I self hosted a World of Warcraft server.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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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etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Aside: store.steampowered.com/app/2382520/Erenshor/

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- BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is the saddest thing I’ve seen today 😔
  
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  - teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I know exactly what you’re feeling, and I totally get it. Still, if executed well, I’m at least impressed that they pulled it off. I would have sworn such an experience wasn’t possible.
    
    But yeah, I’m not interested in having artificial multiplayer interactions.
    
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- cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.
  
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- atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s awesome.
  
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- cryptTurtle@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Damn, my first thought was how fun it would be with my friends lol
  
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- teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  As someone who believes LFG was the beginning of the end of MMOs, I can’t tell if I despise this or if I’m impressed.
  
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  - IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    LFG?
    
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- ProfThadBach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That looks fun like old Everquest.
  
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Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
FYI there are free wow instances out there if you want other humans involved. Turtle wow and ascension.

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- Moose@moose.best ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Turtle WoW is great, I’m dreading Blizzard shutting it down though. I’m hoping they avoid them but I feel their upcoming remastered client might attract too much attention.
  
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Thanks, I’ve always solo played and didn’t get too deep into the game, so when I play with others I feel like I’m holding them back or need everything explained.
  
  Plus self hosting it lets be play on my up coming 14 hour flight.
  
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Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I did too a couple months back to play with the wife and kids.

There is a mod that enables bots which I guess could be helpful in dungeons and raids. I didn’t try it though.

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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s awesome! I was wondering how I would do raids.
  
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- Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  IMO i used to test my multi box setup way back when with private servers.
  
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Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

ChatGPT said
When i was researching

🧐

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- jfrnz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What’s wrong with this?
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I remember when “research” actually meant something. Now it just means "throw it into the black box and get some info that has a 50/50 chance of being completely made up "
    
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- biscuit@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The latest LLM’s are pretty damn good as a research assistant - that was its original purpose. Using chatgpt as your first go at researching a new subject (like self hosting) is perfectly valid.
  
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Haha, well when searching for games that can be self hosted, it’s gives a list which I can then further research on the web.
  
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about giving AI a black hat or a white hat, as usual.

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- YourPsychiatrist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I might be mistaken but at the time of writing there was 1 post about AI
  
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  - LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Not gonna go back and search for “AI” but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by “AI”), and this was not at all the point of OP’s post.
    
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MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
While I have heard of people doing this a decade, I have never looked into it.

How was the install and setup process? How is the resource consumption of the server? At one point it seemed one had to supply their own quests. Are there open source quests available? Anything cool I didn’t ask about?

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- Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I did it like 10 or so years back? It was pretty easy to be completely honest and didn’t require too many resources, at least not if you’re the only one using the server. You just run the server locally and then use the client to connect to that server. That’s basically it.
  
  And no, the game comes with all the quests and everything, you don’t need to really do anything else. The downsides is that you’ll be locked out of a bunch of content like dungeons and raids since those require groups of 5 or more players.
  
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  - SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I have read that modern servers have np. Bots you can add so you can do dungeons and stuff. I haven’t tried myself. Would love to find a guide on how to set up a Linux host.
    
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  - Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah me. Too, the biggest hurdle was understanding that the code, dB and scripts need to be in versions fitting together. Until then it was a bit off 🤣.
    
    But as you said, about 10 years back but even on a pretty small vm for me and friends.
    
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I just checked the server without logging into the game and it’s using like 106% of the CPU on idle when I logged in and played a little bit. It didn’t change too much but it’s consistently running that high at idle because I guess things in the game world are running so I’m probably going to stop the service and start it when I’m gonna play to just lower my electric usage
  
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  - MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Great to know. I don’t know if 106% of CPU is good or bad, but it is not what I had anticipated. Thank you!
    
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Install wasn’t too bad, I used a mix of chatgpt and install documentation when I get stuck.
  
  One problem I had was that I was aiming for burning crusade, but and chatgpt told me that Azerothcore supported burning crusade.
  
  So after getting the server up and learning this, I had to find a wotlk client.
  
  The choose of expansion was arbitrary, I just didn’t want modern wow.
  
  There are some data files you have to supply, but they can just be downloaded from github and the guide even links to it.
  
  I’m not sure about resources, but for a small instance, I think it’s pretty light. I’ve only just installed it on a i5-3470 cpu server, and it seems to play fine.
  
  I’ve only played for like 5 minutes as I’ve not had time to play and monitor how heavy it is.
  
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- lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I run one on a 8 gb debian server from hetzner and it seems rock solid so far from what i can tell with the amount of traffic i am likely to have (just friends get an account)
  
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piefood@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I have one as well, and it's so much fun. It's pretty much just for my SO and me, but sometimes I have friends join. It's super cool having GM commands and all that.

Good work, I hope you have fun with it!

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Nice!

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

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squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The advantage of self-hosted WoW is that you can cheat to your heart’s content.

So no more grinding if you don’t want to.

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aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Wrath WoW Best WoW

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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t know if I played it much if at all.
  
  It’s been so long and I know for sure that I did not play cataclysm.
  
  I also never got too high of a level in the game either and mostly solo quested. It’s just fun to go around mindlessly.
  
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I played in a TBC private server when Wrath wasn’t out yet. I never made it to level 70, or maybe I did in the very end. I just never cared either. There was so much to discover
    
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lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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)

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- SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
  
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  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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  - lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yes you can use the autoscale mod to make content soloable but you might want to tweak the settings to get it to a difficulty level you like. Some raid bosses have some game mechanics that make soloing difficult though
    
    You should look into the gm commands to see what you can manipulate and also the server configs have a lot of things you can tweak that could make the game more enjoyable for you
    
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drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Was the server officially released by Blizzard or was it reverse-engineered and built by the community?

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- DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The server has been reverse engineered for literal decades at this point.
  
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think reverse engineered.
  
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Nice job! I’ve been toying with the idea of hosting a Maplestory server for the nostalgia.

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Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
'I’m not a big fan of the grind. Can you completely and fundamentally change the way experience works to accommodate my personal preferences?"

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- Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Yeah, sure, I see no problems with that. Alternatively, I could just boost your characters to max level if you would like?”
  
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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can mod the database for creatures to drop more xp, gold and loot from the looks of it.
  
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  - neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah! And it’s super easy, just find the line that corresponds to drop rate or exp from mob/ questions and change it from 1 to 10 and get 10x.
    
    I have exp and gold set to x2
    
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  - piefood@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You can also give yourself equipment and money, if you set yourself up as a GM
    
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olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been seriously turned off by the grind of WoW. Are you able to do something like reduce the XP level scaling or something so that every level is like 30m and improve drop rates?

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- Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  With AzerothCore you can, yes.
  
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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can also just play as a GM.
  
  I’m not exactly sure what powers you have as a gm, but I think it’s pretty extensive.
  
  I’m still fine tuning the server and haven’t played much.
  
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- olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Update, I downloaded the VMangos database. It looks like it might be possible to edit drop rates with creature_loot_template(ChanceOrQuestChance) and XP gain by using creature_template(xp_multiplier)
  
  I haven’t hosted anything yet but it could be tested by editing a Chicken’s xp_multiplier from 0.0 to 1.0
  
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curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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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- Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  TBC was peak WoW for me.
  
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  - curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Classic to TBC.
    
    Did my pally quest for the mount, only to see that no longer be needed just a bit later…
    
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Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Is that still done with that Mango software?

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- neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think mangos is for classic and the burning crusade.
  
  Azerithcore is for wotlk
  
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