Play on the KBVE Warcraft realm.
A Wrath of the Lich King realm running on ToCloud9, fleet-managed by Agones. Make a game account in the browser, point a 3.3.5a client at tocloud9.kbve.com, and log in.
Separate from your KBVE login
Create a game account
Why a second password
The 3.3.5a client authenticates with SRP6, so the realm stores a salt and a verifier rather than anything reversible. Your browser derives that pair locally and posts only the result — the game password never reaches KBVE, and it cannot be recovered, only replaced.
The protocol uppercases the username and password before hashing them, which makes both case-insensitive and limits the password to 16 characters. Treat it as a throwaway credential and never reuse a password that matters.
Four steps
Getting in
Create a game account
Sign in to KBVE and pick a game username and password below. The password is turned into an SRP6 verifier in your browser — the plaintext never leaves the device.
Point your client
Open Data/enUS/realmlist.wtf in your 3.3.5a install and replace its contents with set realmlist tocloud9.kbve.com — one line, nothing else.
Log in
Launch Wow.exe and sign in with the game username and password from step 1 — not your KBVE credentials. The realm is named KBVE.
Roll a character
Every class and race through Wrath of the Lich King is open. Character data lives on the ToCloud9 charserver, so your roster follows you across gateway restarts.
What runs underneath
The realm
ToCloud9, not vanilla AzerothCore
The realm runs on ToCloud9 — a sharded fork that splits the monolith into authserver, gateway, world, chat, mail and character services so pieces can roll independently.
Gateways roll without downtime
Realms report as online based on live gateway registration, not a static row, so a gateway can be replaced under load without stranding the realm list.
Custom modules
Vendored AzerothCore modules ship with the worldserver — rent-a-mount gates rentals on level and riding skill, and the underbarrel bootlegger adds its own vendor loop.
One game account per KBVE account
The link is keyed on your auth UUID, so changing your email keeps the game account. Usernames are reserved before the game database is touched and freed again if that write fails.