If item tooltips or stats stopped showing in WoW Forever, check the gamepad UI first. Players in a Blizzard forum thread found that clicking the right stick (R3) while bags are open in gamepad mode turns tooltips off, and pressing it again brings them back. Turning the gamepad UI off fixed it for others. This comes from players. Blizzard hasn't commented.

The fix

  1. If you play with a controller: open your bags and press the right stick once. Tooltips should come back.
  2. If that doesn't work: turn off the gamepad UI. See disabling controller mode.
  3. Reload with /reload once you've changed it.

Players say reloading, relogging, reinstalling and turning item comparison on and off didn't help on their own.

Not using a controller

One keyboard-and-mouse player reported the same problem in that thread, without a fix. Things worth trying:

  • Turn off add-ons with "Disable all" on the add-on screen and log in. If tooltips come back, turn add-ons on in batches to find the culprit. Tooltip and bag add-ons are the usual suspects.
  • Check for a Lua error with an error catcher. See catching Lua errors.
  • If only auction house items are missing stats, try without your auction add-on.

If none of that works, report it on the bug report forum with what you tried.