2026-08-14 Client Upgrade

[Archer]

Obligatory patch notes for the client changes:

Upgraded the wow.exe binary to support an expanded quest log of 25 with some clever techniques. They said it couldn't be done!

To make room for more custom content patches and to make sure we don't interfere with community MPQ's we have repacked the client by consolidating Patches 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 into patches 1, 2, and 4. This makes room for our custom Octowow content (previously Patch-A) in Patch-5 with much more space for future patches. We also reduced the size of the client while doing the repacking by deleting changes in old Patches that are overwritten by new Patches.

Localization in the launcher now works for some people who were having difficulties.

The BG levitation crash fix is now included in the wow.exe so some people can't not receive it

The launcher now uses bittorent for its download and seeding is turned on by default. Go to your settings to disable if you hate Ozzy.

[Zuldrak]

Why do you install every Mods forcefully with today´s updates? It installs vanillafixes, nampower, superwowhook and what not AGAINST MY WILL... Like what the fuck. It practically bricked my game - I was playing perfectly fine with stable 180 FPS without ANY Mod whatsoever. After forcefully installing that against my will with todays updates you bricked my game to 60-90 FPS at best. I have a backup folder of the whole directory and when I start the old version I still have my 180FPS. You basically lost me as a player here and I will make sure that when my RL Friends stop playing on Ascension that they don´t come here to a server where such shady practices are at play.

[Archer]

Why do you install every Mods forcefully with today´s updates? It installs vanillafixes, nampower, superwowhook and what not AGAINST MY WILL... Like what the fuck. It practically bricked my game - I was playing perfectly fine with stable 180 FPS without ANY Mod whatsoever. After forcefully installing that against my will with todays updates you bricked my game to 60-90 FPS at best. I have a backup folder of the whole directory and when I start the old version I still have my 180FPS. You basically lost me as a player here and I will make sure that when my RL Friends stop playing on Ascension that they don´t come here to a server where such shady practices are at play.

These are reputable mods that we included in the client torrent, they can be enabled and disabled in the launcher.
Nothing was installed against your will they are simple files

[Titany]

you completly destroyed my game with that patch.. now i cant open the game cuz launcher says file is broken--- also with superwow i have massive problems thats why i installed the game new yesterday.... yeah another day of wasting my time with fixing things that..

[Duraluminium]

Why do you install every Mods forcefully with today´s updates? It installs vanillafixes, nampower, superwowhook and what not AGAINST MY WILL... Like what the fuck. It practically bricked my game - I was playing perfectly fine with stable 180 FPS without ANY Mod whatsoever. After forcefully installing that against my will with todays updates you bricked my game to 60-90 FPS at best. I have a backup folder of the whole directory and when I start the old version I still have my 180FPS. You basically lost me as a player here and I will make sure that when my RL Friends stop playing on Ascension that they don´t come here to a server where such shady practices are at play.

These are reputable mods that we included in the client torrent, they can be enabled and disabled in the launcher.
Nothing was installed against your will they are simple files

Tbh there is a problem with these dlls, they seem to be downloaded forcefully.
For example SuperWowHook.dll: It automatically downloads the newest 2.x version and replaces the old 1.5 one.
The problem is that some of the newest additions in the 2.x version replace nampowers functionality, so I prefer staying with the old Superwow version. I enabled the checkbox to not update SuperWowHook.dll previously, but it still updated the version for me today.

Also about the new launcher and the patch, repeating it in this thread, as it seems more appropriate:
I deleted all files from patch-1.mpq to patch-5.mpq
I seem to be able to download only patch-3.pmq, the other files stay with 0 size, and I receive a repeating error in the launcher that update is available and the download is incomplete

[Tambran]

you completly destroyed my game with that patch.. now i cant open the game cuz launcher says file is broken--- also with superwow i have massive problems thats why i installed the game new yesterday.... yeah another day of wasting my time with fixing things that..

same for me.... DESTROYED ... any solution to play again? reinstall?

[Archer]

you completly destroyed my game with that patch.. now i cant open the game cuz launcher says file is broken--- also with superwow i have massive problems thats why i installed the game new yesterday.... yeah another day of wasting my time with fixing things that..

same for me.... DESTROYED ... any solution to play again? reinstall?

Just disable the mods on the mods tab

[Tugazitopt]

Obligatory patch notes for the client changes:

Upgraded the wow.exe binary to support an expanded quest log of 25 with some clever techniques. They said it couldn't be done!

To make room for more custom content patches and to make sure we don't interfere with community MPQ's we have repacked the client by consolidating Patches 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 into patches 1, 2, and 4. This makes room for our custom Octowow content (previously Patch-A) in Patch-5 with much more space for future patches. We also reduced the size of the client while doing the repacking by deleting changes in old Patches that are overwritten by new Patches.

Localization in the launcher now works for some people who were having difficulties.

The BG levitation crash fix is now included in the wow.exe so some people can't not receive it

The launcher now uses bittorent for its download and seeding is turned on by default. Go to your settings to disable if you hate Ozzy.

I loved the update
-Quest log increase to 25 (amazing)
-Shiny loot, easy to spot, great!
-In solo, I can finally right click a mob and add a symbol to it
Pretty sure there's other stuff, but I'm not a tech expert and the additions were great for me! <3

[Archer]

Obligatory patch notes for the client changes:

Upgraded the wow.exe binary to support an expanded quest log of 25 with some clever techniques. They said it couldn't be done!

To make room for more custom content patches and to make sure we don't interfere with community MPQ's we have repacked the client by consolidating Patches 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 into patches 1, 2, and 4. This makes room for our custom Octowow content (previously Patch-A) in Patch-5 with much more space for future patches. We also reduced the size of the client while doing the repacking by deleting changes in old Patches that are overwritten by new Patches.

Localization in the launcher now works for some people who were having difficulties.

The BG levitation crash fix is now included in the wow.exe so some people can't not receive it

The launcher now uses bittorent for its download and seeding is turned on by default. Go to your settings to disable if you hate Ozzy.

I loved the update
-Quest log increase to 25 (amazing)
-Shiny loot, easy to spot, great!
-In solo, I can finally right click a mob and add a symbol to it
Pretty sure there's other stuff, but I'm not a tech expert and the additions were great for me! <3

<3 You're the reason we do it. Not for people like Zuldrak

[Cx]

TBH the mods should be disabled by default, it caused a lot of problems for me too. I can image a lot of people are frustated by it, specially the not tech savy ones.