Launcher not working

[Brickbat-moon-guard]

It takes me ten minutes of hitting play to get the launcher to actually launch the game.

[Pawgwalker-dalaran]

Merge into this thread about the same topic:

Wow.exe takes 5-10 minutes to launch

Problem 1: I am no longer able to launch the game directly from the executable, bypassing resource-hog Battle.net. Now, when I launch the executable, I get captchas. This, despite having an authenticated account. Although I correctly enter them (have even enlisted help to ensure this is so) they keep getting rejected. So launching directly is no longer possible because it rejects the captcha entry every time. Notably, the captchas for Classic Era work perfectly. Problem 2. So… I have to …