Not sure what it is (bug? feature?), but my stock/Blizzard UI chat pane in the bottom-left of the screen randomly “stops working” out of nowhere.
What I mean is, someone in trade chat will link an [item] or [guild] - but when I mouse over and click it… nothing happens? Same thing for [player] tags, mouse over/right-click them… nothing happens.
Sometimes the chat pane works, sometimes it doesn’t - can’t even right click —> report the boost sellers when it stops working 
Anyways, I’m done with this buggy stock UI from Blizzard, is there any good alternative chat pane addons that “always” work? I don’t think it’s asking too much for the basic buttons to work in a $15/month game 
This is the only chat addon you’ll ever need:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/owospeak
3 Likes
Do you have any addons currently installed? That sounds a lot like a bug caused by an addon… doesn’t even necessarily have to be a chat addon.
Could also be an corrupted UI issue (fixable with a reinstall of WoW) but that seems less likely.
1 Like
I mean, I have the “usual” addons like DBM, raiderio, etc installed… but I’ve never heard of other player’s chat pane randomly crapping out/not working, and addons like DBM and rakderio are very popular.
When I’m doing a BGs session these are the only addons I have turned on:
- advancedinterfaceoptions
- Capping
- Plater
When I’m doing PvE I have this loadout:
- advancedinterfaceoptions
- Details!
- Plater
- RareScanner
- TomTom
- Venture Plan
- raiderio
- DBM
…stock chat pane UI randomly quits working regardless of the 2 loadouts 
You may not have to reinstall. You can try Options/Scan and Repair first. I agree that it might be add-ons thought.
I like Prat but it’s one of the many addons I like that seem to have been put into limbo because of Shadowlands.
I’ve seen addons that haven’t been updated for a while and/or are erroring out cause all sorts of weird effects. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of how the UI is written - a bug in a random addon can cause chaos in just about all of the unsandboxed stock UI (which is most of it).
I would recommend playing without any addons enabled and seeing if the issue persists. It may also be a good idea to use advancedinterface options to turn on lua errors and see if anything throwing errors.
Wow Instant Messenger
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/wim-3
You’ll be able to keep track of multiple conversations (and their history) and leave guildchat & /1 and /2 to the chat panels in their separate tabs in stock UI - at least that’s how i have things set up.
I know this was a reaaaaaally long while ago ( I was looking for chat addon recommendations as well) but stumbled upon this, if you can’t click on items in the UI menu it’s usually because you accidentally toggled “Make Noninteractive” on the window so you can’t click on any items, just have to toggle it back to interactive and you’re good :3
3 Likes
Click on the chat pane and slect “make interactive”.