I solved the severe lag spikes at any Primal Storms

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… for me anyway.

In my attempt to make Primal Storms playable (rather than a slide show) I had to reduce all my graphics to their lowest. I have a 2021 custom gaming laptop so, not awful but not great. I struggled through a Primal Storm this morning, just spamming Judgement and furiously clicking loot. This evening, however, I decided to change all settings available to me, include completely switching off Anti-Aliasing. Boom. Just like that. Just like flicking a switch. I had 40+ players around me, casting and moving like my laptop had no issues whatsoever. This may be obvious to some, but definitely not obvious to me.

If this helps even one person I’ll consider this a success!
But yeah. Switch off Anti-Aliasing completely.
Go figure!

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This is a good attitude :+1:t2: It’s definitely worth a shot for anyone who’s struggling, things looking their prettiest isn’t really a concern when doing the event anyway.

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Thank you! It was a big shock to me when i turned it off i was like “woah… no kiddin?”

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here is what else you do:

put on your corgis (the anniversary goggles)
set render scale to 33%
turn sounds off, but music is fine
shadows and spell density too
and some addons
turn nameplates off (shift-v)
and, look up at the sky when you can

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WoW is still CPU bound, lowering graphics will only hurt it more just so you know. Even with a decent set up it drops to 27fps when it goes off there lol.

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I had this same issue at a SL world boss tonight, I was screen frozen for the entire fight and couldn’t understand what was going on.

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One more thing if you don’t wanna fiddle with anything that worked for me was standing at the boss and almost completely zooming in. Not the most convenient but it worked and got the job done.

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