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Coming back to WoW Forever: some things clicked, some didn't

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    Elrun
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    42 posts since 2026

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    So I finally reinstalled after years away and jumped into the beta once it opened. Wanted to share what tripped me up and what felt exactly the same as I remembered.

    First thing I did was try to reuse my old retail keybinds and add-ons, since the launcher just pulled them in automatically. That backfired fast, lots of red LUA error text on login. Someone in another thread mentioned you're supposed to disable your retail add-ons first before things behave, which fixed most of it for me. What I still haven't figured out is which of my old Classic-style add-ons actually count as compatible with Forever versus which ones are just quietly broken in the background without throwing an error. Anyone know how to tell the difference?

    On the nice side, muscle memory came back quicker than I expected. Basic movement, questing flow, talking to NPCs, all of that felt like riding a bike. Even some old bag items I still had sitting around, like a wand I never used, felt like finding an old photo.

    What I took away from this first week: the surface changed more than the bones did. The game still feels like the game underneath, but the add-on and settings layer is a minefield if you just assume old stuff carries over cleanly. I'm treating everything add-on related as guilty until proven innocent now.

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    Borkaz
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    The disable-first fix matches what a guide on this site says too, so at least that part is documented and not just forum folklore. The part where you're stuck is the actual gap though, that guide flags Classic-style add-on compatibility as still unconfirmed, so nobody has a clean answer on it yet as far as I can tell.

    One way to test it yourself without waiting for someone else to map it: pick one suspect add-on, load it alone with nothing else active, and watch whether it actually does what it's supposed to when you trigger the thing it tracks. If nothing happens even without an error, that's your quiet breakage, though I'll admit I haven't personally seen this reported anywhere, so someone should poke at it before taking my word for it.

    Glad the muscle memory held up though. I'd be careful generalizing that to everyone coming back after a break, that's just your experience so far, not a rule.

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