Game Setup Guide.

1. Have World of Warcaft and The Burning Crusade Retail Client Installed

You can buy this in shops or get a free trial account at worldofwarcraft.com and patch it or there are torrent downloads below(see our FAQ for torrent info). There is also a playable client on the wowwiki site below that may work after patching.

Here's a torrent site for WoW and burning crusade (you only need the files in the classic client 2.3.0 engb folder of the torrent then use the enGB installer below to patch to burning crusade, or you can get entire torrent, your choice):

World of Warcraft + Burning Crusade + patches [2.3.3 enGB]

Here's a direct download from Blizz if you already have WoW enUS installed but not Burning Crusade, (then you dont need the above torrent at all, this will NOT work with the torrent which is enGB):
https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/download/clients/pc/WoW-BurningCrusade-enUS-Installer-downloader.exe

Or the GB version, (if you downloaded the partial torrent above):
WoW-BurningCrusade-enGB-Installer-downloader.exe

2. Download and install update patches to a supported version.
Current Supported Versions: 2.4.3 (may differ, check realm status on main page for current patch versions)

You can use WoW to auto-download patches by clicking the launcher.exe, or your can download them manually from these sites:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors
http://a.wirebrain.de/wow/

3. Go into your WoW Burning Crusade folder (usually called World of Warcraft), open the file called realmlist.wtf in notepad and change it to say only the one line below:

set realmlist wow.dethpod.com

Then save file and close

You can also download the file here: realmlist.zip and overwrite/replace the one in your World of warcraft folder. If you cannont edit or replace the realmlist.wtf file make sure it isn't set to "read only" (right click file and check properties, if you have vista problems, see below). Or use our launcher to replace the file with the set realmlist button.

Or if you want to switch back and forth from retail to our server you can comment out lines like so:

this one will join to retail because our line is commented out:

this one will join to Dethpod because the blizzard lines are commented out:

set realmlist wow.dethpod.com
//set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
//set patchlist us.version.worldofwarcraft.com

we suggest you may want to comment out the patchlist line anyway so your client dont upgrade. Vista users, you may not be able to modify and save this file if thats the case move your entire game out of the program files folder to anyplace else, vista has some strange protection on that folder.

4. Make a website account at wow.dethpod.com

Once that is done, you are all ready to log in with your account information and get playing! Please wait up to at most 10 minutes before your new account will be loaded into the logon server. If you need extra help try our Live Chat / Help Desk, no promises, but we try to help out as much as possible, if nobody responds try back later. We are in no way Affiliated with any torrent downloads or WoW Files in any way, we may provide links to sites but they have nothing to do with wow.dethpod.com.

5. Staying on Dethpod and not allowing your game client to update.

1. Never start the game using blizzard's launcher (launcher.exe)

2. Either use our dethpod_launcher.exe or start the game by double clicking wow.exe in your world of warcraft folder.

3. Delete or "Comment out" the patchlist line from your realmlist.wtf file to disable update checks (check step 4 for more info).

4. Delete the games shortcut icon that blizzard places on your desktop.

5. Or create your own shortcut for the game. Find wow.exe, right click and select create new shortcut, and drag that icon to your desktop.

6. In case you upgraded by accident check this forum page for Downgrading Help