• World of Warcraft ¹⁾
• Battle.net App ²⁾
• 64-bit
• WineHQ AppDB

• Fedora Workstation
• Wine

• Install to default directory when prompted ³⁾
• [ ] Launch Battle.net when you start your computer
• Log-in
• Change Battle.net App settings
• Close

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes' && wget 'dist.blizzard.com/downloads/bna-installers/322d5bb9ae0318de3d4cde7641c96425/retail.1/Battle.net-Setup-enUS.exe' -O ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' WINEARCH='win64' wine ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe'

rm -Rf ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft' && mv ~/'Downloads/World of Warcraft' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)' && sync

• Install World of Warcraft
• Requires 62GB+ free space

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe'

rm -rf ~/'Downloads/Battle.net-Setup.exe' ~/'Desktop/Battle.net.desktop' ~/'Desktop/World of Warcraft.desktop' && sync

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

• D3D11 to Vulkan

• https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && cd '/tmp' && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' && cd ~ && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/setup_dxvk.sh' install && rm -rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/dxvk_state_cache' && sync

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns' && gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns'

• Addon URL (obvious TODO)

• Create Fonts folder in WoW root folder
• Drop fonts into this folder ending in .ttf and rename to the following
• TODO: This should work in Classic if it worked in Legion, but this is untested

ARIALN

FRIENDS

FRIZQT__

MORPHEUS

skurri

mkdir -p ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Fonts' && gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Fonts'

• http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/CVar_weatherDensity

/console WeatherDensity 3

• http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/CVar_violenceLevel

/console violenceLevel 5

rm -Rf ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Battle.net' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft' && mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft'

nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=World of Warcraft
Comment=Azeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion’s crusade—but even as the world’s wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove hardest to mend.
Categories=Game;AdventureGame;RolePlaying
Exec=env DXVK_LOG_LEVEL='none' DXVK_STATE_CACHE_PATH='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/dxvk_state_cache' MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DIR='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' WINEDEBUG=-all WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine '/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft Launcher.exe'
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Path=/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft
Icon=5C12_World of Warcraft Launcher.0
Actions=Kill;Cache;

[Desktop Action Kill]
Exec=env WINEPREFIX='/home/CHANGEME/Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wineserver -k
Name=Force-close

[Desktop Action Cache]
Exec=bash -c "rm -Rf ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/dxvk_state_cache' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/mesa_shader_cache' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Cache' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Logs' ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/windows/temp/'* ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/users/'$USER'/Temp/'* && sync"
Name=Cache Clean-up

sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

• 512×512 icon
• Only really necessary for desktop environments where an icon size larger than 48×48 is displayed ⁴⁾
• TODO: What's the source of this icon?

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps' && wget 'https://i.imgur.com/xZMEiix.png' -O ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/WBE5_Wow.0.png' && sed -i 's/5C12_World of Warcraft Launcher.0/'WBE5_Wow.0'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft.desktop'

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' winecfg

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wineserver -k

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net Launcher.exe'

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft' && WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft Launcher.exe'

cd ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_' && 

DXVK_HUD='full'

WINEDEBUG='-all'

WINEPREFIX=~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft' wine ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Wow.exe'

gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_'

gio open ~/'Wine Prefixes/World of Warcraft/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft/_retail_/AddOns'