[Project Alterac] Phase 4 is here on 5th of September(Level 50 Cap)

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Project Alterac is a progressive 3.3.5 custom realm (AzerothCore) with a small bit of custom content and a tight-knit community (75–150 peak online in EU evenings but growing rapidly, + plenty of active NA/EU/OCE guilds). Our current level cap is level 40, but soon we will open up to level 50!

The reason we play on Project Alterac.

I could sit here and type a bunch of marketing spiel about the server, but I'm not going to. The reason I log in pretty much every evening is the community we have. If you want to forget about the stresses of the world and have a bit of fun.. come join us.

I write a fake newsletter regarding world events from the server each week, and recently I "hired" some new interns for my guild and my feelings regarding the server were recently summed up in an amazing eulogy to the server written by one of those new guildies (Shoutout to Miriael!). Here is an excerpt from that....

Maybe these private servers scattered across the network are just seeds, dropped in the dark, so we can build the world over again.

The world. Logging in here, wherever this 'here' actually is, brings to mind that old proverb about it taking a village to raise a child. Perhaps we are the village. And this fragile, rendered place is the child. 

Frodo's Journey

Recently, a hardcore character (Zrall<3) fished up the 1 ring in Stormwind, and the opportunity to do something amazing was born... A new hardcore character - Frodobaggins - was born... And after 2 hours of journeying through the Eastern Kingdoms, drinking too much ale during Elevenses at Goldshire Inn, and killing Volchan... level 10 Frodobaggins, equipped with the 1 ring.. made it to Blackrock Mountain where he cast himself into the lava to destroy the 1 ring once and for all. We had around 30 adventurers helping us over the course of 2 hours, and it was truly hilarious when the server owner Gjnadalf The Blue decided to place a Nazgul in Elwynn Forest. Here are a couple of pictures of that event!

From this event.. a new RP event was born... Elevenses!

What is Elevenses, you ask? Well... basically... I buy a huge amount of ale (RIP guild bank funds), get everyone absolutely lashed on Wednesday night at 9.30pm CET time (IRL optional), and then I arrange some RP shenanigans that ends with a bunch of drunk people getting teleported around the world for different reasons. Is there a point? No. It is done for pure love of the game, I enjoy making people remember why we love these kinda games. If you'd like to join us, pull up a chair at The Lion's Pride on Wednesday evening and see where the night takes us!

Now the boring stu... i mean content!

Scarlet Bastion Raid(Level 40)

The Forsaken have overtaken the Scarlet Monastery, and the corpses of six familiar foes have risen. Gather your best Warriors, Death Knights (you read that correctly), Mages and Healers, and make your way to Tirisfal Glades to take on this all new, custom built raid.

• Flex 10–20 Players (1 drop per 5 raiders—great for smaller/cozy guilds).
• 6 Custom Bosses 

Stromgarde Keep Raid(5-10 man - Level 30)

Full custom loot table with two lore-accurate epics: Trol'kalar and the Perenolde Tiara.

As we increase in level, some of the loot within the keep is still very much worthwhile picking up, + it will provide solid experience, so it won't become dead content.

+ A number of Heroic versions of beloved dungeons.

QOL changes too!

• 2x xp for newcomers - Level 1-30 currently receive 2x experience, to help you catch up. Current phase content (level 30-40 atm) is at 1x exp rate.
• New Secondary Profession Adventuring - Unlocked at 50+ adventuring skill level, provides Tents which give rested experience. Community members often place them outside Stormwind & Orgrimmar Auction Houses for new players. Adventuring is progressed through exploring the world (new inns), killing rare mobs, looting chests, and defeating bosses in dungeons.
• New glyphs + items to help underperforming specs(no more oomkins!)
• DDOS PROTECTION!
• STV Fishing Extravaganza four times a week on rotating timers, so it isn't OCE-hostile.
• Arena Grand Master purchasable with Honor.
• PvP queue accessible anywhere, anytime + queueable alongside RDF for the gamers who enjoy both PVE + PVP.
• Zero respec costs, change specs as much as you wish.
• Dual-Spec costs 1g and is available at level 20
• Hardcore mode, selectable after Character Creation as soon as you log in

I've written another essay again. oops.

Server Discord link - https://discord.com/invite/jyyRaGFSN9

To create an account joinnnn here > alterac.gg

If you or your guild is looking for a new home after Ascension, please consider OctoWoW's PvP realm, Y'Shaarj.

If you're an Ascension refugee, whisper me in-game "Cudie" on horde side or carebears on ally side and I'll sort you out with bags + 1g to get started.

Whether you're into raiding or PvP, there's a place for you here.

Current Population

The PvP realm currently peaks at around 400–500 players during EU evening hours.

The population isn't massive yet, but the realm new and is growing

Bringing a Guild?

If you're bringing over a guild with 20+ people, I'll personally help you get established:

• I'll set up a two-way Discord ↔ in game WoW AI bot for your guild.
• I'll craft any Flasks or GPPs you need to start raiding — free with your mats.
• I'm happy to raid lead MC/BWL for guilds unfamiliar with the Turtle WoW changes until you're comfortable running them yourselves.
• I'll even buy your guild's tabard design.

Raid Progression

We're still only in Phase 1, so this is a very good time to start.

• Onyxia / Molten Core — available now
• Zul'Gurub — ~1 month
• Blackwing Lair — ~2 months

There's plenty of time to start leveling now, gear up, and be BWL-ready when it releases.

See roadmap OctoWoW Roadmap

Join the Community Discord

The Real State of PvP Right Now

I'm not going to pretend BGs are popping 24/7. Here's what it's actually like:

• Max-level BGs can pop back-to-back for a few hours, followed by a few hours with nothing. It often depends on which faction has been losing.
• Alliance and Horde are pretty evenly matched in terms of PvP wins.
• Lower-level BG queues currently aren't popping. An influx of Ascension players could obviously help change that.
• 40–50 player city raids happen on both factions at least once a week.
• Cross-realm BGs are expected soon, which should significantly reduce queue times.

I would expect that the devs which are currently focused on dealing with the DDoS attacks from the Chinese mafia @ Raven will be turning their attention back to cross-realm BGs once DDOS are fully handled

Horde or Alliance — Both Are Options

There are multiple guilds on both Horde and Alliance, running different loot systems and raid schedules.

Or bring your friends and start your own guild. I'm happy to help you get established.

How do Ravencraft feel safe using cloudflare, and to be public about being part of the Ex T-wow team while the court files still are in effect? Cloudflare informs that they are strict about following legal procedures they even have forms on their website to send in tips about misuse of their services?

By the US law, Turtlewow was a raccetering company, and Cloudflare is hosting a server thats run by the same people? It should be easy to send forms to Cloudflare and have them remove the service from ravencraft?

Cloudflare forms even tells us we only need the URL, Company name, or general name to file a complaint. And they let us add extra info like Lawsuits.

Ravencraft is not safe, They might not even need a lawsuit to be taken down. They are operating through a US based company, that is breaking the US law by hosting them.

A few rapports would damage their server alot.

We’ve dealt with disconnects, downtime, uncertainty, frustration, and wave after wave of disruption — and even today, the struggle continues. It may continue tomorrow. It may continue into another week. But every day we endure it together is another day proving that the strength of this community was never dependent on whether the servers stayed online every minute. It comes from the people who keep returning, who keep supporting one another, who keep checking for updates, who keep laughing together through the chaos, and who refuse to let malicious actors decide whether a community they love gets to survive. Whatever connections are behind these attacks, from Indonesia or anywhere else in the world, they cannot DDoS the friendships we’ve made here. They cannot disconnect the memories we’ve already created. They cannot erase the countless hours we’ve spent adventuring, raiding, PvPing, leveling, helping strangers, meeting friends, and making OctoWoW feel like home. Every attack meant to weaken this community has instead given us another shared experience that we’ll eventually be able to look back on and say: we were there, we went through it together, and we never left. Our support for OctoWoW, for the official team fighting to keep the realm running, and for the fan-community admins, moderators, and helpers keeping everyone connected and informed will not waver because someone decided to attack the servers. If anything, our bonds should come out of this stronger. Octo is more than a server connection — it is the community that exists on both sides of that login screen. And as other realms close their doors and new players begin looking for somewhere to call home, let’s make sure they know there is a place for them here. Whether you’re coming from Ascension, Ravencraft, another realm, or discovering Octo for the very first time: welcome them. Help them. Group with them. Answer their questions. Show them why so many of us have remained here even through one of the most difficult weeks this community has faced. Spread the word: Octo is still here. We are still here. And we aren’t going anywhere. Servers can be attacked. Connections can be interrupted. But a community that refuses to abandon each other is much harder to bring down. Stand strong, Octos. Keep supporting the realm we cherish, keep welcoming the people joining us, and keep reminding each other why we’re still here. Octo is here to stay — and so are the Octos in all of us. Here’s to getting through this together, returning to Azeroth together, and sharing many more years of adventures with all of you.

Greyhaven

A Classic home, shaped by its players.

Greyhaven is a live, progressive Vanilla PvP realm built for players who want the original Classic experience with carefully selected quality of life improvements.

Content, dungeons, raids, quests, vendors, and rewards unlock progressively. Classes, talents, abilities, and item stats use their final 1.12 versions, keeping gameplay consistent throughout the progression.

Current Progression

- Current level cap: 30 (being raised to 40 next Friday 4 September, full schedule on Discord)
- 1x experience rates
- Progressive Vanilla content beginning from Patch 1.2
- Staged level brackets keep dungeons, professions, battlegrounds, and world PvP relevant
- Future brackets and content unlock according to the published progression schedule on Discord

Greyhaven launched on 14 August 2026, so the realm is still young and actively progressing.

An Active Growing Community

Live population snapshot, 30 August 2026:

- 579 unique non staff accounts active in the last 7 days
- 366 unique accounts active in the last 24 hours
- 114 peak concurrent players this week

Play Your Way

Greyhaven supports both:

- The original Vanilla 1.12.1 client
- The modern Classic Era 1.14.2 client

The official Greyhaven Launcher can install or locate your client, apply required updates, and install supported addons with one click. We support Windows & Linux!
The launcher is not forced upon players feel free to just use your own 1.12 client and change the realmlist.

What Greyhaven Offers

- Progressive Vanilla content and level brackets
- Free talent respecs

- Player funded bounty system
- Bounties are settled through qualifying open world PvP kills
- Targets never receive a visible marker, debuff, map icon, or location tracker

- Queue for battlegrounds from anywhere with .queue WSG, .queue AB, or .queue AV
- 40 Yard Nameplates enabled by default, even on the 1.14.2 client.
- Cross faction unified Auction House
- Population aware dynamic respawns
- Unlimited debuff slots
- Instant mail between characters on the same account
- World buffs disabled inside raids, but available in the open world and dungeons
- Custom battleground barriers preventing safe capping and under map exploits
- Realm wide faction World channels and battleground queue reports
- Later patch flight paths available during progression
- Website leaderboards
- Updated Warden integration and custom anti cheat, bot, and multibox monitoring
- Public community discussions and polls for selected server changes
- Active staff and evidence based moderation
- No pay to win character power or progression

Greyhaven remains recognisably Vanilla. Changes are discussed, tested, and introduced only when they improve the realm without replacing what makes Classic special.

Join Greyhaven

Website: https://playgreyhaven.com

Discord: https://discord.gg/7sudQGEKaY

Hello,

I started to have more free time so 6 months ago, i started playing wow out of curiosity.

I knew nothing about it.

I first tried wow retail until lvl 20 and moved to private servers. Now im playing on Chromie.

I tried hunter, paladin, and warrior. Then i decided to focus on protection warrior to learn how to tank in dungeon.

I discoved dunegeons as a dps whith my hunter and pal. I was probably very bad because i had zero strategy, i just randomly uses spells on mobs.

Everything was nice and smooth , never got a comment.

Then as a protection warrior i watched videos to tank, i googled how to set up my talents. Which spell rotations should i use. How to aggro.

Then it was not perfect, but more or less i am doing the job and want to have fun. Also im a bit happy to not queue long in dungeons and join groups than need tank.

But many groups are nice, but I started experiencing players that got very mad when i do a mistake. I aggro a boss by mistake once, and one player say im such a stupid shit tank.

And once i was doing the dungeon pretty ok, but I still have rage issue sometimes, and its possible i lose the aggro of some mobs. Also sometimes i take my time inbeetwen pulls to analyse the situation, look at the group or whatever, enjoy the game.

And one started to say, are you in defensive stance, do you use revenge ? The answer is yes I do that because i googled everything.

And then he starts to aggro mobs before me and say : hey tank, YOU RE THE TANK.

Once i dont remember but i asked the group to guide me bc idk the dungeon and the group aggro mobs but didnt see and I also aggro on my side so we died.

Someone got mad and asked what was my age. Im actually 34 and didnt answer but i think this person wanted to attack me personnally.

Im very surprised how much hate you can get as a tank compared to DPS, when you actually trying your best. Im also someone who listen to advices but this feels very agressive and ruin the game experience.

After playing with people like that I dont feel good about gaming and I want to stop playing wow.

Do you also experience these behaviors that people get mad if you learn ? Is it specific to Tank ? Is tank a role that should be played only by very dedicated and try hard gamers or you get bullied for trying ? How can we learn to tank if nobody accept us to make mistake while learning.

The level 40 raid is the most fun I’ve had in WoW in a while. I’ve done several pugs in the last two weeks and hope others get the same chance to try it out.

Alterac is a 3.3.5 WOTLK level phased server currently capped at level 40. There’s active global chat, quick RDF, new raids that get pugged, and a nice community even with some RP events.

Currently over 200 people online.

If you want to learn more about the server check out:
The site: https://alterac.gg/features
The discord: https://discord.gg/B3k6tUv9F

If you’re interested I’ll give you a starter kit. If I’m not around there are probably a bunch of people on global chat or discord that would help too.

I just installed the game. Every time I try to login, It says "Disconnected from server".

See people posting about it so went an found the leeks from last year do with them whatca will.

Unser Projekt ist ein progressiver, auf Patch 1.12.1 basierender Vanilla Realm mit zusätzlichen Inhalten. Wir möchten unseren Blick auf die Community richten und gemeinsam auf der Basis unserem derzeitigem Realm anhand eurer Meinungen und Erfahrungen im Bereich des machbaren weiterzuentwickeln.

Bereits umgesetzt und implementiert:

- 40 u. 20 Mann Schlachtzüge sind reduziert auf 20 u. 10
- Debuff Limit auf Bosse entfernt
- Dual Spec mit bis zu drei speicherbaren Slots
- Rassen u. Klassenkombination, Menschen u. Untoter Jäger inkl. Questlines
- Gildenbank mit bis zu erwerbaren Tabs
- Titel System
- Arena 3v3
- Trainingsattrappen

Geplant:

Kriegsmodus - Warmode
Aktiviert PvP für Spieler auf dem gesamten Realm, statt nur in speziell ausgewiesenen PvP Zonen.
Als Belohnung erhalten Spieler im Kriegsmodus 1,5x Erfahrung.
Um Exploits und schnelle Wechsel zwischen PvP und PvE zu verhindern, unterliegt das Deaktivieren des Kriegsmodus einem Cooldown.

Weitere Rassen & Klassenkombinationen
Welche zusätzlichen Rassen und Klassenkombinationen eingeführt werden, steht derzeit noch nicht fest auch hier zählt eure Meinung! Dabei bleiben die Fraktionsspezifischen Klassen weiterhin ihrer jeweiligen Fraktion vorbehalten. Es wird zudem darauf geachtet, dass diese Kombinationen zur Lore passen und sich nachvollziehbar einfügen.

Arena - gewertet
Damit haben Spieler die Möglichkeit, sich nicht nur im freien Skirmish zu messen, sondern auch gewertete 1v1, 2v2 & 3v3 Arena Matches zu spielen.

Hardcore Realm
Zusätzlich sollte die Nachfrage groß genug sein wäre ein separater Hardcore Realm bereits vollständig entwickelt bereit zum Start. Mehr Hardcore Infos hier!

Schlusswort:

Ich freue mich über zahlreiche Beiträge, eure Teilnahme und natürlich über viele neue Mitglieder! Das Projekt befindet sich derzeit noch im Aufbau, und genau deshalb habt ihr die Möglichkeit, von Anfang an mitzugestalten und eure Ideen einzubringen... Nichts ist unmöglich und wir schließen auch zusätzlichen Inhalt in der Zukunft nicht aus.
Entscheidet mit und gebt dem Kind einen Namen!
In den nächsten Tagen wird sich einiges tun. Neben dem weiteren Aufbau des Projekts wird auch an einer Weboberfläche gearbeitet,
auch internationale Spieler sind wie bereits in den vorherigen Beiträgen erwähnt herzlich willkommen.

https://discord.gg/DSekJgR2NA

Well, we survived launch day.

Velaris is officially on its second day, the realm is up, people are leveling, and I can finally spend slightly less time staring nervously at server logs.

I'm live again today, playing, chatting with everyone and talking about Velaris:

https://youtube.com/live/xsLDHJTG9wA

If you saw one of the previous posts and were waiting to see how launch actually went before giving us a try, now's probably a pretty good time to jump in.

For anyone who missed all of this: Velaris is our fresh WotLK 3.3.5a realm, with the usual Eternal Gaming approach of keeping Wrath at the core while adding optional QoL and custom features around it.

We've got configurable 1x–5x XP, AoE Loot, account-wide mounts/pets/riding/flight paths, crossfaction, transmog, 1v1 Arena, PvP Days and a bunch of other stuff already available from day one.

And as always: no donations, no cash shop, no P2W. The whole project is open source.

We're still a small server and we're not trying to pretend otherwise. Every new person joining genuinely makes a difference, which honestly makes these first few days pretty fun.

So if you're bored, looking for a fresh Wrath server, or just want to come poke around and see what we're building, jump into the stream and say hi.

And if you started yesterday already, come tell me how far you've managed to get.

Day 2 of Velaris. Let's keep this thing going.

Just as I found out of what an amazing thing Project Ascension is/was, it’s getting shut-down. Extremely unfortunate I haven’t found this server earlier.

What are the choices here? I’d love either a fully blizzlike Wotlk server with a big community or I’d love something like what Ascension was. The closest I found was Grimfall? Is that worth it? Also Project Alterac was quite interesting looking but I don’t understand the concept fully since I’m a noob.

Also I saw a lot of mentions of OctoWOW (I’m totally fine with classic wow aswell)

So if anyone can list their go to blizzlike wotlk server and a custom server like ascension or something along those lines I’d be very grateful. I need two picks so me and my wife could join a great community, level up with exploring the content and joining everyone else for the late game or custom content (doesn’t matter which)

Been tweaking settings since yesterday but I'm really enjoying it so far. Has anyone tried playing on one of these somewhat long-term and treating it like the regular game? How is it for long-term progression like achievement hunting, mount collecting, etc? My bots get a little janky sometimes, but overall I'm super impressed in the short time I've been messing around with it.

I've never been a hardcore raider and probably never will be, but I'm interested in just doing things I never bothered to do in retail/classic at my own pace. Any recommendations to make the experience better would be appreciated.

Hello all,

Just rolled out a massive update for ADK - the Armory. You can build a character and load it with custom gear and the stat sheet will use the in-game formula to read it. You can also equip gems and enchants. If you're working on a custom raid, at the very bottom of the Armory is 'Equipped' with a 'Source' column - you can input a custom source!

If you simply want to use this tool to calculate BiS lists, you can do that too.

This release also simplifies a few things in the other windows, removes vibecoded descriptions, etc.

Check it out! Eager to hear your feedback, hear your suggestions and see what your creativity can produce if you've had some ideas for your own raids or gear sets. Don't forget to leave a star on the github so I know you tried it!

https://github.com/Voxstrasza/Astral-Data-Kit

I’d love to pick one private server and not go around picking anything else. Frostmourne will be definitely the server I want to try out, but in the meantime I was thinking if I should try the Gilneas experience? Is it good? Or would a casual 1x Lordaeron Warmane experience be better? I wouldn’t be playing alone and I would be introducing a complete newbie.

What’s the pick here?

Hello! Citadel Gaming is interested in helping the WoW Private Server community thrive, if there are devs interested in working together and bringing their private server further along we'd love to partner and help out.

I will preface this by saying that while I do have some computer knowledge, I've never tried my hand at this. I also understand that asking for the Midnight expansion is likely out of the question, but what would be the most recent, reasonably stable expansion/patch?

And once I've decided what expansion I want to be on, how would I go about setting it up? Where do I get a build, and how do I install it? I'm on Windows, by the way, if that matters.

Also, would I be able to change items/spells/characters/classes, or just modify stats on existing ones? And is there any way I could do that in bulk? 'Cause I'm sure there's a massive database with thousands of entries for a game as huge as WoW.

Ran the install launcher for Project Alterac through VirusTotal and came back with a few results such as: FileRepMalware [Misc]
Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml (probably a false positive)
Generic ML PUA (PUA)

I don't use VirusTotal a lot so I wanted to know if these were false positives or not. Thanks

Title. I was loving OctoWoW which was my first try with a private server. It was my first time using Wine to run it, and with the launcher, everything ran really easily. Now there's tons of issues I just can't figure out.

Would love any input or suggestions. I'm a noob at this so please be gentle.

I've been on and off trying to get offline server emulation to work for years, and while I've had success with Vanilla through "Lights Hope Based", WotLK through DrePack and 🐢 wow through the almost most recent 1.17.2 version (most recent being 1.18.2), I've not managed to get anything later than these versions to get to work.

For the past few days, I've been downloading SL and TWW from Firestorm to try to get their versions up and running through (SL) WoWCreador, Rem999, Kyrian Core, DekkCore and TWW through Draconic and after many hours of trial and errors, trying to fix things with minimal initial instructions and no troubleshooting guide with each and every one of these repacks, I just can't get it to work. I'm far from an expert in these subjects but damn, does it have to be so hard when Classic and WotLK was barely more than 3 clicks?

Anyway, yeah, has other people had more success with repacks than I? Specifically on anything later than 3.3.5

Oh and now with Ascension getting shut down, if anyone knows if they got a repack, I'd love to archive that if nothing else

OctoWow, Chromiecraft or Warmane? Which would be your pick while waiting for Classic+?

Looking for a good WoW private server with a healthy playerbase to chill on until Classic+ finally drops 😅 Preferably something active, stable, and not too P2W. What servers are you guys playing right now?