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.

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Oh wow, thanks for the recommendation. This looks perfect.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      3 months 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.

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          Looking for Group. As someone else said, the ability to click “queue for dungeon”, be dropped into an instance with a bunch of random, and proceed to faceroll the dungeon without any thought or patience required.

          The fun part of old school MMOs was the journey, not the destination. Modern MMOs have all optimized the journey out by making everything doable without ever being dependent on another player.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I think they mean the automated party queueing and match making systems, which takes out the social aspects from MMOs altogether.

    • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
      1019·
      3 months ago

      This is the saddest thing I’ve seen today 😔

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        3 months 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.

  • Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    3 months ago

    FYI there are free wow instances out there if you want other humans involved. Turtle wow and ascension.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      3 months 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.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    ChatGPT was mentioned and now the thread is all about AI being good/bad, as usual.

    Anyway, I’m glad you got your server going - hope you enjoy your flight!

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months 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” in this case), and this was not at all the point of OP’s post.

  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months 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.

    • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
      101·
      3 months 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.

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      51·
      3 months 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.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    3 months 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!

  • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    41·
    3 months 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)

    • SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      3 months 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.comOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months 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.

      • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 months 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

  • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months 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?

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months 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.

    • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months 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

  • drspod@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

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

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    'I’m not a big fan of the grind. Can you fundamentally change the way experience works to accommodate my personal preferences?"

    • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      You can mod the database for creatures to drop more xp, gold and loot from the looks of it.

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        2·
        3 months 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

        • Caveman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, I might actually play wow since I can reduce the XP scaling by a lot. It goes from 50 mobs at lvl 10 to 600+ to level up at lvl 60. I have a 7mo old no way I have time for that hahaha.

          I use SQL for work so I can mod the DB easily to remove the exponential scaling in favor of linear scaling like mob XP scales.

          • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I don’t think you need to mod the database for that. There is just a mod I think that will relevels everything to be at the right level for your character.