Now, we all enjoy all the challenges, battles, and actually, everything there is when it comes conquering the vast wow universe. However, from time to time, things start to get difficult and sometimes even bothersome and we would appreciate something that can ease the burden of our backs. 

Well, one of the things that make our experience more immersive by eliminating unnecessary “burdens” certainly are add-ons. What’s more, ranging from simple clocks and HUDs to massive data centers with locations of loots and analyzers for an auction house, addons will be a neat addition to every player’s experience. 

Now, we will go in detail of some of the best addons you can find for leveling and see how they can benefit your game and step up your playing field. On the other side, addons might come as unnatural to install even tough Blizzard encourages them. Therefore, you might feel like you are “changing” the rules and altering the way the game works and that is alright. 

East or West, life with addons in the World of Warcraft is the best. We are able to provide you with all the worthy addons for WoW: Dragonflight retail in our special Wow Best addons Dragonflight guide. There, we will show all the best ones, compare different addons, and explain why and for what purpose you need each specific addon for the current expansion!

However, if you want to play around with some bells and whistles to ramp up your experience and break the monotony, then let’s see how to install them.

Best Addons For Leveling In Wow Classic

Installation 

First, many keyloggers and viruses come hidden as addons and some of them even violate wow Terms and Conditions, so here’s a little advice: Stay away from downloading or using any supposed addon that comes as an exe file.

So, to install an addon it is necessary to follow these steps:

For starters, select the addon that fits your needs – follow the list below to find one.

  • Next, once you download it open the download folder which will usually have the same name as the addon you chose. 
  • Copy that folder
  • Third, you should find the directory where WoW is installed on your PC and you will most likely find it in the Program Files folder. Now you should open the World of Warcraft folder and locate and open the classic folder within it. Continue by opening Interface and then AddOns folder
  • The fourth step is to paste the addon folder you previously copied or simply drap&drop it from the location where you downloaded it.
  • Next, it is important to restart your WoW client, and everything should be ready. To check your addon, click on “AddOns” button, which should be at the bottom left of the character selection screen.
  • Finally, turn the game on and you should see your addon of choice. Certainly, every addon is a story for itself, so changing it or setting its features up may vary. For more information, make sure you check the instructions on the website you’ve previously downloaded it from.

On the other side, you can use Twitch Desktop App so you can easily install and automatically update addons located on curseforge.com. However, the only setback when using this method is that you are limited to only those addons accessible on Curseforge.

Furthermore, some legit places where you can download addons from are Curse Gaming and WoW Interface.

Now, we will group addons by categories and every category will have a list of addons that belong in it. So, let’s finally see which are some of the best addons for WoW Classic and how can they bring along.

Best Addons For Leveling In Wow Classic

Quest Tracking Addons

To have better visibility and accessibility of the quests, we made a list of the best addons that will help you achieve just that. However, they will not show you locations of quests or aid you in finding quest goals. Anyhow, they will save you the burdens of heading to the Quests sections and tracking them manually, so let’s skip right to the list.

  1. Auto track Quests

Suffice to say, after you pick a new quest this addon will make sure to place it on a neat quest tracker, located below minimap. Additionally, it has that plain Classic feel tied to it, so it won’t jut out visually. It is like Blizzard’s ingrained quest tracker and it does not track quests with no substantial goals. For example, talking to someone. Not to forget, this addon is poorly customizable and you can only choose to unwatch older quests to make room for new ones.

But still, the minimalistic design and simple overview of the quests will speed up your levelling and help you focus on what is important. You’ll agree that simplicity is important in this case, right?

  1. Butter Quest Tracker

Here, we have a tracker that will track virtually any guest. Therefore, whether it’s substantial or intangible, this addon will pick it up. Not only that, but it will automatically gather all of the existing quests and start to track the new ones as you progress. Butter tracker allows for many customization options like sorting quests by zone, level and percentage of completion. 

To top it off, you can paint quests with color, difficulty-wise and play around with background and font colors or sizes. Also, it offers some additional graphic tweaks so you can make the tracker to look exactly how you see fit. 

Finally, the makers of this addon also added one handy thing and that is the right-click a quest feature. Furthermore, when you right click a quest, a window with these options to better control your quests will appear:

  • View
  • Untrack 
  • Share
  • Abandon 
  • Copy-ready – An option that will copy the URL to the clipboard for the quest lookup online
  1. MonkeyQuest

The third quest-tracking addon is the most popular one among players and it’s the Monkey Quest tracker. This addon allows is widely customizable and it offers many details regarding quests, so it can occasionally come up as confusing. 

Plus, to be able to customize this addon, you’ll need to install a companion addon called MonkeyBuddy. This is also a good quest tracker, but for “addon-rookies”, we suggest sticking with the previous two, just to save you from over-complicating things.

Best Addons For Leveling In Wow Classic

QuestHelper Addons

So, now comes the fun part. We have discussed addons that will indirectly speed up and aid you in your levelling, but next addons will directly benefit you. Here is the bunch of quest helping/guiding addons that will do a myriad of things to help you to complete quests. 

Nonetheless, they will show you where to go and show the right direction while also point you to where to go next, step by step. Besides, you will get information on what you should do in-game and you can even select the level of help they will provide. Pretty sleek we would say. Now, let us show you the best addons from this category we prepared for you!

  1. Questie

First, we will start with one of the most popular and versatile quest helpers out there. For sure, it is Questie, and it will work its best to:

  • Show you the location of upcoming quests
  • Give you various hints
  • Point you toward the location of goals

The only thing that can be a flaw is that it does not uncover where you should go and what you should do next. However, its huge customizability compensates for it. In that light, you can turn on/off many features you want or don’t want, or you consider unnecessary. 

To be precise, Questie works by:

  • Showing all available quests in the area where you are and mark it with yellow on the map. What’s more, it allows you to adjust the level spread of the quests. Particularly, the default is 7 levels and you can adjust it to show more or less than this number. Despite, players reported some issues with omitting some quest, like hidden quests for example. 
  • Marking the targets related to quests on the map and minimap with certain icons. This includes items to loot and the mobs that you should kill. 
  • Providing info about a quest to tooltips.
  • Providing party progress info to tooltips.
  • Allowing automation of repetitive actions related to quest processes. To be precise, quest turn-ins, instant quest text, quest acceptance and many more can be automated. This option can be turned on or off, so it is up to you.
  • Adding optional waypoint lines to aid with your pathing for some quests.
  • Attaching associated quest items to the quest. 

Important note: Make sure NOT to have another quest tracker installed if you are using Questie!

  1. Guidelime

Well, get prepared for the addon designed by the gold standard when compared with other quest helpers. Even more, we can safely say that Guidelime comes as your personal advisor for leveling as it offers a variety of features. 

First, it keeps you in the right direction, every step of the way. Precisely, it won’t just offer one possible path like many other guide-addons, instead it will offer distinct guides depending on your fraction, race and leveling preference. Simply said, Guidelime will indicate a list of several steps that you will be taking, hence offering you to see the route in advance. 

Not to mention, Guidelime will also give advice about training skills, selling items from full bags, or grinding to a specific XP level. What’s the best thing with this addon is the fact that if you choose to play out of order, the checklist will adjust respectively. Plus, it marks your map with locations of where your listed quests will take you and it does the same with quests you haven’t even assigned to yet. 

Besides, expect a waypoint arrow to always direct you towards the step you took, so don’t worry – you won’t get lost, ever. Yeah, this addon is all-encompassing and it will basically work as the best personal assistant you can find for WoW Classic. Not to forget, you can download many guide add-on modules for solo, group, dungeons or no dungeons play. Obviously, Guidelime has a huge database of guides and you can find some by using Twitch or Curse or by downloading them completely free from Github. Finally, many modules have demo guides available directly through the addon, so you can easily see which one you like before downloading them.

Best Addons For Leveling In Wow Classic

Quality of life Addons

Finally, the last category of addons will be quality of life ones, which means that their purpose is to give you less stressful leveling and increase overall gameplay experience. We’ve picked the three most useful that fall in this category and here they come.

  1. What’s training

This addon is an upcoming training notes addon and it shows you the abilities and spells that await you for training, in the near and distant future. Moreover, it does so when you click on the tab it placed below your spellbook. 

Nevertheless, it comes with neatly organized subsections categorized by the time of availability. Precisely, it will show you the total cost of training spells and abilities, when you hover over these subsections titled:

  • Available Now
  • Coming Soon
  • Not Yet Available 

Further, you can get an individual cost of a single spell or ability when you mouse over it.

  1. XToLevel Classic

When it comes to farming, this Classic Addon informs you about your leveling process by showing a solid level of details about it including:

  • The number of mobs you need to kill to finish a level
  • The number of quests you need to complete to finish a level
  • The number of backgrounds you need to complete
  • Your own percentage of level completed
  • An estimation of how much time you need to level

To top it off, it will provide some more specific details about your leveling. Particularly, after you’ve made a kill, you’ll get a flashing message showing how many of a particular mob you should kill to complete a level. To add, that level is based on the actual level of the mob you’ve killed, so you can use it for grinding estimation. 

For all those grinders out there – If your style is to grind occasionally for parts of your leveling, XToLevel Classic will help you make decisions about going for higher or lower level mobs. Of course, depending on mobs’ efficiency and kill rates. 

  1. Leatrix Plus

When we speak of the most extensive life improvement addon, Leatrix Plus comes to the first place. Hence, it will save you the burdens of installing dozen of small, single-purpose mods as it represents a database of small quality-of-life improvements. 

To continue, it offers various automation and improvements for UI, and here are some of them to name a few:

  • Allowing you to loot faster by disabling loot warnings and allowing to skip cinematics
  • Rudimentary frame management which allows you to remove the griffins on the main bar
  • Display durability status, available slots in your bag along with bag search bar, and volume sliders 
  • Hide error messages
  • A myriad of system toggles which are generally allowed only through the System command
  • Customize and improve chat interface
  • Block duels and party invites (random ones)
  • Allowing you to turn on automatic acceptance of rezzes and summons
  • Bonus media player

Additional notes: For a more comprehensive list of what Leatrix Plus is capable of you should head on to its mod description page.

Conclusion

Lastly, we hope this guide will significantly speed up and improve your leveling as much as it will make it fun and immersive. We advise you to try all the addons mentioned and make your custom addon setup, according to your needs. 

Furthermore, this guide’s main purpose was to direct you towards the best addons out there and you can find additional info on every addons’ page. Normally, there are many more great and worthy addons out there, and surely, you’ll come across and try many of them. But first, start with addons from this guide and then get additional ones that maximize your playing experience.