Phase 5 Overview: Siege of Orgrimmar, Timeless Isle, Legendary Cloak and More - MoP Classic

By Serenal Updated: 2026/05/17

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A Note on Flex Raiding
The final phase of the original Mists of Pandaria introduced Flexible Raid Difficulty, which existed in a format much different from the flex raiding feature that players have since come to know and use in subsequent expansions. The original Mists of Pandaria format for the system required manual (rather than automated) party creation, existed as its own difficulty level, and awarded gear at lower item levels than Normal difficulty, with no unique gear appearances that could not otherwise be achieved by participating in Normal raids.

In Mists of Pandaria Classic, Celestial Dungeons were introduced as a means to help players gear up and bridge the gap into Normal difficulty raids, one of the social underpinnings of the game. Due in large part to the skill and know-how of the game’s current players, these efforts have been successful. For this reason, and to avoid reintroducing a system that would counteract efforts to bring players into Normal raids, “Flexible Raid Difficulty” will not be available as its own difficulty in Mists of Pandaria Classic, at this time.

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Comment by Gilde

Blizzard confirmed on bluepost that no Flex raid coming to P5. "In Mists of Pandaria Classic, Celestial Dungeons were introduced as a means to help players gear up and bridge the gap into Normal difficulty raids, one of the social underpinnings core to the game. Due in large part to the skill and knowhow of the game’s current players, these efforts have been successful. For this reason, and to avoid reintroducing a system which would counteract efforts to bring players into Normal raids, “Flexible Raid Difficulty” will not be available as its own difficulty in Mists of Pandaria Classic, at this time."

Comment by MarcAnton

Really? These ... of blizzard skip one of the best things they brought in the raids till now... flex-raid?
They don't even get the point: Obvious, it is much easier for guilds to recruit 12-13 persons for a raid and ALL can get inside the raid and get loot than being fixed on 10 persons (and 2-3 on the bench if one of the 10 drops out)...
Because of this, many player I know were waiting for this important feature.
I had hopes if I read about testing flex... but well...

Best would have been just to implement it as good as in retail nowadays.

Guess the real reason is that they could get it to work. Same as with Raid-Finder... although they now blame it on the community (rather than in Cata... where they honestly said that it doesn't work technically.)

Shame on you!

Phase 5 Overview: Siege of Orgrimmar, Timeless Isle, Legendary Cloak and More - MoP Classic

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