In Korthia I have an average of 165 fps. When the Towering Exterminator spawns in the Scholar’s Den i lose 100 fps because his spawn is announced with a huge tornado of souls that can be seen from across the region. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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Try with disabled addons : )
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I just lowered my graphics. There’s SO many people and I guess layers of phasing too. So the first couple of days I will run like that 
Tried with all addons disabled. No improvement.
I’ve also lowered the shadows and particles but no effect. It only happens when that tornado is active. Otherwise, I have constant framerates everywhere else in the game.
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I have same problem 50 fps drop
By the way, you lose fps but game is stil smooth?
No, it’s pretty unplayable. I was killing a rare in Korthia far from where the tornado dude is and I got from 170 fps to 45 fps immediately when he spawned. After the tornado ended, my fps got back up, but while it’s under 60, you can see that the game is framing badly.
And I have noticed that there is another rare elite that spawns with a tornado that drops fps. A devourer named Konthrogz as I found on wowhead.
Is there any volumentric fog, etc? That stuff can wreck many PC’s especially if it’s buggy.
I have a RTX 3080 and had 60 FPS during the Ardenweald scenario. No idea what they’re doing.,
Same issue here. After patch I had massive drop to 30 fps twice. I wasnt doing anything special at all, just wandering around.
Just reading this I noticed a new system option called “Compute Effects” so I turned that down a level.
Yea they added that up cuz all that volumetric fog in TH was screweing ppls fps big time.
Same thing here, anytime that big fountain of souls is on my screen, even in the distance, my fps halves 
Rich people problems.
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Ardenweald, in general, is very taxing on the GPU.
I have an RTX 3080 as well. 10/10 graphics 4K at 60 FPS pretty much everywhere and honestly Ardenweald manages it, too, but just barely. The other areas could manage ~100 FPS, but Ardenweald is only ~65.
It’s normal.
I didn’t have any FPS drops in Korthia but honestly my server feels pretty dead so meh
I envy all those of you who get FPS drops in Korthia… I’d love for something to happen.
I’m not joking… ThreatPlates causes major FPS drops, depending of course on your preset. In CastleNathria, the room before Hungering Destroyer - with no threatplates, it runs smooth when we pull everything. I don’t run constant fps checks, but it feels ~50FPS on a GTX1050Ti (I know, old but that’s kinda the point), with all graphics maxed out. With ThreatPlates it goes down to 10-15 fps. It has everything to do with the number of targets on the screen.
WoW is generally not too well optimized, mainly because there are no LOD models - a thing is either loaded or not, there are no different levels of detail for trees, buildings, etc.
@OP - I noticed whenever that fountain of souls is in the frame, even slightly, I get massive FPS drops. However, I can be right up to it, and as long as the souls themselves are out of the frame, the game will run smoothly.
Same issue here. When those soul tornados spawn, even if im nowhere near it, it drops from a stable 150-160 to 40 sometimes even 35.
I always have over 100 FPS in Ardenweald but today during the scenario it was 60. Really no clue what you’re talking about. I’ll just assume you don’t know what you’re talking about since only clueless people play at 4K.
Those who have ray-tracing enabled; try turning it off, for a start - I doubt it does anything appreciable at all for WoW and most of the time will just rack up a huge electric bill before improving how a game like WoW looks.
Aside from owning a 4K monitor, why would you want to play WoW at anything higher than 1440p? 2560*1440 at 144Hz is more than enough image for WoW any any GPU horsepower left over can be used to pu graphics quality settings.
The biggest problem with recent hardware on a 15+ year old game is that the code realistically is too underpowered to make the outlay worth it - any hardware released in the last few years is great/intended for games released in the last 5-7 years, max.; older games that that ain’t really gonna play nice with 4K monitors & CPU’s with “more than 8-cores”.
I noticed a big FPS drop once in there, it was for about 2 minutes at tops then all was back to normal. It wasn’t player number related, as the same amount were there before it occurred.
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