WoW Dragonflight Confirmed for This Year; Requirements and Preorders

Blizzard's store assures that WoW: Dragonflight will be released later this year. The expansion's system requirements and preorder pricing have also been revealed.

Still no release date was revealed for the Dragonflight expansion for World of Warcraft, but thanks to the newly opened page on Blizzard store we now know that this will happen on December 31, 2022 at the latest.. Thus dispelling rumors from mid-May that Dragonflight was not due out until next year.

Preorders

Players can already place pre-orders - price of the Standard Edition is $49.99, Heroic Edition is $69.99, and Epic Edition will cost $89.99.

Those who decide to do so will receive a Drakks pet as a preorder bonus. It is also worth reminding you that enrollment for the beta test of the DLC (still no announcement on when it will take place) is now available.

Dragonflight system requirements

Below are the systemrequirements for Windows PC owners, also posted on the expansion's tab on the Blizzard store. Also posted are system requirements for those running Apple products.

Minimum requirements

Operating System: Windows 7 (64-bit)
Processor: 3.0 GHz quad-core (4th generation Intel Core Haswell or AMD Ryzen Zen)
Graphics card: DirectX 12 capable with 3 GB VRAM (GeForce GTX 900 series, AMD 4th generation GCN or Intel Iris Xe)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: SSD with 128 GB of free space

Recommended requirements

Operating System: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: 3.5 GHz six-core (8th generation Intel Core Coffee Lake or AMD Ryzen Zen 2)
Graphics card: DirectX 12 capable with 8GB VRAM (GeForce RTX series, AMD RDNA 2 or Intel ARC 7)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Storage media: SSD with 128 GB of free space