Kickstart WOW Through painful trial and error , I have managed to find enough to improvise a " kickstart " WOW on Mac OS X . < br > < br > This is really only helpful if all of these are true < br > 1 ) You do not have the install Disc < br > 2 ) Your internet connection throttles bit - torrent connections to hell [ Namely the internet in my dorm room ] < br > 3 ) Do not want to wait 500 hours for the automated download ( as Blizzard http seeding is pretty slow ) < br > 4 ) Be willing to get your hands dirty . < br > Don ' t ask me why blizzard can ' t just give you direct http access to single file . < br > The windows version can be started at 3 . 0 . 1 , which * significantly * decreases the amount of patches you need to deal with , but they people haven ' t bothered to update the mac version . Not to mention there is " ultimate " patches available on file planet as well . < br > < br > I ' m posting this up here , and this is a quick and dirty solution , with the hopes of helping a few people out there that are in my situation . I have found that there is enough " pieces " available out there to get an up to date client ( as of 1 / 6 / 2009 , anyway ) but you have to run a bunch ( 15 ) of patches by hand to do it . < br > < br > You can click on these URL ' s here and download them manually ( I highly suggest using a download manager ) if you are more comfortable doing that . Realize , that all of these patches size up to nearly 9GB which will take a LONG time to download . < br > < br > Below is a little shell script , that will automatically and sequentially download each file into a folder . < br > < br > Be forewarned < br > This script isn ' t setup to watch for errors , so if something goes wrong ( like a link going bad ) , it will keep going blindly ( without telling you ) until it ends . If any ONE of these links go dead , then you are going to have to go and manually find the patches elsewhere ( which will be a pain in the butt ) . < br > < br > First - > Find the location of the terminal application . Open up finder and click on the hard disk icon . < br > Then open Applications » Utilities and finally Terminal . < br > < br > You type in a command and then press the enter key . There are plenty of tutorials out there if you are having problems ( or just manually download each item ) . < br > < br > cd Desktop / < br > mkdir WOW < br > cd WOW < br > pico download . sh < br > < br > At this point , you should highlight , copy and paste all of the lines at the end ( after the - - - - ) . < br > Then hold the control and X keys together , press Y to confirm saving and hit enter to use the same filename . < br > < br > Now type < br > sh download . sh < br > Now you go and watch a movie . . . or two . . . or ten . . . ( depending on your speed ) as the lot downloads . < br > < br > You will see a little progress bar and it applies to each individual file . < br > In other words , you will see it go from 0 to 100 % 15 times - so don ' t be surprised if it seems to be downloading so quickly . At the end , it will go and extract the zip files for you ( which would otherwise take a few minutes each ) . < br > < br > Once it has finished , it will say " All Done ! " and it will be time for you to extract and install each item one by one to get all the updates . < br > < br > I have tried to keep this as simple as possible , so it hopefully it will be pretty self - explanatory on what is going on . < br > < br > Maybe some time someone can make one a bit more nicer than this . < br > curl - O http : / / mirror . ipgn . com . au / games / wow / WoW - 2 . 0 . 0 - enUS - Installer . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 3 . 0 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 3 . 0 . 7561 - to - 2 . 3 . 2 . 7741 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 3 . 2 . 7741 - to - 2 . 3 . 3 . 7799 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads1 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 3 . 3 . 7799 - to - 2 . 4 . 0 . 8089 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 4 . 0 . 8089 - to - 2 . 4 . 1 . 8125 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 4 . 1 . 8125 - to - 2 . 4 . 2 . 8278 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 2 . 4 . 2 . 8278 - to - 2 . 4 . 3 . 8606 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / mirror . ipgn . com . au / games / wow / WoW - 2 . 4 . 3 - to - 3 . 0 . 1 - Classic - NA . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 2 . 0 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10192 - to - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10314 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10314 - to - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10482 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10482 - to - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10505 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10505 - to - 3 . 3 . 0 . 10958 - enUS - patch . zip < br > curl - O http : / / downloads3 . macgamefiles . com / files / blizzard / WoW - 3 . 3 . 0 . 10958 - to - 3 . 3 . 0 . 11159 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 0 . 0 - enUS - Installer . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 3 . 0 . 7561 - to - 2 . 3 . 2 . 7741 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 3 . 2 . 7741 - to - 2 . 3 . 3 . 7799 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 3 . 3 . 7799 - to - 2 . 4 . 0 . 8089 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 4 . 0 . 8089 - to - 2 . 4 . 1 . 8125 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 4 . 1 . 8125 - to - 2 . 4 . 2 . 8278 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 4 . 2 . 8278 - to - 2 . 4 . 3 . 8606 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 2 . 4 . 3 - to - 3 . 0 . 1 - Classic - NA . zip < br > unzip WoW - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10192 - to - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10314 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 3 . 2 . 0 . 10314 - to - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10482 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10482 - to - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10505 - enUS - patch . zip < br > unzip WoW - 3 . 2 . 2 . 10505 - to - 3 . 3 . 0 . 10958 - enUS - patch . zip < br > WoW - 3 . 3 . 0 . 10958 - to - 3 . 3 . 0 . 11159 - enUS - patch . zip < br > echo " All Done ! # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # " < br > < br >