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The original was posted on /r/wowservers by /u/0x0000000ff on 2025-09-09 08:45:20+00:00.

I hope I won’t break rule 5 with this post but I think it might inspire someone.

I’m one of those players that played WoW when it came out. I played dungeons and raided in multiple guilds very actively for 5 years. WOTLK was my last expansion. At times I tried returning but I was suffering from the “old times were best” syndrome. My proudest moments include completing the Transcendence set on my priest before Naxxramas was released.

Also I grew up. Didn’t have time for dungeoning or raiding or much playing. Playing retail (or any game actually) now feels like doing chores for nothing which does not justify the 11€/month price tag.

I’ve recently learned about Azerothcore but I was very sceptical. Long time ago I tried running MANGOS locally and it was really horrible, nothing worked well and it was nothing like retail.

So I set the whole thing up locally and I’m nicely surprised, this thing is totally indistinguishable from retail WOTLK! At least from a POV of a night elf level 12 in Darkshore.

And a surprising things happens. I want to play alone in my own world, I’ve always liked WoWs progression system and I’ve always wanted to do dungeons and raids I missed and get a cool top tear gear for classes I’ve never played (I had only a top level priest and warrior).

And with Azerothcore with playerbots module I’m amazed that this is now possible. For free, on my local computer, with my own pace! Also with my own style!

I hate the starting zones so I just rushed Teldrassil with GM god mode and super speed and I use teleport to go directly to trainer to get new skills…and I also cheat myself at least some money because I don’t care about grinding so I can buy skills. I like doing quests and progressing, doing dungeons and raids with bots is apparently easy so I’m looking forward to go into Wailing Caverns and test that.

I’m now finding myself looking forward to get new levels with my night elf rouge, running in my localhost world, for free and playing the game the way I like. And when I play I’m having fun!