The 10 best WoW: Forever add-ons, and where to download them

These are the ten add-ons we'd install first in WoW: Forever. Every one is listed for Forever on CurseForge and free to download there. Between them they cover leveling, the map, quest text, your interface, boss fights and the errors that come with running add-ons. Download counts are CurseForge's totals across every game version on 11 November 2026, so add-ons that have been around for years show more downloads than their Forever use alone.

Our number one, Wowdee, has the same owner as WoW Campfire.

1. Wowdee

Wowdee is a free add-on made for Forever that puts the things you check between pulls into one window in the game. Its 1–60 leveling guide takes you from every starting zone to 60 with an arrow pointing the way, and picks up and hands in the guide's quests for you. It pins rares, dungeon entrances, trainers, gathering spots and quest givers on your world map, lists each dungeon's quests and loot, finds gear upgrades, plans your talents and keeps every character's gold, bags and banks in one place.

Each helper has its own switch, and the interface comes in 14 languages. Download Wowdee on CurseForge, or read what Wowdee does first.

2. OpenMap

OpenMap stitches every zone map into one seamless world map. Scroll out of Elwynn Forest and you see Westfall, Duskwood and Redridge, then the continent, then the world, all in the game's own map art. It adds flight paths, boat and zeppelin routes, dungeon entrances with their level ranges, search and a Find me button, and it works inside the normal world map rather than replacing it.

If you also run Wowdee, Wowdee draws its pins on OpenMap's map. OpenMap asks you to turn off other world map add-ons, such as Leatrix Maps, to avoid conflicts. It's open source and still in its first releases, with 2.0 million downloads. Download OpenMap on CurseForge.

3. Spoken

Spoken reads the game to you. NPCs speak their quest text and gossip, zones tell their stories in a panel beside the world map, and books, letters and plaques read themselves page by page. The voices are AI-generated and matched to each character, and the game turns its music down while a line plays. Spoken never reads your mail.

The voices are separate downloads: install the voice pack for each part you want, or Spoken: English to get every English pack at once. 2.1 million downloads. Download Spoken on CurseForge.

4. EllesmereUI

EllesmereUI replaces your interface with a modular suite: action bars, unit frames, nameplates, party and raid frames, the minimap, chat, bags, a damage meter and more. Each part is a module you can switch on or off, and its Unlock Mode lets you move, snap and resize every element on screen.

Wowdee has an optional bag window too, so keep only one bag window switched on. 10.7 million downloads. Download EllesmereUI on CurseForge.

5. Details! Damage Meter

Details! shows your group's damage, healing and other combat numbers as the fight happens. Plugins add an encounter summary, damage and healing charts and a larger death log. If you run EllesmereUI's damage meter, you only need one of the two. 376 million downloads. Download Details! on CurseForge.

6. Deadly Boss Mods

Deadly Boss Mods warns you about boss abilities in dungeons and raids, with timer bars and short messages that tell you what to do rather than just naming the spell. Install the core add-on and its Forever and Vanilla module, which holds the boss mods for Forever's raids. Dungeon mods come in DBM's separate dungeons package. 642 million downloads. Download Deadly Boss Mods on CurseForge.

7. ForeverAuras

ForeverAuras lets you build your own on-screen alerts for buffs, debuffs, cooldowns and other information. Its author made it as a replacement for WeakAuras in Forever, and describes it as still under development. Type /fa to open it. 952,000 downloads. Download ForeverAuras on CurseForge.

8. GTFO

GTFO plays a warning sound when you're standing in fire or something else that's hurting you. It uses different sounds for heavy and light damage, so you know how fast to move. Type /gtfo options to change the sounds and volume. 101 million downloads. Download GTFO on CurseForge.

9. Dialogue UI

Dialogue UI replaces the quest and NPC dialogue window. You can accept quests and pick options with a keyboard key or a gamepad button, let the camera move in for a closer view, make the text bigger and copy it. It also shows the lore text when you pick up a quest item. 8.6 million downloads. Download Dialogue UI on CurseForge.

10. BugSack

When an add-on breaks, BugSack collects its Lua errors in one list you can open and copy, with the full details, instead of leaving them as popups. It needs BugGrabber, which does the catching, so install both. A copied error is the most useful thing to send an add-on's author. 18.1 million downloads. Download BugSack on CurseForge.

How to install them

The CurseForge app installs and updates add-ons for you. To install one by hand, download its zip, close WoW, copy the add-on's folder from the zip into the Interface/AddOns folder inside your game folder, then start the game and check it's enabled in the AddOns list on the character screen. To update by hand, replace the folder the same way.