How to connect
Install the Frontier launcher, point it at your 3.3.5a client, press Play.
The beta opens on 15 October 2026. Registration and the launcher download open here that day. Anyone can join.
Before you start
What you need.
A client, our launcher, and a free account.
A 3.3.5a client
Build 12340, English (enUS), clean and unmodified. We do not hand out the game.
Write access to it
The launcher writes into the client folder. In Program Files, run it as administrator.
Our launcher
Windows, Linux or macOS. It downloads our patch, patches your own Wow.exe and starts the game. Free, like the realm.
Download
Get the launcher.
The launcher download opens with the beta on 15 October 2026.
Launcher for Windows Linux macOS
The launcher is not code-signed: if Windows warns you, choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”. The manual zip has the same files and a README with every file’s SHA-256. On Linux and macOS the game runs through Wine; not tested there by us yet, so tell us how it went.
Account
Create an account.
Registration opens with the beta on 15 October 2026.
Setup
Getting in.
Create an account
Use the form above. Free, with nothing attached that can be bought.
Install the launcher
Put the launcher and its frontier-launcher-config.json next to Wow.exe
and start it. It downloads our patch, patches your Wow.exe (the original is kept as
Wow.exe.orig) and sets the realm.
No launcher? Extract the manual zip into a clean client
folder, delete the Cache folder and start Wow.exe. Realm address:
logon.frontierrealm.org.
Press Play
Always start the game through the Frontier launcher. Log in, pick Frontier - Beta, roll a character, then read the beta guide.