Hi i just got back into WoW (after accepting that i cant transfer my chars from EU to OCE) and i notice that i can get some frame drops usually when its a visual cluster. My specs are : Nvidia GTX 1660 , AMD Ryzen 5 3600 , 16 GB dual channel ram 3200 mhz and SSD (mediocre speed). i know its nothing special but i imagine it can run wow at least 60 fps. I’m running atm on default (7) settings. Please guide me if possible to make it as good as possible.
Its possibly not a graphics card issue, rather your monitor. Take a look at its properties and tinker with the refresh rate.
Otherwise lower your resolution to a reasonable amount and THEN increase refresh rate.
Higher refresh rates and lower resolution for quality 60 fps. But this isn’t a promised thing for WoW raiding.
Optimal? For FPS?
Turn everything to its lowest setting (1) and then turn up projected textures (to see ground effects well) and maybe view distance to like 3 
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i appreciate the effort but i don’t think you know what you are talking about.
Refresh rate does not really have to do anything with the performance of the game, it just plays smoother visually if your computer can produce consistently the framerate with the refresh rate.
I play on a 1440p monitor 165hz (set on 1080p)
@Kaurmine
yeah the view distanced helped, figured out some other settings. Its not that i was getting super low FPS but i was getting drops, turns out it was from the game engine limitations and combination with my computer.
On my 1660 super rig, I turned down shadows and view distance to keep my frames steady. BGs like Ashren are usually a pain at times with all the spell effects, but I refuse to lower my settings to medium.
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One thing I have noticed with graphics is NOT playing on max settings. If you go down to the “9” it takes off Water reflections on all, and dynamic particle effects based on your FPS. Really helps with your FPS. I get an easy 20-30 FPS back going from max (10 to 9)
Ray tracing and AA is also very taxing on your FPS. It’s better to boost resolution scaling than MSAA (very old technology)
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thanks for the replies mates, but any idea which specific effects are the ones that matter to have turned on for raids/pvp ? i know projected textures for sure and particle density ?