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In the Hall of the Thunder King

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Achieve the following goals within the Troves of the Thunder King.

Criteria

	Obtain a Handful of Stolen Gems from the Treasure Saurok
	Slay God-Hulk Gulkan slain

	Loot 10 Golden Treasure Chests in one run
	Reach Tenwu of the Red Smoke

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/npcscan add 70400 Slay God-Hulk Gulkan (God-Hulk Gulkan)

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Comment by mineka

(Not so) Subtle hint to In the Hall of the Mountain King, a remarkable classical music piece written by Edvard Grieg for the opera Peer Gynt, made famous in several movies or animation shorts, notably Fritz Lang's M (1931).

Comment by DarkAztaroth

First thing I tought of when I saw the criteria and the name was instead Hall of the mountain king by Savatage.

(In the video, the mountain king wakes up as the little dwarf steals some of the crystals and then throws a lightning spear at him.)

Comment by marmotul

How the hell will this dwarf get even to the first door with all those shiny chests filled with stuff?

Comment by Anidor

When I opened one of the great Golden chest in the second room, the Treasure Saurok appeared (a Saurok carrying a gold sack) and began running to the 3rd room's door.

He can open the door. So don't kill it right away, as it can save you the trouble of getting to the lever.

But be in close proximity to him, as the door closes right after him.

Unfortunately (for me) I got stunned and didn't make in time.
~~So I couldn't kill, and I don't know if he contniue to open the 4th door, or just jump away from the room.~~

Confirmed: when killing him, Handful of Stolen Gems drops (part of the ahcievement), with other goodies, like Shan'ze Ritual Stone.

Edited: He is quite the devil :), he runs to the 4th door, and just before he opens it, he jump to the balcony right next to it.
So unfortunately, he doesn't open the 4th door.

Comment by borek921

Don't make the same mistake as I did. The Treasure Saurok spawned for me, and since I am both greedy and achievement hunter I wanted to do as much as possible on one run. I tried 10 Golden Treasure Chest , getting Handful of Stolen Gems, killing God-Hulk Gulkan and reaching Tenwu of the Red Smoke on time. As you can expect, my greed (and tension) got to me. I followed Saurok, I cought him in the passage between second and third room (he opens the door so I didn't have to use the lever) and yeah, I killed him there. The result was me being stuck in the passage (gate closed behind us) for the next 3 minutes. At that point the only thing I could do was just looting every chest in this passage, fortunately at least there were 3 golden ones.

Next week I will hunt my second key and then... Fortune and glory, here I come! - Indiana Jones

So when you enter Troves of the Thunder king remember my dumbness and don't kill the Saurok in the mid-room m'kay? In general don't let it get to your head because you will only do stupid mistakes, take it easy, chill and just enjoy the run.

Cheers guys, I wish you the best treasure hunting. This scenario is just awesome.

PS. I'll just post my loot that I got in this fail run.

- 360 gold
- 1x Shan'ze Ritual Stone
- 13x Elder Charm of Good Fortune
- 34x Tattered Historical Parchments
- 2x Burial Trove Key plus 1 for handing in Treasures of the Thunder King
- 13x Mote of Harmony
- 1x Shado-Pan Assault Insignia

Comment by iceeagle

To complete Reach Tenwu of the Red Smoke you actually need to click the dialogue to get out. It's not enough to reach him and open the interaction frame.

Comment by Wiredmana

Anyone else actually getting quite peeved at this achievement?

I can't even get through the third door. I have no god damned clue where the lever is and searching for it only aggros more crap.

Comment by Dadovsky

The lever for the 3rd room is on the left hand side of the room. On the stairs behind the 2 guardians, in front of the rockfall that prevents you going up the aforementioned stairs. This opens the door on the right hand side of the room.

put "troves of the thunder king" into youtube and you get many full clear results showing you the lever locations

Comment by Dadovsky

Where is Tenwu, exactly? Is he unlocked after defeating the god-hulk?

He spawns kinda in the far corner to the left of the boss as you first approach it, i have no clue if hes there before the boss is killed though.

He has one of those speech bubbles on the mini map so go anywhere near him and you'll see it.

Comment by piromiru

I'm not sure this has been mentioned, but it does seem that the objectives do NOT reset for multiple instances.

My first key this week, I got the treasure Saurok and got the gems.

My second key I did not kill it, but when the instance finished, I still had that part of the achiv completed. Wether this was because I still have the gems in my bag or not, I am not sure, and am not risking vendoring them to find out.

If I'm right you can do one objective a run safely and complete it in 3 runs.

Comment by foxedAgain

i know everyone has their own way of getting threw here but i found it ez to have a few Potion of Light Steps (potion of light steps) so you can walk over the traps and 1 potion on invisibility. in the 3rd room where you have to go left for the lever then go right to get to the door, the potion of invisibility work great here.

Comment by Furydeath

Anyone get the 10 chest in one run yet? I've tried but I keep finding chest that I see no way to get up to there nothing to jump up on or any way to run around and jump up it's like this whole place is just full of trolling chests.

Comment by odok

Helpful tip for killing the Skumblade Pillager (drops the Handful of Stolen Gems):

~~He seems to always spawn by looting the Golden Chest just to the left of you when you enter the second room, in between two "beam tower" circles.~~ Drop a Frost Rune Trap a few yards behind you before looting the chest, between yourself and the direction the pillager will run (towards the center of the room, towards the exit door). Far enough that the saurok won't spawn immediately on top of it. The effect does not break on damage and will allow you to burst the reasonably-small HP saurok down in short order without having to snare/chase him down (and no doubt aggro a few trolls onto you in the process).

Note that the activation of the trap can delay, and in one personal instance froze him in the corner of the stairs you enter on, causing line of sight issues.

EDIT: Can spawn from multiple chest locations, apparently. Personally he's always spawned from the first chest on your left.

Comment by Myzou

Just did the reach the end of the scenario and kill the boss/talk to Tenwu part of this achievement in one run last night.

A SIMPLE way to do this (requires 10 Elder Charms of Good Fortune , so do it on a toon that has outgeared the ToES/etc. LFRs. Though you'll probably walk out with close to the same amount of charms you spent if you grab chests. xD)

Grab 3 Polymorphic Keys and 1 A Common Rock. Rush through the first room, hit the lever to open the door. In the next room, rush to the door, avoiding aggro if you can. On the 4 traps before the next door, use one rock to trigger one of the traps and walk over that trap. If you have Blink, etc. and can skip the trap, you can save yourself an Elder Charm by using that instead of the Rock.

Use one key to open that door, run to the other side, and use another key to open the other.

Immediately enter the next room and go right and get past the guardian (or kill it if you believe you can do it fast enough). If you're a hunter, mage, or rogue, use your aggro dump at the next door. Use the third key you have on this door. You are now in the final room, filled with pillars, quilen, and the final boss.

By using the keys instead of the switches you should have somewhere between 2-3 minutes left, depending on if you stopped to grab chests or had aggro from trolls in the second room. Simply kill the boss, loot the chests in the room, avoiding the pillars to prevent the dogs from awakening, and then BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT, talk to Tenwu of the Red Smoke that is in this room. You MUST actually talk to him AND PORT OUT WITH HIM in order for it to count.

This is the easiest way to ensure you can get to the final room fast enough. Usually, taking the time to use the actual switches will spend an extra minute or two you could use to kill the boss.

As for the 10 chests, I have not found a decent way to do this. Hopefully someone else can help there. The gems, as stated by other comments, involve opening a Golden Chest and when you get stunned by a Saurok, killing it before it runs off (I believe you can stun it), and then looting said Saurok, who will drop the gems.

Comment by Steelfury

One small contribution to the 10 chests part of the achievement.

Whenever a Golden Chest spawns in that hallway between the first and second room, in that area you can climb up to through the boxes, but still can't reach it? Levitate, if you are a priest, or use the potion with the same effect. It allows you to reach and loot it.

Comment by Cheeznips

This video is quite useful for the 10-chest run. It shows how to quickly and easily get 10 golden chests in the first and second rooms. The run requires some jumping skills and some luck as far as chest spawns, but should be the go-to guide for this step of the achievement. Bring along some Sleep Dust and Arcane Propellant to make it easier!

Comment by Voxxel

The hardest part: "Loot 10 Golden Treasure Chests in one run" can be done in the first two rooms actually (with a bit of luck ofc). While most Golden Chest seems randomly spawning each run, its not completely random as there are fixed places where they can pop. Knowing and memorizing these possible locations brings you to win. Also, it seems there are several key-locations where the golden chests spawn 100% of the times.

Here's my video about getting the achievement, you may find this helpful for identiying the spawning locations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JKFYNNvsOY

Note: You don't even need the Exalted key (for the first double door) as to open both doors with the keys takes more time then reaching the lever and pulling it.

Comment by Anihilate

Buy utilities for fast runs, like Sleep Dust from the Isle of Thunder vendors with Elder Charm coins

Comment by TGFseb15

If you can manage to get 6-ish golden chests in 1-3 mins try to use your speed boosts and keys to get to God Hulk Gulkan. From what I have noticed he is guarding 3 chests, has additional one on his back that becomes available for looting once he is killed, and randomly more might spawn in the area. I have seen one bewteen Tenwu and Gulkan, hidden behind a branch and another on the water just west of Tenwu.

As for reaching Gulkan and Tenwu, I needed 3 keys (opened first door with a lever) and used 1 sleep dust. It seems (can't confirm, sorry) that darkwater potion pops a cooldown on keys so I suggest not using potions to get a speed boost. Even though I wasted about a minute waiting for a key to come off cooldown I still managed to kill Gulkan with about a minute and a half left. As a shaman bind elemental can be used on mogu statues and hex on pretty much everything else which saves a lot of time. With 488 item level as enhancement killing Gulkan wasn't a problem at all, popped all cooldowns (fire elemental, stormlash, bloodlust, wolves, trinket, ascendance) and last quilen died just as my wolves faded, so the kill took about 30 seconds. When your time is about to expire, talk with Tenwu and you will get an extra key once you are teleported into the chest room.

Comment by Doqmaster

Just tried the 10 chest achivement, you gonna need more than some luck to get them in the 2 first rooms, had 4 in the first room and 5 in second room wich sucked alot! :@

Comment by Furydeath

Well week 4 got 6 chests ya this is a fun achivements keep seeing tons of chests you cant get and I mean you CAN NOT GET THEM. I've tried there is nothing you can do unless you have some kind of super jump.

Comment by Paulostore

Best video about 1st roon. Second roon seen so much randon so pray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVxPbz3hHbo

Comment by spinnerdh

Just completed parts 3 and 4 of this, killing the boss and finding the red smoke dude. Of course I am a hunter and had multiple ways to make this run easier on myself. Pathfinding glyphed cheetah, camouflage, disengage + posthaste (makes those little spiders a blessing in disguise), master's call to remove the lightning slows, feign death to drop any adds that might be following you, etc. Not to mention I had my nitro boosts as well.

My suggestion for parts 3 and 4 is to make an investment into the polymorphic keys. The first door is easy because the lever is right there, so don't waste keys on that, but the second door and the third door both have levers that take chunks of time to get and the keys make it a lot faster. (note that after the second door you have to open the other door on the other side of that inner hallway, which means the second door technically needs 2 keys instead of just one, the third door only needs one though)

I died once to the first hallway by the traps in my haste. Got hit by the red traps on the ground like 3 times (because of a certain gem cat that will go unnamed), got stunned by the mogu statues like 4 times and still managed to loot like 6 chests after I killed the boss to finish off with like 6 seconds remaining when I talked to the guy. The keys make the run so much more manageable and this shouldn't be attempted without them. You could do it without them, but make it much easier and less stressful on yourself and just use the keys. All you need is 3 of them, and I didn't even use any of the other vendor bought helpful items like the arcane thing and the potion.

Buy the keys. Take all the obvious glyphs and talents for movement speed and what not. Relax and don't worry, you can make mistakes just like I did and still get it. Ultimately you probably have a minute, minute and a half or even two minutes spare time if you do everything perfectly depending on your class.

Comment by Lolus

Getting 10 chests is a low % chance, 90% of the time you will get 7-8 in the first 2 rooms. If you are unlucky and only get 1 key per week, this can take months
Polymorphic key now has a 10 minute CD so it's pointless buying more than one (you must use it for last gate only)
There are several nice videos on YT, but most are from classes with stealth, which makes the achiev effortless, since you can skip everything until last boss (except for the RNG chests). I'd like to see the first video of a healer who manages to kill the boss within 5 minutes, I don't know any

Comment by Nui1

Salyin Battle Banner Is an amazing item for this scenario and in general. During the attempt I got the 10 golden chests part I accidentally pulled one of the blue search beams in the second room and this allowed me to vanish as a paladin completing the 10 chests with 4 seconds to spare. Pivotal part of my success.

Comment by Furydeath

The chest that spawn the one guy do NOT count as one of the 10.

Comment by Wishblade

Been failing on this for the last 3 weeks now, always the damn Saurok that screws me over. Either I fail to prepare for him or he pops out while I grab chests and I get the feeling that I must go get him! Looks like my Stormbreaker title will still be a couple weeks away. =P

Comment by Tyro

Opening the gold chest that spawns the Treasure Saurok does NOT count as one of the 10 towards the "Loot 10 Golden Chests" part of the achievement.

I have been FRAPsing my runs and triple checked the video afterwards, I had opened 10 gold chests when my ran out, but one of those was the Saurok chest (which doesn't give you anything to loot). So I must have been at 9 in the eyes of the achievement. Next week!

I used this as a guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmsOZfYXhc

Comment by Nandaria

I have made a picture showing lots of Golden Treasure Chest locations.
You can use it as a help, but keep in mind that not every mark is a Golden Treasure Chest in your case, it is random.

Good luck and have fun!

Hurry up, this achievement will become a FoS with the WoD prepatch!

http://s15.postimg.org/57gvay28p/Troveofthe_Thunder_King.png
Alternate link: http://puu.sh/bVlE5.jpg

Thank you for your votes :)
Wow, top comment and my 1st gold achievement. Thank you, guys!

Comment by Mordecay

WTF are the golden chests? I have never seen those.

Comment by Sunisa

Currently an issue with the achievement it seems which I am hoping the GM ticket will resolve. I opened 10 of these and was about to open the 11th but the time ran out.

As I haven't yet completed the achievement I do not know if it is counted on exit of scenario or on the 10th chest opening.

1 of the chests I opened spawned a Pillager and I am expecting the excuse that Blizzard gives is that it is not loot :(

A few seem to be having this problem just looking at a couple of posts I came across. Hope to get a solid answer soon.

UPDATE: It turns out that the GMs are hiding behind the dev team again saying they cannot do anything about this and to try it again. They know there is an issue but are unwilling to do anything about it. Not even compensation of a replacement key to the scenario was awarded. So sadly people we are stuck with the ineptitude of the GMs/devs for a bit longer. No reasonable explanation was given. I kept the conversation with the GM for lols as well as the survey additional I posted.

Comment by zharshoul

(shadow priest) Okay so I had been saving keys for a while (7 keys) and I wanted to get this achievement so I did some research on the above posts.I finished the achieve on the 7th key.

The videos are helpful to see once on how the jumps are done

i.imagebanana.com/img/fdcy9wi4/TroveoftheThunderKing.png

is a nice supplement so you can figure how many shots you have left for a golden chest if not enough spawn

The 10 golden chests is basically rng.. You wanna get lucky and hope that between the first room and the hallway you have 6-7 chests so you can loot 3-4 off the 2nd room. Its pure rng plain and simple, mind you its not a super low chance. I probably had enough chests up to complete this about 3 of the 7 keys worth but I was getting practice.

To kill the saurok, I found that he always spawned in the second room if there were 2 chests close to each other, not sure if hes always in the first one or if its random. I was terrible at predicting where he would run to place the trap so I had previously saved up shadow orbs via mind blasting spiders in the first. I terrored him, ran up to him and rooted him (shadow priest talent) then killed him fairly easily after a few practice tries/refinement.

Last achievement gulkan/tenwu. You just ignore everything. maybe grab a couple of golden chests in the first room if they arent outta the way too much. You may have to kill a troll and that one stone mogu, make sure you do it out of range of a quillien or it will aggro. I carried keys with me and just opened the gates so I wouldnt have to go around the edges aggroing more npcs.

I looted a few chests killed about 3 mobs not including the boss with about 20 seconds to spare to talk to tenwu

Comment by JacobFaulkner

This is a reference to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Grieg). I guarantee you will know this song even if you don't recognise the name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg

Comment by Thrakall

Obtain a Handful of Stolen Gems from the treasure Saurok
Handful of Stolen Gems drop from Skumblade Pillager. This pnj can appear when you open a Golden Treasure Chest in the second room.
Tip: Put a Frost Rune Trap on your feet and equip a PVP trinket. Open the chest, and if the saurok appears: ~~use your PVP trinket~~ (doesn't work anymore), burst him and loot him.

Slay God-Hulk Gulkan
The hard part is to get to him. He's located in the back of the last room.
Look at sirinad comment on God-Hulk Gulkan page for more details.
Use a Polymorphic Key in the third room to save time.

Reach Tenwu of the Red Smoke
Tenwu of the Red Smoke is standing near God-Hulk Gulkan (map on Tenwu of the Red Smoke's page).
Go to him after defeating the boss, speak to him and click the dialogue to get out.

Loot 10 Golden Treasure Chests in one run
You have to loot 10 Golden Treasure Chest (the one stolen by the Saurok doesn't count!).
First and second rooms often contain enough chests, but take some minutes to prepare yourself.
Search videos on youtube to know where they are and how to access to them.
Buy a Potion of Light Steps and some Arcane Propellant. You will need them.

Edit: Frost trap now breaks on damage, but it will let you time to realise what happened and use your trinket.
Thanks Geodew

Comment by Burnide

Okay, wtf.

I've looted 13, and then 12 golden chests in a run, and I still have not gotten my "10 Gold Chests" criteria. I'm getting frustrated.

Comment by achievvhore

It seems like after the 5.3 patch the Criteria for getting 10 golden chests isn't getting counted for. I have done 3 runs and all of them I have gotten more than 10 chests but It never counted. Lets hope it gets Hotfixed soon :)

Comment by Tatahe

You don't wanna spend time trying the "loot 10 chest" part of the achievement. It's completely bugged. I already summit a ticket, when I got response I will update this post.

Comment by Pirofosfato

Are you up to the challenge of doing all the requirements in a single run?
Make sure to try it out if you are geared enough, was really fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9xC7WSxAY
Hope this saved you a few weeks of farming =)

Comment by tiggerbox29

10 Golden Chest part of the achievement is still bugged as of 6/4/13

So goddamn frustrating all the stars aligned i had a near perfect run and im sure i looted at least 13 chests and i did not count

Comment by jodmos

I don't know if this only happens to me (based on my graphics settings).

in the 2nd room, just before the lever there is a quilen and a patroling zandalari. You can see over a railing behind the quilen and there are several stacked boxes and some chests. Can be two golden chests there up against the railing. One of the chests is usually in the area of the closest sensor to the lever for the next door. (sorry if theis makes no sense as it's difficult to describe locations in there as it's all very similar throughout)

I've gone there for chests multiple times and the textures of the room disappear. (kind of ghostly and palish blue). This makes it impossible to see crates, chests or mobs and usually causes a reasonable delay to getting back out of the area as you bump into the things you can't see, which then usually sets of the sensor attracting nearby mobs).

I've also had the treasure saurok spawn there. if you are running for the 10 chests may be an idea to skip there as the delay may not be worth it if there's only one chest (might not be worth it even if there are two due to mob agro which is likely)

Comment by Moonie1

I encountered the bug where you get no credit for opening 10 golden chests. I created a ticket and Blizzard's response was to replace my keys that were used in the successful attempts (I have no idea if they checked or took my word for it) and said they would check into the bug. It appears to be caused by a failure. If you fail the achievement the first time, it doesnt reset. I do not know if this resets each week or if its a permanent deal, but the GM said there would be a hotfix for it soon.

Comment by bassboater

any of the 4 req's are not shareable across your toons on same acct.
Tried it on other toon for the 10 chest, got that part successful, looked back on main and nadda...Cause of the 1 attempt per week. It takes some practice to get what/whereyou need to go for all 4

Comment by cloudio

For patch 5.3, and regarding Looting 10 treasure chests in one run, It will be triggered right after you open the 10th chest ( Saurok is counted aswell ) however, and to get this achievement triggered, you have one chance per week. Just the first time you enter the scenario after reset will be counted. If you fail to loot 10 treasure chests on first try then don't bother trying and wait till next reset.

Regards
Cloud

Comment by canadiantemplar

The 10 golden chests are still bugged as of June 15. I just did a run with 13 chests—my first of the week—and did not receive credit.

Comment by jodmos

Completed this 27 June 2013 after several weeks of it bugging.

I was told by a GM last week that it is a known bug, and is being looked at, but that it does not affect everyone. He said that there would be a patchnote noting the fix when it was implemented.

Comment by Burnide

Has the "10 golden chests" requisite not completing been fixed yet?
I'd really like to finish up the meta by 5.4...

Comment by Goreguttz

This is an awful achievement. The fact that you can only attempt these requirements once a week is ridiculous... and on top of that the 10 chest requirement is way too hard. Majority of it is RNG and on top of that when you actually go in and do your run the time disappears and it's 10x harder than the video you'll watch. I always get 8 or 9 and somehow manage to aggro every mob in the place. Oh and theres a 1 MINUTE CD on the crap you get for charms. I dunno where people are getting 10 seconds, if so... what the hell am I doing wrong?

Comment by Dawnrider

Freaking great. Got 10 chest. The last chest contained the Saurok. No achieve.....Love how blizz screws us over.

Comment by Burnide

Okay, it's 5.4. Before I go throwing my keys away, do we know if the "10 golden chest" criteria has been fixed yet, or is it still bugged?

Comment by Tahirah

Can confirm it has been fixed for 5.4, and that the criteria resets upon failure now; just got it on my second run on my main- failed it the first time, got it the second. The Saurok chest did NOT count- I looted it as my 10th and the achievement did not pop until I looted the other chest next to it.

Comment by GoRozZo

One run is enough to complete full achievement In the Hall of the Thunder King and get a cap (20 pieces) of Elder Charm of Good Fortune. This video shows the fastest route for farming big chests and how to get a cap fo Charms in 5 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp6lX5-WMtg

Comment by Rockatansky

Awful achievement. Shame on Blizzard for purposely putting this extremely difficult achiev in the game and leaving it bugged on purpose because they know people are achiev junkies and will continue trying hoping they'll fix it. Shows how little Blizz truly cares about who's keeping the lights on.

Comment by FearSucks

Completed my 4-achievement Meta today. Some anecdotes:

I started with reaching the big troll. DEFINITELY buy the polymorphic key for the 3rd door (the one you go right on, to avoid having to go left for the switch.) Upon reaching the troll I pulled from max range as suggested and killed him. The knock-back made me aggro a dog but nothing too bad. I then rushed Tenwu, clicked through the dialog and got the achieve as I was phasing out. The next run I focused on the Saurok. Gap-closig abilities and slows will help. Just nuke him down asap and loot the gems. That left me three keys. Third and fourth key I basically botched it up terribly by aggroing mobs (turns out cyclone sucks as CC haha). The last run is where it got interesting... due to servers being bad and worked on I got DC'd from game as I was zoning. By the time I got back in, my timer was down to 4:21. I used the strategy in the video below for pathing (rush right, go around to mid, then climb the middle hill and propel to both adjacent rises, etc.) I died in the second room with 9 chests and I managed to get my 10th chest at 4:58 on the left side of the first room upon rezzing (lucky I know). The keys were having 16 propellants on me, and 1 light steps (so I could reach a golden chest in the hallways between room 1 and 2.)

Tips:

- I started with 0 achieves and it took me 5 keys to get all 4 today.
- BUY ARCANE PROPELLANT... like... a lot.
- Keep at least 1 Potion of Light Steps on you for the chests that may spawn in the higher part of the room hallways
- As a druid, I found it easier to jump on boxes in caster form due to cat making me over-jump most targets
- If you are clearing 5+ chests per run, use propellant liberally. You should remain maxed Elder Coins.

I hope this helps someone. I was very intimidated by this achievement in previous weeks because of massive failures in understanding the nuances. Keep at it!

Comment by Thurissan

No one noticed this yet?
Scuttler's Shell is incredibly useful here as it lowers the aggro range tremendously for those without stealth. Warning to Rogues with Shadowstep/Hunters with Disengage, this thing counts as a root so it'll disable certain abilities. I've used this to loot the golden chests behind the God Hulk without aggro'ing him.

Comment by Gracin

On my alt rogue today 509ilvl, I was able to do 3/4 for the meta with about 2 seconds to spare. The only one I balked on was killing the Treasure Saurok, and that was mainly because I forgot to swap poisons and mistargeted my opener letting him get away at 50%. I don't have the rep for the Poly key so I couldn't skip the third gate lever, which would have easily netted me an extra 10 seconds. As a rogue I recommend Nightstalker, Sprint Glyph, and Burst of speed. Make sure to use your Vanish wisely because you can sprint kite mobs for quite a while in the place. My basic strategy was zerg to the levers, ignoring golden chests unless they are right in my path. I finished collecting the chests after I had downed Gulkan, and then made my way back to Tenwu. GL.

Comment by Aethrios

In 5.4.8, even as a tank, it's now possible to out-gear this enough to make both killing the God-Hulk and talking to Tenwu (you do need to port out through him!) absolute cake, with over a minute to spare (1:43 on my attempt) without any of the keys or Kirin Tor help.

Given how much time I had left over, it's probably possible to kill the Treasure Saurok as well and still have time left over.

For reference: 556 BM monk, with Momentum rather than Tiger's Lust, since chaining together Momentum stacks provides a longer distance traveled.

Comment by MelwensLady

Hello all,

I completed my achievement as Shadow Priest has 566 ilvl today.
I'd like to share some of my experiences with you below, hope they work for you as well.

Good luck all =)

Scuttler's Shell is what you need to avoid the mobs inside.
(by this way, I didn't need sleep dust and frozen traps)

Other things you must obtain for the achievement are: Polymorphic Key, Potion of Light Steps, Arcane Propellant.

I also would like to share this video (which was very helpful guide for me):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9xC7WSxAY

Some notes for priests:
1. We may not have aspect of cheetah but we can use inner will to move faster. (You can switch it back to inner fire when you're about to engage God-Hulk Gulkan)

2. Also angelic feather is quite useful for increased movement speed.

3. You won't need Potion of Light Steps since we have levitate.

4. You can use void tendrils for Skumblade Pillager. (I used angelic feather to catch him up first.)

Comment by Ryxis

This achievement will be moved to a Feat of Strength come Patch 6.0.2 according to: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/14610651686#1

Comment by migas11

This one is becoming a FoS and thus no longer obtainable come 6.0, so hurry up and get it now!

Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/14610651686

Comment by WoWArcaneMage

Breaking news regarding this achievement as of September-30-2014:

Blizzard Community Manager on the World of Warcraft Community Forums (Kaivax) announced that this achievement will no longer be obtainable and instead will become a Feat of Strength in the upcoming Pre-Expansion patch 6.0 for Warlords of Draenor. (The next expansion coming to World of Warcraft in November 2014)

You may view the post made by CM Kaivax by going to this link on the World of Warcraft Community Forums where the official announcement is! :-)

Link: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/14610651686

Comment by Schadenfreude

re: FoS announcement, Anyone got tips on how to complete all the parts of the meta in 1 or 2 lockouts?

Comment by 1313moridin

not sure if it was only me that didnt think about it, but you dont have to do all 4 parts of the achi at the same time. so if ur bad geared or just not fast enough, take it over 2-3 runs instead.

I thought i had to do all 4 parts during 1 run, which made me stress and just ruined everything for myself lol. hope it helps someone before it dissapears =)

Comment by relias

Went after this achievement after I heard it would become a FoS on Warlords. Anyways, this is how I managed to get the achievement in less than 1 week:

1 - Killed a rare and got the Key
2 - On my first run, I worried about getting to the end as quickly as possible. So I did that and killed God-Hulk and spoke to Tenwu. Therefore, 2/4 completed.
3 - Did dailies, got Sunreaver Bounty. Opened and found another Key.
4 - On my second run, I killed the Treasure Saurok. I didn't have any frost traps, so, after he stunned me, I charged, stunned him and popped my cooldowns to kill him.
5 - Once again, did dailies and got Sunreaver Bounty. Found another Key.
6 - Followed the path in this video and got all 10 with 20s on the timer. I didn't have Arcane Propellant so I bought a Swiftness Potion instead to use on some points where jumping is required.

So yeah, it's a little bit harder if you don't have Rocket Jump or Arcane Propellants... but it's not impossible. I'm pretty sure you can do this in 2 runs instead of 3. And yes, I got lucky with the Keys.

Comment by di3di3di3

Can you still complete this in 6.0?

Comment by Leanne

I am wondering it is intended to have the achievement show in the Legacy tab even if it is not completed. Kinda feels cheap from Blizz to rub your nose for not completing it.

Comment by di3di3di3

If you have ''Key to the Palace of Lei shen''
this achievement can be completed as of 6.0.2
I did this yesterday before the rolling restart.
Sumbitted screenshot.

If you hurry you should do make it-wasn't hard, just stack alot of consumables to avoid aggro.
Did it on 2nd try.

Comment by Tetrabitri

I can confirm that you can still complete this achievement in 6.0.3. I was doing my Kirin Tor assault dailies and the key needed to start dropped from the Arcane Trove.

Comment by Pegasus2318

I just need the 10 chests and was curious why the achievement showed in Legacy if I could not complete it anyway (as unlike Tetrabitri I was not lucky enough to have a key drop from anything). So I ticketed a GM and here's the answer:

"the achievement can actually still be completed for a short while by people who still have the keys to start the encounter; I expect that the incomplete achievement will be hidden again automatically for people that havn't completed it once that ends."

So if you have a key: don't shy away from using it while you can!
And /sadpanda as I do not have a key :(.

Hope this clears it up for everyone :).

Comment by adam612

Anyone know if you can try it at level 100 if you still got leftover keys too? Just asking cause I got one key. Would rather make my final attempt at 100 instead of 90 to increase chances of success.

Comment by Sarthorius

Had only the 10 Chests part to do, and a single Key. Followed same route as from this video. But, before I bought a lot of those propellants, sleep dust and levitate dust at least. My luck is that I did it on my hunter too (not a goblin as from the vid), because I agroed an add, and had too reset agro (Feign Death) so his Quilen stopped bothering me, no time to waste in killing. Also, you can no longer use Scuttler's Shell at 100, was trying to use it on the beginning then I saw the error message 'Target is Too High Level'.

Comment by jjanchan

Inexplicably, despite the fact that Key to the Palace of Lei Shen was supposedly removed from the game, I got one of these in my Sunreaver Bounty today - January 21, 2015, Patch 6.0.3. Granted, each Sunreaver Bounty costs 15 Elder Charm of Good Fortune, and the cap for this currency is 20, so you'll have to earn these coins repeatedly to get multiple chests.

Of a total of 3 Sunreaver Bounty I've opened, I received only one Key to the Palace of Lei Shen, suggesting that the drop rate is not high. This may prove to be helpful for those still gunning for the Legacy achievement In the Hall of the Thunder King.

Keep in mind that this scenario can still be run if you are level 100 IF you have a key.

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