Hello everyone. I've been working on this server for the past year and I feel like it is ready to be shared.
As far as the ingame world goes, I’ve always been an enormous fan of Vanilla. Later content seemed like too much of an amusement park. However, those expanded talent trees, spells and so on are too good to pass up on. I decided to mod an experience that, as I see it, combines what I feel is best about the early life stage of WoW.
The now inactive SoloFriendly repack was used as a framework. You can also consider this my stubborn refusal to let SoloFriendly be forgotten. I’ve done my best to push the boundary of what it means to be “solo friendly”.
Be sure to drop by the PWN+ discord if you want to chat about it or are curious and want to see a few screenshots before downloading. I’ll link the entire patch history of this project (don’t bother reading it all, it’s almost 4000 lines in a text document and there’s a lot of back and forth), but I’ve left all content-related changes vague. If you want that Ashbringer and to purify it but can’t be assed looking, you’ll have to ask someone who knows the questline. And I’m not telling. There was a lot of not knowing how things worked back when WoW released, and I want to recreate some of that. It was fun.
I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please spread the word. I will continue to work on it in the future, but for now I need a break. It has been a long year of modding. New stuff / release to come by the end of 2024 probably. Earlier if I think of something I really like.
DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/unRYE4jQd5
WHAT THIS REPACK OFFERS:
A thorougly curated level 1-60 PvE experience (including world bosses and world elite quests) for the solo player, duos and maybe trios, with a shiny login screen to boot
Just plug and play - no difficulty tweaking or pre-play setup of any kind needed, the dungeons get progressively harder and most endgame encounters are downright brutal
A free experience through and through - you will never pay for any part of this or my future work on it. No sneaky crypto miners either
Modded Vanilla content via an overhauled WotLK server (the final release of SoloFriendly by V2, with many bugfixes by me)
New endgame content (Acherus has a new master), existing content enhanced, new NPCs and quests
Blizzard's disappointing decisions (like not giving players the Ashbringer and removing Atiesh) overruled
Restored content - abominations once again guard Undercity, go through the entire AQ unlocking questchain by yourself, obtain T3 armor, etc
Completely overhauled healing and tank builds/classes, no more MMO holy trinity, no more arguing over who has to heal
Many edits to every talent tree, creating a more or less even playing field for all classes - no more power or meme builds
Many edits to professions, from lowering mat requirements to enhancing existing items and adding new ones to help players tackle PvE
Greatly increased viable build variety - melee hunters, warlocks focusing on enslaved demons, exorcist spellcaster paladins, etc
Customized AHbot, Beastmaster and PetTank modules (and many deactivated modules should you decide you need more)
All expansion-related content present in vanilla areas scaled down, overhauled or removed
Greatly reduced reputation grind with all factions, repeatable quests grant far more reputation and require fewer materials
Immersion-friendly ways of accessing walled-off content added (Mount Hyjal and Karazhan Crypts)
SETTING UP YOUR CLIENT:
1.) download the PWN client patch.zip
2.) extract wow.exe into your WotLK 3.3.5a main install folder, allow the overwrite
3.) extract patch-4/5/6.mpq files into your game's Data folder
4.) clear (delete) the game's Cache folder (if you don't do this, many of the changes will not display)
5.) locate the realmlist.wtf text file in your Data/enUS folder and open it, make sure it says "set realmlist 127.0.0.1" (no quotation marks)
6.) if you want to play with friends, change "127.0.0.1" to whatever network you're playing through, I highly recommend using ZeroTierOne
SETTING UP YOUR SERVER:
1.) download Project Wrathnilla.zip and extract it wherever you want
2.) run the !_Launcher.bat file, wait for all three windows (database, authserver and worldserver to settle down, it should take a minute
note: you will see many red errors in the worldserver window, this is normal - the server is freaking out about changes AKA modded stuff
3.) in the worldserver.exe window, type ".account create (name) (password)" (no quotation marks), this creates an account
4.) type ".account set gmlevel 3 -1" (no quotation marks), this will give you access to GM commands should you need them
https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/gm-commands
5.) to turn the server off, click the server windows and press ctrl-c on each in this order: worldserver, authserver, database
6.) when asked to confirm in the database window, type Y and press enter, then close the window manually
KNOWN BUGS / ISSUES:
The Bulwark horde flight master is forgetful/forgettable and you will have to re-tag him after every logout
A very small amount of overworld areas (approx. one in every third map) will reset their discovered status after every logout
Miran, the dwarf NPC who is part of the low level alliance quest Protect The Shipment, will annoyingly spam his aggro text during combat
The seasonal event bosses have not been tested yet (this will be addressed in the next release)
The grand finale of a Warlock's epic mount quest is sadly bugged (but 100% doable), the interactable objects do not spawn
High Priest Thekal does not shift into his tiger form
Onyxia flies low enough to the ground for melee to hit her (wholly beneficial bug, will never be fixed)
The Quel'Serrar questline's heating/quenching via Onyixa mechanic has been altered due to me being unable to recreate it completely (yet), the blade now rests permanently just behind her and can be picked up / quenched in her corpse by a player with the quest after killing her
C'thun's model freaks out and starts spinning if a pet is attacking it in melee, which might lead the NPC out of position (just keep your pet on passive and by your side during the fight and everything will be fine, only send it to attack adds when needed)
C'thun's devour animation does not display (but still teleports the player into the stomach as normal)
DOWNLOAD LINKS:
Patch History (Unmodded SoloFriendly – Modded 2.3.3.) https://mega.nz/file/Y3NVBLgR#-3op2NIYDo6KcSyb5K5hio9WkbOzPTWjECg6VPfEkS0
Server Mirror 1: https://mega.nz/file/E21D1JbK#DLnoeXklvz_obhukdVoCljmUU7WSs68Ja1gwVSkac_I
Server Mirror 2: https://mega.nz/file/Qi1hDAhK#R-nUrKvCMVgX5qFRxXwu2gsFqSJtzwNcSW-Hmdih2pY
Server Mirror 3: https://gofile.io/d/8O4wdB
Client Patch Mirror 1: https://mega.nz/file/NvETWBoJ#earty4jcznysT0Nb81w9JgcNLz91d_VS2wGuGhgUVH4
Client Patch Mirror 2: https://mega.nz/file/wzFEDLSL#J7NIdjMJH1nhBKFgybUltvS30Mxey4ecXDYqIDyqFi0
Patch Mirror 3: https://gofile.io/d/Xjw2Ci
And remember - clear that cache!
Special thanks to team SoloFriendly for their amazing work, to Brimstone for getting me into modding, and to the missus for putting up my obsessive modding effort.
As far as the ingame world goes, I’ve always been an enormous fan of Vanilla. Later content seemed like too much of an amusement park. However, those expanded talent trees, spells and so on are too good to pass up on. I decided to mod an experience that, as I see it, combines what I feel is best about the early life stage of WoW.
The now inactive SoloFriendly repack was used as a framework. You can also consider this my stubborn refusal to let SoloFriendly be forgotten. I’ve done my best to push the boundary of what it means to be “solo friendly”.
Be sure to drop by the PWN+ discord if you want to chat about it or are curious and want to see a few screenshots before downloading. I’ll link the entire patch history of this project (don’t bother reading it all, it’s almost 4000 lines in a text document and there’s a lot of back and forth), but I’ve left all content-related changes vague. If you want that Ashbringer and to purify it but can’t be assed looking, you’ll have to ask someone who knows the questline. And I’m not telling. There was a lot of not knowing how things worked back when WoW released, and I want to recreate some of that. It was fun.
I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please spread the word. I will continue to work on it in the future, but for now I need a break. It has been a long year of modding. New stuff / release to come by the end of 2024 probably. Earlier if I think of something I really like.
DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/unRYE4jQd5
WHAT THIS REPACK OFFERS:
A thorougly curated level 1-60 PvE experience (including world bosses and world elite quests) for the solo player, duos and maybe trios, with a shiny login screen to boot
Just plug and play - no difficulty tweaking or pre-play setup of any kind needed, the dungeons get progressively harder and most endgame encounters are downright brutal
A free experience through and through - you will never pay for any part of this or my future work on it. No sneaky crypto miners either
Modded Vanilla content via an overhauled WotLK server (the final release of SoloFriendly by V2, with many bugfixes by me)
New endgame content (Acherus has a new master), existing content enhanced, new NPCs and quests
Blizzard's disappointing decisions (like not giving players the Ashbringer and removing Atiesh) overruled
Restored content - abominations once again guard Undercity, go through the entire AQ unlocking questchain by yourself, obtain T3 armor, etc
Completely overhauled healing and tank builds/classes, no more MMO holy trinity, no more arguing over who has to heal
Many edits to every talent tree, creating a more or less even playing field for all classes - no more power or meme builds
Many edits to professions, from lowering mat requirements to enhancing existing items and adding new ones to help players tackle PvE
Greatly increased viable build variety - melee hunters, warlocks focusing on enslaved demons, exorcist spellcaster paladins, etc
Customized AHbot, Beastmaster and PetTank modules (and many deactivated modules should you decide you need more)
All expansion-related content present in vanilla areas scaled down, overhauled or removed
Greatly reduced reputation grind with all factions, repeatable quests grant far more reputation and require fewer materials
Immersion-friendly ways of accessing walled-off content added (Mount Hyjal and Karazhan Crypts)
SETTING UP YOUR CLIENT:
1.) download the PWN client patch.zip
2.) extract wow.exe into your WotLK 3.3.5a main install folder, allow the overwrite
3.) extract patch-4/5/6.mpq files into your game's Data folder
4.) clear (delete) the game's Cache folder (if you don't do this, many of the changes will not display)
5.) locate the realmlist.wtf text file in your Data/enUS folder and open it, make sure it says "set realmlist 127.0.0.1" (no quotation marks)
6.) if you want to play with friends, change "127.0.0.1" to whatever network you're playing through, I highly recommend using ZeroTierOne
SETTING UP YOUR SERVER:
1.) download Project Wrathnilla.zip and extract it wherever you want
2.) run the !_Launcher.bat file, wait for all three windows (database, authserver and worldserver to settle down, it should take a minute
note: you will see many red errors in the worldserver window, this is normal - the server is freaking out about changes AKA modded stuff
3.) in the worldserver.exe window, type ".account create (name) (password)" (no quotation marks), this creates an account
4.) type ".account set gmlevel 3 -1" (no quotation marks), this will give you access to GM commands should you need them
https://www.azerothcore.org/wiki/gm-commands
5.) to turn the server off, click the server windows and press ctrl-c on each in this order: worldserver, authserver, database
6.) when asked to confirm in the database window, type Y and press enter, then close the window manually
KNOWN BUGS / ISSUES:
The Bulwark horde flight master is forgetful/forgettable and you will have to re-tag him after every logout
A very small amount of overworld areas (approx. one in every third map) will reset their discovered status after every logout
Miran, the dwarf NPC who is part of the low level alliance quest Protect The Shipment, will annoyingly spam his aggro text during combat
The seasonal event bosses have not been tested yet (this will be addressed in the next release)
The grand finale of a Warlock's epic mount quest is sadly bugged (but 100% doable), the interactable objects do not spawn
High Priest Thekal does not shift into his tiger form
Onyxia flies low enough to the ground for melee to hit her (wholly beneficial bug, will never be fixed)
The Quel'Serrar questline's heating/quenching via Onyixa mechanic has been altered due to me being unable to recreate it completely (yet), the blade now rests permanently just behind her and can be picked up / quenched in her corpse by a player with the quest after killing her
C'thun's model freaks out and starts spinning if a pet is attacking it in melee, which might lead the NPC out of position (just keep your pet on passive and by your side during the fight and everything will be fine, only send it to attack adds when needed)
C'thun's devour animation does not display (but still teleports the player into the stomach as normal)
DOWNLOAD LINKS:
Patch History (Unmodded SoloFriendly – Modded 2.3.3.) https://mega.nz/file/Y3NVBLgR#-3op2NIYDo6KcSyb5K5hio9WkbOzPTWjECg6VPfEkS0
Server Mirror 1: https://mega.nz/file/E21D1JbK#DLnoeXklvz_obhukdVoCljmUU7WSs68Ja1gwVSkac_I
Server Mirror 2: https://mega.nz/file/Qi1hDAhK#R-nUrKvCMVgX5qFRxXwu2gsFqSJtzwNcSW-Hmdih2pY
Server Mirror 3: https://gofile.io/d/8O4wdB
Client Patch Mirror 1: https://mega.nz/file/NvETWBoJ#earty4jcznysT0Nb81w9JgcNLz91d_VS2wGuGhgUVH4
Client Patch Mirror 2: https://mega.nz/file/wzFEDLSL#J7NIdjMJH1nhBKFgybUltvS30Mxey4ecXDYqIDyqFi0
Patch Mirror 3: https://gofile.io/d/Xjw2Ci
And remember - clear that cache!
Special thanks to team SoloFriendly for their amazing work, to Brimstone for getting me into modding, and to the missus for putting up my obsessive modding effort.
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