A lightweight Quality of Life addon for World of Warcraft focused on performance, clarity and smooth gameplay.
Optimize your game. Not your UI.
NaowhQOL is a performance and gameplay-focused addon designed to improve your World of Warcraft experience by enhancing system performance, gameplay clarity, and player awareness without changing your UI or adding visual clutter.
This is not a UI pack. This is not a visual overhaul. This is a modular Quality of Life system.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Combat Timer | Tracks elapsed time in combat with an on-screen display. Supports instance-only mode, sticky timer, and optional chat report on combat end. |
| Combat Alerts | Displays customizable enter/leave combat text with optional sound or text-to-speech audio alerts. |
| Combat Logger | Automatically starts and stops the combat log. |
| GCD Tracker | Visual global cooldown tracker. |
| Co-Tank Tracker | Monitors a co-tank's debuffs and cooldowns at a glance. |
| Crowd Rez Detection | Alerts when a battle rez is cast in your group. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Crosshair | Fully customizable screen crosshair with dual-color, dot, circle, outline, and melee-range recolor options. |
| Mouse Ring | Highlights your mouse cursor with a configurable ring for visibility during busy encounters. |
| Focus Cast Bar | A dedicated cast bar for your focus target. |
| Dragonriding HUD | Compact speed and vigor bar for Dragonriding with Whirling Surge and Second Wind icons. |
| Range Check | Displays real-time range to your target. |
| Movement Alert | Warns you when you start moving while casting. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Buff Watcher V2 | Advanced aura tracking system supporting raid buffs, personal buffs, class-specific buffs, and missing-only filtering. Includes a group report card. |
| Buff Tracker | Tracks consumables and important buffs with a configurable icon bar. Supports cooldown display, stack counts, and combat-only mode. |
| Pet Tracker | Monitors the status and health of your pet. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Talent Reminder | Notifies you when you enter a zone without talents selected. |
| Equipment Reminder | Warns you if you are missing gear in a slot when entering combat or an instance. |
| Stealth Reminder | Reminds you when stealth or a stance effect is active. |
| Emote Detection | Detects incoming emotes and alerts you in the world. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Smart Presets | One-click performance presets (e.g. Max Performance, Balanced, Max Quality). |
| Dynamic Graphics | Automatically adjusts texture quality, shadows, and effects based on FPS targets. |
| FPS Stability | Smooths FPS spikes and maintains a stable frame rate floor. |
| Network Smoothing | Tunes network CVARs to reduce perceived latency. |
| CVAR Engine | Fine-grained control over individual game client variables. |
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Faster Auto Loot | Removes the loot delay for instant auto-loot. |
| Suppress Loot Warnings | Auto-confirms all loot dialogs. |
| Easy Item Destroy | Auto-fills the DELETE confirmation when deleting items. |
| Auto Insert Keystone | Automatically slots your keystone when opening the Mythic+ table. |
| AH Current Expansion | Opens the Auction House filtered to the current expansion by default. |
| Hide UI Clutter | Individually hide achievement popups, NPC talking heads, event toasts, and zone text. |
| Skip Queue Confirm | Removes the manual confirmation when entering a dungeon/raid queue pop. |
| Death Release Protection | Adds a confirmation before releasing spirit to prevent accidental releases. |
| Auto Repair | Automatically repairs gear on visiting a repair vendor, with optional guild funds support. |
| Durability Warning | On-screen alert when armor durability drops below a configurable threshold. |
| Quest Automation | Optionally auto-accept quests, auto-turn-in quests, and auto-select gossip options. |
| Custom Slash Commands | Create your own /command aliases to toggle any game frame or run any slash command. |
| Profile Import / Export | Share your full settings configuration as a string. |
| Minimap Button | Optional minimap icon for quick access. Supports LibDBIcon. |
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/nao |
Open the NaowhQOL settings panel |
/nqol |
Alternative command to open settings |
/nsup |
Toggle in-session notification suppression (resets on reload) |
Any additional commands you create via the Slash Commands config panel will also appear here once registered.
Because most addons focus on visuals. NaowhQOL focuses on performance, clarity, and gameplay stability.
It helps you:
- Get more stable FPS
- Reduce stuttering
- Improve responsiveness
- Increase combat awareness
- Reduce visual noise
- Play smoother in high-pressure content
Clean gameplay. Stable performance. Competitive clarity.
- Download the latest release
- Rename the folder to
NaowhQOL - Extract into:
World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/
- Restart the game or
/reload - Type
/naoto open the settings panel
NaowhQOL is distributed through official platforms only.
This GitHub repository exists for:
- Official source hosting
- Distribution visibility
- Version control
- Project transparency
This project is proprietary.
All rights reserved.
The source code is published for distribution and usage only.
- Forking
- Copying
- Modifying
- Redistributing
- Reuploading
- Mirroring
- Repackaging
- Creating derivative works
- Integrating into other addons
- Commercial use
- Monetization
- Inclusion in other projects
See LICENSE.md for full legal terms.
This project includes third-party libraries under their original licenses (MIT, LGPL, BSD, etc).
These libraries are not covered by the NaowhQOL proprietary license.
For:
- Licensing permissions
- Redistribution requests
- Commercial use
- Partnerships
Contact the NaowhQOL Team.
NaowhQOL Clean gameplay. Stable performance. Zero bloat. Real optimization.