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    Pre-Setup of Classic WoW Addons is possible with sandboxing.

    Hey all,

    Last night I was trying to figure out how I could setup my addons for classic wow before launch, so I could get moving sooner.

    turns out there is a way to do it, using a Sandbox tool.

    I'm going to credit Reddit user /u/Ralthooor for bringing this to my attention on the /r/ClassicWoW subreddit.

    The full instructions and download links are located at the link below:
    World of Warcraft Classic Beta Sandbox Guide
    Skip to the section labeled "Using the Arctium Sandbox project for the World of Warcraft Classic Beta client"

    Short form here for the TLDR people:

    • Download the latest available release of Arctium WoW Sandbox Downloader from the Arctium project website and Place it in your World of Warcraft Retail directory (same folder as _retail_ and _Classic_ folders.)
    • Run 'Arctium WoW Sandbox Downloader.exe'
    • Click Agree if you agree, then it will communicate with the Arctium server and present a page with some buttons. Click Classic.
    • A new folder called 'Arctium' has been created. A new window should automatically open. If not step into its contents until you find the 'Classic' directory.
    • Copy the files that are located inside this directory to your World of Warcraft Retail client directory. (same as before, same folder as _retail_ and _Classic_ folders.)
    • Run the 'Arctium WoW Sandbox.exe' executable and wait for it to boot up the sandbox environment. Run the 'Arctium WoW Client Launcher.exe' executable which will pop up another window with a message.
    • If you get a message asking for region and such, select the same things you're going to play on.
    • Sandbox Username: arctium@arctium Password: arctium


    There's no Mobs, NPC's. or players, but this will let you set up addons like Tukui, Bartender, Details, Bigwigs / DBM, etc., get the placements all right.

    once you've completed this, delete all the files and folders it made, and cut and paste the WTF account folder for the sandbox out of the WTF folder. once classic goes live, you can copy your addon configs into your character folder.

    the other thing that I found nice about this is with use of the !fly and !flightspeed (it goes up to 1000, but I liked 200 personally) you can fly around and see the old zones. seeing original org was nice.

    once you are done, i also ran a Repair to the WowClassic installer, just in case.
    Last edited by TehVoyager; 08-21-2019 at 12:29 PM.


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    Pre-Setup of Classic WoW Addons is possible with sandboxing.
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    Hope Fabian can add some Quests, so we can fix quest tools.

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    Arctium does not support windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10 so how anyone even uses this crappy program is news to me.
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    ..........

    I used it two nights ago. I'm running Win10

    I would suspect you did something wrong.

    Edit: it's not launching at the moment for me either. I would suspect something is up with the developer's backend server software.

    edit2: It's down at the moment while they deploy a new version or something, according to their discord. try again later. it also states on their discord that it supports win7-10 and server editions.
    Last edited by TehVoyager; 08-22-2019 at 07:12 PM.


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    Interesting.

    Windows defender appears to block the application from loading (im guessing it sees it as a hack tool? dunno) source seems safe. ive used it and don't have any odd issues to report.


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    Hey, been struggling with this for a while now. I am able to use the sandbox perfectly fine, however nothing seems to save in the WTF folder. Addons are loading and possible to move, yet when I close the client and log back in, nothing saves (keybinds and other settings like windowed mode etc)

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    Thats interesting. You're putting all the files in the world of warcraft folder, above the _retail_ and _classic_ folders? not running in some sort of limited account, or have wow set to run in a limited manner? i would suggest reaching out to the developers discord server and asking for support there, they may know better.


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    I have it like this. Am I doing it wrong?

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    Nope, looks good. Run the Sandbox, then the launcher (both files are the executables you have highlighted in your picture.


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    Edit: Got it working, was looking at the empty WTF folder in Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft instead of the Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_classic_\WTF\Account folder. /facepalm
    Last edited by Yukka; 08-24-2019 at 06:09 AM.

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    Unfortunately not working anymore for me as it says the client version "31650" is not supported. Worked yesterday. Im using the client downloaded by the nromal battle net launcher

    edit: creators confirmed fixing it today in their discord
    Last edited by uumas; 08-24-2019 at 08:19 AM.

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    Working as of last night. re-download the arctrum files with the downloader.


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