Ok, so I did the workaround by downloading EU renaming folder to NA. I actually was able to make a character and get to the main island.
Crossing a mountain when all controls stopped working but I could still tab to type in chat boxes so I decided to exit and reload.
Now before I load back into the world I get some error about "CRC, need repair". So I exit and go back to launcher, select NA hit repair and I get connection refused.
If anyone knows another work around please let me know
EDIT 1: trying to repair EU then copy and pasting everything back over again to see if that works.