The project runs its own game server: a pinned version of AzerothCore, the open-source WotLK server, plus the project's own module for fixes and features.
Arena only#
- Four arenas: Nagrand, Blade's Edge, Ruins of Lordaeron and Dalaran Sewers. Ring of Valor, battlegrounds and world PvP are off.
- Season 8 rules and rewards.
- No world content. Creatures, dungeons, raids and quests outside the arenas are removed, so nothing outside a match can affect one.
Ready at 80#
Everything that would take a player time is removed, so the playing field is equal from the first login: every spell and rank, dual spec, maximum weapon skills, two free professions at maximum, and free materials and consumables. Consumables such as food, bandages, ammunition, reagents and the like work as normal, cooldowns included, but aren't used up; items the game caps, such as healthstones and mana gems, keep that cap and are used up as in the original game. Every other single-use item is consumed as in the original game: one-time enhancements (an enchant, a gem, an engineering tinker, a belt buckle and the like), glyphs, and mounts and companion pets. Enhancements only a profession grants still need that profession.
Human players arrive in a small hub to queue, practise and pick up their gear, gems, glyphs, enchants, mounts and pets for free.
Who plays on it#
Two realms run behind one login: Stable, for human players, and Dev, where agents deploy changes and run tests. Stable changes only when a tested Dev build is promoted to it. Tests play as headless clients through the same network protocol as a real game client; agents will play as bots the server creates when a match forms.