- Author: Luxrah
- Date: May 30, 2025
- Updated: May 30, 2025
- Expansion: Mists of Pandaria
A new week has begun in the Beta for Mists of Pandaria Classic, bringing players into the second round of testing for the Mogu’shan Vaults raid as planned. Testing begins tomorrow, May 30 at 1:00 PM PDT and closes on Monday, June 2 at 10:00 AM PDT.
Beyond the raid, several changes have been added to Beta realms. The biggest alterations revolve around Pandaria factions, where Blizzard wants to speed up reputation gains compared with the original expansion launch. This includes lowering reputation requirements for some pre-raid gear items to match later patches, among other adjustments.
There is a new Bind-on-Account item being added to the game that will allow players to purchase Cloud Serpent Riding for their alts once they have a character at Exalted. This will save you from having to grind this reputation more than once, although it will cost 800 gold.
The previously announced changes to Vengeance are now live. There are two other significant changes: the Mass Resurrection spell has been added for all healing classes, and the AoE max damage cap has been doubled from 10 to 20.
We’ve updated the Mists of Pandaria Beta today.
Mogu’shan Vaults Beta Raid Testing
- Mogu’shan Vaults has seen many bug fixes since the previous Beta raid test.
- The raid will open for testing on Friday, May 30 at 1:00 p.m. PDT and will close again on Monday, June 2 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Reputations
With these changes, we want to speed up some areas where Reputation gains are otherwise too sparse, as could be seen with the original introduction of Commendations for alts. We don’t want to trivialize Reputations, and daily quests are still the primary source for Reputations in the first few weeks of the expansion. We’ve also aligned components of Reputations that were originally introduced in later patches with their associated content updates; these will come to Mists of Pandaria Classic at later dates.
- Grand Commendations from original patch 5.1 will be available, allowing you to go from Revered to Exalted 100% faster and increase the reputation gains on your alts by 100% after one character on the account has Revered.
- Shado-Pan and The August Celestial dailies will not require Revered with The Golden Lotus.
- Reputation requirement for Valor Point Shoulders lowered to Honored with The Golden Lotus (was Revered).
- Reputation requirement for Valor Point Hands lowered to Honored with The August Celestials (was Revered).
- Reputation requirement for Valor Point Waist lowered to Honored with The Klaxxi (was Revered).
- Reputation Requirement for Valor Point Trinket lowered to Honored with the Shado-Pan (was Revered).
- The two cooking patterns for 300 hit and 300 expertise from The Tillers have had their reputation requirement lowered to Revered (was Exalted).
- All Pandaria cooking recipes that created 5 items per craft will now create 10. This includes Banquets and the highest tier of stat food.
- The repeatable Klaxxi reputation quest Seeds of Fear now only requires 5 items per turn in (was 20).
- The repeatable Klaxxi reputation quest Seeds of Fear is disabled until after the weekly reset after the first week of raiding. You may still gather the items, but the turn-in won’t be available until after resets.
- Ancient Guo-Lai Caches will not drop Scrolls of Wisdom, Jewelcrafting Patterns, Imperial Cloth, Relics of the Thunder King, or Relics of the Guo-Lai until after the weekly reset after the first week of raiding. Guo-Lai Caches contain gold and Lesser Charms of Good Fortune until then.
- Ancient Guo-Lai Caches will not contain Spirits of Harmony or Treasures of the Vale until Siege of Orgrimmar becomes available, as it was in original Mists of Pandaria.
- Reputation tokens from rare Zandalari spawns will become available with The Thunder King phase.
- The enemies in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms will give not give reputation with The Golden Lotus until a later content release.
- The Order of the Cloud Serpent now offer a Bind on Account Flight Log for 800 gold at Exalted. This can be sent to an alt to teach them Cloud Serpent Riding without getting Exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent on that character.
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