Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Cataclysm Alpha/Beta on Private Servers for Tuesdays


Obviously, those who don't work or school will be trying to periodically login to play WoW on Tuesday mornings, only to trip over their own dicks when they realize all the servers are down. For those with serious withdrawal symptoms and would rather die in their own filth then to go a day without WoW, fear not, there are private servers.

Even better than a regular WoW private server is a Cataclysm private server. How and where can I find one you ask? Here is a link to setting up the client/download: http://fluxflashor.net/forum/cataclysm/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4 and here is the private server to connect to: http://darkfiregaming.com/index.php.

It is legit and I can confirm there are no malware of any sort (and if there is, haha you dumb sucker). The first link is just on downloading the leaked Cataclysm alpha/beta download installer (you cannot actually play without a real beta account from Blizzard). Fortunately, there is a thing for the eager types called a private server. The second link is to a private server site, and what IP to change your realmlist to.

However, there is one problem on this particular server when I last played on it. It uses the MaNGOS private server, and many configurations are not set. This means every player can use GM commands on their own character.

In short, you have a bunch of players with Thunderfuries, Thor'idals, Warglaives of Azzinoth, Shadowmournes, and Ashbringers with full top tier pvp gear sets dueling each other. Because the server is only emulating what they believe is on the actual testing servers, the world is entirely barren, save class trainers, weapon trainers, mount trainers, tier set vendors, and other players.

Players also have flight mode and super speed, meaning they move around the world really fast and can press jump to freaking fly!

The most fun part is that when you pvp some noob who thinks he can kite you because he can fly and move super fast, is to use a macro you prepare to turn off his flight mode and change his movement speed to slower than on live servers. He takes falling damage and has BoP hamstring'd for life.

Then he becomes the angry sore loser who will nerdrage and set your level to 1, effectively resetting all your talents.

And yes, hunters have focus and there are dwarf warlocks and troll warlocks creatable!

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