Hello everyone,

I’ve been tinkering with a new server and wanted to give it some purpose while also having a nostalgia craving for younger, better times of my life. But playing on retail with other will inadvertently result in the same efficiency hunger that’s rampant in this day and age, either in raids and guilds, pvp or battleground, or just socially. I didn’t want the game to govern my time via guild schedules and such, feel pressured or waste more time than was necessary, I just want to do dungeons, raids and pvp on my time and without the usual problems that players might create.

So I’ve found this thing called playerbots module while hosting the server and it seemed to solve all of my problems! In short, it’s a really complex module that required recompiling AzerothCore in order to use but it worked like a charm, it has it’s quirks, it’s still being worked on but it’s surprisingly stable and functional, I love it.

The world is populated with varied characters, classes, races, they talk (although quite a useless feature, it’s nice to have), they do dungeons, battlegrounds and most importantly, they’re scripted in such a way as to be controlled by players. If you want to level up solo and use LFR for raids or dungeons in-between, that’s perfectly okay, but you can also invite them into your group, give them commands to stay, follow, use spells, recruit them into your guild and so on. But another important feature is that you can create bots out of your existing alts, just create additional characters on your account as you see fit for a dungeon group for example, then enter the world on your Main Character and just do .playerbots rndbot add AltName, they’ll be added into the world and join your group immediately so technically you can level up 5 characters at the same time, they autogear, you can gear them yourself if needed just turn off their autogear, you can create macros to control their immediate actions as needed or even modify their Strategies, which is their baseline script of conduct like looting in combat, out of combat, not looting at all, assign roles, modify their talents according to the role, etc.

It’s the perfect single-player experience.

Server Features

• Wrath of the Lich King (3.3.5a)
• AzerothCore
• Dynamic Playerbots
• Active Auction House Bot
• Solo-friendly gameplay
• Fully scripted dungeons and raids
• Bot battleground participation
• Stable economy simulation
• Blizzlike progression
• Low latency EU host
• Single PvP Realm

Registration is done through me, there’s no external method of creating an account since I have no desire to make it completely public.

In order to start playing on my server you’ll need the client, here’s a 3.3.5a WotLK client.

Then set the realmlist from root/Data/enUS/realmlist.wtf to:
set realmlist wotlk.sonsofivaldi.ro

Here’s the Official Documentation for Playerbots Module if you want to interact properly with the bots themselves.

Have fun!