Advanced Features

WoWmapper includes some features that require more information about the game than is readily available to most applications. To access this information, WoWmapper reads certain parts of the game's memory. Before activating Advanced Features, you should be aware of the risks associated with this kind of interaction with the game.

What you need to know

When you enable Advanced Features, WoWmapper will use passive memory reading to access information about your character. This may be a violation of the World of Warcraft Terms of Use.

The World of Warcraft Terms of Use may be viewed in full here.

As per Section 2 - Additional License Limitations:

(...) You agree that you will not, under any circumstances:

• A. use cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the World of Warcraft experience;
• C. use any unauthorized third-party software that intercepts, “mines,” or otherwise collects information from or through the Game or the Service, including without limitation any software that reads areas of RAM used by the Game to store information about a character or the game environment; provided, however, that Blizzard may, at its sole and absolute discretion, allow the use of certain third party user interfaces;

The technique used by WoWmapper is a standard windows API call and does not modify the game memory in any way. This is a similar technique used by anti-virus and anti-malware software, but targeted to a specific part of the memory.

The World of Warcraft anti-cheat system typically looks for specific, known illegal processes (bots, hacks) and parts of the game memory that have been tampered with (injected modules and modifications), and since WoWmapper does neither, it's not likely to be cause for any actions to be taken against your account. At the very least, Blizzard would have to be specifically targetting WoWmapper before anything would occur.

WoWmapper is a simple, game-enhancing application that does not provide any additional features or automation beyond what is typically available with a mouse and keyboard. It is for this reason that I believe it is unlikely Blizzard would take any action on the software or it's users.

Technical info

WoWmapper uses OpenProcess and ReadProcessMemory API calls to access information from the game client. The information that is read includes your character's name and level, health, target and mouseover target. This information is never stored, and never transmitted outside of the application - it is used solely to provide the following features:

• Vibration when damage is taken
• Vibration when target is changed
• Lightbar color by health percentage
• Lightbar color by class
• Reset cursor position when leaving mouselook
• Application theme by class

As you can see, the features provided fall well below the threshold for any kind of automation of gameplay and should be safe to use.