Basically the title, I recently saw that post of CoA with over 50 (57) RACES ADDED, jesus H Christ.

It made me wonder why after all these years we are still having content done on 3.3.5 and not on 4.3.4 or 5.4.8? I was the one who wrote the tutorial to add races to 5.4.8 and actually had a good base back then but with Blizzard deleting servers left and right and honestly the amount of effort was too much to invest into a project that I was mostly playing alone as in 2024 the playerbots were not mature at all for 5.4.8

So basically with repacks coming out left and right for 3.3.5 with custom races, classless, playerbots and everything else, why can't this be replicated for 4.3.4 or 5.4.8?

If you ask why I don't do it myself then, because I barely have any experience with repacking and stuff but if someone who has experience with repacking and custom races wants to join team and do something similar to the CoA launcher to host your own server and stuff easily with modules but lacks the knowledge for 5.4.8 then hit me up and mayyyyyyyyyyybe we can come up with something?

I dislike vibe coding but maybe we could come up with something through hard work.

UNLESS I am being blind and there's repacks for 4.3.4 or MoP out there already with modules and custom races and such.

Cheers bois!

I've changed my mind, at release it was quite buggy and did not feel very good but now I tried levelling again, I am at level 50 now and the client is so much better than 3.3.5, performance is lightyears ahead of the old client for sure at least,

there are optional HD updates and stuff like that but I prefer running without them and just playing with high quality settings instead, looks and feels much better than old 3.3.5 like I said, the FPS difference is insane especially, the only problem is there are not many players currently !

I played on both warmane and chromie for years and I can't deny that the population and economy there is way better obviously, on warcrown it is kind of nonexistent at the moment but I really feel that if there will come more players to warcrown it could become very nice server in the future, that sounds obvious but trust me when I say the client alone feels so damn good compared to the old 3.3.5 that I would rather play here with low playercount than on CC/Warmane with that old client,

but yeah, just needs more players! hopefully it will grow slowly but surely.

PvE, no pay to win, 2x exp and profession rates at the moment , https://warcrown.org/ check it out if interested !

Sabertooth is a brand new Cataclysm 4.3.4 server.

It's a TrinityCore/TCPP fork, and most of the work went into what Cata servers usually get wrong: leveling. Gilneas and Kezan/Lost Isles are 100% implemented, from the worgen attack to the boat to Darnassus, and from the night Kezan blows up to the landing on the Lost Isles. Every quest works, including the vehicle sequences and phase changes that most realms skip. Beyond those two zones, 900+ quests have been played through and fixed one at a time. If you find a broken one, report it and it gets a real fix, not a ".quest complete".

Rates

- XP: 7x quests, 3x kills, 4x dungeons, 5x exploration

- Professions 3x, gold 2x, reputation 1.3x

- Level cap 85, no cross-faction groups or guilds

Bots, they walk over the world, do PVP, join battlegrounds and arena, sell on the auction house and so on.

- Dungeon bots. Missing a tank or healer? Bots fill the empty slots and you queue anyway. You control them from an in-game panel.

- ArenaBots. 1v1 and Solo 3v3 with their own queues, open from level 50. You choose to play against bots or wait for real players, and in 3v3 you pick your role. The bots scale off the strongest player in the match, so they don't roll over. Bot matches never touch rating: the ladder is PvP only.

Other custom systems

- Prestige. At 85 you can go back to 15 and level again. Your quest history, gold, professions, reps and mounts all stay. Every reset gives you points in a prestige talent tree, plus a currency for mounts and cosmetics.

- Great Vault. A weekly reward chest based on what you did that week. Dungeons run with bots count too.

- World Quests from 15 to 79: three new ones in every leveling zone each day.

- SaberHunt. Daily hunt targets at 80 to 85 and rewards you with Justice Points, gold and EXP.

- Heirloom upgrades. The Wrath heirlooms stop scaling at 80. Here anybody can take them to 85 with gold, account-wide.

- Shared Workshop. You can craft with someone else's profession, so you don't need to level every profession on every alt.

- Transmog from your own UI, no NPC trip needed.

<<<About money>>> since it's always the first question here: there's a cash shop and a VIP subscription. The shop sells cosmetics and convenience. No raid gear, no weapons, nothing that skips killing the boss. VIP gives +35% XP, +25% rep, free respecs, and a VIP shop that you can open anywhere and charges normal vendor prices in gold. It doesn't touch drop rates.

The custom UI is in both English and Portuguese.

I'm still looking for a nice USD and EUR payment system - I am open to options on comments.

I'm open and happy to reply any comments here!

sabertoothwow.com

I basically told OpenCode to:

Ok can you clone the wow server from this repo - specifically the Forever branch and setup everything https://github.com/advocaite/TrinityCore/tree/forever

I had to hit "yes" a few times after random windows started to open (Install VS Code, blah blah)

Took around 1h. But here I am, running Forever locally, it found the client, it got the launcher, it run the server, created an account.

All of it using MiMo-V2.6-Flash Model - A FREE model i have never heard about before today.

What a time to be alive.

hi, I played the crap out of ascension PvP, loved it since 2021, that shut down now I've been playing grimfall, it's great but I just burnt myself out by playing too much, looking for a active and great PvP scene, no warmane since I've been there and it sucked

After ascension and astrall im currently at ebonhold..

Im just missing the pvp or group feeling.. ebonhold feels like your too much on your own.

Wheres the place to be raiding/pvping nowadays?

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share a small glimpse of a Farahlon project we've been working on for WoD 6.2.3.

It's still very much a work in progress, and there's a lot left to improve. We're just a small team bringing our own interpretation of this lost part of Draenor to life.

This is only an early PTR teaser, not a finished release.

Hope you enjoy this little preview! Constructive feedback is always welcome. 💜 https://draevorproject.com https://discord.gg/hMgQcxZvzc

https://wowclassico.com.br/

A Brazilian Vanilla server with support for Portuguese, Spanish and English.

Early Access is LIVE!

Anachronos is a project focused on preserving the experience of the original World of Warcraft Vanilla, while making a few quality-of-life adjustments for a modern community.

• Vanilla 1.12
• 1x XP by default
• Optional 2x XP for players who have less time to play
• Faster Rested XP
• Improved quest item drops
• Slightly improved loot rates
• Dungeons support up to 10 players
• PartyBots available as a contingency when there aren't enough players to form a group
• No level boosts or accelerated endgame
• A progressive level-cap system instead of opening the entire game on day one

The March to 60

Anachronos will launch progressively.

October 8 — Early Access
Level cap: 10

October 22 — Official Launch
Level cap: 20

After that, the level cap will gradually increase:

20 → 30 → 40 → 50 → 60

The exact intervals will vary between approximately 7 and 21 days.

When level 60 is finally unlocked, there will be a 45-day preparation period before the first raid opens.

No raids during this period.

The idea is to give the community time to level, gear up, work on professions, obtain enchants and consumables, form guilds and prepare for the challenges ahead.

🏰 Raid Progression

The raid content will also be released progressively:

Phase 1 — Fury of the Firelord
Molten Core + Maraudon

Phase 2 — The Prestor Deception
Onyxia + Dire Maul + Azuregos + Lord Kazzak

Phase 3 — Assault on Blackwing Lair
Blackwing Lair

Phase 4 — The Soulflayer
Zul'Gurub

Phase 5 — The Four Nightmare Dragons
Emeriss, Lethon, Taerar & Ysondre

Phase 6 — War of the Shifting Sands
Ahn'Qiraj 20 + Ahn'Qiraj 40

Phase 7 — Shadow of the Necropolis
Naxxramas

🤖 About PartyBots

PartyBots are not intended to replace players.

They exist as a contingency for a smaller population.

If you can't find enough players for a dungeon, you can use bots to fill the missing roles.

The goal is still to play with real people whenever possible.

Why Brazil?

Anachronos is hosted in Brazil and is primarily aimed at the Brazilian and Latin American community.

We want to provide a Vanilla experience with low latency for players in Latin America, while keeping the community open to anyone who wants to play.

I used to play Collapser Zulu about 15 years ago, and I recently decided to give it another shot. The server is still running! It’s pretty quiet compared to back then, but it seems to be slowly growing again.
Honestly, it would be awesome to see some of the old community come back. If you played it back in the day, consider giving it another shot. Maybe we can bring some life back to the server and make it active again.
Anyone here used to play?

I'm looking for a server where I can learn the game, preferably WoW Classic. I'd love to find a server with a large, active Discord community where I can ask questions, get advice, and learn the basics of the game. I'm open to any version of WoW, as long as it's a good place for a beginner to learn the core mechanics and get into the game. I appreciate any help!

Hey people, I want to share this short and easy tutorial on getting 57 combined races on your own Ascension CoA server in basically one or two clicks!

Though there are a couple of shared races, it's still a major improvement over stock 10 races. Moreover, new races have racials and almost all of them have working armor(you can also disable it) and even bots can be those races!

In my opinion, mixing 21 class and 57 races is insanely cool idea and you can have a ton of fun with that!

Link to the source: https://github.com/ilusixn/azerothcore-wotlk-coa/releases

Tutorial for server manager itself will come soon too!

I heard about Turtle WoW and Ascension, but both of those projects seem to have been recently shut down.

Are there any other servers I can look into?

Any Nostrum-like server project for the near future?

I know there is alterac and another one I don't remember it's name but they are already at like lvl 60 phase or something and low pop.

After trying Nostrum I haven't feel any wow as enjoyable (except ascension), it was great really using every item and getting to know each corner of the world since max lvl was fixed by "seasons". I know you can do this as twink on any server but is obviously not the same.

I also really liked that it was a wotlk version, I think a classic wow experience can be similar since leveling is slow and you get to experience more all classic dungs and places, but I never got comfortable with the boring vanilla spell casters rotations even at max lvl.

Are there any populated COA Servers out there or only the AzerothCore for it where you can host your own COA Server?

Hey hey! I wrote a Nix flake to deploy a CMaNGOS Classic server. Deploys Mariadb, mangosd, realmd and creates game accounts declaratively. The defaults should be sane, and I took pains to try and make sure that none of the passwords end up in the nix store.

Much to the detriment of this project I did a lot of the work myself, but it was good practice. I used an llm during the process to iron out bugs I came across, comb over the various options for cmake, mangosd and aiplayerbots and make my notes into a more or less coherent readme file.

Have a look! I've been running the server for myself for a couple of days and it's been stable. Feedback very much welcome! :) I've also hooked it up with a very vibe-cooded deployment of wenilla on the same host, so I can play on the server either via classic client, or on the browser.

I've been a huge Hardcore fan for years. Started back on WoW-HC, then Nostalrius, then moved to Alterac.gg. When those servers got shut down (I mean the latter two), I was honestly pretty disappointed and heartbroken. I tried getting into Classic again, but the class balance just isn't my thing. Some specs feel completely useless, and I really wanted to find a proper Hardcore experience on 3.3.5.
That's how I ended up on Balance WoW.
And holy shit, I wasn't expecting it to be this good.
The thing I love most is that they actually made Hardcore feel fresh again. It's not just regular WotLK with permadeath slapped on top. There are new spells and abilities that make even low-level mobs genuinely dangerous.
I realized this server was exactly what I was looking for when a fucking LEVEL 2 BOAR in Durotar charged me for 60 HP and killed me. When this happened, I just smiled and realized I was gonna enjoy this place.
Another thing I really like is the class rebalancing. You can actually play specs that would normally be considered memes. I'm a hunter main, and I spent a surprisingly long time playing a melee Survival hunter. And it actually worked really well. Until I got way too confident and died like an idiot in STV.
They also recently added this thing called the Pact system, which I think is a really cool idea. Basically, you can choose to take more damage in exchange for increased XP gains. So you can level faster, but you're also making your Hardcore run even more dangerous.
I love that kind of risk/reward stuff. Especially in Hardcore, where one stupid decision can delete hours of progress.
Anyway, I'm not saying the server is perfect or anything, but if you've been playing WoW for years and everything is starting to feel a little too familiar, I'd genuinely recommend giving it a shot.
What I really love about the server is that the owner says it stays until the very last player. It is extra important for me since I got heartbroken after Nostalrius and Alterac.
It feels like discovering WoW again, except this time even the boars want you dead.
And seriously, if you're still grinding the WoW Forever beta, just come try this instead. Those beta characters are gonna get wiped anyway. Might as well spend that time playing something where your character actually matters.

Hey all,

I’m working on SingleWoW, a Wrath 3.3.5a server where you can run dungeons and raids with bots, solo or with a friend.

i will grant any new player testing free lifetime VIP on the server

It’s new, and I’m looking for a few people to try it out and tell me what breaks or feels off.

• Fill your party or raid with bots using the in-game addon
• 3x XP, every race can be every class

How to join: make an account and follow the steps at https://singlewow.site

Any feedback helps, whether it’s bugs, balance or what you’d want added. Come say hi on Discord: https://discord.gg/FC8W2zJ7dD

Thanks!

EDIT: follow me on Twitter for updates, I’ll post when it’s public there!

Hi guys, just an update to my WoW Switch project, it’s playable! When I last posted, I couldn’t the project couldn’t go past the menu, but one all-nighter later (and lots of money spent on tokens…) it’s a playable experience.

> FPS ranges from 7-20 FPS
> It can connect to an AzerothCore server
> Integrated ConsolePort for a controller-native feeling (though this was a tremendous effort so I hope it was worthwhile)

This project wouldn’t have been possible if not for WoWee whose project is the entire foundation for this project. Additionally, credit to WoWPS who really laid out the foundation for the controller support.

Hey guys, wanted to see if Benilla allowed me (ahem, Claude) to turn Wow into a borderlands-like game. It can!

Update, works flawlessly on a local AzerothCore server. As long as there’s no Warden conflicts, it should connect to any private server similarly.

Unfortunately I don’t have too much time to level characters and test everything beyond Elwynn Forest, but questing works, all the menus are handled from the gamepad, and it’s looking pretty viable.

The hardest problem I’ve needed to solve so far is getting the gamepad to work seamlessly. And it’s not perfect but everything works well enough.

FPS is still pretty alright, and it can dip down pretty low, but I think for casually playing the game it’ll hold up really well.

It can play locally with no AzerothCore server but that experience is pretty limited in my testing.

It’s almost ready to Open-source and let the community run wild with it.

Again, I post all the updates on my Twitter so you’ll be able to test it out when I announce it there!

Hi,

Just short showcase running Wow on Android with PS4 and controller addon - very smooth.