Addon starter pack for new players in WoW Forever
Fewer addons mean fewer errors after each patch. This pack covers what a new player misses most in the default interface, and every addon in it has a Forever version (checked on November 5, 2026). How to install them: How to install addons.
Before adding anything, turn on the built-in options from Forever’s built-in interface: Edit Mode, cooldown numbers and the damage meter.
The pack
| Addon | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Questie | Quest givers, objectives and turn-ins on the map. The one addon almost everyone uses while leveling. |
| Leatrix Plus | Auto repair, junk selling, faster looting and many small fixes. Go through its settings once and turn on only what you want. |
| Leatrix Maps | Shows unexplored areas, zone levels and dungeon entrances on the world map. |
| Baganator | All bags in one window, with item counts across your characters. |
| Auctionator | Auction prices in tooltips and a much simpler way to buy and sell. |
| GatherMate2 | Remembers herbs, ore and fishing spots you have found. Only if you take a gathering profession. |
| tullaRange | Buttons turn red when the target is out of range. |
| BugSack | Keeps Lua errors out of your way and saves them for a bug report. |
That is eight addons, and the first three already change leveling the most.
Optional
- Pawn marks upgrades with a green arrow. Its default stat weights come from Classic, and Forever changed classes and items, so use the arrow as a hint, not an order.
- TomTom adds a waypoint arrow; type
/way 45 60to mark a point in the current zone. - A leveling guide addon: RestedXP Guides or Guidelime. Our own leveling guides by class are in the classes section.
- idTip shows item and spell IDs in tooltips, handy for looking things up in our database.
What to skip at first
- Full UI replacements like ElvUI. They are worth it once you know what you want to change; on a first character they hide the default layout that guides and screenshots refer to.
- WeakAuras copies. WeakAuras itself has no Forever version, and the forks are for players who already know what they want to track. The built-in Cooldown Manager is enough at the start.
- Two addons for the same job, such as two bag addons or two map addons. They fight over the same frames.
Questie and the new content
Questie knows the original quests well, but quests that are new in Forever, including the Skyborne starting zone and the new zones, may still lack data. If Questie shows nothing for a quest, read the quest text and check our database.