Hello all:
As the subject suggests, how much do you think The War Within expansion on Retail WOW will change the recommended specs? Does anyone have any idea when the possible release date for that is going to be? Reason I ask is I want to buy a new computer, one that’s recommended specs not minimal, because I want to mythic, raid, be around a lot of people. The computer I’m looking at right now might not have as many features that go much beyond the current recommended specs are, so I would hate to waste money on something so soon that might get quickly outdated and make me unable to play how I want to. Thank you for your thoughts.
P.S. As far as I knew here were the recommended specs: Blizzard Support - World of Warcraft System Requirements (battle.net)
Windows® 10 64-bit
6 Cores, 3.5 GHz processor
8th Generation Intel®
Core™ Coffee Lake
AMD Ryzen™ Zen 2
DirectX® 12 capable 8
GB GPU
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX
AMD RDNA™ 2
Intel® Arc™ 7 Graphics
16 GB RAM
|Storage|Solid State Drive (SSD) 128GB available space|
|Internet|Broadband internet connection|
|Input|Keyboard and mouse required.|Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel|
|Resolution|1280 x 720 minimum display resolution|
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking at RECOMMENDED specs, not minimal!
UPDATE AS OF 12/9/2023: I reached out to tech about this issue, since I got no response here yet. They said, “It’s too early to tell, keep looking for updates, they will release this information before the game launches.” To me that’s pretty poor service. It would be fairer on future expansions to have a general ballpark idea what these specs should be anticipated to be, instead of making customers scramble and speculate and wonder. I know you all are making and playtesting new content and it’s harder to tell, but I as a customer am also spending a lot of money for something that I don’t know I’m getting that is the game and the computer. For this reason, I’ve requested a refund on my expansion of the War Within and will stop playing. This post can be closed because I’m not going to monitor these comments anymore. Hope this feedback helps on sales on future expansions.
I doubt it will change that much unless there is some big graphical update to textures game wide. I remember when they updated the water and shadow effects and the bump in hardware that required.
I suspect it will only go up a generation or so. If you want to be sure I would try to stick to at least last gen GPU/CPU and you should be fine. The price difference shouldn’t be that much of a difference as long as you’re not trying for a 4090 or something.
Yea, I’m trying to hold out another year before replacing my computer completely beause the recently released computers aren’t really built for future games built with A.I. in mind.
Meteor Lake from INTEL is a start, but it’s not really a huge leap ahead in regular computer performance. It will be the next gen computers after Meteor Lake that will be a bigger deal with A.I. integrated into the software and hardware.
And make sure your next video card has at least 16 gigs RAM. That will be the new base standard.
There is such a continuum of performance, with so many variables, than plucking out specific recommendations is borderline arbitrary.
#1 factor, by far, is going to be your CPU. At the moment, the king is the AMD 7800X3D. WoW loves that 3D cache. Even the previous generation AMD 5800X3D still beats the latest Intel 14900k in WoW, due to the X3D CPUs having so much L3 cache. WoW also benefits a lot from faster memory. These things will help you where performance generally matters most, such as during Raids and Battlegrounds, as well as while in big cities.
GPU performance will come into play more while doing things like flying out in the open world. It’s nice to have good performance in those situations, but it doesn’t really affect your actual gameplay beyond novelty value, so GPU performance is definitely secondary to CPU performance. If you run at a very high resolution (4K for example), you will need a videocard with more VRam, because running at a higher resolution really eats up VRam and performance will tank once you run out.
I like you how you break it down and make it easy to understand. You guys really know your stuff here in this little forum, and it’s fortunate for me that some of you keep sharing your input. Some of the things I’ve read in here are what made me decide to switch platforms altogether from intel to amd, instead of just upgrading my intel chip as I was initially planning to do.