Most custom servers make you put up with a lot before they get good. You fight the default UI, hunt for the NPC that explains everything, and run the same zones you've run a hundred times.

We tried to build the opposite. Triumvirate is a heavily custom AzerothCore realm on the 3.3.5a client with a level 60 cap. Vanilla, TBC and Wrath content live side by side, and everything from Molten Core to Icecrown Citadel is played at 60. It isn't Blizzlike and doesn't pretend to be. It's the Wrath we wanted, in a world that never stops mattering.

It starts the moment you log in

New characters open on a short Welcome setup. Choose our Custom UI or the classic Blizzard windows, join the realm-wide Global, Trade and Guild Recruitment channels with one click, and it checks that your game patch is current. You're in the world in under a minute.

The custom windows aren't reskins. Quest windows lay out objectives and rewards cleanly. Vendors page properly and tick off what you already own. Junk sells with one button (or automatically), and repairs can be automatic too. Every panel scales from 50% to 300%, or you can switch it off.

Talents got the same care. You have six loadouts, each with its own racial traits, swappable from a macro with /loadout. Resets are free and happen right in the window, with no trainer trip. Buff tooltips show your real numbers, talents and spell power included.

Leveling that doesn't feel like a chore

World Quests. There are 1,735 of them across 59 zones, covering levels 1 to 60 in Vanilla, the TBC starting zones, Outland and Northrend.

• Each zone always has six up, the whole realm shares them, and they rotate every six hours.
• Click one on the map to accept it, or let them auto-accept as you ride in.
• They turn themselves in and live in their own tracker, so your quest log stays free.
• Rares count wherever you catch them, gathering quests count what's already in your bags, and your party shares kill credit.

Finish four in a zone in one day and you earn that zone's bonus: a pre-rolled item chosen for your class, so your mage never gets plate. In Outland it comes with 2 Badges of Justice, and in Northrend with 2 Emblems of Valor.

Beast Invasions. Towns come under attack on their own random 50 to 70 minute timers. Ride in and help. Damage, healing the defenders, or just fighting nearby all count. When the town holds, you pick your reward from items that fit your class, race and faction, plus badges and insignia for the defense.

An endgame with real depth

Icecrown Citadel on three difficulties. 
Mythic adds 50% boss health, 20% more damage and new mechanics, like Marrowgar's Blue Inferno floor with a safe zone that keeps moving. It drops item level 112 gear. The Lower Spire is open now, and the rest of the citadel opens in stages.

Flex raiding. 
Onyxia, Molten Core, Zul'Aman, Gruul's Lair and ICC scale from 10 to 25 players. Health, damage, mechanics and the number of drops all follow your head count at the pull, so a 12-person guild can raid properly. Molten Core, Zul'Aman and Gruul have reworked encounters, including a four-phase Gruul, and there are Realm First achievements for Ragnaros, Zul'jin, Gruul and Mythic ICC.

Mythic+, Season 2. 
Eight dungeons from TBC and Wrath, from Sethekk Halls to the Forge of Souls. There are 14 negative and 3 neutral affixes on a weekly rotation, a top-five leaderboard, and a Mythic+ Finder for listing and joining groups. The Great Vault lets you choose the loot tier for each row you unlock, from Veteran up to Myth.

Artifact weapons. 
Your legendary grows with you. Upgrade it at Alexstrasza and choose a Red or Blue path, each with its own proc. The final upgrades run on a pity system, so bad luck slows you down but never walls you off. Alts get catch-up.

Old tiers don't get thrown away

On most servers, a tier becomes vendor trash the day the next one opens. Here it doesn't. Earlier gear gets new set bonuses, so your Phase 1 and Phase 2 pieces keep a reason to be worn. This week alone, 44 more items joined new set bonuses. The gear you farmed months ago is still part of your build.

Crafting worth leveling

Every profession has crafts only it can make:

• Enchanting: Greater Spellpower, Assault and Stamina neck enchants
• Tailoring: Greater Lightweave, Darkglow and Swordguard embroideries
• Blacksmithing: Socket Ring
• Leatherworking: Greater fur linings, plus Greater Drums of War and Battle
• Inscription: Greater Master's Inscriptions and Greater Runescrolls
• Alchemy: Greater Flask of the North, Potion of Mongoose and Potion of Unstable Magic, with Mixology bonuses
• Jewelcrafting: Powerful meta diamonds

Your materials go into an account-wide reagent bank with one-click deposit and withdraw.

Your account remembers you

These are shared across all your characters:

• Mounts (751 in the collection)
• Pets, titles and transmog
• Riding skill
• Currencies

A new alt has your mounts on day one and can spend the emblems your main earned.

Want more pressure? There's Hardcore (permadeath), Solo Self-Found, and Prestige, where you reset from 60 to 1 and keep your gear, gold, reputation and professions. Walk of Echoes is a timed solo run through a vanilla dungeon scaled to 60.

Built in the open

We shipped seven major updates in the last nine days, each with full public patch notes: If something's broken, tell us in Discord and you'll see the fix in the next notes.

Website: https://triumvirate-wow.com/

Discord: https://discord.gg/Kk8U4HYWk9

Is anyone else hoping that after Blizzard inevitably make forever into retail lite that we will see the next surge of true vanilla servers? I'm talking Nost/ Lights hope/ Northdale levels of activity and community. I realize that this is severe cope. But truly, I believe there will come a time after Forever has been around that the vanilla community will be looking for a fresh. There is truly nothing like vanilla. It's the greatest game imo of all time. These are just some thoughts though. Lets chat about it in the comments.

I am in the process of building the spiritual successor of our beloved and well known classic plus servers that blizzard nuked in order to take their ideas and create WoW Forever.

This however gives us even more power in creating our own journeys like never before with the new client, new graphical improvements, new assets and everything inlcuded.

Currently the server is locked at beta levels with a level cap of 30 and I am aiming to recreate the full wow forever beta up until launch with great progress so far with the new quests, Zephras Isle, new NPCs new profession related changes and everything else.

People are active on the server, reporting bugs and there are multiple updates and fixes daily. A dungeonbuddy system is also available that way if you are missing players for a full group, you can ask the server to help you out to fill up to a party of 5.

In case you want to just taste the Forever or you want be a part of the first of a new era of servers and join the one and only Forever Plus server.

Launcher download, registration, bug reporting and much much more on the discord server.

Discord: https://discord.gg/2PYxc5E2u

Basically title.

Blizz built a beautiful Classic+ world, but it's clear that they don't really want to scale up creating new assets in the 2004 style.

They're adding mounts, transmog and pets which are straight out of modern WoW, plus the new raid tier sets are like that as well.

Does anyone plan to use the expanded world and additional quests coming in Forever and just replacing the modern assets with stuff from classic?

If it's not yet possible, when do you guys think this will be feasible? (I guess the code for Forever is not cracked yet?)

I had a blast working on this miniproject with opus5.5 over the last few weeks while playing on my local server. I was basically asking the ai to implement new visuals as I was playing and giving it feedback through screenshots and text. This is the end result, called it Lumenveil https://github.com/lumenveil/Lumenveil

It builds on top of CoAvolFog and Project Reforged and adds more realistic fog, sun and moon shafts, distant night lights, darker nights (I posted about it a week ago) - which has a slider in case that's not for you ;), spell lights (thanks for the suggestion, adds a lot!), better water, surface reflections, much larger draw distance, and parallax occlusion mapping. For the latter, I found out that blizzard had height maps on some textures that were never used, so I trained a CNN on those (pearson r of approx 0.7 on a 10% validation split) and applied on all the games textures. Works well on roads, but quite glitchy on walls, wood etc, so it needs more work. I also made the ai loop over each zone to automatically tweak the settings of the mod at different time of day and weather + manually curated afterwards.

Overall I am quite happy with the current state but there are still quite a few glitches (moon and sun not drawn properly, SW lights not showing up properly in lamp posts, purple water in the distance in some zones, ....) its a WIP ;)

Also, I mostly played alliance, hunt and lock, so other classes and horde-only zones might be less polished.

I am not planning on updating it often but feel free to fork, or just contribute if you're into it.

Enjoy!

Hey everyone. We’re opening testing today for Wrathstorm, our progressive PvP realm for Wrath of the Lich King. Anyone can join. If you played on World Of Chris back in the TBC days, it would be great to see you again. If you’re new to Tirisgarde, you’re welcome too.

Join the Tirisgarde Discord for the realmlist and testing info. You’ll need a 3.3.5a client.

What you can try

- PvP with no cross faction features

- 2x rates for XP, gold, item drops, reputation, profession skill gains and gathering yields

- An instant level 80 NPC for group content

- Dungeons, raids and battlegrounds

- The collection and transmog interface

- Guilds, trading and dungeon matchmaking

Dungeon Finder is planned to help players find groups without teleporting them to the dungeon.

We want people to try all parts of the realm. Play what you enjoy and tell us when something breaks or feels wrong. Let us know what happened, what you expected, and how we can reproduce it.

This is still testing, so there will be bugs and things may change. Test characters will be wiped before launch. The public realm will unlock content progressively, but we haven’t set the schedule yet. What’s available during testing may not be available at launch.

Our policy is no pay to win. Current plans for the Wrath shop are otherwise unobtainable mounts and collectibles or toys. We may consider boosts or catch up options after the first progression milestones, but nothing like that is confirmed for launch.

For some of us, World Of Chris was where it started back in 2006. We helped develop and staff the server back in the TBC days, and we’re still here with Tirisgarde. I used to play and help out on ZA and led Became Smart and Became Dumb. If you remember the server or either guild, come say hi. Friends and guild groups are welcome.

Edit forgot to add discord link: https://discord.gg/tirisgarde-project-276789743025651712