Players may also venture into the arctic wastes of Classic gold Northrend to battle bosses and make powerful loot, and there's also a new story quest to try .

Otherwise, you can wait until the event inevitably starts sometime in the forthcoming months.

Since publishing our initial story, YouTuber and Reddit consumer'KokushiGG' has posted a new video displaying Ray Traced Shadows from the new zones in the expansion. You'll find the video down below. As with yesterday's screenshots, we can observe the difference in Shadows is quite minimal with the new feature enabled. Enabling Ray Traced Shadows, however, will seem to greatly impact operation with FPS dropping from 120FPS into 60FPS in some instances.

Ray Traced Shadows in World of Warcraft Shadowlands have been enabled on the game's Beta/PTR, and the very first comparison shots have surfaced online.

Back in April of this year, Blizzard additional Ray Traced Shadow options to the game's Alpha. Unfortunately, actual Ray Traced Shadows were not enabled just yet and those in the Alpha were only able to observe the new options. According to the option's description, it"improves shadow quality with beam design, which generates shadows with much more natural softness, greatly improved precision, and out of other light sources"

Players in the alpha were able to pick one of the following Ray Traced Shadows choices:

Fast forward four months and we can now finally see how the new shadows seem in the forthcoming Shadowlands expansion. Before this week we already reported that the new NVIDIA Game Ready Driver added support for the looming new feature in Shadowlands, and several Beta/PTR players have shared some screenshots comparing Shadowlands with without the Ray Traced Shadows enabled.

According to Blizzard, the new option within Shadowlands utilizes DirectX Ray Tracing 1.1 (DXR 1.1) along with also a DXR 1.1-capable driver must use Ray Traced Shadows.We've included the common comparison screenshots down under. As may be seen in those shots, and as might have been anticipated, the ramifications of Ray Traced Shadows aren't that clear but do seem to be stronger in darker regions with low lighting.

Blizzard has updated their minimum required spec to include 100GB storage area for the two SSDs and hard drives. However, they warn players that performance of your hard drive may impact Shadowland's gaming experience.

In a sudden turn of events, Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft Shadowlands currently requires a 100GB SSD as a minimum requirement, but does that mean you can not run the game using a normal spinning hard drive? A couple of buy wow gold classic Shadowlands beta testers have reported that running the game on an HDD hasn't influenced their performance or gameplay in any substantial way.