My World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King private server is now live, and in this post I'll explain how to connect, but before I start, I'd like to say something:
House of Hermskii's administrator has been kind enough to allow me to write this post on his forum, even though this forum is dedicated to Unreal Tournament. Please show him your respect by not flooding his forum with WoW related topics. If there is anything you want discussed about my server, do it here. I'll be checking it often enough. And to Hermskii himself: Thank you very much for allowing me to post here!
OK. Let's move on to the big question: How do I connect to your WoW server?
Well, first of all, you'll need a client.
Step one: Download your client.
If you are willing to download a torrent, go here. I have personally tested this download, and it is virus free.
Warning: This is a no-install download. This means that you download the game at once, which is 16.9 GB. Make sure you download to the correct folder at once, since there will be, as the name implies, no installation. The download could take several hours, an overnight download is recommended.
If you are not willing to download a torrent, you can go here.
However, I have not personally tested this method! Feedback is welcome and highly appreciated.
Warning: In this guide you can skip step 4B, since we will change this in Step 2 anyway.
If both methods are no good, contact me personally via a private message and perhaps we can sort things out in another way.
Step two: Connecting to my server.
Now, you've got the client, but you need it to connect to my server. This step seems hard at first, but it's really easy, so walk with me:
The short version: go to: \...\Data\EnUS in your WoW folder and edit realmlist.wtf.
Delete all of its contents and add the following line:
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set realmlist "77.250.120.101"
The long version:
Go to your WoW folder (the place where you've downloaded to), which is for me C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft
Now find the Data folder inside your World of Warcraft folder and go there.
In Data you can find EnUS, and go there.
In EnUS you find a file called realmlist.wtf, edit this with Notepad.
Now, delete all of its contents and add the following line:
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set realmlist "77.250.120.101"
Step 3: Creating your account.
To create your account you must go to the website here.
Do not use your Battle.net account, that will cause WoW to prompt an update.
Once you're done, on to the last step.
Step 4: Running your World of Warcraft client.
In your World of Warcraft folder you can find WoW.exe - always use this to run the game. Do not use the Launcher, in the best scenarios it will not work. Worst case scenario is that it starts patching and you'll have to download it back all over.
If any of this is unclear, let me know!
And that's it. Welcome to my private server and I hope to see you in game!
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On my server all values are retail values.
The only differences right now are:
Horde and Alliance can communicate and party up. Auction House is NOT shared between Horde and Alliance, but they can trade.
You can have a maximum of 10 Professions per character.
Flight Paths are instant teleports.
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Since my server runs on patch 3.3.5a, most, if not all retail addons will not work as they are incompatible. You can download compatible addons here. Make sure you download 3.3.5 version addons.
If you know another source of addons for this patch, please let me know and I'll add the website to the guide.
For drop calculators you can go to OpenWoW and sometimes switch to WoWhead, but remember that WoWhead has been updated to Warlords of Dreanor, and that the world has been revamped in Cataclysm so the information may not be accurate.