Is it possible that Blizz has marked your device as a botter? I think you should reach out to them and ask about your ping and the things you tried, it may be possible they are throttling your connection
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i see, that sound concerning...
i'll see if i can asked them about it
The reason why a VPN may modify the behaviour is because it may prune ipv6.
Blizz network code is trash, and it's been known to be weird with ipv6 (even tanking macs who are on the same LAN; very weird).
Threadjack: if in-game voice chat is working for you, tell me if you needed to adjust things to make it go. F44/cinnamon/lutris pops an invisible jail in the upper left and steals the mouse forever, without making chat work.
i did try disabling ipv6 in my pc and modem but still lag.. so im not dure what else..
i dont use game voice chat so i dont tweak those settings..
I also had an issue where wow forever would get extremely laggy after playing a while, but I didn't check if it reported high latency. In my case upgrading to the latest ProtonGE helped
hi i tried proton ge. same thing.
but then i tried using vpn and the game become extremely responsive. so idk what fixed it but yeah, wondering if i can find a permanent solution..
When I was playing World of Warships, on at least two separate occasions I had extreme packet loss towards their servers. It affected many players in different countries but not everybody. Network tools indicated that a connection adjacent to their server center was the cause, but they still blamed customers' ISPs. I used VPN for a week or so until it appeared to be resolved.
Only thing that comes to mind is that you could try talking to your ISP's technical support, and maybe they can help you troubleshoot the issue
thank you for the insight. ill try contacting them to see if they have a solution
This is probably a long shot, and AFAIK WoW should be using UDP anyway, but you could try changing the TCP congestion control.
Here's the first guide from my ddg search: https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-20-switch-tcp-congestion-control-linux/view
hey. i tried the link you send and it doesnt work for me. but now i found the solution. im using a vpn and somehow it worked, so until i figured out why. using a vpn it is
If it’s consistently after 10 minutes, checkout journalctl to see if there’s anything funky happening at that time. FYI, I have Battle.net installed via Lutris and have no issues in Forever on stock Arch.
hey yea i tried mtr thing and something weird is there. im not that tech savvy to understand the numbers im seeing.
but i tried using vpn and somehow it worked. so now im wondering why and see if i can make permanent solution
How did you install the launcher? Heroic Games Launcher? Lutris? Bottles? Raw Wine?
with steam proton
Is world latency high, home latency high, or both? Also if you leave a ping running in the terminal (like to 1.1.1.) Is there a matching latency increase with when you see the performance drop?
I'm also playing WOW Forever on Linux but I'm doing so via Lutris and fiber. So it's definitely possible. Just need to figure out the bottleneck you're hitting.
sometimes world. sometimes home. sometimes both. but never dip below 500.
ping 1.1.1.1 is consistent around 20 to 30 ms
Have you tried using a cellphone hotspot to see if the problem is on the starlink side? They may have congestion that you can't fix.
yep i did. i tried both my phone and my wife's since her and mine has different carrier. still no dice
Hmmmm dang. I might be a driver issue. I think steamos doesn't (or at least didn't last I looked) full hardware support of the full linux kernel. You can try a different os, even just a live usb so you don't change anything, and test the latency that way.
it is something wrong with the network. idk what yet
the solution for me is to use a vpn. somehow it fixed something
I've been playing on steam OS (steam deck) through Lutris, and I'm not seeing any lag from that side of things. Performance was awful until I turned some settings down, but that's hardware rather than lag.
My guess would be an issue with your network or ISP.
i see. i did try changing my network (tethering from my phone) and still same result
How's your latency outside the game? Maybe it's your network driver. What is normal latency to you?
i tried other game and it shows normal ping. normal for me is 150 - 200 ish
Maybe do a traceroute to the wow server and check what gives latency. It could just be bad service from Starlink which after all is a satellite link.
Last time I go a very wild issue with proton, I sent all the proton logs to an AI, it honestly found the issue I had (my ISP router had failed to setup IPv6). All my game starting in steam would take a minimum of 30sec to stary. It was proton trying to download ressources over IPv6 and long timeouts.
Also if you are on Linux you need to say what distribution ypi are using. Alpine or cachyos is a very different environment.
sorry im linux noob, how to do traceroute?
I'm on steamos. so i think its arch based
Have you figured out how to reach the Linux desktop yet? Once you do, all you need to do is open a terminal and type
tracert <your_wow_server_address>
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