ForeverDB: the WoW Forever addon

ForeverDB puts the website in the game and helps by itself while you play: a leveling window and quest plan, its own world map with every pin you need, a rotation assistant, upgrades for your spec, your professions, dungeons and raids. It's made by ForeverDB.net, it's free, it needs no account, and it works on top of any interface: EllesmereUI, ElvUI, Bartender4 or Blizzard's own.

Or install and update it with an addon app: CurseForge, Wago

One download, the whole ForeverDB addon: the ForeverDB_Helper and ForeverDB folders. See everything it does.

New in the last few weeks

• 0.57.22: the coloured noise and purple blocks on the zoomed-out map are fixed. Forever's new quests learn which faction they're for from the quest givers players meet, so the guide stops sending you to the other side's quests.
• 0.57.20: quests a giver doesn't offer you are learned from every ForeverDB player and left out of your guide before you walk there.
• 0.57.19: everything from the website's profession guides: recipe filters (what levels me, new or changed in Forever), gathering by skill range, fishing by zone, skinning by zone, the disenchanting table, best-in-slot crafts for every class and the Which professions suit me quiz.
• 0.57.17: the game's own drawn maps of the capital cities on ForeverDB's world map.
• 0.56: the Leveling window, redone, and a new 3D waypoint arrow you can't read backwards.
• 0.55: search the world map for any zone, flight master, inn, trainer, NPC, quest, rare, herb or ore. Your trainers show on the map with how many abilities you can learn now. A New in this update page lists everything the latest Forever patch added, your class first. Send us a bug, an idea or wrong data from the Feedback page without leaving the game.
• 0.54: a shopping list for a recipe's missing reagents, and right-click a quest pin to focus that quest on the map.

Install

1. Download the zip and open it.
2. Copy both folders inside, ForeverDB and ForeverDB_Helper, into World of Warcraft\_forever_\Interface\AddOns. Make the AddOns folder if it isn't there.
3. Restart the game or type /reload, and tick ForeverDB and ForeverDB Helper in the AddOns list on the character screen.
4. Click the book by your minimap to open the ForeverDB window. Everything is in there.

Or let the free ForeverDB Uploader install and update it for you on Windows or Linux. CurseForge and Wago have it too.

Leveling and quests

• The Leveling window: a small panel to keep on screen while you level. Your level ring and the experience to go, your own pace (XP an hour while you actually play) and when your next level comes, your zone's level range, and one card for what you're doing now, with every objective as a bar and a compass pointing the way.
• The quest plan turns your quest log into a route: the order of every pick-up, objective and hand-in that gets you the most XP for your time. Quests in the same place are done together, and a hand-in or pick-up right where you stand comes first.
• Where to go next: zone cards for your level, with how much XP an hour ForeverDB players at your level really got there, flight times and the fastest way there.
• The New player guide covers levels 1 to 10 in your own start area, a few small steps at a time, with an arrow to each.
• Quest pins on the world map and minimap: a yellow ! where a quest for you starts, a ? where you hand one in, and dots where your objectives are. Right-click a pin to focus that quest.
• Quests you can't get stay off the map and out of the guide: the other faction's, other classes' and races', holiday quests outside their holiday, and Classic quests nobody has seen in Forever. ForeverDB learns which are which from what its players are offered.
• A waypoint arrow with the distance that follows the quest you pick in Blizzard's tracker, quest log or map, a pin you click, or any spot you Shift-click on the map. It moves on to the next objective by itself.
• Beside Blizzard's quest log: where to go, what to kill or collect and where, what drops the items, the best reward for your spec and the quests before and after.
• Blizzard's quest tracker shows how far away each quest is, and creatures and items you need say so on their tooltips (Quest: Cutting Teeth 3/10).
• Special quests: Forever's secret quest chains, with where each step starts.
• Quest buddies, off until you turn it on: see ForeverDB players near you on the same quest and invite them with a click.
• Running Questie as well? ForeverDB's quest pins step aside so you don't see two of everything.

Its own world map

• ForeverDB's map sits inside Blizzard's Map & Quest Log: zoom smoothly from the whole world down to a single street, drag it around, and resize the window from its corner.
• Layers you switch on and off from the map: your quest plan, quests, flight masters and their paths, dungeon and raid entrances, town services (inns, banks, auction houses), trainers, herbs, ore and fishing pools, rare creatures, boats and zeppelins, graveyards, camps, signposts and books, and zone borders with level ranges coloured for your level.
• Search it: type a zone, flight master, trainer, NPC, quest, rare, herb or ore and the map opens there, with a pin and the arrow pointing to it.
• Your class and profession trainers show how many abilities you can learn now; point at one for which ones and what they cost.
• Leylines and elemental convergences that Skyborne players have found, and fights between players near you as they happen.
• The capital cities use the game's own drawn city maps when you zoom in.

Your character

• Rotation assistant: a live icon of the spell to press next for your spec and level, with its key, and a glow on its action button. It times cooldowns and DoTs from your own casts (Forever hides them from addons in combat) and skips spells your target is immune to.
• Upgrades: every item's tooltip says how it compares with what you wear, for your spec. A new upgrade pops up with an Equip button, and the best quest reward gets a tick.
• Level-ups: what's new at your trainer, where your talent point goes (your next talent glows in the talent window) and what you can use now.
• Gear finder: the best item for every slot for your class, spec and level, from the website's best in slot lists, with where each item comes from. Enchants and item sets for your class, with who can make each enchant.
• Loot browser: every dungeon and raid boss's loot with drop chances, and reputation and PvP rewards.
• Consumables: the best food, drink, potions, elixirs, scrolls and bandages for your level, and the next upgrade with the level it comes at.
• Pet & supplies: hunter pet care with a Feed Pet button, ammo and reagents running low with the nearest vendor, bags and repairs.
• Hunter pets: every tameable beast, its family abilities and diet, filtered by your level, with a map pin.
• Journal and money ledger: your levels, play time and notes, and where your gold came from and went.
• My character: your gear, talents and professions as a share code for your armory page on the website.
• New in this update: every ability, talent, spell and item the latest Forever patch added, your class first, also marked on their tooltips.

Dungeons and raids

• The dungeon helper opens on the dungeon you're in, or the best ones for your level: bosses in order with their loot (upgrades for your spec marked), boss tips, your quest checklist and an arrow to the entrance.
• Inside a dungeon, a small panel with the bosses killed this run, the next one, your dungeon quests and the loot you could still get.
• Raid assignments from the website's raid planner: your group, your role and your job on each boss, with the boss's notes when you target it.
• A buff check on every ready check, your guild's soft reserves on item tooltips, and Check me now for the consumables the raid asks for.
• Combat logging switches itself on in dungeons and raids, for the replay page.

Professions

• Every recipe of your professions, coloured orange, yellow and green from your skill, with filters for what levels you, new or changed in Forever, and a skill range. Point at one for what Forever changed, who sells it (in Forever and in Classic) and where it drops.
• Next to your profession window: what to craft for skill with what's in your bags, and the next recipes to learn and where.
• The website's leveling guides step by step, with the materials you still need and a shopping list that searches the auction house for you.
• Herbalism, Mining, Skinning and Fishing: what to gather at each skill and where there's most of it, skinnable beasts by zone, and where players fished. Herbs, ore and fishing pools go on the map.
• Enchanting's disenchanting table, the best crafted items for every class and spec, and Which professions suit me, with the five-question quiz.
• Who knows a recipe in your guild and among your characters.

Vendors, money and the auction house

• Items worth buying light up at vendors: recipes you can learn now, upgrades, and the best food and potions for your level.
• Finder: type an item, a weapon skill, a profession or a name, and see who sells or teaches it, where they stand and the price, with a map pin.
• Auction house prices from your scans on item tooltips, vendor prices and currency costs, and Merchant's Favor vendors, recipes and Waylaid Crates.
• Selling junk and repairing for you, if you want it.
• Collections: mounts, companion pets, titles and recipes, how many you have against the full list in the Forever client and where to get the rest; library books, hunter pets to tame and rare monsters.

PvP

• Honor and honorable kills for this session, today, this week and for life, your rank and how far you are from the next.
• Your last 100 battlegrounds with your own score, kept on your PC.
• World PvP: fights between players near you, as counts and kills, never names, on a page and on your map.

Bots and gold spam

ForeverDB spots gold and boost spam in public chat and players farming one spot for hours, can hide the spam, and offers to open Blizzard's own report window. It never reports anyone by itself and never uploads a name or a message. The gold-seller and bot tracker shows what every player's addon counted.

What it records, and why

WoW Forever keeps quests, vendors, trainers and item stats on Blizzard's servers, so the addon writes down what you see: drops and item stats, quests and their givers, vendors and prices, trainers, beasts, herbs and ore, fishing and skinning, disenchanting, boss fights and your talent builds. Sending it, or letting the Uploader do it after each session, fills ForeverDB in for everyone. A few anonymous facts, such as quest XP, creature levels and drops, go through without the Uploader, never with a name.

Each kind has its own tick box on the Recording page. Quiet mode, on by default, keeps anything from popping up or talking in chat by itself, and Data collection only is one switch for players who want to help ForeverDB and change nothing in their game.

Settings and commands

Every setting is a tick box, a slider or a choice with a line saying what it does, on the ForeverDB window's Settings page and in Esc > Options > AddOns > ForeverDB, and the two always match. The whole addon speaks English or Spanish. You don't need commands: everything has a button. These are shortcuts.

/fdb	Open the ForeverDB window
/fdb settings	The Settings page
/fdb quests · /fdb dungeons	The Quests or Dungeons page
/fdb way 45.2 60.1 · /fdb way clear	Point the arrow at a spot on your map, or clear it
/fdb share	Your character's share code
/fdb help	Every command

Privacy

The addon doesn't connect to anything and has no account (WoW doesn't let addons use the internet). What it saves stays in your WTF folder unless you choose to send it, and what reaches ForeverDB never names you or anyone else.

Credits

Where Forever's own data doesn't reach yet, the quest and dungeon helpers use Classic data from CMaNGOS classic-db (GPL-3.0), always labelled Classic data. The addon is built from the same data as the website and updated whenever that changes.

Size, and only what you want

• About 6.2 MB to download. Most of it is WoW Forever data (quests, items, NPCs, recipes, gear, walking routes and gathering spots), so ForeverDB works without the website.
• Big data stays packed until you use it: walking routes, gathering spots, rares and the gear finder are unpacked only when you need them.
• Every part has its own switch, in the ForeverDB window's Settings and in Esc → Options → AddOns → ForeverDB. A part you switch off stops its work: no pins, alerts, tooltip lines or scans. Its data still loads with the addon (about 12 MB of memory for all of it).
• The first time you log in, the welcome's Pick your features page lets you untick features before you start. Open the welcome again from the window's About page.
• Scans, raid messages and pop-ups wait until the fight is over.
• Free: no paid tier, no account needed and no ads in the game.

Questions, problems or ideas for the addon? Join our Discord.

What's new in the addon

v0.57.22

Quests that don't exist or aren't for you, after players' reports: Professions:

• Fixed, for good: the coloured noise and purple or black blocks on the zoomed-out world map. The fault was ours, not your graphics card. From 0.57.16 on, the way we packed the addon changed a few bytes inside 11 of the map's 16 overview pictures, and everything after those bytes came out as noise. The pictures are now packed byte for byte, and a check stops it happening again. Our earlier fixes for this were aimed at the wrong cause.
• Forever's new quests now have a faction where their quest givers say so: 259 of them so far. For the rest, the addon now notes which faction an NPC is when you target it or point at it (just the NPC and its faction, nothing about you), so every player's guide learns the side of new quest givers as people play, Zephras Isle included.
• The notes from 0.57.20 about who a quest is offered to now reach everyone's guide. They were being dropped on the way.
• Holiday quests (the Lunar Festival elders, Children's Week and the rest) are no longer suggested outside their holiday.
• Classic quests nobody has seen in Forever, in places where players have recorded nearly every other quest, are no longer suggested. The quest page says why. A quest you or other players have seen is never hidden.
• 30 quests players have done in Forever that weren't in the game files' quest list are in the guide now, such as Thunderbrew and Chen's Empty Keg.
• Where to go next: the bonus for quests new in Forever now counts.
• The route planner's quest XP: Forever gives half the XP for a quest 8 or more levels below you (from players' records), where Classic gave less.
• Recipe tooltips say how many vendors players saw selling the recipe in Forever, next to Classic's count.
• Flask of the Old Gods is back in Alchemy (a filter for the game's test recipes caught it by its name).
• Skinning on the map uses the spots where players actually skinned beasts, Forever's new beasts too.

v0.57.21

• Fixed: coloured noise and purple or black blocks on the world map, still seen on some NVIDIA graphics cards after 0.57.19. A piece of map art the game hadn't finished loading was shown anyway after 8 seconds, and on those cards that's random memory. Now a piece shows only once it has loaded; until then the softer overview shows in its place.

v0.57.20

The last pieces of the website's profession guides:

• Fixed: the leveling guide and the map sending you to quests you can't get. Forever's new quests come with no faction, class or race in the game files (the High Order's and the Windshapers' quests on Zephras Isle, class versions of one quest), so the guide offered them to everyone. Now, when a quest giver doesn't offer you a quest at its level, or you pick one up, the addon notes it without your name (just your faction, class and race), and every ForeverDB player's guide leaves that quest out for characters it isn't for, before they walk there. It learns as players play: one player's sighting is enough.
• Recipes left over from Season of Discovery, retired or above the level cap say Speculation next to their name, and pointing at one says why (as on the website).
• Consumables: pick any level to see the best of each kind for it, and each one shows the next upgrade and the level it comes at.
• Herbalism, Mining and Skinning on the Professions page: every skill range at a glance, with what to gather in each and the best zones for it.