In a previous post, we built a private World of Warcraft server running the Wrath of the Lich King expansion with TrinityCore. This time we're building another WotLK server including PlayerBots with CMangos. After having played around with these PlayerBots I was really pleased with their behavior. I definately prefer them over the NPCBots we […]

This post is an addition to something I posted recently: https://www.ustoopia.nl/games/build-a-private-wow-wotlk-server-with-npc-bots-on-ubuntu-22-04/ So, you have your own private WoW server running now, and you would like to invite some friends to come and play with you on your realm. That is exactly when this tutorial comes in handy! To streamline the process of creating a user […]

This tutorial guides you through setting up a private World of Warcraft server for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, using TrinityCore on Ubuntu 22.04 with NPC bots. It provides step-by-step instructions, starting from server prerequisites to editing config files and dealing with the databases. The author shares a personal connection with WoW, experiences with the game, and the motivation behind creating the server, highlighting the importance of the game's social aspect and how innovation from the community has made such setups possible. The tutorial includes detailed technical steps and additional tools like Supervisor to manage the server processes.

Here's a recording of a lecture by Jordan Peterson on the subject of: Are video games like World of Warcraft bad for you?

And with BFA I mean the new Word of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth. This new expansion will be released exactly one week from now. The last expansion, Legion, was one of the best expansions we've seen over the years. I've enjoyed it very much. But to be honest, I stopped playing World of Warcraft […]

Today I received an e-mail from Blizzard informing me that I have been selected to participate in the alpha test version for the upcoming expansion Battle for Azeroth. I hope this means that I will automatically also get access to the beta version that will be released soon. I'm not going to try the alpha […]

Today was a good day for me in the World of Warcraft. I got my achievement Ahead of the Curve: Argus the Unmaker by killing Argus in Antorus on Heroic difficulty. That means I also received the awesome mount that goes perfect with my transmog. Many thanks to Laurens and the people in his guild […]

Blizzard announced at Blizzcon 2017 that a new World of Warcraft called Battle for Azeroth expansion will be released somewhere next year. Awesome introduction cinematic, as always. I'm excited! I think most players are excited. Are you excited? The video below shows all the previous World of Warcraft Expansion cinematics, in chronological order, including the […]

This weekend is Gamescom 2017 in Germany, where Blizzard has already presented their new upcoming content. I was pretty surprised to learn that the new patch goes live next week already!! Still so many things to do before then :-|.  What I always love is the Cosplay contest at these events. Transmogging is one of […]

If you are not a World of Warcraft player, you should stop reading right now because this post will probably not make any sense to you. I've decided to embark on a quest to find Leeroy. He's not dead yet, so he's got to be somewhere! I will start where the Terminator also started his quest; in the phone-book registry. So let's start making some calls! I will post the results here soon (press read more below for them once I've added them)

I would love to have one of these old Blizzard servers that the game World of Warcraft used to run on. Back in the day, a realm used to run on one of these bad boys. I need one of these servers for nostalgic reasons. And of course to mess around with to get my […]

Some random PvP arena game-play of me doing 2v2 in World of Warcraft Season 4 with a Death Knight friend.

Our guild Vliegende Hollanders (Trollbane-EU) has recently decided to team up with Shadow Army (Aerie Peak-EU) to combine our resources and manpower to make some progress in the new Tomb of Sargeras raid, and it was a very successful evening. I uploaded a compilation to YouTube for those very few people that are interested in […]

Short video with highlights on our progress in a World of Warcraft raid with guild Vliegende Hollanders & VH Raiders guild (Trollbane-EU)

I haven't been playing the new World of Warcraft expansion Legion as much as I thought I would before it was released due to even less important activities that have been taking up most of my time. Writing this post for example might be one of those things. I'm even falling behind on some of […]