From USA need to switch to an ASIAN server

Hi! I am from San Francisco and I play on the Emerald Dream Realm.

I recently moved to Hong Kong on a work visa and plan to be here for a while, and will need to switch to a server nearest to Hong Kong so I can avoid the immense latency im currently dealing with on my server.

What servers can I transfer to? Oceanic is the only suggest realm but even those realms are extremely far from Hong Kong and still suffer from latency.

Please let me know! I love this game and would hate to quit because of a regional issue.

The EU servers would be further than the NA servers.

I would suggest looking into starting fresh in either the Korean or Chinese region and client.

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Oceanics are considered part of the NA region - EU and CN are not. While you could setup another license for CN, the regions aren’t connected. Latency is a fickle beast - distance doesn’t always play the most important role.

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ok so perhaps just set up an ethernet cable or something? im in a quarantine hotel for the next 21 days so perhaps the hotel wifi is just the primary issue.

Make an EU trial account to check out that latency.

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I would say this is likely a huge contributing factor. Maybe wait until you’re situated somewhere with stable, reliable internet and see how things look from there.

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I was under the impression you couldn’t transfer an account between regions.

Meaning the game is region locked, so any characters you create are locked to that region. You’d have to start over on the new region. Not too sure that is what you are after.

You are correct in that you cannot transfer a wow license or a character between regions. Each region is functionally independent from other regions.

You can have WoW licenses for various regions on a single battle.net account but battle.net account bound items are also not shared across regions.

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Some are. There were about 7 mounts and three or four pets from my NA account that are also available on the EU account. Ones like the ones from Blizzcon and the ones from the 30th Anniversary pack, the one from Hearthstone and the one from Warcraft III remastered.

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thanks for the help everyone. I guess I’ll just have to play LOL…