Make Friends Across Azeroth

This is a large addon with thousands of custom voice lines.

Your favorite flight master. The innkeeper you always return to. That quest giver you've known for years.

BuddyDex turns familiar NPCs into friendships you can build, collect, and bring along on your adventures. Part NPC buddy collector, part BonziBuddy-style screen companion, it gives the people of Azeroth a place in your collection—and a little company on your screen.

Meet Your Mini Me

You start with a gnome Mini Me wearing your character's own armor: a little animated companion who hangs out on your screen while you play.

Your Mini Me chats, gestures, responds to attention, and reacts to what's happening around you. Level up, finish a quest, enter a new zone, take a flight, or get into a fight, and your buddy has something to say—or an emote for the occasion.

Click to give them a poke. Poke them a little too much and see how they feel about it.

It's the desktop buddy idea, brought into WoW.

Turn Familiar Faces into Friends

Build friendships through the things you already do in Azeroth:

• Talk to NPCs and get to know them.
• Visit merchants and trainers as you go about your day.
• Use services such as flight masters, bankers, and auctioneers.
• Interact with quest givers during your adventures.
• Share friendly emotes with NPCs you've met.

Friendships grow through six tiers:

Stranger → Acquaintance → Buddy → Friend → Good Friend → Best Friend

Each interaction type earns friendship once per NPC per day, so returning to say hello matters. Different NPC rarities also take different amounts of effort to befriend.

And manners count: rude emotes can cost you friendship.

Discover What Makes Them Smile

Every friend has a favorite emote.

The BuddyDex gives you a hint, and it's up to you to figure out what they appreciate. A salute? A bow? A little applause?

Discovering their favorite earns a bigger friendship boost and gives you a reason to pay attention to who they are.

Collect Buddies—and Bring One Along

Reach Buddy tier with an NPC and you can choose them as your on-screen companion, taking your Mini Me's place.

Your chosen friend appears as an animated 3D model, with dialogue and reactions as you play. NPCs with custom dialogue bring their own personality to the experience, while shared dialogue keeps other buddies involved in your adventures.

Build a collection of friends, then decide who gets to keep you company today.

These are companions on your interface, so your favorite NPC can hang out with you wherever your travels lead.

Get to Know the Person Behind the Nameplate

Friendship can unlock more than a fuller progress bar.

For NPCs with custom BuddyDex entries, growing closer reveals:

• Quotes in their own voice.
• Likes and dislikes.
• Word Around Town—what other people say about them.
• Stories and backstories.
• Secrets reserved for close friends.
• A special message when you become Best Friends.

These entries blend details from the game with original character writing made for BuddyDex, giving familiar faces a little more life.

Your Own NPC Friendship Journal

Open the BuddyDex to browse the friends you've made and see how those relationships are growing.

• Search, sort, and filter your collection.
• Inspect NPCs in a 3D model viewer.
• Preview supported animations.
• Track friendship progress and favorite-emote discoveries.
• Read unlocked character entries.
• Set a waypoint to a friend's last recorded meeting location, using TomTom when available or the game's map pin.

Friendships are shared across your account, while each character can choose their own traveling buddy.

A Buddy That Fits Your Screen

Drag your companion wherever you want them and adjust how they behave.

Customize their size, transparency, facing, and weapon visibility. Lock them in place, enable click-through, choose whether they stay visible during combat, or hide them in instances.

A chattiness slider lets you choose how much company you want—from a quiet buddy who responds when you interact to a more talkative adventuring companion.

Dialogue uses shuffled selections and remembers recent lines between sessions to help keep conversations varied.

Give Your Buddy a Voice

The optional BuddyDex Voice addon adds recorded voices for your Mini Me and supported NPC races.

Other NPC buddies can use greetings and other voice lines associated with their models. Speech bubbles keep their words visible, and voices can be turned off if you prefer quieter company.

Getting Started

Type /bd or /buddydex to open your BuddyDex.

Your Mini Me is ready to keep you company. To start collecting NPC friends, visit a named friendly NPC and talk, shop, train, or interact with their services. Come back, try an emote, and watch the friendship grow.

Azeroth is full of familiar faces. Give them a place in your BuddyDex.