I downloaded WoW from the torrent available in the download page, made sure the realmlist is set correctly "set realmlist logon.warmane.com" as it was by default. I ran the game from WoW.exe and it started running. When i signed in (same account i'm posting from now) it signed in and started downloading update (which shouldn't happen as far as I know). What possible issues might cause this? My account isn't made using an email used in anything associated with blizzard.
are you sure that your realmlist is set correctly ? by that i mean there isnt any other lines than that ?.
Also make sure that you dont have several WoW folders or merged with some old one.
Also i would look up if u have both an EU and a NA folder, because then you could in case have 2x realmlists .