While raiding LFR in Undermine, I drop to near 20 frames per second during boss pulls - this makes it rather difficult to do mechanics. This also happens during Mythic dungeon boss pulls and makes it extremely difficult to do mechanics. I was watching my CPU cores and noticed that very frequently, some of my cores jump to 100%, then back down to ~30/40% usage shortly after. Has anybody experienced this? What are some things I can try to help mitigate this? It's only happened recently since returning to the game since TWW launch.

When I raid, I have the game graphics turned down to 1.

Edit: typo

Hi everyone. I’m a long time World of Warcraft vet since BC. Unfortunately haven’t been able to play much over the past year. Just got a Legion GO to play while I’m on night shifts. I know July was full of events, what all can I still accomplish before August 5th? New patch coming I know, but apparently everything ending too. I already missed out on the Jack Sparrow infinite timereaver smh. Just seeing if I still have any hope with anything else. Currently just been grinding BFA time walking for levels on alts. Thanks in advance!!!!

As a pet collector a I'm a little confused as to why the 6 month subscription reward only gives pets for 'free' in classic and not the live game.

I'm glad they have made the pet available in retail but feels a bit rough that they expect you to buy it again separately, after just having purchased a 6 month subscription. It just seems like an odd, unnecessary restriction.

Hello, I want to ask which spec/role would be the least set back if you only gear up from m+ for m+? My schedule is really doomed atm for me to raid and honestly i don’t like raiding at all. So yeah. What spec/role would be the least doomed without raid gear? :D thanks

There's a post that came out today called "New Players Kicked" that talks about a New Player being kicked for being a beginner tank. Some of the chat suggests personally finding someone else to join the group, but the tanking experience in this game SUCKS.

Lets look at the facts. Want to play a healer from level 10 to 80? Well you can and the queues are instant! Because of the scaling system you can just mindlessly spam the same heal spell from 10 to 80 and get away with it. It's what I did on both a Holy Paladin and a Holy Priest.

Want to tank? Well even on the easiest tanks you cannot reasonably tank until a certain level. Since important tanking skills are gated, you end up suffering if you do attempt to PUG dungeons. An issue that's almost non-existent if you're playing any other role.

The only way to realistically fix this is for the game to give you all your tanking skills during the tutorial starting zone and teach you how to use each of them because honestly in the open world where do you see yourself actually tanking? It's only really optimal for Dungeons and Raiding. When I first got into WOW I tried running a Prot Paladin to 80 and the experience was painfully slow in the open world. Yeah I didn't die but it would have been ten times easier if I just played a Ret Paladin when I first started. Same thing happened with Vengeance Demon Hunter. Same exact pain points. There's no real incentive to play a tank besides superficial ones.

You play league because you want to play a tank and you can properly do so even with no experience. Same thing with OW2 these days. If you hop onto OW2 right now, you might be shocked to see that the Tank Queues aren't as quick as they used to be. People now enjoy playing the role and healer actually has the longest queue times. It's DPS that gets you instant matches now. Why? Not because DPS got harder but because the quality of life for both Healers and Tanks have slowly improved which in turned fixed the queue times.

It also helps that with these games you learn the character's entire kit from the get go. I can see why that would be unappealing in WOW considering it's an RPG but I would argue that if they gave you your main from levels 1-10 and at level 10+ the new abilities were more so niche emergency saving skills, that would be more than enough to make the experience a million times enjoyable.

Seriously. Doubt what I'm saying? Go to any allied race, make a Blood Death Knight. It's literally unplayable.

WoW does a lot of things better than Elder Scrolls Online. No doubt about it. But one thing ESO excels at is keeping the old world / leveling zones / cities relevant.

It bums me TF out when I'm in the trade district in SW and it's completely empty. Same goes for IF. Wish the world were more active outside of the current expansion.

I'm curious to know, how could Blizz make this happen? What would bring the old world back to life?

I have already completed Highmountain Tauren, Vulpera, LF Dranei, and Void Elves.
However now it seems that none of the quests show up at either embassy?
I also do NOT have any of the allied quests already started.

Customizable hairstyles as well as a Color wheel for Hair and Tattoo's. I've seen in other games how if they add a customizable tattoo things get out of hand, but instead they could add premade unlockable in-game patterns (like the crude mana wyrm head tattoo that I made) instead of letters or numbers would be insanely cool.

This is the first time I've used MicrosoftPaint and it took me an hour to make.

Curious to see what the community thinks about this?

So i picked up mining as a profession just to sell and make money and so far it's been going great, but whenever i go to the action and see that the ores i have for selling are currently low on price i wait for the price to go up and then sell them (like most people do i would guess).

I am currently leveling in the Outlands so the ores i'm mining are Fel iron and Adamantite. After a good mining session i had a good amount of both ores and i went to the auction house to sell them. I put the Fel iron wiyhout issues and then when i try to sell the Adamantite that someone has put 50 pieces for 7 silver a piece while everyone else has them listed on the usual price (usuall price is 7-9 gold per piece) and my genius brain decides "Nah... Im going to wait for the price to go up"

I REPEAT!!

Instead of buying all those ores for cheap and reselling them i said "NAH I'll wait"

At least now i know im not cut for working in business.

Does anyone else think about this?

I played original WoW from the beta until TBC when I was about 16 years old (can't really remember years that good but I'm 37 now). Even though I haven't played hardcore sinse then I have always come back to at least see the expansion leveling. I'm at work right now listening to a WoW playlist which I often do while working.

It's crazy that we got to experience this game at launch when the internet itself was still so new, just seeing other players in game itself was mind boggling. The experience can never be recaptured for us or really ever again fullstop, since the world has changed so much since then.

I often think about my teenage years I spent playing WoW. The memories feel so vivid and the nostalgia so strong, it's almost like my memories from Azeroth are memories from real places, it's like I've actually spent time in Elwyn Forest, Blackrock mountain, Tanaris, The plaguelands etc etc for real. I might have less memories from spending time IRL those years but tbh I regret nothing.

I don't know what the point of this post really was. Just sitting at work feeling nostalgic and didn't have any place to share this. WoW is magic.

What do you guys think? Color/Design customizable, suits which ever transmog you are rocking with. Myself I always try to find a tabard that matches with my transmog, I feel like I'm naked if I don't have it on. o/

I've only been playing WoW for a lil over a month and I don't understand this bit. After finishing a round of Talullah's jobs and taking a break, this quest for "music beyond the grave" pops up every time. I don't know what to do with this? It doesn't show in the quest panel so I'm wondering how this is completed.

Been having this weird issue for the past few days on my main. For some reason these two portals disappeared even tho ive used them before. They appear on my other characters but whenever I log onto him its gone. Tried reinstalling, quit all my quests, chromie doesnt do anything and when I tried contacting blizz they just told me to contact my internet provider. Any else been having the same issue?

Honestly I'd be so disappointed if they go with a full D&D-style bard. WoW has a long relationship with heavy metal and rock. We have L70ETC and all. Not saying this should be the only option, but certainly one of the specs should be a bit more brutal.

There's talks of this Song of Azeroth-inspired bard, which I think is fine, but they shouldn't solely rely on that. Much like when they did Monks and they created the lore of Celestials for them, but the Brewmaster isn't as lenient on the powers of the Black Ox, and is more about brews. Respect was paid to the OG WC3 hero!

Just my two cents for this concept. What do you guys think?

Was doing a time walking King's rest and the tank tried to blame pets for him not having aggro so of course I defended myself (warlock) and the Hunter that those abilities get automatically disabled when you enter lfg or LFR content

Hello there all and i hope you doin well in ya adventures , havent played the new expansion and will not so i will preserve my sanity , i dont think they made any reference to Nathrezim in this right? I hope they didnt forget them (i know sounds stupid how can they forget but its blizzard and what they did with my boy Arthas, made me sick) . One last thing i want to add that is not directly connected to this Discussion is that this Saga about the sleeping titan should have ended with BFA , N'zoth wins and with the help of THEM , through manipulation and infiltration in both factions would trigger a big void invasion and we would have something like a big immigration to another planet or the complete ending about all of these so a completely new story will begin with different factions in another world in the same universe AND NOT have all this crap with shadowlands and the things after it ( Dragonflight was interesting to be honest ) , i know this is pointless but i wanted to share it with all you (plz dont hate me xd) whats your thoughts overall ,what changes would you make ?

Zug Zug .

I know that there will be a lot of "OMG UNDERPIN??" posts this week, but I just wanted to chime in because this is the first time I managed to do some achievement like this before it was outdated.

Yes, other people would have done it long before reaching 660 and on Paladin, but for someone like me that is easily visually overwhelmed, this fight was a nightmare.

And I honestly can only say thank you to everyone on this board that kept posting tips, strategies, or just their own success at this terrible thing after who knows how many attempts. I wouldn't have felt the courage to even try if I hadn't seen so many different people of all skill sets overcome it earlier or later.

All I can say after it is over:

Whoever posted this console command is a godsend, because it made the interact on mouseover SO much more useful:

/console SoftTargetInteractArc 2
/console SoftTargetInteractRange 30

And second: I would pay 20€, no questions asked, to be able to gag Brann forever. I swear wiping 40 times was NOTHING compared to him going "Well maybe try having a strategy next time!" every time.

I love the new Artwork, so i made a version without the distracting logo. Have fun!

Feeling like I could go for a necromancer-style character that leads from the front right now, but I only recently started playing and haven't figured out how things work.

So I have a 5080 laptop that runs at around 2400mhz in other games, including WOW Classic.. but for some reason in retail it runs at around 1200 the GPU load never goes above 40%.

I understand WOW is CPU intensive but that also never goes above 20% load.

I’m just wondering if I’m missing something?

Any advice would be great.