.

Glowing Bars makes an action button glow when you need it: a missing buff or weapon buff, a cooldown that is ready again in a fight, a proc such as Overpower, Revenge, Execute or Victory Rush, a spell left at an old rank, or a reagent running low. /gb opens the colors, opacity, messages and sounds for each reminder. It is MIT-licensed, and version 1.6.0 is from October 29.

Pros

• Works on the action bars you already have; it adds no windows or extra bars.
• Covers buffs, procs, cooldowns, old spell ranks and reagents in one addon.

Cons

• The author says most of the code was written by Claude to an architecture they designed, and that they review every change.

Screenshot by FallenShard from the PrettyTooltip CurseForge page.

PrettyTooltip replaces the look of the game’s tooltips. It shortens long equip effects and colors lines by spell school, and it has a lite mode. Its author, FallenShard, made a smaller version for personal use in 2020. MIT, v1.3.7-forever from October 23.

Pros

• Shorter equip effects and lines colored by spell school.
• A lite mode for players who want a lighter change.
• Open source under the MIT license.

Cons

• The author says around 99% of the new code is LLM-generated.

Screenshot by Aquary from the Keep or Toss: Forever CurseForge page.

Keep or Toss adds a short section to an item’s tooltip saying whether your character still has a use for it and why: a quest you have not picked up yet, one of your professions, an alt, or nothing. Items that are new in Forever get a blue outline and are never called useless, since little is known about some of them yet. A separate page sorts everything in your bags and bank by reason.

Pros

• Tells you why to keep an item, not only that you should.
• Never sells or deletes anything.
• Careful with Forever’s new items: they are never marked useless.

Cons

• Quest information comes from Questie, and bank and alts need Syndicator.
• Version 1.3.0 from October 14 is the oldest file in this top ten.

Screenshot by captainkaba from the Social Diary CurseForge page.

Social Diary keeps a timeline for each player you add: where you first met, what you talked about, what you did together. It also notices the players around you in the world, so you can look someone up after an hour of questing together. The author says it records moments such as a first blue item rather than kill counts. MIT, version 2.0.0 from October 30.

Pros

• Turns the people you meet while leveling into a diary you can look back on.
• The October 13 post has 1,784 upvotes, the second most on this list.

Cons

• It records the players around you; the top replies on Reddit are mostly surveillance jokes.
• The author says the addon was developed with AI help.

Screenshot by Torridon from the Happy Camper CurseForge page.

Camping is new in Forever; our camping guide explains the system. Happy Camper shares campfires on the map between its users and shows what is placed at each camp. You can ask players in the zone to bring the buffs you want, and a group can plan camp buffs against class buffs. Camp leaders can play music for other users, and everyone collects badges.

Pros

• Shows where camps are and what each one offers.
• Lets you ask the zone for the camp buffs you want.

Cons

• It only sees camps that other Happy Camper users have started or passed.
• The author calls it a work in progress; version 0.8.8 is from October 20.

These authors also posted on Reddit and have a Forever file on CurseForge. They missed the top ten on downloads or overlap with an addon above.

Lueur overlaps with Loot Sparkles and Node Sight. ShardSource’s release post has 1,593 upvotes, the third most we found, but it is an addon for the Warlock only and its Forever file has not changed since September 21.

New addons sit next to the established ones. Our addon check lists which of Questie, Guidelime, RestedXP, BigWigs, Deadly Boss Mods, Plater and Bartender4 ship a Forever build, and the best leveling addon comparison covers the quest guides. To get any of them into the game, follow how to install addons for WoW Forever. Forever’s own interface already does some of what older addons did: see the HUD and Edit Mode guide and the damage meter guide. Blizzard has said that Forever keeps in-combat addon limits; our addon restrictions report has the source and what it leaves open.

What is the best new map addon for WoW Forever? By downloads, OpenMap: 164,091 on October 31, 2026. High Fidelity World Map, built from minimap data, is an alternative with fewer downloads.

Is there WeakAuras for WoW Forever? WeakAuras had no Forever build when we checked on October 27. Musca Auras is a WeakAuras fork for Forever; its developer says exported auras are not yet tested in the game.

Do these addons work at launch? Every file above lists game version 1.60.1, the beta client. Check each CurseForge page for a new file after the November 4 launch.