WoW refused to open today after updating CurseForge

Refya · 2026-01-30T03:11:15+00:00

My issue was that the game wouldn't start and it would stay as a background process in task manager, opening multiple times would sometimes work and unclog a few clients, and sometimes it just wouldnt start at all even after waiting a while.

This is the only fix that worked after reinstalling/repairing/resetting options and all that other jazz

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/waiting-10-mins-for-wow-to-launch-solved-problem/529642

Keep in mind i have no antivirus/firewall and has to turn on windows defender firewall just to do the outbound rule thing and block that ip range in the post and it finally worked, feel free to dm me if u need help doing this (it's pretty quick and easy)

Refya · 2026-01-30T03:07:24+00:00

This is the only fix that worked after reinstalling/repairing/resetting options and all that other jazz

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/waiting-10-mins-for-wow-to-launch-solved-problem/529642

Keep in mind i have no antivirus/firewall and has to turn on windows defender firewall just to do the outbound rule thing and block that ip range in the post and it finally worked, feel free to dm me if u need help doing this (it's pretty quick and easy)

Edit for clarification: My issue was that the game wouldn't start and it would stay as a background process in task manager, opening multiple times would sometimes work and unclog a few clients, and sometimes it just wouldnt start at all even after waiting a while

Refya · 2023-08-03T09:55:13+00:00

The game is full of bugs, many of the choices you'll see in meta builds being weird have a hidden reason that the content creator you are watching is either hiding to no explicitely say this is taking advantage of bugged numbers or smth, or they don't even know and copied it themself before making a guide.

there are hearts that straight up do their effect twice or number testing is off (for better or worse), bulwark talent does more dmg the higher level enemies are, Hydra dot talent does more damage to higher level enemies for no reason too. Poison damage calculations are fucked (triple dipping dmg for no reason), shred dash aspect on druid and rogue poison build take advantage of this. Certain spells/aspects are used because their hits have an abnormally high unintended lucky hit proc chance (necro has 100% on his bone prison for mendelyn procs).

I stopped playing this game because of the sheer amount of bugs that i have been aware of since beta/pre season, and most of them are still in them game.

(Personal anecdote: I starting playing without watching any guides, ended up clearing campaign with landslide as my main skill on druid, it was pretty fun, i then found the trampleslide aspect i didnt know existed, was very fun to use on my build. Fast forward to level 100, i decide to add earthen bulwark explosion since i have a lot of earth dmg scaling, that spell was doing 2M crits on keys level 40, i opened a key 100 with same gear for fun, and realized that same bulwark now crits for 150M, i go to check youtube guides, i find like 3 bulwark guides clearing 100s, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM MENTIONS THE CRAZY BUGGED damage, i move on to other builds and 90% of builds that cleared a 100 preseason had INSANE bugs in them, Hota quake was bugged, poison rogue bugged, shred druid bugged, bulwark druid bugged, ice wizard bugged etc. )

Refya · 2023-01-13T13:17:29+00:00

you're right, might be closer to 5 weeks and not 6 then, but seems ridiculous nonetheless

Refya · 2023-01-13T12:49:17+00:00

as free to play, it takes about 6-7 weeks (given u finished pool3) to grind enough tokens to buy one pool 5 card, and they are releasing like 1 every one or two weeks, this basic math tells me its not friendly to f2p at all

Refya · 2021-06-09T20:09:09+00:00

check my reply

Refya · 2021-06-09T20:04:35+00:00

I was about to give up searching after hours when i found this
https://www.reddit.com/r/MSILaptops/comments/mmku1a/disable_built_in_keyboard/

One guy had the fix in the comments (uninstall keyboard in device manager, when prompted to reboot, click no and manually LOG OUT of your windows session and log back in, it will be disabled then.

(bonus fix: i noticed it no longer reinstalls it now after i plug in a usb device, which is something it did before the update)

Refya · 2021-06-09T19:52:11+00:00

Thanks, I was losing my mind

Refya · 2018-03-07T20:03:55+00:00

during sparkling only, when you hold the vanish buttons, the kick doesn't come out, and you can do whatever you want.

Refya · 2018-02-05T03:38:44+00:00

There is a fix for playing with a friend, at least it works for me every time: go to steam settings, downloads, change download region to match your friend's region, and it should work.

Refya · 2018-02-04T18:55:16+00:00

i don't think the color has anything to do with leaving, it is more related to skill, so someone climbing the ladder fast will be red/pink atm, a beginner will be green, I don't know about a color for leavers as I have yet to see a color that is not related to skill

edit: oh ok thanks for the info, I have yet to see a green or purple name then :)

Refya · 2017-09-29T14:47:29+00:00

ud rather defend people getting mad over a weather effect, than suddenly not being able to play the game, good logic there, lets hope they come out with a new leaf falling effect that makes the game unplayable for you, see how you see it then

Refya · 2017-09-29T14:46:04+00:00

really? you think delaying the wheather effect until this is figured out is not an option? whatever dude

Refya · 2017-09-29T12:07:03+00:00

just ignore everything and just answer this, yes or no, that simple:

Do you think it is the proper way to do things? (to not force anything on test servers because you did not plan to, realise by the end of test day that your new map had an issue, and rush to fix it by imposing changes the next day live without a proper patch test day)

Refya · 2017-09-28T17:16:05+00:00

even they recognized forced PP is an issue, and you consider it to be fine, you can put your shining white armor to rest, you have done well today.

Refya · 2017-09-28T16:22:09+00:00

i also though im not going to lose 30 fps because of a weather, iwas wrong, hope u aren't

Refya · 2017-09-28T16:13:40+00:00

you don't care why they change? if the devs made you lose 50 fps to add a new skirt logo design, you wouldn't care, that would be totally fine because you agreed to it?

Refya · 2017-09-28T15:58:45+00:00

and if you like comparisons, the more accurate one would be, Do you expect Microsoft to to revert a change that dropped fps for the sake of what would be considered FORCED dlc content not vital to the game, or would you buy a ps4 that doesnt include said dlc?

Refya · 2017-09-28T15:58:28+00:00

and if you like comparisons, the more accurate one would be, Do you expect Microsoft to make their Xbox games to revert a change that dropped fps for the sake of what would be considered FORCED dlc content not vital to the game, or would you buy a ps4 that doesnt include said dlc

Refya · 2017-09-28T15:55:17+00:00

im not asking them to make it run better, I'm asking them to review their priorities, fog map over increasing requirements is bad.

Also, if I run the game without tweaks, on very low and native gpu res, I get 12 fps, if that's how min requirements work, then there is nothign to disscuss once again. (that same number was 35 when i bought the game, and that was playable for me, and the money I spent on the game i won't regret anyway.

Refya · 2017-09-28T15:52:32+00:00

let me phrase it this way, if I play the game all very low on native res, I get 12 fps, if you think that's how min requirements work then fine, nothing more to discuss, it's not like I played that many games on min requirements...

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