Just keep in mind, Blizz doesn’t support VPNs.
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But it has also made some players experience worse?
Not at all. The difference between a VPN and Blizzard is that the routing traffic is a lot “cleaner” e.i is more fluent due to amount of people using it.
But by the numbers you yourself have posted, players in NA have to deal with your 150-200ms lag in a group, when my latency is 20ms. So it does effect us.
Well, the VPN is letting me connect but the game is unplayable with the massive latency on the free server.
I don’t believe that’s how it works. I believe that you’re referring to what happens when playing with OCE players, which to my knowledge, they do have a data center in Australia, unlike us in SA, we have nothing of that.
At least you can connect now, let’s celebrate that.
May I ask, where are you from? If like me, you’re from SA. I might be able to help you through this.
Nuke and pave, nuke and pave
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I play computer games and WoW on a VM, nuke and pave all the way 
This is why I said to use a VPN, you have discovered that the problem is not in your computer, but is a network problem somewhere between you and the game server, the VPN bypassed the problem area.
Go into your router and look for a option to cycle or release your public IP address and try to get it to give you a new one. Your ip address may be being flagged by a cloudflare service or something similar. That was the source of my problem.
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To add to this: set your router in DMZ mode, or open all the ports WoW needs.
If it was a port problem on the router, the VPN would not have resolved the connection problem.
This smells like a DNS or routing problem.
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WoW…F2P? Are you sure about that?
This indicates its on your end.
There are plenty of free VPNs out there c:
An error message isn’t “blizzard lying to you” 
It’s a connection error. For whatever reason, your client can’t connect to the world servers, so it assumes they’re down.
I was having this same issue a little bit ago. I play WoW through my Surfshark VPN. I could log in, but it would freeze loading a character in,. then disconnect. I turned off my VPN (which is not cool) and I was able to zone in.