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Challenge Conqueror: Gold

Complete every Challenge Mode dungeon with a rating of Gold.

Criteria

	Temple of the Jade Serpent
	Mogu'shan Palace
	Gate of the Setting Sun
	Scarlet Monastery
	Siege of Niuzao Temple

	Stormstout Brewery
	Shado-Pan Monastery
	Scarlet Halls
	Scholomance

Rewards

You will receive:

	Golden Chest of the Golden King		Golden Chest of the Betrayer
	Golden Chest of Windfury		Golden Chest of the Elemental Triad
	Golden Chest of the Silent Assassin		Golden Chest of the Light
	Golden Chest of the Holy Warrior		Golden Chest of the Regal Lord
	Golden Chest of the Howling Beast		Golden Chest of the Cycle
	Golden Chest of the Lich Lord

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Challenge Mode Guide:
Rewards, Narrated
Videos, Rules, and Useful Items

Comments

Comment by Aqueo

Can't wait to see what the set - specific armor will look like.

Comment by Vlad

Completing all the Gold achievements will in addition to this achievement, also reward you (per dungeon) a teleport spell so you can quickly get to the instance when ever you want. These spells are fly-out spells, meaning they are grouped and only take one actionbar slot -that's nice. The fly-out group consists of:
Path of the Jade Serpent Temple of the Jade Serpent: Gold
Path of the Stout Brew Stormstout Brewery: Gold
Path of the Shado-Pan Shado-Pan Monastery: Gold
Path of the Mogu King Mogu'shan Palace: Gold
Path of the Setting Sun Gate of the Setting Sun: Gold
Path of the Scarlet Blade Scarlet Halls: Gold
Path of the Scarlet Mitre Scarlet Monastery: Gold
Path of the Necromancer Scholomance: Gold
Path of the Black Ox Siege of Niuzao Temple: Gold
The complete list (in case this gets outdated) of Gold dungeon challenge achievements can be found here.

Also, if you ever wonder what heroics you have yet to complete and unlock challenge mode for, simply paste this into the chat on your character:
/run for x,i in ipairs({6456,6470,6756,6758,6759,6760,6761,6762,6763})do local _,_,_,c,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,m,b=GetAchievementInfo(i)print(x,"\\124cff"..(m and"00ff00C"or"ff0000Inc").."ompleted\\124r",GetAchievementLink(i))end

Comment by selvin

In the process of getting this achievement you get 3 challenge mode achievements + heroic mode achivement per instance (so 36 achievements), plus gold, silver, bronze, "normal" challenge mode meta + heroic mode meta achievements + 4 regular mode achievements from MOP instances that aren't heroic only.

That's a total of 45 achievements. Hope your guild doesn't mind you spamming gchat with achievement announcements!

Comment by Jeaz

The different transmog sets for the classes can be found here:

Comment by i0am0joe0smoh

Near the reputation advisers, there is a pandaren (i do not know the name, but it is different for horde/alliance) in Shrine of the Two Moons and Shrine of the Seven Stars.
They have a grey exclamation before reaching 90, and a daily quest once you turn 90. The gear they have available is to test how the items look (CRTL+left click), and can be bought once Challenge Conqueror: Gold.

Comment by Angeluus

Does anyone know if the achievement will be account wide? Example if I do the achievement on my main and I will be able to get the sets on my alts?

Comment by Alphamist

Curious - does anyone know if you can do some of the challenge achievements on one character, and some of the challenge achievements on another? And what the end result will be in terms of which one gets the rewards (if either one does at all)?

Comment by Otore

Mail received upon completion:

From: Challengers' Armory
Subject: A Conqueror's Reward

Great death knight, we have been following your progress and your actions intently, and you have not disappointed. You have carved a swath of destruction through your foes, leaving the scattered remains of mogu, mantid, and unnatural horrors in your wake.

In recognition of your deeds, we bestow upon you a set of our most finely-crafted armor. You will find nothing like it anywhere in Azeroth. The craftsmanship of these pieces is such that they will become practically a part of you, reacting to your movements and even your very thoughts.

May you wear these pieces with pride, and all who look upon you shall know of your prowess. Congratulations.

Comment by oavil

I just finished getting this achievement last night, what a rush.

It was the most rewarding thing i've done in this game, but also the most frustrating. The thing that makes getting 9/9 gold hard is personnel & scheduling issues. Of course you will have wipes as you learn the CM's but that is easily overcome. It's like memorizing a 10-20 minute dance that has little room for error.

I was lucky early on to find a tank & dps that i clicked well with and did every gold together. But we never had a steady 5 man roster which made things extremely difficult. Here are my tips after having spent 3 weeks to get this achieve:

General Tips

The most important thing you need to bring to a gold CM run is patience. If even 1 person in your group lacks patience it will drag your group down
Voice comm is critical and Skype > vent for challenge modes imo. You don't want another button to press.
Openraid is awesome for finding people to run with when you are starting out, (ideal would be guildies)
With alot of the CM's, ranged dps > melee dps. Personally i would recommend 1 melee dps max. It just makes some of the mechanics more punishing because of aoe dmg near tank or bosses that cannot be dps'ed easily by melee (Gate / SSB)
When pug'ing, you will come across alot of people that offer to come that are "multiple 9/9". Be careful with these people as they can be elitist / difficult to work with and will bail on you if you wipe too much. Instead look for people that at least have gold proving grounds or at least 1 gold CM. They are hungry and know their class.
When it comes to group composition: player performance > class utility. If you can get both - even better.
At the end of each run, always agree upon a date/time to meet for the next one (assuming you like your group)
Show up at the agreed upon date/time :)
The hardest pulls in CM are the trash. Well co-ordinated AOE stuns will save your healers mana and reduce your time.
If you die, never release
If you are going to use a speed boost with invisibility pots, be careful to pop speed boost before drinking so your group members don't hate you
Tanks should try to get a Battle Horn

Some Holy Paladin specific tips:

Reforge for haste. Flask for intellect. You want big fast heals. Don't worry about spirit too much, you can use Restorative Amber after almost every pull
Talents: Speed of light / justice / EF / Clemency / Holy Avenger / Holy Prism
Glyphs: Blinding Light / Sac / FoL
Be prepared to use flash of light like it's TBC. LoD / HR are pretty weak in CM's.
Avoid stacking healing CD's where possible
Hand of Salv & Hand of Prot are great if your tank is having aggro issues on a large pull (i.e big monkey pull in SSB)
Hand of Sac on the tank whenever he's taking brutal dmg
Voice comm between you & your tank re: healing CD's is critical. If we're about to pull a nasty trash pack, and everything is on cooldown i tell him before the pull
Communicate with dps that have off heals to help (i.e shaman) when things get out of control
Make a macro for SSB last boss to switch to both your dps set AND change spec so you don't have to fiddle with the UI
Some bosses do very little damage, DPS when you can - every little bit helps.

Finally, in terms of CM relative healing difficulty here is what i thought (from hardest to easiest):

Stormstout Brewery - execution is not so hard, but timer is unforgiving. last boss mechanics are critical
Siege of Niuzau Temple - alot of raid aoe dmg in this one, most others are tank focused
Scarlet Monastery - insane trash pulls
Temple of the Jade Serpent
Shado Pan Monastery - bosses are particularly rough on healers
Scholomance
Mogushan Palace
Scarlet Halls
Gate of the setting sun

Comment by Siskee

I'm wondering if the reward sets will be the same because of the free level 90 character boost in Warlords of Draenor. I've been thinking about making a druid when it is released and the Challenge Conqueror: Gold reward set looks great, not sure whether they are making new ones though. Any ideas?

Comment by Pisky27

Can alts buy some parts of their class vanity set for gold (once main has completed this meta-achievement) from NPCs Challenger Soong and Challenger Wuli? Or do you need to complete this achievement with every character for the rewards?

Comment by MageLuken

Warning! With the release of 6.0, this, and the transmog gear, title & mount will no longer be obtainable!

So get it while you can! More Information here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/12930280/challenge-mode-end-of-season-early-warning-2-13-2014

Comment by ThunderCask

I do challenge modes competitively and i'm desperately looking for an ingame addon with timers for time from start to boss kill, prefferably one that also keeps and shows how you're doing compared to X try before or such, it'd be majorly usefull but i've yet to find anything like that that's not an external program that has to be configured

Comment by tankform

I know many wouldn't like my idea, but: what if this achievement would become account-bound so that if you've done it on one character you could buy the sets for all classes? I have spent a lot of time and effort on getting 9/9 gold on my warlock and started with some gold on my alts and if I want to reroll another class it feels as if I can't show off my achievement in a "physical" form of the transmog set. It is difficult enough to get this and getting it on alts as well for the rewards is a bit too much for most people that have done the CMs already.

Comment by TegoZanduba

The Warlords version of this achievement is Challenge Warlord: Gold for those curious. You can review all the Challenge Mode related achievements, the Silver mount is a Challenger's War Yeti, and your get transmog weapons for full gold.

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