Fix Wowhead Tooltips on Icy Veins, Method, WarcraftLogs, and More
If you're in Turkey, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Serbia, Thailand, or China, you've probably noticed that item and spell tooltips are broken on most WoW community sites. You hover over an item link on Icy Veins, nothing happens. You click a spell reference on WarcraftLogs, you get a dead link. This isn't a bug on those sites. It's a side effect of Wowhead being geo-blocked in your country.
Why Tooltips Break
Almost every WoW community site uses Wowhead's tooltip system. When a site wants to show item stats or spell details on hover, it loads a JavaScript file called tooltips.js from Wowhead's servers. This script handles fetching the tooltip data, rendering the popup, and styling it.
The problem: when Wowhead is blocked in your country, your browser can't download tooltips.js. The request fails silently. No script loads, no tooltips render. Every Wowhead-powered tooltip on every site goes blank.
This isn't limited to small fansites. Major competitive tools are affected.
Affected Sites
| Site | Uses Wowhead Tooltips | Impact When Broken |
|---|---|---|
| Icy Veins | Yes | Class guides, gear recommendations, dungeon walkthroughs all lose item/spell popups |
| Method.gg | Yes | Raid guides and class rankings lose item context |
| WarcraftLogs | Yes | Spell and ability references in log analysis go blank. Harder to parse fight breakdowns. |
| Raider.io | Yes | Mythic+ and raid progression pages lose gear tooltips. Reduces utility for comp planning. |
| Archon.gg | Yes | Talent and gear meta pages lose tooltip context |
| WoWProgress | Yes | Guild and character profiles lose gear popups |
| Warcraft Wiki (Wowpedia) | Yes | Database references lose inline tooltips |
| Subcreation | Yes | Mythic+ meta analysis loses item details |
This is not a complete list. Any site that includes Wowhead's tooltip embed code is affected. If a site links to wowhead.com items or spells and expects a popup on hover, it will break in blocked countries.
The Impact on Competitive Play
For players doing raid progression or pushing Mythic+ keys, WarcraftLogs and Raider.io are essential tools. Log analysis on WarcraftLogs involves reviewing which abilities did damage, what buffs were active, and which gear pieces contributed to performance. When tooltips don't load, you lose the ability to quickly check what a spell or item does without opening a new tab (which itself won't work if Wowhead is blocked).
Raider.io's value for Mythic+ comes partly from being able to inspect a player's gear and talents. Without tooltips, you're looking at item names with no stats. For comp planning and applicant evaluation, this matters.
The issue is that these sites likely don't even know the tooltips are broken for a portion of their user base. The failure is silent. There's no error message. The tooltip simply doesn't appear.
How to Fix It
The WowHead.click Browser Extension
The extension intercepts requests to Wowhead's tooltip script and CDN resources, and routes them through WowHead.click's servers. From your browser's perspective, the script loads normally. Tooltips render on every site, exactly as they would for a player in an unblocked country.
The extension only activates on Wowhead domains and CDN hosts (wow.zamimg.com, static.zamimg.com, nether.wowhead.com). It does not read, modify, or interact with any other site or browsing data.
The extension is currently in development. Chrome support comes first, Firefox after. Check wowhead.click for updates.
Will a VPN Fix Tooltips?
Yes. If you connect to a VPN server in the US or Europe, Wowhead's tooltip script will load normally on all sites. The downside is that a VPN routes all your traffic (not just Wowhead requests), costs $5-15/month, and adds latency to everything. The WowHead.click extension is free and only affects Wowhead traffic.
A Note for Site Operators
If you run a WoW community site that uses Wowhead tooltips, your users in Turkey, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Serbia, Thailand, and China are seeing broken tooltips right now. The failure is silent, so you may not have received bug reports about it.
There is currently no server-side fix for this. The tooltip script must be loaded in the user's browser, and if Wowhead is blocked in their country, it will fail. The WowHead.click browser extension solves this on the user side. If you want to help your users in blocked countries, you can mention WowHead.click as a recommended tool or link to this guide.