Being used to the process, it didn’t amount to much - but there were several drawbacks to that approach, that only became clear to me once I decided to bite the bullet and start using an addon manager: Sometimes your addons won’t be up to dateĮspecially when a new expansion or major patch is released, this is a huge issue. I had several bookmarks of places where I could go download them, and I would extract those. If you’ve been using it, that might also be the case for you.īut do not panic, dear reader! For here is everything you need to know about using an addon manager for WoW, as well as finding the best replacement for you.įor many, many years, I found and updated my addons manually. I noticed this as I started getting in-game notifications that my Deadly Boss Mods addon was out of date, despite the fact that I had been getting it automatically updated from the Twitch app since forever ago.

Sadly, the Twitch manager has already stopped automatically updating several addons for a few weeks now. Especially as the launch of Shadowlands nears, this becomes crucial.

That means if you’ve been using that popular addon manager, you might already be aware that you need to find an alternative. In June 2020, Twitch sold CurseForge - which was responsible for its popular World of Warcraft Addon manager - to another company, Overwolf.