From sign-up to your first dungeon

1Make your account

On the GamingRoo site, choose Create a new account, type your name, and your phone or computer saves a passkey. There's no password to remember: signing in later just asks for your fingerprint, face or PIN. If it asks for a registration code, ask the admin for one.

Using another phone or computer too? Sign in once (from the new device, pick “use a phone” and scan the code), then press Add a passkey in the Passkeys card on that device. Lost every passkey? Ask the admin for a recovery code, then choose Lost your passkey? on the sign-in page.

Once you're in, press Create WoW account in the WoW account card. It shows the game login name and password once, so write them down. Lost it? Rotate WoW password in the same card gives you a new one any time.

2Get the game

1. In the Game client card, download client.zip and unzip it wherever you like, for example C:\Games\World of Warcraft.
2. Download GamingRooLauncher.exe from the same card and put it in that folder, next to Wow.exe.
3. In the Connect card, copy the realmlist line and paste it into Data\enUS\realmlist.wtf (or enGB), replacing the line that starts with set realmlist.
4. From now on, start the game from GamingRooLauncher.exe. It installs the latest addon pack every time, keeps itself up to date, then starts WoW.

3Collect your heirlooms

Every day your account logs in, a Login Token arrives in the mail. Your very first mail brings six, enough to unlock any slot on day one. Visit a mailbox (every town has one) and take them.

1. Type /heirlooms.
2. Click a slot on the paperdoll to see its heirlooms. Left-click one to try it on.
3. Press Unlock under the list: 4 tokens for most slots, 6 for rings, trinkets or weapons. Every character on your account gets the slot.
4. Right-click an heirloom to put it in your bags. Take any of them, as often as you like, on any character.

Heirlooms grow with you all the way to level 80, and each one gives +10% experience. The more you wear, the faster you level. Shoulders or chest make a great first unlock.

4Your new buttons

5Summon a party of bots

No friends online? Bring your own party. Your own characters can come along as party members, earning experience and loot with you:

.playerbots bot add Charname         any of your logged-out characters

Or summon generic bots of any class. Type these in the chat box, one line at a time:

.playerbots bot addclass warrior     a tank
.playerbots bot addclass priest      a healer
.playerbots bot addclass mage        damage (and free water)
.playerbots bot addclass hunter      more damage

Each bot joins your group. Then bring them to your level, give them their jobs, and set off:

.playerbots bot init=auto Botname    once per bot: your level, fitting gear
/w Warriorname talents spec prot pve
/w Warriorname co +tank
/w Priestname talents spec disc pve
/p follow                            everyone follows you

That's a dungeon group. Walk in and they come along. Say summon in party chat to bring them all to you.

6Bring the family to you

Invite them to your party, then type:

.gamingroo summon Charname

They get the usual "accept summon" box and land right next to you. It works for party members, as long as they aren't fighting or flying.

7Good to know

• You're fast: +100% run and swim speed from level 1. Sprint, Dash, Travel Form and the like stack on top.
• Levelling is quicker: double experience and reputation, and a bigger rested bonus.
• Hungry or thirsty? Say water or food in party chat and your mage bot conjures some for you.
• Professions are kinder: double materials, 2 points per skill-up, and anything above your skill can still be gathered with the Gather button, just slower.
• Fishing reels itself in the moment a fish bites.
• Fell through the floor? You're put back on the ground where you fell.
• CombatAssist doing something odd? Type /ca what to see what it's thinking. If that doesn't explain it, tell the admin roughly when it happened and on which character: the server keeps a record of every spell it cast for you. More