WoW Forever EU servers: rulesets, local launch times and known issues

Europe is its own region, with its own servers, forums and name reservation start. For how rulesets work, see rulesets explained.

Realm names?

There's no realm list. EU players pick a ruleset (Normal, PvP, Roleplaying or Roleplay-PvP), and Blizzard describes each one as a large shared ecosystem. Want to meet players who speak your language? Set Preferred Online Language in Options.

Launch time across Europe

Global launch: 3:00pm PST Wed 4 Nov. | Where | Local time | |---|---| | UK, Ireland, Portugal (GMT/WET) | 23:00 Wed 4 Nov | | Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm (CET) | 00:00 Thu 5 Nov | | Helsinki, Athens, Bucharest (EET) | 01:00 Thu 5 Nov |

All of Europe is on winter time by then, since the clocks went back on 25 Oct.

Name reservation in Europe

• Opened 27 Oct at 18:00 CET, before North America.
• Runs to 3 Nov. Three characters per account across all rulesets.
• Full reservation guide

Known issues

• Ordinary names rejected: Blizzard confirmed on the EU forums that an overly strict name filter was blocking normal names. The fix arrives with each region's next realm restart. Blizzard post via Blue Tracker
• The Oceanic RP bug doesn't affect EU, according to Blizzard.

Not confirmed yet

Blizzard hasn't announced any language-specific EU rulesets, so we haven't listed any.

Sources: Blizzard: Choose Your Ruleset · Blizzard: Early Name Reservations · Blizzard: Carve a New Path · Blizzard EU forums (Blue Tracker): restricted names