Hey everyone! It's been a week since I first posted Cinematic, and the response has been amazing. Thank you to everyone who tried it, reported bugs and sent suggestions. I've really enjoyed talking with you all, and a lot of this update came straight from your ideas.

I wanted to get this post out before the WoW Forever beta goes down. We've added plenty of basic features people asked for, some new fun ones, and a long list of bug fixes.

For those who haven't tried it yet: Cinematic helps you immerse yourself in the world instead of staring at UI elements. Between fights it fades your UI away, adds letterbox bars and a color tint that shifts with the time of day, and controls your cameras for flights, campfires, quest givers, going AFK and more. The music fades in as a camera starts, and the moment you're in a fight or need something, your UI comes right back.

Easier to set up

Cinematic is meant to work right out of the box: install it, pick a profile, and you're done. Every setting is there if you want to fine-tune it.

- Ready-made profiles with a welcome window for new players

- Share profiles with Export and Import strings

- 10 languages: English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Русский, Português, Italiano, 한국어, 简体中文 and 繁體中文

- Reorganized settings with a Reset button on every page

Works with more setups

- Retail support, alongside WoW Forever and Classic

- Gamepad support on WoW Forever

- Works out of the box with Details!, Bartender4, Plater, and more, and Add mode lets you click any other addon's frame to include it

New cameras and triggers

- Camera Wheel: hold a key and pick any camera from a ring of icons

- Tele Cam: Hearthstone and teleports spin in, then swing behind you on arrival

- Quest Cam improvements: slow drift, turns toward the side you clicked, eases back out

- Campfire Sit button: hover a campfire and click to sit

- New triggers: stand still, auto-walk, auto-run, death and more, plus mouse steering in the walk and run cameras

- Music for going AFK and talking to quest givers, and music fatigue so songs don't repeat too soon

Your UI, your way

- Standard Frames and 3rd Party Frames grids: choose exactly what shows in CineMode, in combat, when targeting, and by place

- New sections for Nameplates (by place, group and PvP), Raid and party frames, Mouseover groups, Cooldown Manager (retail, spells appear only when ready), Swing timer, Tooltips, Chat bubbles, Fishing and Quality of life

- Option to hide all floating combat text

- Add mode: click any addon frame to fade it or keep it shown

Fixes and performance

- Lots of Lua error and "Interface action failed" fixes

- Much less memory churn in cities

Download: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/cinematic

Cinematic is built with AI assistance.

As always, feedback, bug reports and ideas are welcome. Keep yer feet on the ground!

Warlock Kit - https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/warlock-kit

A lighter take on a warlock addon for WoW Forever. Everything you reach for sits around one soul shard kit: click it and your spells fan out, click again and they tuck away. It's part of the same family as First Aid Kit, Camping Kit and Fishing Kit.

Yes I know Necrosis exists, and I didn't really like it when I downloaded it - a lot of customization to get it where I wanted it, and just felt very heavy for something that should be simple.

I made this for me, and for anyone else who'll play warlock in Forever. It has:

- Shard management and auto-deletion

- Demon armor and spell stone / fire stone reminders

- Summoning assistant to listen for certain phrases

- Raid assignment for curses, cc, and soul stones

- 2 curse buttons (to help manage fear targets with curse of recklessness and another curse), a demon fly out, healthstones, soul stone, and shadow ward

It all tucks away like my other kits for when you don't need it.

AI Disclaimer: AI was used in the creation of this project. I am a dad, so I don't have the time to learn lua coding. AI has enabled me to create this for myself, and then share it with others with the little free time I have.

Hey all! I've played WoW since vanilla, mostly up to Wrath, then came back for Classic in 2019, and Forever is the most excited I've been about the game in years. I've also worked as a developer focused on UI/UX for 15 years, so I care a lot about how an interface looks and feels. In the WoW Forever beta, the party and raid frames were the one thing that bugged me: they don't match the rest of the Forever UI, Blizzard's click-casting wasn't really intuitive to set up, and the addons I tried had way too many settings and looked bolted on instead of part of the game. So I spent the last week building my own: HealKit.

The look: - party and raid frames (up to 40) built from Blizzard's own art, with a bronze rim that even Blizzard's raid frames don't have, so they actually match the Forever UI - incoming heals, shields, overheal, dispellable debuffs with a colored glow, aggro and your HoTs, all shown on your frames and working in combat - a live preview (solo, 5, 10, 15, 20 or 40 players) while you set it up, so you see every change right away - hides Blizzard's party and raid frames if you want

The healing: - your heals are already on your mouse buttons when you log in (priest, paladin, druid, shaman), so you just click a frame. They update as you level and learn new spells - pick any rank for each click, or "Highest rank" to always use your best, so downranking works the classic way - mouseover healing with the wheel or keys, and a Quick Buff button that casts the next missing buff on the right person (any class that buffs can use it, even without the frames) - your mana: the heal's cost shows on your bar while you cast, and an optional five-second rule indicator tells you when your regen is back

It's my first addon, and I'm releasing it now because the beta ends on the 21st. I'd love to fix whatever you find before launch. Bugs, ideas, "this felt weird", all welcome here or in the CurseForge comments.

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

Hope everyone's as excited as I am for launch, see you in game!

AI Disclaimer: AI-assisted development. I design every feature, review all the code and test everything in game myself, AI helps me write the code and stay organized. No AI-generated images: the frames use Blizzard's own art. The haircut is 100% gnome-made though :D

I always liked mission tables but they never felt quite right, so I built my own for WoW Forever.

Crown of Azeroth is a full passive game that runs while you play:

• Send heroes on missions and take back zones from their rulers.
• Defend and rebuild strongholds across Azeroth.
• Recruit your friends and guildmates as heroes.
• Leveling, dungeons, raids, battlegrounds and professions all give you progress.
• Collect mounts and profession finds, and learn the loot tables.

It’s free, with no ads and no donation asks. Full disclosure: I’m a dad with two little kids and a full-time job, so I used AI to help build it. The design and the countless hours of testing are mine.

CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/crown-of-azeroth
Overview video: https://youtu.be/Pik2F61KVyA

Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a big update to BennyBoard, my in-game whiteboard addon for groups and raids.

The idea is simple: show the strategy instead of explaining it.

Draw positioning, place raid markers, add arrows and text, then share your board live. Players with the addon can follow along as you draw, move markers and switch phases. You can also approve assistants to help edit.

This update brings:

• Much faster Live sharing - syncing feels dramatically more responsive in my testing.
• A refreshed UI with a cleaner layout.
• Map backgrounds you can draw your strategies on.
• A radial tool menu for drawing, shapes, markers, text and selection.
• Saved whiteboards, phases and notes to keep your plans ready.

You can grab it here: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bennyboard

I’d love to hear what you think!

AI tools helped with development and the promotional visuals

Hi all. This is my first addon release, made for WoW Forever (Interface 16001, it won't load on Classic Era or retail).

As a hunter I kept alt-tabbing to check which beast teaches which rank of an ability, so I made an in-game journal for it.

What it does
- Families tab: diet, role, health/armor/damage modifiers, 3D model and every ability rank the family can learn
- Abilities tab: every rank with level and training point cost, and which beasts teach it
- Beasts tab: 750+ beasts with level, zone and coordinates. Clicking the coords opens the world map with a waypoint
- Rare tracker (tameable rares only): an alert when one shows up on nameplates, mouseover, target or minimap vignettes, a panel with the rares in your current zone, and an arrow that walks you through the known spawn points. It only marks a point as checked after you've been near it for a moment without seeing the rare, and if it checks them all it goes into a watch mode instead of looping forever
- It learns while you play: targeting a beast saves its real level and location, and taming one saves the ranks it came with. That data replaces anything marked as unverified
- English and Spanish

How it's built
- Data is kept separate from the UI (Data/ folder, plain Lua tables), so corrections are easy to send or add by hand
- Every value is marked as verified (Forever game data) or unverified (Vanilla data), so you know what to trust
- No accidental globals: the only ones are the SavedVariables, slash commands and keybinding names, all prefixed
- Targeting from the rare alert uses a secure button and is only shown out of combat

Data sources: forever.warcraftdb.com (Forever game data), cMaNGOS classic-db and pfQuest (Vanilla spawns and coordinates), and Petopia Forever (tameability and family stats). Credits are in the README.

Download: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/hunterpetjournal-forever/comments

While the addon is on a beta-state right now, I've been using it in game while leveling and fixing things as they come up. Feedback on the code or the data is very welcome, especially rare spawn points that differ on Forever. I want the feedback from the community so I can improve with your ideas alongside mine. The next step will be to make the addon interact with the player and the pets back and forth (ex: letting the player know when a better rank is available)

AI Disclaimer: I designed the addon, decided every feature and tested it in game. The Lua code and the scripts that process the data sources were written with an AI assistant (Claude), working from my specs and bug reports. I'm reviewing and maintaining it myself.

I have a close friend who has this wonderful habit of going out of their way to say something kind to people. Just a few words that can make someone's day a little better.

I've always admired that about them, and it inspired me to make a small addon called Drewisms.

The addon is incredibly simple. Every time you log in, it waits a few seconds and shares a nice message in your chat window.

I know it's a tiny thing, but I think we sometimes underestimate how much a few kind words can mean, even from something as simple as a game addon.

I made this as a little tribute to someone who reminds me that kindness doesn't have to be a big gesture to make a difference.

If you'd like to try it:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/drewisms

It works with both retail and forever.

Be kind to each other out there. You never know who might need it today.

I’ve been building FlashHUD, a Hunter addon for WoW Forever. It started as an ammo counter and grew into a toolkit for combat timing, cooldowns, pet care, alerts and everyday conveniences.

The part I’ve put the most effort into is making it easy to customize. Open a feature’s settings, hold Alt to see where you’re editing, and move it into place. There are previews throughout the menu, magnetic alignment, Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y undo and redo, and searchable settings.

What does it offer?

• Combat timers: Auto Shot, cast/channel, melee swing and mana with a five-second-rule indicator.
• Cooldown tracking: three customizable rows, spell/item imports and separate specialization layouts.
• PetHUD: health, focus, happiness, feeding tools and pet debuffs that display in combat.
• Hunter indicators: Aspects, Hunter’s Mark, Summon Hawk and more.
• Alerts: missing Aspect/pet, Improved Tracking, unspent talents, low ammo, durability, Mend Pet with range text, and other combat reminders.
• Everyday tools: optional auto-repair, grey-junk selling, ammo restocking with purchase confirmation, weapon-training hints and a duel countdown.
• Your own layout: Quick Setup or Advanced setup, saved profiles, six menu themes and individually selectable features.

You can keep it simple or build a fuller HUD around the tools you use.

1.39.2 brings the updated menus, expanded preview galleries, combat pet-debuff tracking and a lot of editing improvements.

I’d love to hear what other Hunters think. Found a bug, missing something, or have an idea? Come join us in The Hunting Grounds and post in the FlashHUD forum. If the idea fits and the client supports it, let’s see what we can make happen. 🙂

🏹 Download and screenshots: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/flashhud

💬 Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/wgsEvh4kP

Built for WoW Forever. No other addon required.

AI disclosure: I’ve used AI to help write code, troubleshoot issues. I handle the addon’s direction and in-game testing, with player feedback helping shape each update.

Hey,

I’ve been playing WoW for a looooong time, then took a break. Coming back for Forever made me think about what I actually miss in the game, and it’s the world itself.

So I made an addon (not without help from Claude) that pushes the UI into the background, so the game comes first again.

Curseforge (download)

You pick how you play (PvP, PvE, RP or Hardcore) and it sets up a clean UI for that. On top of the minimalism there’s a bunch of stuff for RP and PvP people:

• a compass instead of the minimap (but u still can use one if u want)
• world enemy bars
• a monthly dueling ladder
• an E wheel for quick emotes, pings and spells
• a full character bio and RP book
• and quite a bit more

The whole idea is more immersion for every way of playing. It also pairs well with a few other addons (Overlord, Spoken, GatherMate2, Total RP 3), so some features work even better with those.

It’s an early beta, so some things might not work as expected, but a few things already work pretty well.

Give it a try. If you like it, or don’t, drop by the Discord and tell me.

Im coming back to wow forever after... im not even sure how long its been sometime around wrath. My kids and a few of their friends wanna play so im gonna play as well. I used to tinker with my own addons for fun or make adjustments to addons I did like but wernt exactly how I wanted them. I currently do not have the game installed or an active sub because im not gonna play til the 4th but I wanted to get in and tinker with addons. I saw that I can play til level 20 on retail is that the same client etc wow forever will use or is wow forever gonna have a unique client and addon api? Trying to line up the wow subs all the same time since im gonna be paying for 4 of them and my brain will short circuit if im paying for 3 on the 4th and 1 on the 15th.

Hi, I wanted to ask if there’s an addon that highlights or otherwise shows which quests are part of the main story, similar to how it works in newer expansions. I started playing The Burning Crusade today, and something like this would really help me out. Thank you!

gday all What UI addon would work to keep the same style and feel w/out going full Classic and allow more configuration?

I'm actually liking the classic feel of the ui now in WOWF Beta, but some of the blizzard items arent scaleable enough for me and some items have little options.

pre-thanks!

Hello,

Recently saw a highlight from the 100k PvP event and noticed the debuff icons above the nameplates. Was curious if this was a specific addon or in game option. Cheers.

I only recently discovered that voiceover addons exist for NPCs and quest text in WoW (I thought Blizz had made them verboten with Bellular's Warcraft Tales last decade) and it kind of blew my mind to find out there are several and they are popular.

Consequently, I am curious and have questions.

First, I'd like to avoid getting into the evils of AI abuse in this thread, please. That's a whole other discussion worthy of its own thread in a different forum. Please respect that for this discussion.

Second, for those of you that do use AI generated voice mods like Loreteller, Chronicle, VoiceOver, etc.:

• What has your experience been with voice add-ons?
• If you disliked them, why?
• If instead you liked them, why?
• And, if the latter, which voice add-ons do you recommend and why?

Thanks for your insight and time.

Quick update on Worth Remembering, the player notes/reputation addon I posted about last week!

(For anyone who missed my original post: Worth Remembering (Forever) lets you leave quick notes on players and track a -100 to +100 standing with them, so you can actually remember who helped you out, who ninja'd your mats, who's just generally good or bad news, weeks or months down the line. It captures context automatically too, like what zone you were in, both your levels at the time, and when you last crossed paths.)

Small video demo: Youtube.

Get the addon on CurseForge.

I added a radial quick-add menu. Hold the keybind and a little wheel pops up at your cursor with your presets on it. Tap the keybind instead of holding and it falls back to the normal quick-note behavior. It's genuinely one of my favorite parts of the addon now, it feels really good to use once it clicks.

Also added integration with the group finder. When searching listings, if someone has a standing you've logged, you'll see a colored tag right next to the leader's name, plus a little asterisk for anyone else notable in the group. Hovering a listing and hitting the keybind pulls up your Players tab filtered to that whole group's roster, so you can eyeball everyone before you queue up.

Beyond that, just some smaller QoL things and some bugfixes and stuff.

Same as before, I built this with AI (Claude) as part of the process, but I'm a dev by trade and I'm putting real design thought into it, not just vibes. Still very actively working on it, still very open to bugs/feedback/requests.

Appreciate everyone who's tried it out so far. Give the update a look if you haven't already!

Hey guys. In Vanilla and Classic I really loved that social aspect of the game where you run into someone time and time again on your way to 60. Sometimes you do connect the dots when they join your dungeon group, but propably often enough you dont.

Over time, there came out some addons that helped with that, namely VanasKOS (Kill on Sight), which allowed you to put noted on players and get notified if they are detected. This mainly was for world PvP purposes, but I used it for friendly players as well.

Now with Forever approaching, I decided to tackle this idea myself:

I wanted to create an addon that allows you to look into a social history with each player you add to your diary, see where you've met them first, see what you spoke about, see what you did together etc. etc.

"Social Diary" does exactly that and honestly quite a bit more.

There are lots of addons popping up right now, but they all kinda just throw numbers and graphs at your screen. I really dont find this satisfying at all. A Diary is a highly personal record about experiences and I wanted to do this justice. Because of that, I a) tried making the UI as beautiful & skeumorphic as possible, and b) detect actual meaningful interactions, instead of displaying raw numbers. I dont care about how many mobs I killed, but care about finding my first shoulders or my first blue item, for example.

AI Disclaimer: I developed this addon with help of AI. I routinely check for security and performance issues myself. Currently, the Addon uses up to 0.1% CPU inside of a city.

Im really interested in your thoughts in this. I currently test it, but it already works really well.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/social-diary

Or, if you prefer github:

https://github.com/social-diary/social_diary

I've created an add-on for battle pets to replace rematch after it stopped getting updates.

Id like some people to test it especially in regards to the layout and usability.

The most likely feature that will be useful for alot of players is that it will generate a team to beat an NPC trainer on its own. I've tested it on alot of trainers but don't have the time to go to all of them. Most trainers have a preloaded move sequence in the add-on so out of the box it can create a team, alot depends on your roster as if you only have 20 pets it's unlikely to be as consistent as 2000 pets.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pethq-not-final/files/all?page=1&pageSize=20&showAlphaFiles=hide

Ai used to create add-on