North American (NA) players are reporting issues with WoW Forever’s regional server routing, with some finding their characters placed on Australian (OCE) layers instead of their preferred region. Oceanic players have also reported the opposite problem, finding themselves placed on North American servers instead! The incorrect assignments have left players dealing with high latency, with some reporting ping increases from around 15–30ms to over 200ms.
The issue has been raised across several discussions on the official Blizzard forums, where affected players say their Preferred Account Location was incorrectly set to Australia during launch. For players used to connecting to North American servers, the difference has made combat and other in-game activities noticeably less responsive.
Unfortunately, changing the setting doesn’t appear to resolve the problem for everyone. Players have reported that updating their Preferred Account Location under Options > System > Languages and Social only affects newly created characters. Existing characters remain assigned to their original region, even after players update their settings and restart the game.
For some, this leaves an unpleasant choice between continuing playing with high latency, or start a new character and losing their progress.
Players have discovered that the issue could also be related to their guild. A post made by a player confirms that the issue was resolved for one player when leaving the NA guild, but not for the other player.
Players Are Still Waiting for a Fix
Affected players are asking Blizzard to investigate the regional routing issue and introduce a way to move existing characters to their correct region. Several have reported that changing their settings or restarting the game makes no difference. The latest post made by Community Manager Kaivax goes over how to change the setting, but this does not touch on the current issue players are facing.
It’s always a good idea to go over your settings in-game when you first get started. Today, we’d like to suggest that players take a close look at these settings in particular.
If any of them are not defaulted to your preferred language, you can change them and log out and back in to improve your in-game experience.
Thank you!
At the time of writing, there is no confirmed fix or specific official response addressing the affected characters. With players already investing hours into levelling and progressing through Azeroth, having to abandon an existing character because of an incorrect regional assignment is understandably frustrating.