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How to Add WoW Icons as Discord Emoji (and Slack)

Turn World of Warcraft spell, item and boss icons into custom Discord emoji, Discord stickers or Slack emoji in a few minutes, with the right file sizes for each.

Art: Kalimdor loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment.

Every icon page on TheWoWDB has a 128 pixel PNG with a transparent background, which is the size Discord and Slack both want for a custom emoji. The packs bundle up to 50 themed icons at once, plus 320 pixel sticker versions.

Discord emoji

1. Open the icon's page here, or a pack page if you want a whole set, and download the 128px PNG (or the pack zip and unzip it).
2. In Discord, open your server menu and choose Server Settings, then Emoji.
3. Press Upload Emoji and pick the PNG files. You can select many at once.
4. Discord names each emoji after its file. Pack files already carry short names such as fireball or ragnaros; rename any you like.
5. Type a colon and the name in any channel, for example :fireball:, to use it.

Discord stickers

1. Download a pack: its stickers folder holds 320 by 320 pixel PNGs, the size Discord asks for.
2. In Server Settings, open Stickers and press Upload Sticker.
3. Pick the PNG, give it a name and a related emoji, and save.

Slack emoji

1. Download the 128px PNG of the icon, or a pack's emoji folder.
2. In Slack, open your workspace menu, choose Tools and settings, then Customize workspace.
3. On the Emoji tab press Add Custom Emoji, upload the image and give it a name.
4. Use it with :name: in any message or as a reaction.

Size limits

Discord emoji

PNG or GIF, at most 256 KB each, shown at up to 128px. A server starts with 50 emoji slots and gains more with boosts.

Discord stickers

PNG or APNG, exactly 320 by 320 pixels, at most 512 KB. A server starts with 5 sticker slots.

Slack emoji

Square images up to 128px work best; Slack resizes larger ones.

Tips

• Native game icons are 64 by 64 pixels. The 128px and 256px files are upscaled from that, which is fine for emoji, where the client shows them small anyway.
• Icons have a dark border baked into the art, so they read well on Discord's dark theme and on Slack's light one.
• Name emoji after the spell, not the file: :blink: is easier to type than :spell_arcane_blink:.

Start with a pack

All WoW icons

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