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I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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The title really says it all, but I’m self hosting world of Warcraft wrath of the lich king.

I’m just so shocked that it all works to be honest. It’s blowing my mind still.

I always want to play classic wow, but I play so infrequently that it’s not worth paying a subscription.

It never really occurred to me that I could just host my own server until chatgpt recommended that when I was researching things to self hosting.

It’s not public yet as my upload speeds are too slow.

I think I’m going to set the server up on my laptop so I can play wow while on my 14 hour flight coming up.

I’ve always played the game solo anyway due to my casualness.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Nice!

I self host Minecraft on our LAN so my kids can play together, and it's super nice.

[–] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am also running my own instance of azerothcraft on a vps so that i can play with some friends. Love it so far but summertime means there is not too much activity yet. Im running with autoscale mod and it is quite fun to run some of the lower lvl instances at lvl 60 and it is actually a challenge (yes i capped the level at 60 because that is what i know)

Anything in particular you like to do with your awesome gm powers? (moonfire spam wins)

[–] SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

I self-hosted a TBC server for short period and I liked being able to crank up the default run speed and increase the drop rate of purple items.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I need to look into mods. I didn’t even know that was a thing.

I have no idea what a gm can do, I made a gm account though.

I wonder if there are moss that will let me do raids solo.

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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I haven't played wow in a long time.... Classic, TBC, then wotlk, cata, then took a break from it, came back a loooooong time later and just... Didnt enjoy it.

I would definitely do something like this to play with family and friends, going to have to check it out!

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Nice job! I've been toying with the idea of hosting a Maplestory server for the nostalgia.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Was the server officially released by Blizzard or was it reverse-engineered and built by the community?

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I think reverse engineered.

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Is that still done with that Mangos software?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 2 days ago

It's more likely trinitycore (which forked from mangos quite some time ago). https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/

Mangos do still have a Wrath server branch. But specifically for 3.3.5 trinitycore is more often used.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I think mangos is for classic and the burning crusade.

Azerithcore is for wotlk

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