WoW Classic Addons

With the launch of WoW Classic Fresh, not only beginners but also experienced players should remember about useful addons, as no World of Warcraft game can do without them. In this guide we will talk about the best addons for World of Warcraft Classic and WoW Classic 20th Anniversary.

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What are Addons in WoW Classic

Almost every WoW player uses them in this or that quantity, some became so popular over the years that developers integrated them into the game itself. So what are addons exactly? These are Modifications made by some Players for others. These Modifications are created especially to make in-game life and experience easier, more comfortable, and less irritating. There are hundreds and hundreds of different addons right now.

They may be of two kinds — the ones for a retail version and the ones for WoW Classic. The majority of addons under today’s discussion are suitable for both of them, so you have to watch carefully for the correct game version before installing each modification. The Classic version of an add-on will have 1.13 figures, while the retailed version addons will be marked as 8.3. We wouldn’t also recommend downloading old versions of any add-on, as they might not work correctly with the latest patches.

Some modifications are more useful than others, some may be in use for certain roles, classes, and even specializations. In this article, we will try to highlight the most useful and popular addons for World of Warcraft Classic.

Where to Get Addons

The very first question, that pops up is Where to find the add-on I need? These are several sites, which provide safe downloading.

• Curseforge;
• Github;
• Tradeskillmaster;
• Tukui;
• Warcrafttavern;
• Wowace;
• Wowinterface.

Note: be very cautious and remember to check every addon before installing it nevertheless.

How to Install WoW Addons

Remember that you install and use any Addon at your own risk. In case you have any problems, direct Add-on/Game Issues to Blizzard or the addon author.

1. Download an addon of your choice from any site;
2. Extract the downloaded archive (.zip, .rar);
3. Place the files into your World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/Add-ons or C:\World of Warcraft\_classic_era_\Interface\AddOns folder.
4. Log in to the game, click the Addons tab located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
5. Make sure all addons are enabled. Otherwise, they won’t function at all.

Best WoW Classic Fresh Addons

With the WoW Classic 20th Anniversary and the fresh start of much loved WoW Classic, you need to be fully prepared for the game in all it’s aspects. As many guilds expect players to use at least a few essential addons, especially for raiding. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a special Classic Fresh list of recommended addons across various categories for your Classic client.

Keep in mind, not all Retail or early Classic addons are compatible or available, as some have been abandoned, replaced, or limited by API restrictions.

Best Quality of Life Addons in WoW Classic Fresh

• Advanced Interface Options: Unlocks hidden interface settings and includes a handy cvar explorer, ideal for players who enjoy customizing their WoW client.
• AtlasLootClassic: Displays loot tables for all in-game content. A must-have since Classic lacks a Dungeon Journal.
• Vendor Price: Adds item vendor prices directly to their tooltips for easy reference.
• Wowhead Client: An addon and application to contribute data to Wowhead’s extensive database.
• Leatrix Plus: Enhances the user interface with quality-of-life improvements, such as auto-selling gray items, auto-accepting resurrections, and streamlining quest interactions.
• Leatrix Maps: Upgrades the default map with features like coordinates, map scaling, and fog of war removal.
• MapCoords Classic: Adds coordinates to your map and minimap for precise navigation.
• WeakAuras: A powerful tool for creating and sharing custom visual indicators to track buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, and more. Players can also import pre-made auras from repositories like Wago.io.
• BugSack: Consolidates Lua error messages into one location, keeping your screen clutter-free.
• Twitch Emotes v2: Converts specific text into Twitch emotes, perfect for staying in the loop with Twitch culture.
• RareScanner: Alerts you with audio and visual cues when a rare NPC is nearby.
• Spy Classic: Tracks nearby enemy players, alerting you to potential PvP threats.

Best Leveling and Questing Addons in WoW Classic

• Questie: A powerful quest helper that improves the questing experience with map markers, objectives, and other quality-of-life features.
• What’s Training?: Displays available and upcoming spells directly in your spellbook, simplifying training decisions.

Best Combat, Raids, and PvP Addons in WoW Classic Fresh

• BigWigs: Provides timers and alerts for boss mechanics. Choose this or Deadly Boss Mods, not both.
• Deadly Boss Mods: Similar to BigWigs, it adds timers and alerts for boss mechanics. Use one or the other.
• HealComm: Shares your incoming healing with other healers, compensating for Classic’s lack of this feature. Note: It may have outdated functionality.
• Details! Damage Meter: Tracks damage, threat, healing, and more in a lightweight, user-friendly interface.
• ClassicAuraDurations: Adds timers to debuffs, improving the default interface. Compatible with OmniCC.
• ClassicSpellActivations: Highlights spells with special activation conditions, such as Overpower.
• OmniCC: Adds timers to ability cooldowns, giving you precise information on when they’ll be ready again.
• MikScrollingBattleText Classic: Displays scrolling combat text during battles.
• Parrot 2: An alternative to MikScrollingBattleText for displaying combat text.
• Nameplate Scrolling Combat Text: Displays scrolling combat text directly on nameplates.
• Clique: Enables mouseover and click-casting for spells, removing the need to manually target players.
• Gargul: Simplifies loot management in pug raids.
• Plater Nameplates: A versatile and customizable nameplate addon.
• Cell: A compact and customizable party and raid frame replacement.
• CharacterStatsClassic: Displays detailed stats like miss chance and in-combat regeneration.
• ItemRack Classic: Manages gear sets, allowing for automatic swaps based on conditions or manual selection.
• Nova Instance Tracker: Tracks instance lockouts and activity.
• Nova World Buffs: Provides timers and alerts for world buffs.

Best Auction House Addons in WoW Classic Fresh

• TradeSkillMaster: The ultimate Auction House addon, offering a comprehensive set of tools for market enthusiasts. However, it requires a learning curve to master.
• Auctionator: A straightforward Auction House addon catering to casual trading needs.
• Auctioneer: Strikes a balance between the simplicity of Auctionator and the depth of TradeSkillMaster.

Best WoW Classic Addons

And now let’s move on to the most interesting part. As it was said, there are hundreds of different addons for all occasions. The majority of them work together perfectly, some require others to be installed, but sometimes they may argue with one another, so you might need to choose. We pick a certain amount of the most interesting WoW Classic addons and divided them into several groups.

User Interface

User Interface Addons — Make a screen just how you want it. They help clean up your view, improve accessibility, and give you the tools to create a setup that perfectly matches your playstyle.

• Neat Plates — A nameplate add-on with a variety of preset and customization options, like debuff tracking or color-coding based on hostility or threat.

• IceHUD — Groups all the needed information at the center of the screen. It shows player’s and target’s health and mana bars, casting and mirror bars, pet health, druid mana bar in forms, extensive target info, etc.
• Pitbull Unit Frames 4.0 — A powerful and highly customizable unit frame add-on, which allows you to rearrange, hide, or otherwise personalize your unit frames. It provides such information as actual mob HP (Real Mob Health need to be installed), duration of auras, cast bars, threat bars (Classic Threat Meter, Details!, or similar addons need to be installed).
• Bartender4 — This is a full action bar replacement and highly configurable add-on, which allows you almost everything: hide or move the Blizzard art, move, separate, combine, or completely hide the bag bar, micro menu, XP bar, and your regular action bars.

• Dominos Classic — Let’s you change the standard UI. This add-on removes the backgrounds completely and allows you to move the bars wherever you like. It will also let you clean the layout completely and set it once again in the way you want.

• Classic Spell Activations — Adds a highlight for spells that have special activation requirements. Lights up spell activation overlay for reactive abilities for each class.

• Tukui — An extensive all-in-one UI add-on, which combines the elements of several of the addons above. It is great for players who don’t want to set up their UI but makes a lot of changes.
• ELVUI — Allows replacing most elements of the default UI with a customizable set of action bars, unit frames and most other conveniences a Player can think of. This add-on is similar to the previous except being more modern.

• OneBag3 — This is one of the most comfortable bag addons, as it combines all the bags you have into one huge sack. It also has a search button, customizes the number of columns, and works with other bag addons.
• Bagnon — Is another very useful bag add-on. It helps the player to find items easier within their inventory, and bank. Beyond the basic all-bags-in-one functionality, Bagnon provides such features as view the items of any character, from anywhere, coloring based on item quality, the detailed tooltip for each item, etc.
• WIM — Improves the overall UI and Chat option. These improvements include whispers and new chats in separate windows.
• Leatrix Plus — Is an efficient and modular add-on that enhances the default user interface.

Questing

Questing Addons will make your trip through Azeroth more enjoyable and efficient. They show you the way to objectives, keep track of progress, and lay out the fastest routes, saving time and letting you focus on adventure.

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• Questie — Probably the most usable add-on in Classic WoW as it adds icons to the map for the quests in your log, shows what quests you can pick up, and presents lots of useful tools. Beware: Questie kills the lore of the game a little bit, but if you are interested in level up to 60 as fast as possible – this is your chance.

• Azeroth AutoPilot Classic — Provides various features such as auto skipping cut scenes, auto talk to NPCs, auto pick up and hand in quests, etc. It is mostly intended for speed leveling. AutoPilot will give you predefined quest paths based on your level, class, and other variables, and provides making hotkeys or macros to use quest items.

• Immersion Classic — This add-on is quite the opposite of Questie. Perfect for those who want to get more into the story of the game. It displays the quest text in a far more pleasing manner and shows the character, which is relaying the dialogue.

• Quest Icon Desaturation — A very simple, though quite useful add-on, which correctly turns quest giver dialogue markers grey for uncompleted quests.
• Classic Quest Log for Classic — Despite the awkward name, this is an invaluable add-on that creates the two-pane quest log, allowing you to see all of your quests on the left, and the currently selected quest information on the right.

Combat

Combat Addons are all about giving you the edge in battle. They help you track your cooldowns, monitor buffs and debuffs, and optimize your performance so that you can focus on delivering the perfect strike at just the right moment.

• Classic Threat Meter — This is an invaluable add-on for every DD member of the raid, as it shows a player’s relative threat values, letting you know who is about to take aggro. The combat log data is used to calculate the amount of threat. A must for any serious endgame dungeon or raid group.

• Recount — A perfect add-on for endgame raiding with a large customization menu. It displays the amount of damage players are doing, has an auto-reset option after a fight, and gives the possibility to view previous fights. Useful for Tanks and Healers as well, as it displays healing and threat stats.
• Details! Damage Meter Classic — Grants not only Damage Done data, but also different details, such as how many times a certain healer cast a concrete cooldown on the Main Tank. The interface is clean, easy to use, and dynamic. Perfect for Raid Leaders.
• Shadowed Unit Frames — A customizable unit frame add-on, similar to Pitbull (see the description above). It displays such information as incoming heals, auras, health bars, cast bars, power bars, portraits, indicators, and so on. You can also change from one profile to another without reloading your UI.

• Mik Scrolling Battle Text Classic — Customize the default damage numbers, along with incoming healing, and other information. We recommend spending some time setting up this add-on, as the out of the box settings can display extra information which may be unnecessary for some players.
• Real Mob Health — One of the easiest, yet essential addons for WoW Classic, as it shows the number of XP points of an enemy. Unfortunately, only percentages are available, but this is already much better than having nothing.

• Classic Castbars — As long as there are no target cast bars available in the game, this mod adds them, so you can see what and when exactly an enemy is casting so that you could interrupt the correct spell easier and faster. The Player’s cast bar may be modified also. Perfect decision for PvP Players.

• Omni CC — Is a small but very popular add-on that adds text to items, spells, and abilities that are on cooldown to indicate when they will be ready to use. All the standard analog cooldowns are transformed into digital ones. Work with the majority of other addons.
• Omni Bar — This is an extremely lightweight add-on. It is used to track enemy cooldowns. Omni Bar is easily customized, and has a rich feature set, like: multiple bars, cooldown count, tracks multiple players, customizable cooldowns. You may use it in arenas and battlegrounds.

• Lose Control — Displays duration of all crowd control spells, abilities, and buffs/debuffs on your Character, pet, target, party, raid group. Supports PvP interrupts and may be customized according to your needs.
• H.H.T.D. (Healers Have To Die) — This is a very useful PvP orientated add-on, as it finds and automatically adds a special symbol on healing players. The add-on shows their class and current healing rank. It will also help you to protect the healers from your group alerting you when they are being attacked.
• Spy Classic — Scans for enemy Players and warns you when they’re nearby. The add-on will try to provide as much information about the enemy as possible. It may be class race and level. You can share data with your party, raid, or guild in case they are using Spy as well.

Dungeons and Raids

Dungeons and Raids Addons are your best allies when tackling Azeroth’s toughest challenges. From tracking boss mechanics to managing cooldowns and positioning, these tools ensure you’re always prepared to lead your group to victory.

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• Atlas Loot Classic — This is a UI mod that gives access to the loot tables of bosses everywhere and at any time and shows a full list of the Best In Slot items for your class and where to get them. It also provides information about crafting materials, created items, and skill ranks.

• Atlas Classic WoW — Provides instances maps to the Player, marks the locations of major bosses, provides detailed and accurate information about all of the creatures, NPCs, objects, and events you’ll encounter in each instance.
• Deadly Boss Mods – Classic (DBM) — It is a dungeon support add-on. Probably the best and most popular among others of its kind. DBM warns you when a boss is about to use certain abilities that might require you to move or counter its spell.
• Big Wigs Bossmods — The boss encounter add-on. It triggers alert messages, timers, and sounds for specific encounters. This add-on is similar to DBM, but the memory/second and CPU/second footprint of Big Wigs is the lowest among all boss mod addons.

• TellMeWhen — Another highly customizable modification that provides visual, auditory, and textual notifications about elements of combat such as cooldowns, buffs and debuffs, reactive abilities, temporary weapon enchants, totems, runes, spell casts, and any combination of over 110 other things with easy-to-use conditions.
• Weak Auras 2 — This powerful and flexible framework add-on is necessary for anyone who plans on doing raiding. It tracks auras, health, power (mana, rage, soul shards, holy power, etc.), cooldowns, combat events, runes, totems, items, and more. Everything is customizable.
• Decursive — This add-on tracks the cursed members of the raid/party. Allows you to prioritize decursing some classes over others. Decursive supports all classes with cleansing abilities and configures itself automatically. It is suitable for both PvE and PvP as you can polymorph/cyclone/hex mind-controlled players.

Auction House

Designed to make the chaotic world of buying and selling a breeze, these addons will make hunting for the best deals or managing your sales even easier. Save time and help yourself make as much gold as possible with these tools. You can also save your time and get any amount of Gold you need from us!

• Trade Skill Master 4 — This add-on is designed especially to help both players new to the gold making process and experienced auction house goblins. It comes with powerful tools that help you earn gold and speed up everything related to buying/selling items on the Auction House.

• Auctionator Classic — Simple add-on that makes the auction experience easier. It helps searching, buying, and selling items either per stack or per unit. It helps track the cost of items and will store the cost of how much certain items are being auctioned.
• Auctioneer — Another AH mod that can make you feel a real stock gambler. You will learn how to track, sell, and buy items easily. It also shows in-depth information for all in-game items, such as those used in quests or profession recipes.
• Aux — This is an AH add-on which specializes in the gear items. Check the vendor prices to see how much gold you will get for selling a particular piece of gear.

Quality of Life

Quality of Life Addons are all about smoothing out your time in Azeroth. From streamlining a few mundane tasks to helping keep your interface organized. The addons work like your personal assistants, taking care of all the minute details and letting you focus on the adventure ahead.

• Advanced Interface Options — Gives a Player the following options: adds stop auto-attack or attacks on assist buttons for pets, fades map when moving, displays Lua errors, adds cleanup bags button, has a quest sorting mode, etc. It also adds floating combat text: energy and honor gains, auras, changes in reputation, combo points, shows combat state (entering/leaving combat), spell mechanics, healing, absorb (self and target), low HP/mana.

• MapCoords — This small and quite simple add-on will display map coordinates at the top of the minimap.
• Coordinates by TomCat’s Tours — This add-on is similar to the previous one, but it shows the coordinates on both minimap and World map. The coordinates of a cursor on the World map are displayed too. This is a big help to the ones, who are stuck and can’t find that exact place, NPC, or an item.

• Simple Map — A useful mod that reduces the size of the World map and removes the black background, which allows the Player to see the map without blocking out the rest of the screen. The map fades while the Character is moving.

• Vendor Price — Shows the vendor selling price of a concrete item on the game’s tooltip for that item at any moment. Pairs well with Item Tooltip Profession Icons (see below). It also shows the selling price per unit.

• Item Tooltip Profession Icons — Adds small icons to item tooltips, indicating whether they’re used for a profession or a quest (only tradable items). It also tracks items that can be exchanged for Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets. Compact, non-invasive, and customizable, and is extremely good for knowing what items you can sell safely, and which you might want to hold onto.
• Gather Mate 2 — A quite useful tracking and collecting professional materials add-on. It shows herbs, mines, and fishing pools, and displays them on both the world map and minimap. Gather Mate remembers the locations and spots, at which you have gathered resources before. The add-on offers a pre-filled data module called GatherMate2_Data (which needs to be installed separately), so Players don’t need to discover all herbs and mines by themselves, but can just start gathering right away.

Class Addons

All the above-described addons you may use by any class and any role in the game, as each gives Players various options. However, there are some modifications, which are made especially for certain classes or even specializations. We will present the patient reader with the most important ones below.

Note: if the title of a concrete add-on has no description, search for it in the text above.

Druid

Druid addons make managing shapeshifting, HoTs, and mana regeneration much smoother. They also help you track buffs and debuffs across multiple forms, which is essential for this versatile class.

• Druid Bar — This is a very simple yet important add-on for all Druids, as it allows them to see their mana bar even while shapeshifted.
• (Tank) Gear Menu — This is a very useful add-on for all classes and specializations, as it saves gear sets of a Player. It is very easy to change your current gear in no time without all those searches throughout the inventory. Gear Menu is irreplaceable for those who use several specs permanently.

• (Heal) VuhDo — This is a raid frame monitor add-on that displays the health of raid members in the form of clearly arranged bars. VuhDo is primarily directed to healing classes but will make use to almost any other class. It also can show several healing spells or other actions at the same time.
• (Heal) Heal Comm Classic — This is a simple, lightweight yet crucial add-on for all raiding healers. It is highly configurable, has the incoming heal and Feign Death indicators. It easily communicates with other healing addons. Shows the Player incoming heals on a target from anyone who also uses this add-on and how much your HoTs will heal on the target.

• (Heal) Five Second Rule — Shows the countdown of the five seconds (FSR or 5SR) until your mana from Spirit will regenerate, as well as each tick once the five seconds are over. The timer starts counting down whenever the player successfully spends mana.
• Leatrix Plus;
• Pitbull Unit Frames 4.0;
• Bartender4;
• Decursive;
• Gear Menu.

Hunter

Hunter addons track your pet’s happiness, ammo, and cooldowns, so you’re never caught unprepared. They also make kiting and managing traps much easier, giving you an edge in tough encounters.

• Weapon Swing Timer – This add-on is, without a doubt, an absolute requirement to play a Hunter effectively in Classic WoW, for it tracks your and your target’s swing timers. It also shows the Auto Shot timing and other shots’ casting time. Works for wand users as well.

• Classic Aura Durations – Displays the remaining time on Buffs/Debuffs.
• And Omni CC which indicates your CC.

Mage

Mages can use addons to track their spell cooldowns and manage crowd control with ease. They’re also great for keeping an eye on mana usage and coordinating utility spells.

• Decursive;
• Weak Auras 2.

Paladin

With addons, Paladins can easily manage their auras and blessings, ensuring no buff is forgotten. They also simplify healing and cooldown tracking, making it easier to balance support and combat.

Pally Power Classic – This add-on provides an interactive and easy to use interface that allows you to set your blessings and automatically checks for missing buffs with an easy to read indicator. Usable in dungeons and raids and can assign blessings to other Paladins. None of the assignments can be changed in combat, unfortunately, due to the in-combat lock-out.

• (Tank) Gear Menu;
• (Heal) VuhDo;
• (Heal) Heal Comm Classic;
• Classic Threat Meter;
• Decursive;
• Weapon Swing Timer.

Priest

Addons help Priests monitor healing priorities with customizable raid frames and track mana efficiently. They also provide timers for cooldowns and buffs, ensuring you stay on top of your support role.

• Trinket Menu – A special trinket-changing add-on. It shows two equipped trinkets in a bar. Mouseover on either trinket will display a menu of up to 30 trinkets in the bags to swap.
• Clique – Allows the user to bind certain spells, abilities, and unit frame actions to whatever keyboard and mouse combinations they wish. It also combines with the majority of interface addons.
• Classic Aura Durations;
• Classic Castbars;
• Classic Threat Meter;
• (Heal) VuhDo;
• (Heal) Heal Comm Classic;
• (Heal) Five Second Rule;
• Dominos Classic or Classic Castbars.

Rogue

Rogues benefit from addons that track combo points and energy regeneration, letting you time your abilities perfectly. You’ll also find tools that make managing poisons and cooldowns effortless.

• Nug Energy — This is an essential Rogue add-on, as it shows the tick rate for every incoming 20 energy. The add-on is customizable and is suitable for both PvP and PvE. It also alerts the user if the energy is capped.
• Tulla Range — Another handy Rogue mod that makes standard action buttons appear red when the target is out of range. Colors for both the out of range and the out of mana/energy/rage indicators are customizable.
• Trinket Menu;
• Classic Aura Durations;
• Classic Castbars.

Shaman

Shaman addons make totem management and tracking their duration a breeze, letting you focus on supporting your team. They also improve your ability to manage cooldowns and monitor resource usage in both healing and damage roles.

• Classic Aura Durations;
• Weak Auras 2;
• Clique;
• (Heal) VuhDo;
• (Heal) Heal Comm Classic;
• (Heal) Five Second Rule.

Warlock

Addons for Warlocks make tracking DoTs and soul shards much simpler, saving you from micromanagement. They also help with pet control and cooldown tracking, ensuring you maximize your chaotic damage output.

• Necrosis — A Warlock special add-on helps you manage Soul Shards, Soul Stones, Health Stones, Fire Stones, and Spell Stones. It also provides an easy menu to summon demons, give buffs, summon players, apply curses, and tracks DoT timers.
• Classic Aura Durations;
• Classic Threat Meter;
• Classic Castbars;
• Weak Auras 2.

Warrior

Addons for Warriors help you track your threat levels and manage your stances seamlessly, making tanking less stressful. They also optimize your rage usage and let you focus on delivering powerful strikes at the right moment.

• (Tank) Gear Menu;
• Weapon Swing Timer;
• Weak Auras 2;
• Bartender4.

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Addons have been such a part of the WoW Classic experience, smoothing out gameplay to make it less frustrating and much more intuitive. With a ton of options available, especially with the launch of WoW Classic Fresh and 20th Anniversary, there’s an add-on to suit every need, be it of a casual adventurer or even of a hardcore raider. So go ahead, dig in, learn about the possibilities, and let these handy tools enhance your journey through Azeroth.