FDB Chat: our free chat addon for WoW Forever is on CurseForge
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FDB Chat replaces the game's chat with tabs, two panes, replies that go back where a message came from, group chats, a card for any player you point at and a LookingForGroup post that writes itself. Free, on CurseForge, with or without ForeverDB.
FDB Chat is ForeverDB's chat addon for WoW Forever. It replaces the game's chat with a window that reads like a group chat: each player's lines stack under their name in their class colour, your own lines sit on the right, and General and Guild can be open at the same time in two panes. It's free, it's on CurseForge, and it works on its own or next to the ForeverDB addon. Version 0.19.0 is out now.
Get FDB Chat on CurseForge Install it with the CurseForge app and it keeps itself up to date. The zip, screenshots and every feature are on its page here too. Open FDB Chat on CurseForge
Reading chat
- Tabs for General, Guild, Chats, Groups and System, plus a tab for any channel you add with the + after the tabs (Trade, LookingForGroup and so on). Tabs that don't fit go under a More button with their unread counts.
- Close any tab with the small x on it, and right-click a tab to give it a colour: red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, purple or pink. A closed tab comes back from the +.
- Choose what each tab shows, the way the game's own chat settings do: Say, Yell, Guild, Officer, Party, Raid, Raid warning, Whispers, NPCs, loot, money, experience, reputation and the rest. Right-click a tab and pick What this tab shows.
- Point at a player's line or name and a card opens beside the window: level, race and class, guild and rank, where they are, your guild's note and how much they've said in chat. Levels and guilds you've seen are kept between sessions.
- Lines with your name, or keywords you choose, light up, can play a sound and are listed together under one button.
- Scroll up to read and new lines don't pull you back down.
Talking
- Click a message and press Reply, or double-click it, and your answer goes where the message came from: their whisper, the guild, your group or the channel.
- Type @ for the guild members who are online, and / for every slash command as you type: the game's, its emotes and your other addons'.
- Group chats: tick people in the Guild or Friends table and press Make group chat. It's a private channel with a password, so everyone in it sees everyone's lines, whether they use FDB Chat or not. Players with FDB Chat get a Join button; the others get a whisper with the line to type.
- Whispers and group chats share the Chats tab, with a list of conversations down its left side and unread counts beside each.
Guild, friends and groups
- Your guild and friends in tables you can sort by name, level, class, zone, rank or note, with a search box. Tick several people to invite them all to your group.
- Group tools: roll, ready check, a countdown, reset instances and leave group.
- The LFG post: pick where you're going and the roles you need, and it writes the line ("LFM Deadmines, need tank + healer, whisper me") and posts it to LookingForGroup once or every few minutes until your group is full.
The pictures are previews with made-up players and chat.
Install and settings
Install it with the CurseForge app, or download the zip from the FDB Chat page and copy the ForeverDB_Chat folder into World of Warcraft\_forever_\Interface\AddOns. Tick FDB Chat in the AddOns list on the character screen and it opens by itself. Every setting is on the game's Options > AddOns > FDB Chat page. The built-in chat is hidden while FDB Chat is open; untick that in Settings if you'd rather keep both.
FDB Chat doesn't connect to anything and sends nothing anywhere. The last 100 lines of each tab are kept on your PC across a /reload, and you can switch that off or delete them in Settings.
Questions, bugs or ideas: tell us in the comments on CurseForge or on our Discord.