How To Fix “Error Retrieving Character List” in WoW

World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online game, which allows you to create a character and explore an exciting game world, discover beautiful landscapes, fight with different enemies, complete unique quests and tasks, and interact with non-player characters (NPCs) or other players. World of Warcraft focuses on character progression, in which players earn experience points and level up their character. In this game, you can buy different equipment, weapons, and clothes for your character. And today we want to talk about how to fix the “Error Retrieving Character List” in WoW.

Character List in World of Warcraft (WoW)

The character list in World of Warcraft is a special menu where you can choose a character to play, create a new one and enter the world. Also, you can delete characters and enable/disable your current AddOns. When you create the character you must choose the following:

• Faction (The Horde or The Alliance), 
• Race (There are seven different races: Humans, Dwarves, Night Elves, Gnomes, Draenei, Worgens or Pandarens for Alliance and Orcs, Undead, Tauren, Trolls, Blood Elves, Goblins or Pandaren for Horde).
• A class of your character (there are 12 different classes).

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How To Fix “Error Retrieving Character List” in WoW

To fix the “Error Retrieving Character List” you must open your game file location (right-click on your Wow icon and select “Open file location” or go to Local Disk C\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft) and then delete your cache folder, as that can accumulate cookies and cause errors.

Launch the game and your problem should be fixed. That’s all you need to know about how to fix the “Error Retrieving Character List” in WoW. Thank you for reading the guide. Hope you find it helpful. And while you are here, make sure to read our guide on how to get Dalaran in Hearthstone.