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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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Official 5.4 SoO Raid release Schedule

From the Blizz RSS feed:

Siege of Orgrimmar Raid Schedule

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”

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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT


bTU

join:2009-04-22
Aurora, CO

Pretty stretched out LFR release schedule. I'll still be in TOT trying to get Wrathion items anyway, only at 6 of 20 so far.
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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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reply to Carpie

Anybody planning on take off any days next week? I'm considering taking Wed and Thur.



DarkLogix
Texan and Proud
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join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
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I would but I'm doing this 90 day challenge thing so not gona skip the gym

however I should be home much earlier on Tuesdays for the next few months
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Feralmordius

join:2011-01-18
reply to Carpie

said by Carpie:

Anybody planning on take off any days next week? I'm considering taking Wed and Thur.

Honestly I haven't had time to research what grinding will be needed once 5.4 drops. Is there enough to actually take days off? Is there a quest grind for new gear or just the LFR/Flex/Raid stuff?
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DarkLogix
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The new wrathion quests involve the following
5000 timeless coins (for you not there yet you can still collect them, its not like the VP quest, but you'll need to hang onto them)

and kill 4 world bosses, for those not at the point they drop tier hands and legs (T16)
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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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reply to Feralmordius

It is basically just explore around on the Timeless Isle as much as possible. There will treasure chests in various shapes/contents placed around the isle for you to get gear/stuffz. The better contents will be in chests in more obscure and/or heavily guarded areas and may only be opened once a week iirc.

Plus there will be the proving grounds which I'm interested in checking out.

And most importantly, it gives me a reason to not be at work :P

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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT



DarkLogix
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Be ready to flex raid when I get home next Tuesday. (likely 5 to 6cst)
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Lothario

join:2009-09-30
Ottawa, ON
reply to Carpie

I'm more interested to see how merged realms works out. Maybe stuff I put up will finally sell on the AH now.



Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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Connected realms won't be immediately available upon release. They will be forthcoming.



cat666

join:2013-04-26
reply to bTU

said by bTU:

Pretty stretched out LFR release schedule. I'll still be in TOT trying to get Wrathion items anyway, only at 6 of 20 so far.

The items also drop from the first 8 bosses in LFR SoO so I'd guess they'll drop in flex/normal too.


cat666

join:2013-04-26
reply to Carpie

said by Carpie:

Anybody planning on take off any days next week? I'm considering taking Wed and Thur.

I normally do for new expansions but for new patches, nah.

Unless your entire raid group has the day off too, your stuck doing solo content (or maybe pugging flex this time round) and the Timeless Isle won't actually have that much to do on it. I'd much rather make it last as long as I can rather than knock it all out as soon as possible.

As for the raid release schedule I'm pretty happy with it.


DarkLogix
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Well you could work on getting the stuff needed to upgrade your 608 cloak
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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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Exactly what I need to do! And on six toons nonetheless!



DarkLogix
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So you can collect the 5000 coins then maybe pug the 4 world bosses.

You might get some T16 hands and legs in the process.

sure the world boss kill part of the quests to upgrade it will need you to be on the quest but you should be able to collect the 5000 coins and just don't spend them till you have the upgrade.
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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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Dark how does this work exactly. All of my toons are either on collecting Secrets of the Empire or Runes still (a couple still on sigls :/).

Is it that instead of finishing the legendary questline, I can just buy the cloak for 5,000 timeless coins? And if so, what about the meta gem?
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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT



cat666

join:2013-04-26
reply to Carpie

My understanding is that the cloak you get from the 5.3 questline is required, then upgraded via Timeless Coins and drops from the Celestials to make it legendary. So you need to have done them all previously. Also you only get loot from one celestial a week, but the quest only requires a kill, so the other 3 would be lootless.

The sigils and tomes etc, are all dropped from the first 8 bosses in SoO too, so it will be easy enough to get them on alts (I really to start it on the shaman)



DarkLogix
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reply to Carpie

Theres a quest to collect 5000 timeless coins but you don't have to be on the quest to collect them (they're also a form of currecny)

It just means you can prep them for a speedy upgrade once they have the epic cloak

I think you might loss the 5000 coins when you turn in the quest to wrathion, so might be worth it to see what you can buy with them as well

the quests just require kills of the 4 (5th not important) and collecting the coins.
the kills I bet won't be to bad (or will get better)
the coins will take awhile but unlike the VP quest wowhead says you can collect them before you have the quest. and still have it count once you get the quest.
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Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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reply to cat666

Dammit. You mean I can't shortcut the process? I'm so burned out from LFRs. (only been saying that for the past two months) I. Can't. Collect. Any. More.
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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT



cat666

join:2013-04-26

said by Carpie:

Dammit. You mean I can't shortcut the process? I'm so burned out from LFRs. (only been saying that for the past two months) I. Can't. Collect. Any. More.

The coins are fairly easy to gather I understand, and totally grindable like the 5.1 things, but via various methods, not just killing stuff.


Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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Gathering the coins I'm not worried about because it will be new content and I'll be out exploring the island anyhow. But unless the island mobs drop sigils, secrets, and runes, I'll still be stuck with my only option being LFRs. (For alts; neglecting reg/flex on main)
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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT



DarkLogix
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reply to cat666

said by cat666:

said by Carpie:

Dammit. You mean I can't shortcut the process? I'm so burned out from LFRs. (only been saying that for the past two months) I. Can't. Collect. Any. More.

The coins are fairly easy to gather I understand, and totally grindable like the 5.1 things, but via various methods, not just killing stuff.

And you'll be grinding them for gear too (Maybe)
anyone have info on the gear you can buy with them?
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cat666

join:2013-04-26
reply to Carpie

said by Carpie:

Gathering the coins I'm not worried about because it will be new content and I'll be out exploring the island anyhow. But unless the island mobs drop sigils, secrets, and runes, I'll still be stuck with my only option being LFRs. (For alts; neglecting reg/flex on main)

Yes but more bosses than ever before will have a chance to drop them. The first 8 bosses of SoO will have a chance to drop anything like that, so thats 8x more chances than currently, on content you'll be wanting to do anyway if you want the cloak on that toon. If you don't want to do that content, why'd you want the cloak for?


JB
Stay Gold

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reply to Carpie

Thanks.



Carpie

join:2012-10-19
united state
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reply to cat666

I was just hoping for a fast track method since I'm so far behind and want to get the cloak for multiple toons. Hopefully they change the ToT bosses to drop everything also and increase the drop rate. My farthest along toon requires 3 more secrets.
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Absolution -- 6/6 MSV, 4/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 11/12 ToT
Pride and Ego -- 6/6 MSV 1/6H, 6/6 HoF, 4/4 ToES, 9/12 ToT



AbruptMayhem

join:2013-07-08
MA
reply to Carpie

said by Carpie:

Anybody planning on take off any days next week? I'm considering taking Wed and Thur.

A few years ago I use too but only for an expansion these days. They aren't doing anything else that time off is a real benefit.


Venom1

join:2011-10-21
Augusta, GA
reply to Carpie

i actually kinda started working this week... can't take days off yet, and my schedule is anything but stable atm



Carpie

join:2012-10-19
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reply to Carpie

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

Well LFR wing 2 opens tomorrow. And I have never been so jealous of you ToT heroically geared raiders as I have been this past week having to endure LFRs.

I try not to have a negative attitude, and like everyone I'm not perfect. But it is to the point that LFRs are not only ruining the game for me, but just plain putting me in a foul mood overall and ruining my day. Something that I won't let continue to happen.

It's bad enough that LFRs are about an hour investment on a good run, but with the constant wipes and waiting on these new instances, they have been multi-hour. My goal was only to get my two main raid toons through LFR for the week for a chance of loot. I, at minimum, invested six hours throughout the week in pursuit of that goal and ended up finally clearing all the bosses on one of the toons (after three attempts) and only two of the bosses on my other toon. No loot drops on either of them either, but that's not even the issue. Six hours. For LFR. It is beyond insane.

At least with dailies you could login / out at your own leisure and pick up where you left off. And like dailies, LFRs aren't "mandatory" per se, but if you want to raid to your best ability, you can't pass up the chance at improving your gear. I just keep reminding myself that 1) they will get better and 2) I won't need to suffer through them for much longer.
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Absolution -- MSV: 6/6 0/6H -- HoF: 4/6 -- ToES: 4/4 -- ToT: 12/12 -- SoO: 4/14F 2/14
Pride and Ego -- MSV: 6/6 1/6H -- HoF: 6/6 -- ToES: 4/4 -- ToT: 11/12 -- SoO: 3/14F */14


JB
Stay Gold

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Only people in my guild who run LFR are people who wish to endure the pain of running them on ALTs (Or need to get caught up on their Legendary). I run Flex on my 'main alt' and on my main Flex/Normal = no more LFR = makes me much happier.

I can easily imagine that the caliber of players in LFR is much much lower than before when there was no flex alternative.



cat666

join:2013-04-26
reply to Carpie

said by Carpie:

I try not to have a negative attitude, and like everyone I'm not perfect. But it is to the point that LFRs are not only ruining the game for me, but just plain putting me in a foul mood overall and ruining my day. Something that I won't let continue to happen.

I agree 100%. It feels like a chore and isn't fun in the slightest, so much so that I've effectivley given up on them for the time being. You're lucky in that you get to raid, I don't have any other form of raiding open to me at the moment and am literally just farming ores and using daily crafting cooldowns before logging off to play other games.

My main concern is that it really isn't much to ask that people know tactics and are geared in the right gear with basic gems/enchants. The amount of boss attempts where people ask for "tactics pls" before the pull is unbelievable. They've just sat in a 25 minute queue which is more than enough time to read basic tactics online, or study the Dungeon Guide in game. It's just laziness.