I haven’t had this issue until today if I connect to Wow with my VPN it goes to the character select screen but the blue loading bar stops halfway and no characters will load I have never had this issue before and I’ve used this same VPN for years with WOW
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I am having the same thing happen to me. What the heck is the problem now?
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The VPN probably got blacklisted, due to people using it for shady things. Try running the game without a VPN.
Bad bad idea. Lose security to play a game…that makes no sense at all. Besides why suddenly black list a top vpn like Surfshark?
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You don’t really have any security with a VPN anyways lol… They all sell your history and information anyways. Plus this is a video game, not you trying to log into your bank account in a browser. Any private information that might be exchanged with the Blizzard servers, like when you first log in, are probably encrypted through HTTPS(TLS), so good luck cracking 256 bit AES.
I don’t know if they did or not, but lots of scammers, RMTers, account thieves and botters use VPNs to hide their “base of operations” to prevent all the other associated accounts they use from being banned when one account gets shut down.
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disconnected surf shark got on one account, see mounts running around with no riders. What gives? The other account still stuck with blue 3/4 way.
Now one account is in and the mounts have riders now, lol.
Mine’s doing this too. it’ll sit at half a blue bar and if I back out and go back in it sits with no bar and black background with empty menus. any word on why or if it’s getting looked at? it also started blocking my game news aggregator website too it seems
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Issue seems to have started recently, haven’t had issues this week until trying to log on today. Curiouser and curiouser… What did surfshark do?
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The same thing for me I played Tuesday morning before the reset and had no issues I work overnights so I didn’t get back on until Wednesday and started having issues
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Even with disconnected vpn, same issue. Even used scan and repair option and same issue.
contacted Surfshark and they had me change the protocol from wireguard to “OpenVPN UDP” and it got the character screen working again but it still messes up on the launcher loading only part if it and I cant even log into this forum while connected to the vpn unless I log in about half a dozen times and it finally goes. waiting on their follow-up.
I’m less concerned about the security of the VPN and more concerned about having the more stable traffic routing. I’m in an area of rural Texas that has a decent speed connection but there tends to be bad routing a few hops outside of town. I cant even get steam to download more than 700kbs unless I VPN it to get my 100 meg speed.
if your routing is ok then you can add the wow.exe to the VPN bypass section and your vpn would still work for everything else just not wow
as of this morning just now I am now able to connect with Surfshark like normal so whatever it was it is now fixed with 0 intervention from me
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