Hey, I am sitting a bit on the fence about buying the new WoW xpac, but have no clue how to test raid performance of my laptop without being able to queue for something like LFR. The closest thing to a crowd I found was in Valdraken, but I know captials always tend to have some performance issue not really tied to raid. Is there any other way to test how my laptop would preform in a raid enviroment without owning TWW?
Everything runs slightly worse than Dragonflight.
In the raid, the trash area between first and second boss destroys everyone’s fps. Boss wise, Silken Court and Queen Ansurek run quite badly. The rest is mostly OK even on a potato.
Anniversary event starts next week and includes LFR raid for non-max level, too. 15 man only though and in the old BRD dungeo so probably not as demanding as a modern raids. The old style Alterac Valley might be better test location during the event but that depends how it ends up being played…
I personally didn’t notice much difference between DF and TWW.
I have 80-100 FPS in Dornogal on my 5800X3D, dropping to the 30s in 30man raid and 40s in 20-20man 
So raid is much worse than the main city hub.
Not really.
Take a look at streamers who don’t have a high-end CPU, like non X3D or not a 13/14900K.
They have drops to single digits at times 
The Neru’bar raid definately runs alot worse at times than any DF raid did.
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I can speak only from personal experience, but like I said, I didn’t notice major differences so I haven’t really monitored FPS. When I have checked it, it has been around 60-100 fps in raids depending if we are idling or actually fighting boss. Larger trash fights are usually on the lower end. Raid size is usually around 15-20 people so smaller than yours. There was bigger drops early on when the raid size was close to 30 but it was the same during Dragonflight.
Yeah 15 and 30man is like literally half the min fps
30 is always a bad experience and mostly unplayable for the average WoW PC 
I don’t think 30 fps in raid would be bad, especially on a laptop without a dedicated graphics card. I had a good rig during SL, but now trying to see to what limit can my uni laptop go. During DF dungeons I was sitting at 60 fps almost 100% of the time, which is fabolous. But raids were some of my favorite type of content, so as long as I won’t fall to like 15 FPS during any fight I am more than happy.
I meant 30man raids not 30 FPS… which is ok but for me personally barely playable because it feels like your GCD is like twice as long 
Even 60 feels sluggish compared to say 90+.
When you are used to triple digit fps on a highend system in every game it feels even worse :=)
Ive now read through most of the peoples answers and i highly recommend the very multiple YouTube content out there inregards to WoWs performance.
I have after for example, setting up my Graphics as describend in follwoing video, not once dropped below 50 fps except for the Egg Boss, since its a graphical edited by moderator
insert .com at the of youtube cause links not allowed. www.youtube /“watch?v=-vR6nJLLoe4&ab_channel=QuaziiWoW”
I highly do not, because most if not all of them use outdated data like setting renderscale to 98% or lower than 100%.
Renderscale has been broken for over 6 months now and it can drastically kill your FPS if you set it to anything other than native (100%).
So many people wanting to optimize their game by following these “guides” are actually harming their performance.
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