The US technical support forums are clogged with players posting tracert logs and running through elementary connection troubleshooting with half-ass techs as Blizzard rolls out the new 3.3.5 "Facebook for WoW"/Ruby Sanctum patch.
I am one amongst thousands of players who are stuck at the Connecting window, and I am unable to find a quick fix. Blizzard asks players to reinstall copies of WoW, run repair.exe, or change their realmlist.wtf file to fix the issue. Hilariously, these solutions were all first provided by intelligent players in the community, and Blizz's techs stickied the posts of these players instead of giving everyone definitive answers as to what was going on.
A player named Chraz has deciphered the underlying problem with the connection issue:
More information provided in the links below:
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> No one on a mac can connect. FORUM PETITION
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> **FIX FOR the unable to CONNECT issue!
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Unable to connect
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Patch broke wow
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> I Can't Log on please help
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...lems-help.html
We have one big cluster**** here.
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