WotLK Classic Addons

If you're venturing to Northrend, you will need the best Classic WotLK addons to assist your journey.

Add-ons are an integral part of the World of Warcraft experience. They can help a player in a wide variety of ways, including:

• Making your interface look better.
• Optimizing the questing and leveling experience.
• Assisting in boss encounters for recently buffed dungeons and raids.
• Fixing any personal issues that others might deem trivial or minute

Whatever the necessity, chances are there's an add-on for you. Here are some of the best WotLK addons available to ensure you're ready for the return of Wrath of the Lich King.

1. Questie

No matter what your plan is for Classic Wrath of the Lich King, Questie will come in handy.

One reason this is one of the best Wrath Classic addons is the sheer amount of convenience it helps to create. More than just a simple quest add-on, Questie updates the in-game tooltips to let you know which mobs you need to kill and your current quest progress.

There is also a bevy of quality of life options, such as automatically accepting and turning in quests, helpful map overlays, and more.

Questie is an invaluable resource when questing in Classic WoW. No matter if it's leveling a character from scratch or performing dailies, don't leave home without it!

2. Bagnon

Why open up multiple bag windows when you can just have one big one? That's what Bagnon does: turns several smaller bag windows into one giant and convenient window.

On the surface, this add-on doesn't seem like it does much. After attempting to play a game of figuring out what bag a key item is in, you'll definitely change your mind.

Like most WotLK addons, community support for Bagnon is impressive as well, with various plugins available to help support the base add-on.

3. Details

Sometimes you just want to know how much damage you're doing. Or maybe you want to know why someone died in the middle of the fight. Or you want to be a good damage dealer and never pull threat from the tank, so you need a threat meter. That's where this helpful WotLK addon comes in.

While Details may not provide the depth of information as a Warcraft Log, it still gives players access to important data sets in-game. You're able to track damage, heals, interrupts, and more during combat in real time.

We've come a long way from the old days of Recount and KTM threat meter in the original Wrath of the Lich King release. Details gives the Classic release a modern add-on that's visually slick as well.

4. Weak Auras

Weak Auras may be the most important of all WotLK addons.

The amount of valuable information it helps convey is invaluable. From boss mechanics, ability cooldowns, buff/debuff trackers, and more, Weak Auras is your one-stop shop for all of the vital information needed to play the game.

Do you want to display ability cooldowns? There's a Weak Aura for that. Looking to track buff or debuff timers? There's a Weak Aura for that. Want to display important boss information? You guessed it; there's a Weak Aura for that.

Part of the appeal of Weak Auras is that if there's ever a case where there isn't a Weak Aura, you can create one yourself. This is what helps make it one of the best WotLK add-ons available.

5. Deadly Boss Mods

As great as Weak Auras are, sometimes you feel nostalgic for the OGs. Deadly Boss Mods isn't just one of the best Wrath addons but also one of the most important throughout World of Warcraft's history.

Commonly referred to as DBM, its ability to display pertinent boss warnings, ability timers, and other vital encounter information has helped make it a WoW mainstay for over a decade. Beyond that, the ability to shout out when you're targeted with certain abilities makes it easy to deal with vital boss mechanics.

By shouting out, there's literally shouting it out in terms of having your character do a /yell, or there's a gigantic raid warning that can be broadcast as well.

For an alternative, some people enjoy the options available through the Big Wigs mod. It's the same concept, just with different functionality.

6. Shadowed Unit Frames

For some people, the default Blizzard UI is adequate. Regardless of your role, reconfiguring your action bars and unit frames isn't a big deal. For others, though, the first thing they do is completely revamp the game's unit frames.

Enter Shadowed Unit Frames, one of the best WotLK addons for customizing your interface's appearance.

The ability to reconfigure the appearance and layout for personal unit frames, target unit frames, and group unit frames gives the player a level of customizing that is otherwise impossible.

If you're a healer, though, you'll need a little more juice…

7. VuhDo

There's an extra level of customization that comes with VuhDo that benefits healers and non-healers alike.

Most enjoy its compactness; ensuring your UI isn't cluttered is the easiest way to increase your in-game performance. That's the appeal VuhDo has as a WotLK add-on for non-healers.

If you are a healer, however, then VuhDo is designed especially for you. Moving your cursor over party members and casting spells with a simple click of a mouse makes the job easier. There's no more need to target someone and then use your ability. The entire process is streamlined, which is super important for those demanding encounters.

8. Plater

In what may be the most underrated and under-utilized WotLK addons, Plater offers a lot of information over enemy nameplates. This little add-on can list important debuffs, enemy cast times, and more by replacing the default Blizzard nameplate UI.

Plater is one of those add-ons that you don't know how you lived without it, but it doesn't have the same brand recognition as others on this list. The information it gives players is beyond invaluable, going beyond the standard "encounter warning messages." If you wonder about the little things the best players are doing to separate themselves from others, chances are, they're using the data from Plater.

9. Bartender4

We talked about customizing unit frames, but what if you want to customize action bars? There's a solid Classic Wrath add-on designed to tend your bars.

(Get it?)

Bartender lets you re-size, re-shape, and re-configure your action bars to your heart's desire. Whether you keep their default placement or move the bars somewhere completely different, the option is totally up to you. Bartender is a simple add-on that packs a lot of punch to increase your efficiency.

10. Trade Skill Master

Finally, the last entry on our list of the best WotLK addons is one for the gold makers out there.

Trade Skill Master, more commonly referred to as TSM, is a powerful setup that allows you to maximize not just your auction house experience but also lets you become proficient in your server's economy.

The more you put into TSM, the more you get out of it. It's admittedly intimidating at first glance. Once you learn the ins and outs of it, you'll be utilizing professions, basic economics, and more to start raking in the gold.

Classic Wrath of the Lich King launches on September 26th at 3:00 PM Pacific.