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Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Schedule
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)
With the release of Patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar, four wings of an expansive new raid will begin to open. The Normal and Heroic raid difficulties, Raid Finder wings, and the new-to-5.4 Flexible mode wings will each be available starting from different dates.

To access the new Raid Finder wings, you’ll need a minimum average Item Level (ilvl) of 496 or higher.

This is our current schedule based on the planned patch release date of September 10. If we determine any changes are needed, we’ll update this article.

September 10 – Patch 5.4 Release
  • Normal
  • Flex Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows”

September 17
  • Heroic (Normal Garrosh kill required)
  • Flex Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution”
  • Raid Finder Wing 1 “Vale of Eternal Sorrows”

September 24
  • Raid Finder Wing 2 “Gates of Retribution”

October 1
  • Flex Wing 3 “The Underhold”

October 8
  • Raid Finder Wing 3 “The Underhold”

October 15
  • Flex Wing 4 “Downfall”

October 22
  • Raid Finder Wing 4 “Downfall”
This article was originally published in forum thread: Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Schedule started by chaud View original post
Comments 351 Comments
  1. Kargarok's Avatar
    It's the same amount of time before you could kill Lei Shen. So don't cry please.
  1. Archermit's Avatar
    I was hoping to only come back and do some flexi...now I guess I have no choice but to try to get into normals
  1. mmocf70a06ebec's Avatar
    Your the first to comment?:P Nobody cried?:P

    Well seems i'll start playing on october 22 just to kill garrosh
  1. mmoca57e3b5a69's Avatar
    Quite a long waiting period for the Non-raiders (including me) to get their first Garrosh kill. FYI Pugging normal on our realm isn't easy
  1. SL1200's Avatar
    Lame why not open lfr on day one. I'd rather do it in Lfr before the guild's normal raid. I don't like watching videos of fights on youtube.
  1. aesthir's Avatar
    I don't understand why they would gate flex that hard, 1 wing every week seems fine... (same for lfr)
  1. Editos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sciff View Post
    Quite a long waiting period for the Non-raiders (including me) to get their first Garrosh kill. FYI Pugging normal on our realm isn't easy
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Plastico View Post
    Lame why not open lfr on day one. I'd rather do it in Lfr before the guild's normal raid. I don't like watching videos of fights on youtube.
    You're not forced to watch them
  1. SL1200's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Editos View Post
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses

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    You're not forced to watch them
    I am if i want to stay in my guild, and unless they changed something you cant x-realm normal mode raids.
  1. mmoc1dde548293's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Editos View Post
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses

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    You're not forced to watch them
    Except that you are due to the unnecessarily complicated nature of fights these days.

    Ever read the dungeon journal? It's like an essay.
  1. strangerdanger's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by El Plastico View Post
    I am if i want to stay in my guild.
    It's still your choice..

    Kind of bummed that flex is going to open up over the course of a month.. but I guess that means that the guild can focus more on normal fights.
  1. Spl4sh3r's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Editos View Post
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses
    You can't cross-realm current tier. You can only cross-realm previous ones. So you can't cross-realm Throne of Thunder until next patch comes.
  1. Editos's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Briga View Post
    Except that you are due to the unnecessarily complicated nature of fights these days.

    Ever read the dungeon journal? It's like an essay.
    If you think the normals are hard you may try the lfr and flex mode then :/
  1. mmoc3e2a45e3d3's Avatar
    Well seems i'll start playing on october 22 just to kill garrosh
    For LFR this is a artificial progression. Normal raiders doesn't kill Garrosh week one either you know!
  1. SL1200's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by strangerdanger View Post
    It's still your choice..

    Kind of bummed that flex is going to open up over the course of a month.. but I guess that means that the guild can focus more on normal fights.
    It's not really my choice. I either comply with the raid group or I gtfo. I suppose you could be saying i could choose not to raid, but there's nothing else in wow worth doing.
  1. BobAwesome's Avatar
    Welp, looks like I'll hold off on another month before I resub.
  1. Millennía's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by aesthir View Post
    I don't understand why they would gate flex that hard, 1 wing every week seems fine... (same for lfr)
    Agreed...that is quite a wait considering you still need to create your own group and organise it, unlike LFR.
  1. Roketsu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Editos View Post
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses
    Uh, no. You can't cross-realm group for normal or heroic.
  1. Pool of the Dead's Avatar
    4-6 weeks until I kill Garrosh.



    Sadpanda.
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Editos View Post
    You can cross-realm group, no excuses
    You are wrong. You can cross realm Flex Raids and old raids, but not current normal/heroic raids.
  1. Spotnick's Avatar
    For those who still don't understand this, they want to give chance for normal raiders to kill Garrosh before flex can, and they want flex raiders a chance to kill Garrosh before LFR can.. as simple as that.

    Which is fine..

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