Many have given World of Warcraft over too many times already. The most successful MMORPG of all time is still active and against all odds maintaining its business model based on the payment of a monthly fee that reaches 12 euros. How is it possible that it continues to seduce millions of players in these times of free2play and the compulsive purchase of cosmetic items? Well, surely the key to its eternal youth lies in its constant expansion.
New expansion, new requirements?
World of Warcraft is very close to turning 20 years old and it has rained a lot as far as PC hardware is concerned, where we have already seen many revolutions together that have multiplied the graphic processing capacity. And Blizzard, in these almost two decades, has been taking the opportunity to gradually increase those minimum and recommended requirements until leaving them as we have them now, where the PC that we must use can no longer be anything.
So the first thing we’re going to do, if you will, is go over those requirements that Irvine has officially posted on their World of Warcraft Dragonflight Battle.net page. And they are these:
| Minimum requirements | Recommended Requirements | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows® 7 64-bit | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| Processor | 4 Cores, 3.0 GHz 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Haswell | 6 Cores, 3.5GHz 8! Intel® Core™ Coffee Lake generation |
| AMD Ryzen™ Zen | AMD Ryzen™ Zen 2 | |
| Graphic card | DirectX® 12 with 3GB | DirectX® 12 with 8GB |
| NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 900 series | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX | |
| AMD™ GCN 4th gen | AMD RDNA™ 2 | |
| Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics | Intel® Arc™ 7 Graphics | |
| Memory | 8GB RAM | 16GB RAM |
| Storage | SSD drive with 128GB of available space | SSD drive with 128GB of available space |
It is evident that even with these minimum requirements we can demand a little more from the game by putting at its disposal even more powerful hardware than what Blizzard asks of us, so that we can not only enjoy everything at the top of quality, but also do it with a rate of soda as high as possible. Even beyond those 60 fps that have become a standard when we talk about video games and smoothness of movement.
Do you want a laptop for World of Warcraft?
Let me tell you first of all that World of Warcraft Dragonflight also works on Mac (which has a Linux heart), just in case you want to take a look at Apple‘s computer catalog and pay that extra price for the latest models with M1, M1 Pro processors , M1 Max and M2 which are extraordinarily powerful and in the case of the Blizzard title, have turned a corner against the performance of the old Intel Core i5 or i7. But leaving aside those MacBooks (Pro and Air), we are going to look at the PC territory, which is going to be much more affordable.
At first we are going to recommend an Acer model that has different variants depending on what we want to spend. This is the Nitro 5 AN515-56-51V8, which will work perfectly even in more modest configurations. This Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and GeForce GTX 1650 graphics will allow you to enjoy the game at a good level.
But since you surely want more, we are going to take a step further, to another of these Acer Nitro 5 but that is already equipped with an Intel Core i7, 16B of RAM, 512 gigabytes of SSD storage and a full-fledged graphics like it’s a GeForce GTX 3050.
We will not stay only in Acer. If you want a real beast from which you can demand the best possible performance, nothing like taking another leap in components and graphic quality with the ASUS TUF Gaming F15 , which has an Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM and its tera of SSD storage we have to add all the power of a GerForce RTX 3060.
