Hi,

I have a 3070 paired with a ryzen 5 3600 and 16gbs of ram. I get around 50-70 FPS on ultra settings at 1440p, but when I change turn down my settings I get around 200ish FPS. Weirdly enough if I change my resolution to 1080p but keep it ultra settings I gain no FPS.

I’ve read a lot on google and other reddit posts about it being a cpu bottleneck and that wow is a heavy cpu game, but then I see that when I turn my settings down(not resolution) I see massive FPS increases. My GPU never goes over 85-90% usually hovering around 80% usage and my cpu sits at like 40%, but with spikes up to 85%. Do you all think it’s worth upgrading my cpu or gpu if I am looking for higher frames?

Note: my main monitor is 1440p 144hz and I have two 1080p monitors that I use for YouTube/Spotify and if I run those when playing I do get some computer lag hopping from system to system even in windowed mode.

Can we SEA players get some love? We just tried Stress test and realized there are no South east asian Data Centers again.. Blizzard really hate our Region/Server.

SEA region has alot of Gamers historically.

I hope we get some Data Center on release.

Based on the Blizzcon Presentation there is even a "Yellow Dot" meaning NA Region Data center on Singapore Area.

We South east asian had hope.. Please implement this blizzard.

I know the timing was not ideal for a lot of people depending on your time zone, but after just a few minutes it felt like I was leveling on a dead server, and I can't tell if I get perma'd to a layer that just had no players on it or what. Legit was an empty starter zone on Alliance after the initial few minutes.

Wondering if they even got enough players to realistically stress test if I found my way on my own layer quickly after it launched for the United States.

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I see people constantly spamming that dungeons were a terrible way to level in Classic19 and all the fast levelers did quests..

Here's <APES> the world first guild to clear Molten Core in Classic19 spamming dungeons to level. Don't let people gaslight you into believing dungeon spamming was horrible.

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Hunter has my favourite class fantasy and I enjoy ranged dps. Negatives is that they are just overly popular which I hate.

Warlock has utility and ranged dps and is unpopular which I really like. I've just never been a fan of spellcasters so probably lowest class fantasy of the three.

Rogue has second best class fantasy for me and also seems pretty unpopular. I'm just not sure if melee dps and low utility fits me well, they might also become popular with a buff or two?

Which would you guys pick and why?

I used to do a lot of video content for work and unfortunately I got moved into marketing so now I don't really get to do that much anymore and honestly I really miss having that creative outlet. So I figured, why not use that desire for a creative outlet to dive a little deeper into what makes Classic special and try to figure out what exactly makes it so appealing to so many people on one level or another, including myself, despite a theoretically better version of the game existing and how WoW Forever actually ties into the dynamic and what it actually offers in comparison to Classic.

Trying to play Forever stress test and in every iteration of WoW I use middle mouse button as my basic filler attack. I'm a healer so while I need an easy button for my spam attack, I need the better mouse side button keys for healing.

So here in Forever every time I press down on the middle mouse button, it does use the attack, but it also zooms in my camera. In other versions of WoW it only uses my attack and doesn't zoom in.

Zooming in should only happen when I scroll but here it happens any time I use MMB, making the keybind unusable. Anyone else have this issue or know what to do about it? Is it just a bug?

There is no point trying to compete with anyone for tags. Theres not point huddling up in the starter area fighting other players. Leave the starter zone ASAP and grind. Find a mob dense region, often times important quest mobs, park there for 2-3 levels and take the tags of people trying to quest until they become discouraged and leave. Quest mobs will hyperspawn, because if they don't questing will be impossible. You can't grind in dungeons anymore so do it in the open world as the devs intend.

You will level faster when you're not running around the world to quest and you will level faster indiscriminately tagging everything around you as opposed to only what you need. This can also be done in a group to get as many tags as possible. Low level consumes are dirt cheap because everyone gets a free gathering profession. Again, popular quest mobs hyperspawn. Just park there and grind it out aggressively as to discourage competition.

Look at the XP of the quests. Often times they amount to 4-5 mobs especially lower level. The quest rewards aren't good either you'll make more gold farming mobs, then just buy AH greens.

Make the world the main character again.

I love the changes they have done with devouring plague so far and I want just a little bit more. The CD reduction to 24 seconds is massive, making it baseline is huge, and the new talent that allows it to spread is awesome. I really think Blizzard should lean into devouring plague and make gameplay around that ability the identity of shadow priest. A talent that resets the CD of devouring plague would be amazing. I'll elaborate below.

Shadow priest is missing just a tiny bit of gameplay enhancement to really make it a "forever" spec. If I could wish for one more additional change to make to spriest, it would be to add one more talent that interacts with devouring plague. I made a post yesterday talking about spriest and I realized that spreading plagues and emphasizing on this ability would be my ideal identity for this version of the game. If we could get a talent that interacts with devouring plague and resets it CD, I think this spec would be peak. Something along the lines of getting a killing blow with shadow word death resets the CD of devouring plague. This would heavily emphasize spreading plagues as you would have a fun and satisfying gameplay loop of executing a mob with devouring plague on it, spreading it, and also getting the CD reset to then spread it even more.

I know there is a possibility that our raid tier sets enable this kind of gameplay with devouring plague, but I would hate for it to be gatekept until the endgame when we are pretty much done questing and dungeon grinding which is where plague spreading would be the most fun. I really want Blizz to lean into the class fantasy of spreading devouring plague. Maybe there is an alternative where we can enhance it in other ways, but this was the best idea I could come up with. I think this would also keep spriest balanced in PvP too because you would need to actively snipe people with shadow word death to get the benefit on a CD reset. I think it would keep you on your toes, and reward you heavily for doing so.

Remember when we used to complain that flying mounts had a negative impact on the game? We were told:

"Just don't use them if you don't like them"

"It doesn't affect you how I chose to play"

"You play your way, I'll play mine"

"Stop trying to tell me how to play the game"

But flying did have an effect on the game. Telling people to just ignore the efficient way to level when we are hard wired into finding efficiency is asinine.

Sound familiar? We have the same situation now with the dungeon spammers - except this time, Blizzard have addressed the problem early.

TLDR:

Dungeon spamming being efficient is bad in much the same manner as flying mounts were detrimental to the game.

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Struggling to decide on which World of Warcraft: Forever class to main? Do you reroll at level 11 over and over again because another class is calling your name? Maybe my quiz can help!

This quiz has been my project for a while to solve an issue that has been effecting me the past 19 years. I've been working on this in coordination with online friends!

The quiz will match your personality to what specialization is closest to you in-game and explain why it thinks so. No gameplay related questions, just pretend it's scanning your brain to put you on Azeroth. I've done my best to make it difficult to deliberately end up with a certain class/spec, so you are better off just answering honestly.

The quiz should take roughly 5-6 minutes to complete.

Share your results and if you have any feedback please reach out so I can make it better!

1. The megaserver. We all know what that's like from the beta. 100,000+ players, sharding everywhere.

2. 10,000 player server (same as 2019 Classic, 3x the size of Vanilla). Faction locked. No sharding, layering enabled for 30 days after launch then disabled permanently.

Where are you going?

Honestly, respect.

The admins of the “Forever RP” disc said it’s specifically for the RP rule set and people who are on the PVP ruleset need to find a place to go.

Is there a server yet?

Like it or not, questing is a core tenet for Warcraft. Open-world content will always be the supreme environment for establishing community that has had lasting impact on the culture of the game. Nerfing this to serve as a half-assed bandaid fix to anti-social players who want to level exclusively in an instance (which has already been buffed in loot) is quite frankly, short-sighted.