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So I’ve decided to write a guide, to help get some more peole playing this great game, without paying the ridiculous $15.00 fee per month. Before this really begins though, I should mention a few things:

This is a guide on how to play on a PRIVATE SERVER.
You won’t be playing with all your friends who play retail, so that just means you should get them to switch over to this method as well!

This guide will have you connecet to the servers run by Tru-WoW.
They are strictly “BlizzLike” which means everything (drop rates, experience) is how it is in retail, everything is the same as retail (with the exception of the few  bugs, but the developers are working diligently on them!)

Tru-WoW is still running The Burning Crusade.
The Wrath of the Lich King will eventually be supported, when it’s ready for private servers, they’d rather wait a few months to release it, in working order, rather than release it full of nasty bugs.

And now I’m just going to dive right in to the step-by-step of things…

1. First off, you will need to install BOTH the original WoW client, and The Burning Crusade client.
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft – The Burning Crusade
(And yes, I’m aware blizzard has an combination downloader, but that is for version 3 of the game, which is currently s till unsupported on most private servers.)

2. Once you download the files above, run them both, it will open a Blizzard Downloader (one for each.) It’s going to ask you where you want to save the files to, I just recommend your desktop, so you can find them faster when the time comes. It will take a couple of hours to finish. And generally The Burning Crusade will finish first (it will automatically launch the installer, saying that the original WoW client is required first, close out of it.) This means you have to wait for them BOTH to finish before you can really proceed any further. (Now might be a good time to go do something productive.) Or in the meantime, you could always start downloading the patches in step 5, and create your account in step 6.

3. After both downloads finish, you will have to open the original WoW folder that the downloader created, usually called “WoW-2.3.0.7561-enUS” and from there run the “Installer.exe” let it run, and finish installing.

4. After the original WoW client installs, it’s time to install The Burning Crusade expansion, so go into the folder named “WoW-BurningCrusade-enUS-Full-Installer” and run the “Installer.exe” from there too, and let it finish installing.

5. Next you’re going to have to patch your client to version 2.4.3, which can be a pain in the ass finding the correct patches to apply. I’ve made it easy for you, simply download and install (IN ORDER) the following patches. AFTER YOU APPLY EACH PATCH, THE WOW LAUNCHER WILL SHOW UP, AND TRY TO AUTO-UPDATE TO V.3.0 – MAKE SURE YOU CANCEL IT, DO NOT LET IT UPDATE TO 3.0!!!
2.4.0 (923.74 MB)
2.4.1 (04.88 MB)
2.4.2 (15.07 MB)
2.4.3 (27.27 MB)
None of these patches are hosted on this server, they are all provided by FileFront, if for some reason any of the downloads above are not working, please use the list of patch mirrors at WoWWiki.

6. Now it’s time to create your account, please click here to create an account, be sure to create your account as an “Expansion” account type, this is what lets you play The Burning Crusade, instead of just the original WoW game. Please allow up to 10-20 minutes for your account to be physically created on the servers.

7. Download my pre-made realmlist.wtf file (right click it, and “Save Link As…”) and place it in your WoW directory, usually set to
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft
And choose to OVERWRITE the existing file.
Or if for some reason you are paranoid, and do not want to download my file, feel free to browse to your WoW directory, open up the existing realmlist.wtf file, and change it to ONLY say
set realmlist truwowonline.com
And save it. NOTE: if your on Vista, it is way less stressful to simply download and copy the file I provided above, however to do so, you will have to agree to the User Account Control popup.

8. Run Wow.exe (be sure NOT to run Launcher.exe, this will patch the game to 3.x.x, and that’s bad) and you should then be able to log in with the username and password you created in step 5. If you’re feeling tech-savvy, make a shortcut to Wow.exe on your desktop, and delete the old shortcut there (which pointed to Launcher.exe)

9. Select your realm, Darkwolf for PvP, or Frostmane for PvE, I however do recommend Frostmane if you are new to private servers, you can always at a later date just create a PvP character, no loss in time really, since it’s FREE.

10. Create a character, and enter the World of Warcraft, for free! Enjoy!

So although I live with Ang right now… I still really miss her. I feel like we never have “us” time.

We both work, alot, and when we’re not working, I feel like our schedules just don’t match up at all… but in the rare event that they do, we just have busy work to take care of, like laundry, or cleaning up, or shopping, although… I should stop myself there, because there are few things I love more than going shopping with her =)

I can’t wait until these school semesters are over for the both of us…

Ang won’t be doing student observations anymore, we should have at the very least one FULL day to deciated to our selves every week.

Bascially I’m feeling overwhelmed with work, if I had one good job, where I made alot of money, rather than a good job that I don’t get paid much at, and an okay job that pays me more to serve coffee, i’d feel alot better if i could just work 40ish hours a week, get paid 12/hour, and have some TIME TO MYSELF. I can’t keep doing this 2 jobs thing, but I feel like I have to, aldfja;fladfjk;alf. I’m just going to stop, I don’t want to sound like I’m complaning, because I’m not. I asked for this. Me and Ang are totally in love with eachother, nothing can stop that. I just wish I could do more things for her, take her for walks around our new city, rather than simply doing the laundry and dishes for her. I miss doing all the cute things we used to.

I’d gladly stay up extra late with her tonight and do something fun, but she has to work at 9am tomorrow. and if it wren’t for me and Tricia switching, I’d be working from 4-midnight. – Those schedules like that SUCK BAD!

Oh boy, when school is over, completely. I can’t wait for that day.

In good news though, me and Ang are really doing wonderfully here, we love it, the drives are a big long for certain things. but it really is our home, it feels like home, like we really do belong here. Its nice to not be in roseville anymore, to not have so many worries about the neighborhood.

I just want more time to show my love for her, thats all.

Woo, haha, probably not TV/internet for a week or so, because Comcast sucks.

some lady has unsecured internet underneath us…

conneted to that, hacked (Tomato) firmware on a linksys router = wireless repearter (of sorts)

which means a desktop, without WiFi capabilities… means it can still connect.

i must say. i am impressed with myself even on this one. :-p