First if all, thank you for all of the responses.

Are any of the AMD chips worth the upgrade? Would assume that I would probably still have to change out my motherboard.

I do not have an SSD, so I'll defintely pick one up.

Im not opposed to getting a 970 or the Radeon equivalant. Just want to make sure I upgrade what will be the biggest improvement first. As it is I have to play on laptop standard and turn off a few effects to stay around 60 fps.
Even on WoW I can only get 60 fps on high, with anti-aliasing off. Not exactly a hard game to run max. Same applies to even SWTOR.