But still want to be ready for when the servers start on launch day?
Before anyone gets nervous, this is perfectly fine with Blizzard. It's basically what the game does when you preorder through the Blizzard store. They have said this breaks no rules, they just tried to avoid making it public for reasons of download stability and trying to give their online preorder customers a cool bonus (they should have known better that people would figure it out. ).
It won't change the game itself till Cataclysm is released, since the client will not load the data at all till you are properly flagged (thanks to the new streaming tech they can do these preemptive patches).
- Make sure World of Warcraft and/or the launcher and background downloader are completely closed.
- Open up your World of Warcraft folder.
- Open Launcher.wtf in Notepad and change the "accountType" line from LK to CT.
- Open Config.wtf in Notepad and change the "accountType" line from LK to CT.
Before anyone gets nervous, this is perfectly fine with Blizzard. It's basically what the game does when you preorder through the Blizzard store. They have said this breaks no rules, they just tried to avoid making it public for reasons of download stability and trying to give their online preorder customers a cool bonus (they should have known better that people would figure it out. ).
It won't change the game itself till Cataclysm is released, since the client will not load the data at all till you are properly flagged (thanks to the new streaming tech they can do these preemptive patches).