WoW Forever UI Guide: Classic UI Addon, Import and Setup

How do you set up your UI in WoW Forever?

Start with the new base HUD: the launch client ships a customizable interface that can be tuned toward the Classic look without any addons, including hiding elements and moving the experience bar. Addons come second — CurseForge carries a growing “Forever” catalog, and community lists confirm which established addons already run on the beta client. The one landmine is settings persistence: a Blizzard-side bug currently stops many addons from saving anything, which this guide untangles before it eats an evening of your setup time.

Why won’t my addons save settings?

Because of a Blizzard-side SavedVariables bug, not your addons. The beta client currently prevents many established addons — Platynator, EQoL, MSUF and others — from writing their saved settings at all, and profile import/export fails along with it. Addon authors cannot patch around it from their side, which is why the r/WowUI PSA thread tells players to stop reconfiguring and wait. The bug also affects parts of the default UI’s persistence, so a fresh install will not help.

The interim workaround is ForeverSVFix, a small community addon on GitHub that restores settings saving while Blizzard works on the real fix. Two practical notes from the same threads: reinstalling or replacing a misbehaving addon will not fix a Blizzard-side write failure, and anything you configure without the fix may need redoing once the official patch lands.

FIX WoW Forever Settings NOW — community beta walkthrough — YouTube

FIX WoW Forever Settings NOW — community beta walkthrough

Which addons already work in the beta?

The community working list from r/WowUI (300+ comments and growing) divides into addons that run as-is, addons that run with rough edges, and addons still missing. The confirmed-working shortlist:

On bags specifically, the thread consensus is loud: Baganator over Bagnon — better category customization, more active maintenance, and fewer conflicts with other addons. And for the aura-shaped hole in everyone’s setup, ForeverAuras is the stopgap: beta testers report it covers most everyday WeakAuras uses, with gaps you would notice only in advanced tracked-buff setups.

How do you enable addons in WoW Forever?

The install path is the same one Classic players already know: addons download into the client’s Interface/AddOns folder and are enabled from the AddOns button on the character-select screen. Download from CurseForge’s dedicated Forever filter tab (or an author’s GitHub) so you only get builds packaged for the beta client — then apply two Forever-specific caveats before spending an evening tuning. First, the SavedVariables bug above means anything you configure can evaporate: run ForeverSVFix, or confirm Blizzard’s fix has landed, before configuring. Second, never assume Classic parity — enable one addon at a time and confirm it survives a full relog before stacking the next.

Questie specifically has its own chapter of caveats — the quest helper guide tracks it in full. The short version: the official v12.0.0 prerelease added Forever client support, the maintainer rates the beta unstable (SavedVariables broken, crashes persist), the CurseForge questie-forever package is unofficial, and TomTom does not list Forever — so treat Questie as experimental until a stable release lands.

Can you make the default UI look Classic without addons?

Yes — that is the intended baseline. Forever ships a new, customizable HUD rather than the raw 2004 interface, and the demo verdict across settings was that it slides between retail-style convenience and the Classic look: hiding the micro menu, shrinking the experience bar onto the minimap, and dropping the bag bar all came up as no-addon tweaks in the community threads. Start there before installing anything, then add the addons above for what the settings cannot do.

UI and Settings Guide | Wow Forever — community walkthrough — YouTube

UI and Settings Guide | Wow Forever — community walkthrough

What should you verify before importing a profile?

Three checks, in order: confirm the SavedVariables bug has been patched (or run ForeverSVFix), confirm each addon explicitly lists Forever compatibility rather than assuming Classic parity, and export a backup of anything you configure so a beta patch cannot wipe it. Quest-helper users have an extra compatibility layer to check — the quest helper guide tracks which tracking addons survive the beta client — and the retail comparison explains why the HUD design landed where it did.

Sources

• [Help] PSA: lots of addons in Forever beta can not save profiles — r/WowUI
• WoW: Forever Working Addons — r/WowUI
• ForeverSVFix — community workaround addon (GitHub)
• Embedded videos are community beta footage; rights remain with their creators.