Friends

Friends is for people you already know. Once you are friends, each of you sees the other's WoW Forever characters by default (gold, bags, the bank and zone stay private), and each decides what the other sees, any time. You need an account.

Becoming friends

The easy way is your invite link:

1. Under Invite friends, pick who the invite shows (one of your characters, or no name) and what people who join through it see, then press Make my invite link.
2. Copy it (or Share it on a phone) and send it anywhere: Discord, a guild chat, a message. It works for as many people as you send it to.
3. They open it, sign in, pick what you see of them and press Accept. Signed out, they sign in first and land back on the invite.

Shared in a chat, the link shows a preview card with the character you chose and what joining shows. New link makes a fresh address and stops the old one; Stop this link ends it. Friends you already have stay friends.

Prefer something that works only once? Open Or trade a one-time code: press Get a code (it works once, for half an hour), send it, and the other pastes it and presses Add them. Friends added with a code start on your standard settings.

What a friend sees of you

Every friend starts on your standard settings (unless your invite link said otherwise): your professions if your account-wide share is on (see Sharing your professions), and the whole characters and loot finds you switched on further down the Friends page.

To set it for one friend, press What they see on their card and pick Choose for this friend. Then, per character, switch Professions, Whole sheet and Loot finds on or off just for them, set the same for Characters you sync later, and tick what whole characters keep private. It saves as you click and your other friends are not affected. Standard settings puts them back. Each card also says in one line what they show you and what you show them.

What you can do with a friend

• Click one of their characters to see its recipes, and search what they can make.
• Open a character they share whole (see below) for its full sheet.
• Message them (see Messages and blocking).
• Give them a private label, only you see it.
• Remove them: the view goes away for both of you, right away.

If a friend plays in another region, the page shows Europe and Americas switches so you can look at either.

Sharing a whole character

Your professions are one thing; sometimes you want a friend to see everything: what an alt wears, what is in its bank, how close it is to the next level. That is a switch per character, Share everything with my friends, and for WoW Forever characters it is on by default, with gold, bags and bank, and zone kept private. You find it at the top of each character's sheet on My characters, and for all your characters at once under Standard settings: whole characters on the Friends page. The first row there, Every other character, is the default itself: untick it and every character you never switched yourself is off, new ones too. The same goes for Share my loot finds with friends further down.

Switched on, every friend on your standard settings sees that character's whole sheet: stats, gear with item levels, reputation, skills, recipes, PvP rank, history, bags and bank, gold, played time, zone, rested XP and level progress. Once it is on you can tick Keep private for its gold, its bags and bank, or its zone.

• Only your friends see it. There is no link, and nobody else can open it.
• A friend you blocked on Messages, or who blocked you, sees nothing.
• It is read from your account every time a friend looks, so switching it off, forgetting the character or removing a friend takes effect at once.
• It needs the character synced to your account by the desktop app or the addon sync; a character you only pasted in stays in your browser.

On their side, a character shared whole opens under their name on the Friends page with the same tabs you have: Stats, Gear, Reputation, Skills, Recipes, PvP, History, and buttons for Bags and Bank. Hover their gear and, if you picked who you are Playing as, you see how it compares with yours.