Your WoW tooltips are broken because of Wowhead's geo-block?
One extension. Tooltips work again on every WoW site. Wowhead access restored. No VPN, no monthly fees.
One extension. Tooltips work again on every WoW site. Wowhead access restored. No VPN, no monthly fees.
Install the WowTool.tips browser extension. It runs silently in the background and fixes everything: Wowhead access, tooltips on every WoW site, no extra steps.
1. Download the extension zip below
2. Extract/unzip it to a folder (e.g. Desktop)
3. Go to chrome://extensions
4. Turn on Developer mode (top-right toggle)
5. Click Load unpacked and select the extracted folder
Download for ChromeGreen icon = active. Store listings for both browsers are on the way.
Also works on Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. Same Chrome extension, same steps.
Icy Veins, Method.gg, WarcraftLogs, Raider.io, Archon.gg, WoWProgress, Raidbots, Bloodmallet, SubCreation, Wago.io, CurseForge, Mythic Trap, MMO-Champion, and more load Wowhead's tooltip script for item stats, spells, and quests. When Wowhead is blocked, the script fails silently. Every tooltip goes blank. Every link is a dead end.
ZAM Network cut off Turkey, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Serbia, and China in March 2022, citing legal compliance costs. Millions of WoW players lost access to the game's most essential database. Four years later, nothing has changed.
Blizzard support tells us to check Wowhead for help, but we can't even open the site. I have to toggle a VPN on and off every single time.
Every guide links to Wowhead. Every addon references it. There is no alternative with the same depth of community comments.
It's such an essential tool. I genuinely cannot play World of Warcraft without it, and there's nothing I can do about the restriction.
The real loss is the community knowledge. Every item and quest has years of player comments explaining how it works. That doesn't exist anywhere else.
Since yesterday Wowhead is blocking visitors from certain countries. China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia, India.
I pay the same subscription as everyone else but can't use the one resource the entire community is built around.
For some legal reasons the website has now blocked access from eight countries including India. This legitimately sucks.
WarcraftLogs and Raider.io link to Wowhead for every spell and item tooltip. If you're in a blocked country, those tools lose half their value for raid prep.
Apparently anyone from my country is now blocked from using it. Goodbye Wowhead, I guess.
I get this screen whenever I log in from Thailand or Indonesia. I don't get it when I log in from Cambodia. I don't really understand this.
Money must be tight, or they got greedy. The whole community depends on this site and they just cut us off.
This decision is ultimately due to legal compliance and liability issues. It is an indefinite situation.
Woke up to this this morning. Not sure if other regions are going to have this issue too.
They don't care about us. The visitor numbers didn't justify the cost, so millions of players just got dropped.
This is the first time I hear that a website like this is stopping serving a region. Feels discriminatory.
Advertising revenue in those countries is abysmally low, so they probably just don't make enough to justify the legal overhead.
Blizzard support tells us to check Wowhead for help, but we can't even open the site. I have to toggle a VPN on and off every single time.
Every guide links to Wowhead. Every addon references it. There is no alternative with the same depth of community comments.
It's such an essential tool. I genuinely cannot play World of Warcraft without it, and there's nothing I can do about the restriction.
The real loss is the community knowledge. Every item and quest has years of player comments explaining how it works. That doesn't exist anywhere else.
Since yesterday Wowhead is blocking visitors from certain countries. China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey, Serbia, India.
I pay the same subscription as everyone else but can't use the one resource the entire community is built around.
For some legal reasons the website has now blocked access from eight countries including India. This legitimately sucks.
WarcraftLogs and Raider.io link to Wowhead for every spell and item tooltip. If you're in a blocked country, those tools lose half their value for raid prep.
Apparently anyone from my country is now blocked from using it. Goodbye Wowhead, I guess.
I get this screen whenever I log in from Thailand or Indonesia. I don't get it when I log in from Cambodia. I don't really understand this.
Money must be tight, or they got greedy. The whole community depends on this site and they just cut us off.
This decision is ultimately due to legal compliance and liability issues. It is an indefinite situation.
Woke up to this this morning. Not sure if other regions are going to have this issue too.
They don't care about us. The visitor numbers didn't justify the cost, so millions of players just got dropped.
This is the first time I hear that a website like this is stopping serving a region. Feels discriminatory.
Advertising revenue in those countries is abysmally low, so they probably just don't make enough to justify the legal overhead.
For quick lookups without installing anything, paste any Wowhead URL below.
Try: wowhead.com/item=19019 or just paste a full Wowhead URL
Drop any Wowhead URL into the box above. Item, quest, spell, guide, talent calc, anything.
Your request goes through our server in a Wowhead-accessible region. No content is stored or modified.
Wowhead loads in your browser. Click links, search, browse. Everything works normally.
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Last updated: March 21, 2026
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