WarCraft Access in China

Foreign WarCraft servers are blocked or down or just plain grumpy in China. They’ve been on the blink since this weekend. I don’t know any official reason (Blizzard’s main site is also unavailable) but at least there’s a workaround that will let China-based WarCraft players get online on.

Go to your World Of WarCraft directory on your computer. In this directory, there’s a WTF file called Realmlist. [Not the WTF folder] Open this up using Notepad. Change the text to say:

set realmlist 12.129.232.112
set patchlist 66.45.252.236

Save the file, and don’t do anything zany like change the name, even if Windows prompts you to do it.

(Instructions are also on Violet Eclipse)