Sorry I’m sure this is probably here somewhere but I don’t really feel like reading for hours to find it. Is WOW classic M1 optimized or just retail?
As far as I know, only the retail client has been optimized for ARM.
That being said, ARM is not officially supported by Blizzard (yet). So mileage will vary whether running under Rosetta 2 or Universal until such time as it is officially supported.
My wife uses a Mac mini M1 version, and Classic is perfect on it. Classic has not been updated to an M1 version, but it really does run with no issues whatsoever.
ARM is officially supported by Blizzard.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mac-support-update-november-16/722775
But, per the linked blue post, only the 9.0.2 Retail client.
Classic will have to play under emulation until they release the Apple Silicon native client.
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