For the past couple days, WoW has been virtually unplayable for me (4000-10000+ms world latency). I have a fiber ethernet connection with 919mbps download and 763mbps upload (based on some speed tests). I’ve updated Windows and all drivers, and followed the checks in a help article I’m not allowed to link here. I turned my raid graphics to the lowest settings and disabled all graphics settings possible, I’ve also disabled ALL addons. I’ve been playing War Within and Liberation of Undermine for months with zero lag, it’s only very very recently that I’ve started to get the red latency bar and seen my spells not cast after clicking them, and seeing my toon get run over by fire and swirlies after I’m already dead.
The only thing I can think of is that I’m playing US servers (Echo Isles) from Europe. If WoW allowed me to move my toons from my US server to a Europe one I’d do it yesterday, but they don’t. I’ve been playing this game since 2005 and have too many characters and memories to want to start from scratch, but if the game remains this unplayable I might have no other choice. But like I mentioned, I’ve been playing from France for a few years now and even on ‘ultra’ graphics settings I’ve had no problems until just the past few days (would the new pre-patch download have anything to do with it?).
Any suggestions?