Easiest way to not patch your WoW..forever!

skatenhate7 · #1 05-14-2008, 01:06 AM

It looks long, but its nothing!

This is the easyest way to avoid any patches in WoW without going through that wait when you need to wait for your private server to update to a patch so you can play.

--(1) go to your WoW folder
>most commonly locted:
-->(a) start
-->(b) my computer
-->(c) local disc c;
-->(d) program files
-->(c) world of warcraft
-if not there try local disc d; (if you have another hard drive like me)
(or browse around files like documents and settings, shared files, and
your computer's documents (Ex: mine is Cris's documents)

--(2) minimize your WoW folder and delete the WoW icon from your desktop (this will not delete WoW)

--(3) look in the folder, you should see two icons that looked like the one on your desktop -- Wow and Launcher not look the same and say:
world of warcraft
blizard entertainment

--(4) right-click the one that says Wow and hit create shortcut..
it should scroll to a new icon at the botom of your Wow folder that
says Short Cut to Wow

--(5) drag it onto your desktop, and boom... you no longer need to hit play on the box that comes up when you click wow. It will now bring
you to the black screen that you put your Acc. and Pass. in.

Whats so great?
---When you click the play thing it links to the blizzard site and makes
you download the new patch
---but when you do this you just type in the account and pass and it
won't download. When the server updates open your folder and click
the launcher one and it will update when you hit play

---The only way you can update by this function is if you "accidently"
type the real wow realmlist in. That also causes an update.

Dougle101 · #2 05-14-2008, 01:28 AM

Everyone already knows this, and its actually the ONLY way to play a private server (Well the shortcut isnt necessary) due to the launcher ALWAYS resets your realmlist

Serverman · #3 05-14-2008, 02:13 PM

LoL dougle The Launcher dosent reset the realmlist (unless it has been fixed today -.-)

Isnogood · #4 05-14-2008, 04:30 PM

It doesn't indeed. But anyway, this guide is for serious PC newbies. Still +rep.

akoglu · #5 06-14-2008, 07:21 PM

B.T.W. You need the pach's that are over 20MB.. so u can not run away from that cuz when u log in it still download's

Zilver · #6 06-15-2008, 10:23 PM

An easy way is to make a backup of your realmlist.wtf & ..\WTF\Config.wtf (just to have the original if case you ever need em), then edit realmlist.wtf from this:

Code:

set realmlist eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com

to this:

Code:

set realmlist eu.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist

(Note: This is from Europe Client, but even if you got another Client this should give you an idea about how to do this)
and then edit ..\WTF\Config.wtf line:

Code:

SET patchlist "eu.version.worldofwarcraft.com"

to this:

Code:

SET patchlist ""

(Note: This is from Europe Client, but even if you got another Client this should give you an idea about how to do this)

This way WoW shouldn't know where to get the patch from, also make the shortcut to WoW.exe instead of to Launcher.exe