Alts Forever

Keep track of all your alts in WoW Forever: items, gold, bags and bank, professions, gear upgrades, Waylaid Crates, rested XP, Legacy points, reputation and time played, without logging in to each one.

Alts Forever quietly records what each of your characters has, then shows it where you need it: in item tooltips, in a bags and bank window, and in one overview window. Got more than one game account? It can sync them, so you see every character on all of them. It's built to be light: no libraries, no constant background work, and only what it needs stored per character.

Available in English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português (Brasil), 简体中文 and 繁體中文.

Features

🔄 Sync between your game accounts (new in 1.1)

Play on more than one game account? See all your characters from all of them, in tooltips, the overview, search and everywhere else.

• Press the sync button at the top of the overview (or type /af sync), enter the full name of your character on the other account and press Sync. A progress bar shows how it's going
• Accept the request on your other client. You're only asked the first time
• Both characters need to be online at the same time, on the same ruleset and faction, with Alts Forever installed. Each side sends every character it knows, so one sync brings your characters on every ruleset and faction
• After that it looks after itself: whenever both accounts are online, they swap changes automatically. Untick Sync by itself when both are online in the sync window (or /af sync auto) to stop that
• While the accounts aren't online together, each one shows what it last received
• Only accept a request from your own character: it shares everything Alts Forever knows about yours

🎒 Bags and bank, for every character

See any character's bags or bank slot by slot, exactly as you last saw them: stacks with their counts, empty slots, quality borders, how many slots are free, and their gold.

• Pick the character from a dropdown and switch between Bags and Bank
• Show everything in one grid, or tick By bag for a section per bag or bank tab, e.g. "Red Linen Bag (7 / 8)"
• Resize it by dragging the corner
• Hover an item for its tooltip; shift-click to link it in chat
• Open it right from your own bags and bank: an entry in the bag's portrait menu, or a small Alts Forever button in the header of Blizzard's bank and of ElvUI's and EllesmereUI's bags and bank
• Or from the overview, the minimap button's menu, or /af bags and /af bank (add a name for another character, e.g. /af bank Tarnia)

Each character's slots are recorded the next time you log in on them or visit their bank.

📦 Item counts in every tooltip

Hover any item to see how many you own across all your characters, and where:

• Bags (including the reagent bag and keyring), bank, mail and equipped items
• Items you mail to your own alts show up on them straight away, before they log in
• Already get counts from a bag addon such as Baganator or Bagnon? Turn ours off with Show item counts in the options (or /af counts); Can craft, skill-ups, upgrades and crates stay

🗃️ Waylaid Crates

Hover a Waylaid Crate to see, at a glance, whether your characters can fill it:

• A grid with a column for each material the crate takes and how many are needed
• A row for each of your characters who has any of them
• The total across your characters
• Green shows a character who has enough to fill it alone, and a total that's enough between them
• Works in your bags and in the auction house

⚖️ Rulesets and factions

Normal, PvP, Roleplaying and Hardcore each have their own auction house and mail, and mail never crosses factions, so characters on another ruleset or the other faction can't trade with yours. Alts Forever keeps them apart:

• The overview groups your characters by ruleset and faction (e.g. "Normal · Horde"), each group with its own gold total. Click a group's heading to collapse it
• Tooltips list only characters you can mail: item counts, gold, Can craft, skill-ups, upgrades, the XP and reputation bars, and the search
• Want to see the others too? Turn on Show other rulesets and factions in the options (or /af rulesets): they're shown in grey under their own heading and total
• Send to alt and Waylaid Crates only ever count characters you can mail

Each character's ruleset is noted the next time you log in on them; until then they count as being on yours.

🗡️ Upgrades for your alts

Hover an item you could pass on (binds when equipped, not yet bound) to see which of your characters it would be an upgrade for, in which slot and how big an upgrade it is: one green chevron for minor, two stacked for decent, three for major, judged against everything that character wears.

• Each character is judged by their role (melee, ranged, caster, healer, tank or feral), worked out from their talents
• Choose a role yourself: right-click a character in the overview and pick Upgrade role, or use /af role
• Armour and weapon types, dual wield, class and profession requirements are all checked
• Characters up to 5 levels short are shown in grey with the level they can wear it at
• Hover a recipe, or a recipe at a profession trainer, to see the same for the item it makes
• A small anvil beside a slot on your character sheet means you or an alt can craft an upgrade for it that you can wear now and that binds when equipped (only the heaviest armour you wear); click it to see them
• Turn it off with Show upgrades in the options, or /af upgrades

🏆 Legacy points and Well Rested

Legacy points are earned by your account, but each character spends them separately, so it's easy to forget one. Alts Forever keeps track for you:

• Log in on a character with points to spend and chat says so: "You have 13 Legacy points to spend on this character"
• Earn a new point and you're told how many of your characters can spend it
• The overview shows each character's Well Rested rank (e.g. 3/5) and Legacy points spent of the 16 each character can spend (e.g. 3/16, in orange while some are left)
• The rested XP estimate counts each character's own Well Rested ranks
• /af legacy lists everyone; turn the chat reminders off with Legacy reminders in the options, or /af legacy off

🔍 Search your characters: /afs

Can't remember who has your Silk Cloth, or whether anyone can make a Heavy Copper Broadsword? Type /afs (or /af search or /af find, click the magnifier in the overview, or bind a key under Key Bindings > Alts Forever) and start typing; add words to search straight away, e.g. /afs silk. You get every item your characters have or can craft, best match first, each with how many you have, who has them and who can make it.

• Enter opens that character's bags or bank with the item lit up, right-click chooses whose, Shift+Enter links it in chat
• Start with @owned (has it) or @craft (can make it) to narrow it, e.g. @craft sword; the character menu beside the box picks whose items
• Hover a result for the full item tooltip: who has it where, Can craft, upgrades

🖼️ Choose your tooltip icons

Pick the icons item tooltips use for bags, bank, mail and worn items, or show words instead. Open it from Options > AddOns > Alts Forever or with /af icons:

• A row of recommended icons for each one
• Search by item or spell name (e.g. "bag")
• Or browse every spell and item icon in the game
• A preview shows exactly how your tooltips will look; hover an icon to see what it is

🔨 Can craft

Hover any item to see which of your characters know how to make it, listed under Can craft. Characters who'd still get a skill-up from making it are marked, e.g. "Tarnia · skill-ups to 115".

⬆️ Skill-ups across your alts

Hover a material (Linen Cloth, Copper Bar, Light Leather…) to see which of your characters can still skill up with it, and for how long:

• The recipe and who can make it, e.g. "Heavy Linen Bandage — Tarnia · to 115" (the recipe stops giving skill-ups at 115)
• Characters at their rank's maximum (e.g. 75/75) aren't listed until they train

Great for deciding which alt to send your materials to. It's all read from the game when you open a profession window, so open each one once per character.

📬 Send to alt

At the mailbox, a small arrow next to the To box lists your characters. Pick one to fill in their name; nothing is sent until you press Send.

• Characters who can still skill up with what you've attached are marked, e.g. "skill-ups with 1 item", and listed first
• Only characters you can mail are listed: your faction, on your ruleset
• Turn it off with Send mail to alts in the options

📜 Recipe tooltips

Hover a pattern, schematic, formula or recipe to see which of your characters with that profession:

• Known: already learned it
• Can learn: has the skill to learn it now
• Needs skill: shows the skill required and their current skill
• Not scanned: open that profession's window once on the character so Alts Forever knows their recipes

🗂️ Overview window: /af

Every character at a glance:

• Level and XP
• Rested XP, including what's built up while logged out (estimated): orange if they logged out outside an inn or city, where it builds at a quarter of the speed, blue when full
• Well Rested rank and Legacy points spent, in orange while there are points to spend
• Gold
• Main professions and skill levels
• Mail: how long until their soonest mail with items or gold expires
• Current zone
• Time played, with a total across all characters
• When you last played them
• Grouped by ruleset and faction when you play more than one, each group with its gold total; click a heading to collapse it

Hover a row for more (hearthstone, item level, time played, time until rested is full, and how many recipes in each profession still give skill-ups, or "train to skill up"). Click a row to see that character's gear, or right-click it for their bags, bank, upgrade role, or to forget a character you've deleted or no longer play.

The buttons in the title bar open the bags and bank window, the Reputation panel, the search, export, sync and the options.

📤 Export your characters

The note button in the overview's title bar (or /af export) shows your characters as text, selected and ready to copy with Ctrl+C:

• Spreadsheet pastes into Excel or Google Sheets as columns
• Text gives readable lines for notes or chat
• Markdown table becomes a table in Notion, Obsidian and the like
• Reading Alts Forever's saved file with your own tools? Turn on Save item names for use outside the game in the options (or /af itemnames) to save each item's name and quality too; it's off by default

🏅 Reputation across characters

• The Reputation panel (in the overview's title bar, or /af rep) lists every faction down the side and your characters across, e.g. "Honored 27%"; hover a faction for exact numbers
• Hover your reputation bar to see your other characters' standing with the faction you're watching, e.g. "Friendly 8% 500 / 6000"
• Hover your experience bar to see your other characters still levelling, with their level, XP and rested XP

Works with Blizzard's bars, ElvUI's and EllesmereUI's.

⏱️ Session stats (optional)

Off by default: turn it on with Show session stats in the options or /af stats.

• Your XP bar shows this session's time, XP gained, and about how long to level at that pace
• Your bag gold shows gold gained or lost this session, today and this week, across your characters on the same ruleset and faction
• A /reload doesn't reset your session

🛡️ Gear panel

See what any alt is wearing, laid out like the character panel:

• Hover an item for its full tooltip, including suffixes and enchants
• Shift-click to link it in chat
• Nearly broken items are highlighted, with lowest durability shown

✉️ Mail expiry warnings

A few seconds after you log in, Alts Forever warns in chat if any character has mail with items or gold expiring within 3 days, and says whether it'll be returned to the sender or deleted. The overview's Mail column shows how long each character has; /af mail lists them all.

🎮 Controller support

With Forever's Gamepad UI on (Options > Gameplay > Gamepad), Alts Forever's windows work like the game's own: focus jumps into a window when it opens, the D-pad moves between its buttons and shows their tooltips, A presses, B closes, and LT/RT switch between open windows.

• Open the overview or the bags window with a key binding (Key Bindings > AddOns > Alts Forever) or a macro of /af or /af bags on a gamepad action bar
• A on a character in the overview opens their menu: Gear, Bags, Bank and more

Item tooltips work with any input. Forever's controller support is in alpha, so please report anything that doesn't work.

⚙️ Settings page

Alts Forever has its own page under Options > AddOns: every setting as a tick box (hover one for what it does), your tooltip icons, and a Window size slider (50% to 300%) for making the windows bigger or smaller. With EllesmereUI the size follows its Window Scale unless you choose your own.

🎨 Fits your UI

• EllesmereUI: Alts Forever's windows take on your EllesmereUI theme, accent colour and font. You can turn this off for Alts Forever in EllesmereUI's options.
• ElvUI: the windows get ElvUI's style and font, and the gear slots, buttons and mail arrow match.
• Class colours: character names use your custom class colours from EllesmereUI, ElvUI or addons like !ClassColors, and update when you change them.

Without any of these, you get the classic Warcraft look.

🌍 Languages

Alts Forever follows your game's language: English, German, French, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. Speak one of these natively and spot something odd? Corrections are very welcome in the comments.

Getting started

1. Install and log in. A short welcome in chat explains the basics, and each character is recorded the first time you log in on it.
2. On each character, open the bank, mailbox and each profession window once, so their contents and recipes are recorded.
3. Type /af or click the Alts Forever minimap button to open the overview. Right-click the button for options and the bags window, or drag it around the minimap. You can hide it in the options or with /af minimap; Alts Forever is also in the minimap's addon menu (the number at the top right of the minimap), and in data broker displays such as Bazooka, Titan Panel or ChocolateBar.

Commands

Everything below can also be done by clicking (see the overview, the minimap button, your bags and the Settings page above).

Made by Kadmai. Feedback and bug reports are welcome in the comments.