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Slavery Valley: a new, custom BG for AzerothCore

Slavery Valley is a custom battleground developed by Snoopzz in the 2016. Today it has been improved and converted into a module for AzerothCore. The module version is available as a reward for AzerothCore contributors (all people who have contributed at least once to the project).

The Slavery Valley map is created using the world PvP zone Tol Barad structures, as a result, different zone like “The Prison” appear similar, but all the map and battleground are developed from scratch, probably using tools like Noggit.

How does the Slavery Valley BG work?

  • Any faction has 80 points (as default), the goal is decrease the points of the opposite faction by killing the players or the boss.
  • There are three bases: Mine, Restless Graveyard, Prison.
  • Restless Graveyard and Mine give you the Spirit Healer of the base.
  • Mine, if taken, buffs the team with Mine Buff, it increases your damage by 5%.
  • Restless Graveyard, if taken, buffs the team with Restless Soul Graveyard Buff, it increases your stamina.
  • If you kill a player you inflict 1 point to the opposite faction, if you take Prison you inflict 2 points when you kill a player.
  • The base Prison has no graveyard.
  • There are two bosses one for each faction.
  • When you kill a boss inflict 10 points to the opposite faction, if you took all the bases, when you kill the boss you inflict 25 points to the opposite faction.
  • If one of the two bosses die, the other boss disappear.
  • The bosses (re)spawn after 5 minutes.

Slavery Valley AzerothCore custom BG module - World Map

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Keira3: a modern database editor for WoW 3.3.5

EDIT: this article is out of date, you can check the official Keira3 website for more information.


The creators of Keira2 have recently announced that they are working on a new database editor application for World of Warcraft. This time it’s a Deskop application, and it does not only generate your SQL queries, but allows you to execute them directly into your DB.

A new cross-platform Database Editor

Keira3 is a modern DB editor for WoW 3.3.5, tailored for AzerothCore and available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

With Keira3 you don’t have to know the SQL language in order to change contents: it will generate the SQL queries automatically for you. The SQL code will be displayed, so you can learn, and then you can copy or execute it directly to your database.

Create and Edit entities in your WoW Database

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How to host a WoW private server on DigitalOcean

This is a complete step-by-step video tutorial created by heyaapl about setting up a World of Warcraft 3.3.5 server – and making it public – using the DigitalOcean, a popular cloud infrastructure provider. In January 2018, DigitalOcean was rated the third-largest hosting company in the world.

The video goes through the entire AzerothCore server setup process starting from scratch, installing the server on a Debian operating system that runs remotely in the DigitalOcean cloud.

The user local operating system used in the video tutorial is Windows but you can also use macOS or any GNU/Linux distribution.

Note: this tutorial is about creating a production WoW server hosted remotely in the cloud. If you are looking for how to setup a local development environment or domestic private server setup in your own machine, you can read this guide instead for Linux and Windows. For macOS users you can read this.

Note2: this tutorial is about creating a WoW private server for World of Warcraft Wrath of The Lich King 3.3.5a (WOTLK). If you look for another WoW version you can have a look at our article comparing different WoW emulators with different WoW versions.

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AzerothCore 2.0.0 released

With its second major release, AzerothCore proved that the mangos/tc-based WoW development is still quite active and interesting in 2019.

What is AzerothCore?

In the last few years, AzerothCore has been dominating the scene of WoW emulation for what concerns the 3.3.5a (wotlk) version. It comes with the best player-experience that none of the Wrath of The Lich King private servers has ever provided before. Continue reading