1) There is no need to pay for the CD key, if u are new to WOW and would like to join the party, there is no entry cost at all, no upfront CDkey, you just need to go over http://www.wowtaiwan.com.tw/ to register yourself for the trial and start off with 10 days free trial. Once that, you can purchase monthly card, or points card for the game time. Or if u interested for some fast leveling with free experience gain throughout the leveling process, you can get us to sent u a recruit a friend ticket so u can profit from it. For registration guide, see next section.

Note, contrast to US server, in order to play, u need to purchase each of the CD key, WOW Classic, WOW Burning Crusade, WOTLK as well as the coming Cataclysm, which will cost you at least Rm500 to do so.

2) There is also two type of points card for game time in WOW taiwan, one is for monthly, which is RM52 a month, unlimited access, and the other one is RM18 for 30 hours of game time (edited), flexibility - if u are busy and kind of a casual player, you can then opt for the RM18 game card.

3) Latency, as we all know, due to the proximity of our country with the US server, Malaysia players always suffer from delay, spike or lagging when playing with US server. Even with the help of tunneling services, which most them require additional cost, the latency after tunneling will be mostly around 400++ (this was before tm with 20MB, now latency for US can be as low as 100-250)

However, with the taiwan server, the latency sustain at around 100++, without tunneling. It will be even lower if u obtain tunneling services.

We all aware of how vital is the upkeep of latency for gaming, latency issues, provide addtional difficulties for wow players to fully maximize their potential in the form of arena's as well as raiding.

4) No diff - Everything in the taiwan server is the same as the US counterpart except for mostly 1 or 2 days delay in patching new contents or fixes

5) Competitive - Also, it is a common, mis conception that players in taiwan server is least superior compare to the US counterpart, imo, alot of great players plays in Taiwan server, giving examples such as, Unmercy the rogue, Gameking the mage, they both have accounts in the taiwan server.

Notes from Bubu

Firstly, the taiwan's battle.net website is:
http://tw.battle.net/

Assume that you have finished waiting for the queue, you either
1) create a new battle.net account if you do not have one
2) merge wowtaiwan into your old battle.net account (Eg: with Starcraft2 or USwow in it)

*For those that are creating a new battle.net account, kindly fill in the forms and required information as this account becomes crucial when
it comes to account protection, as such I recommend that you do not simply fill in randomly (Eg: filling Azeroth as your address etc.) When
you've successfully created an account, now your next step is to merge wowtaiwan into your battle.net account as well.

*In my case and for those who already have an account of their own, it is possible to login to tw.battle.net using us.battle.net's account.

Upon having logged in with ur new / old account, you need to select [merge World of Warcraft account] in the account summary page,
which brings you to this link: https://tw.battle.net/account/management/wo...conversion.html

Then,
Select [Taiwan] as your country, and type in your ID and password;
Confirm that you're the sole user, and you will be once again notified that you should
be using same email address you used to login your battle.net account.

After this, I believe you can login and play wow as long as you have game time and the server is on.

For image, please check below link

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=42313271

1) There is actually ways to play on English client on Taiwan server (questing text etc and game play with English). Hence, even if you have trouble to converse in mandarin generally or having difficulties understanding the mandarin words, you can always opt for this option.

For instruction, see below.
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Getting everything that you need - (only for wowtaiwan using foreign client)

In order to make the installation you will need the following:

1. A NEW European / US client which you can download of the official website !
2. The Font file which u need later.
These are the chinese fonts files for reading / writing
3. And last but not least: A Taiwanese WoW account, Click Here! For the guide !

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Here we go! - (only for wowtaiwan using foreign client)

1. install the client of the language of your choice first e.g. English / german / russian.

2. Update your Client to the current version.
You can fill in any random account name and password it will update anyway!

3. Go to your C:/ World of Warcraft Folder .
This path might be different if you install it in a different folder

4. Go into the Data folder, then into the enUS/enGB/frFR/deDe/ruRU folder and open the file realmlist.wtf
sidenote: you can open this file with notepad or word, but make sure it is saved as "wtf" and not doc

5. Change the text inside the file so it looks as the following:

then save it.

6. " SET locale "zhTW" " inside WTF\Config.WTF to " SET locale "enUS" "

(WTF folder can be found in your wow folder)

You might want to keep a Copy of the original file since you need these settings if you would like to update your game client to the next version.
Or you can simply changes the lines back the way they were for your country's settings.

7. To See Chinese word with English client, need to download the Font folder.

Download Location 1
Download Location 2

Put the "Font" folder into your World of Warcraft game folder.

8. Go to WTF folder, open config.wtf with notepad and add in the following two sentence into the list and press save.

SET locale "enUS"
SET Portal "TW"

8. Start up the game and see what happens !

(If no WTF folder in your client, see below for further instruction)

Important Notes:

The instruction given in this thread is to put as following:

As u can see, the above allow u to play wowtaiwan, using US client while downloading patch directly through US.

This conveniently allow u to update and continue the game.

However this also result in early updates of patch or hotfix (i think there is some options to disable auto updates)

What i do is, i use the following

When i need to update, i change back the realmlist.wtf

Usually i just copy and replace.

By doing this, i wont get early updates.

Then, switch back to Taiwan to play.


What if there's no Realmlist.wtf at your client?

I'm being advised that there is no realmlist.wtf if download fresh full Mist of Pandaria client

From what I gathered on the net, can try like this.


Do notethat this is experimental. Backup and try @ own risk*

Access to config.wtf and paste the followings:


set realmlist tw.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist enUS.patch.battle.net:1119/patch
set realmlistbn ""
set portal tw


Also paste the followings:

SET locale "enUS"
SET Portal "TW"

Save and try to play.

Recommend to opt for Paypal to pay.

What if i didnt backup my US realmlist wtf file? - (only for wowtaiwan using foreign client)

Here's the content:

set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist enUS.patch.battle.net:1119/patch
set realmlistbn ""
set portal us