Warlords of Draenor Challenge Mode Guide

Par Wowhead Actualisé : 02/04/2017

Challenge Mode Overview

Challenge Modes are timed instance runs in which your gear is scaled down to ilvl 630. This ensures that running these instances will be challenging even in later tiers--you can't outgear it. In addition, the pulls are more complex than on Heroic mode, and mobs do much more damage.

There are three tiers of rewards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze, which are obtained based on how quickly you complete the zone. We've listed these rewards below, which include mounts, titles, and transmoggable weapons with special effects.

Mechanisms have been added to prevent skipping trash, primarily a requirement that you kill a minimum number of trash mobs to complete the zone.

The daily Challenge Mode quest in Warlords of Draenor awards an ilvl 640 epic. In Patch 6.1, these rewards will be ilvl 660 instead.

Zones Overviews and Strategy Guides

Auchindoun Dungeon Strategy Guide

Bloodmaul Slag Mines Dungeon Strategy Guide

Everbloom Dungeon Strategy Guide

Grimrail Depot Dungeon Strategy Guide

Iron Docks Dungeon Strategy Guide

Shadowmoon Burial Grounds Dungeon Strategy Guide

Skyreach Dungeon Strategy Guide

Upper Blackrock Spire Dungeon Strategy Guide

Zone

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Blizzard Leaderboard

Auchindoun

19:00

32:00

55:00

Leaderboard

Mine de la Masse-Sanglante

22:00

35:00

60:00

Leaderboard

Dépôt de Tristerail

14:00

25:00

50:00

Leaderboard

Quais de Fer

20:00

34:00

60:00

Leaderboard

Terres sacrées d’Ombrelune

17:30

30:00

60:00

Leaderboard

Orée-du-Ciel

17:00

28:20

56:40

Leaderboard

La Flore éternelle

17:30

30:00

60:00

Leaderboard

Sommet du pic Rochenoire

25:00

43:00

85:00

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Gearing Rules

Any item above ilvl 630 are scaled down to ilvl 630; items that are 630 or below are not affected or scaled up.

In general, save items of any ilvl >= 630 that have your favored stats (such as from Mission rewards). It is much easier to swap item setups now than it was in Mists.

Any trinket of ilvl 630 or higher is a valid choice because of the wide selection of unique procs, so you have a wide array of trinkets to consider compared to armor. In general, trinkets that drop Highmaul and Foundry still have high amounts of stats when scaled down to ilvl 630.

Tier set bonuses are not active, and neither are tertiary stats or gem sockets.

Stats from consumables and enchants are not reduced.

Instance Rules

cannot be used in a Challenge Mode.

If you release, you get rezzed at the instance's entrance or at checkpoints that are sometimes created when you kill a boss.

Unlike other dungeons, Challenge Modes can be reset as many times as you like (the group leader will have a special menu option that sends you back to the beginning, respawns the zone, and resets the timer). There is no hourly cap or daily lockout.

Bosses do not drop loot and gear does not take a durability loss.

You cannot swap party members without exiting and fully resetting the zone.

All class cooldowns longer than 3 minutes reset when you reset the zone, as well as item cooldowns like Potion d'invisibilité inférieure and Potion d'invisibilité.

You can swap between your two stored specializations during the run, but cannot change individual talents/glyphs within each one.

Useful ItemsInvisibility

Potion d'invisibilité draenique:
This is the new invisibility potion added in Warlords of Draenor.

Grants Invisibility for 18 seconds.

Can only be used out of combat.

Any action ends the invisibility, so make sure to use speed boosts like Ruée rugissante before activating your potion.

Usually used once per zone to skip the maximum allowed number of trash mobs.

It takes Huile de croissant-sabre and 3 Chair de furtif agnathe to make.

The recipe is automatically learned via Traité sur l'alchimie en Draenor and non-Alchemists can craft it with a Laboratoire d’alchimie Niveau 1.

Champ d'invisibilité

"Permanently attaches thousands of tiny mirrors to your belt, allowing you to attempt to turn invisible while out of combat."

Lasts 15 seconds, on a 10 minute cooldown.

Requires 450 Engineering to use. Reagents are Kit de bricoleur.

Now shares cooldown with other invisibility items.

Voile de dissimulationStats

Tambours des rois oubliés:
Gives all members of the raid or group the Blessing of Forgotten Kings, increasing Strength, Agility, and Intellect by 4% for 30 min.

Useful if you don't have a Druid, Monk, Paladin, or Hunter pet in the group.

Any player can use the drums. It is crafted by Leatherworkers with at least 450 skill.

Reagents: 8x Cuir boréen lourd, 8x Ecaille de dragon glaciale.

Parchemin runique de robustesse III

Increases Stamina by 8% for all party and raid members for 1 hour.

Reagents: 5x Parchemin léger, 10x Encre des rêves.

Any player can use the scrolls. It is crafted by scribes with at least 580 skill.

Useful if you don't have a Priest, Warlock, Warrior, or Hunter pet.

Tambours de fureur

Increases melee, ranged, and spell haste by 25% for all party and raid members. Lasts 40 sec.

Useful if you don't have a Shaman, Mage, or Hunter pet in the group.

Any player can use the drums. It is crafted by Leatherworkers with 1 skill.

There are two tiers of flasks--the first tier increases primary stats by 200 (Stamina 300), and the Greater tier increases them by 250 (Stamina 375).

Flasks last for an hour.

Flasks can be crafted by an Alchemist at skill level 1, and lesser flasks can be crafted with a Laboratoire d’alchimie Niveau 3.

Learn more about flasks in our Warlords of Draenor Alchemy Overview

Draenor food is available for five secondary stats: critical strike, haste, multistrike, mastery, and versatility.

+75 stat food requires either 5 meat or 10 fish to cook.

+100 stat food requires a meat dish, fish dish, and herb.

There are +75 stat feasts via cooking and Festin sauvage from the Barn, but as they award your highest secondary stat, you may have to take off gear in order to get the stat you want.

In Patch 6.1, players can cook +125 food with fish, which is the best possible food.

Learn more about food with our Warlords of Draenor Cooking Guide

Health/Mana

Tonique de soins:
Made with 10 Morceau de scorpion de mer

Recipe automatically learned with Secourisme en Draenor.

Can be crafted at skill level 1.

This shares a cooldown with Bouclier protectronique but no Alchemy potions.

Croissant-sabre grilléBouillon de croissant-sabreBouclier protectronique

Protects the user with a shield that absorbs up to 51000 damage. Lasts 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

Crafted by Engineers at skill level 1 via Ingénierie de Draenor, or with a Pôle d’ingénierie Niveau 1.

Shares a cooldown with Tonique de soins.

Potion de mana canalisé draenique

Puts the imbiber in an elevated state of focus where they can restore up to (5100 * 10) mana over 10 sec, but they are defenseless until their focus is broken. (1 Min Cooldown)

Takes Fiole de cristal and 3 Bourrache.

Recette : Potion de mana canalisé draenique costs . It can also be crafted via Laboratoire d’alchimie Niveau 2.

Movement

"Gift" cape enchants (eg Don de coup critique):
Top-tier cape enchants add 10% movement speed.

These take 4 Cristal temporel and 3 of a Sorcerous element.

These can be crafted with Enchanting or Cabinet d’enchanteur Niveau 3.

Read more about enchants in our Warlords of Draenor Enchanting Overivew.

Planeur gobelin

Permanently attaches a specialized folding assembly to a cloak, allowing you to deploy a goblin glider and fall slowly for 30 sec.

On a five minute cooldown, requires 500 Engineering to use.

Reagents: Kit de bricoleur

Kit de planeur gobelin

Version of the Planeur gobelin which non-Engineers can use.

Crafted by Engineers or Pôle d’ingénierie Niveau 1, takes 8 Minerai de vérifer and 5 Fourrure somptueuse.

This item has charges, so you will need to replenish your stack.

Nitro-survolteurs

Greatly increases run speed for a few seconds. Duration and speed vary in Warlords of Draenor.

Can be activated every 3 minutes, but shares CD with offensive and invisibility potions.

Reagents: Kit de bricoleur

Crowd Control

Bombe à fragmentation en cobalt:
3 second root that also deals fire damage.

Can be used up to 45 yards away, on a 1 minute cooldown.

Requires Engineering 330 to use, costs 2x Poignée de boulons en cobalt and Déclencheur d'explosion volatile to make.

Ceinture à fragmentation

An incapacitate that in practice causes enemies to reset their cast timer.

Example on useful locations: Every trash pack in Everbloom; UBRS when ogres try to release proto-drakes.

Does not share CD with potions (1 min CD).

Requires Engineering 380 to craft, costs Kit de bricoleur to make.

PotionsCamoufleur 54Tonique de soinsLaboratoire d’alchimie Niveau 2

Potion d'Agilité draenique: Increases your agility by 1000 for 25 sec. (1 Min Cooldown). Takes Fiole de cristal and 3 Ignescente.

Potion d'Intelligence draenique: Increases your intellect by 1000 for 25 sec. (1 Min Cooldown). Takes Fiole de cristal and 3 Ignescente.

Potion de Force draenique: Increases your strength by 1000 for 25 sec. (1 Min Cooldown). Takes Fiole de cristal and 3 Sagittaire de Nagrand.

Potion de polyvalence draenique: Increases your bonus armor by 1500 for 25 sec. (1 Min Cooldown). Takes Fiole de cristal and 3 Givrelette.

RewardshereGold Reward: Transmog GearDéfi de Warlords of Draenor relevé : orCroissant élémentaireLame-soleilMangeur d'âmesGriffes de la créationGargouille saignegueuleEquusGangrelame changeanteBroyeur de flammesEstramaçon de l'IgnescenceFlèche d'éclats d'arcanaGrand bâton du savoir infiniBâton de déchiqueteur dimensionnelGlaive chant-des-nuagesArc long vivantCarabine longue à munitions de cristalMontre d'octachoreFourneau de la grande machineVisage du gardienSilver Reward: Yéti de guerre du prétendantYéti de guerre du prétendantDéfi de Warlords of Draenor relevé : argentBronze Reward: Title

Défi de Warlords of Draenor relevé : bronze rewards the title .

Realm Bests Feats of Strength

Maîtrise des défis : Dépôt de Tristerail: Grimrail Suplexer

Maîtrise des défis : Flore éternelle: Violet Guardian

Maîtrise des défis : Sommet du pic Rochenoire: Lady of Blackrock, Lord of Blackrock

Maîtrise des défis : terres sacrées d’Ombrelune: Spiritwalker

Maîtrise des défis : Orée-du-Ciel: Scion of Rukhmar

Maîtrise des défis : Auchindoun: Soul Preserver

Maîtrise des défis : Quais de Fer: Dockmaster

Maîtrise des défis : Mine de la Masse-Sanglante: Mine Master

Daily Quest Rewardsdaily questsCoffre de prétendant rouilléMaîtresse des défis SavinaMaître des défis SolforgeCoffre de prétendant rouilléCoffre de prétendant

Commentaires

Commentaire de Folla

Gem sockets are not activated? .. what?

Commentaire de Jouninz

Please add the very useful engineering belt enchant: Frag Belt

An incapacitate that in practice causes enemies to reset their cast timer.
Example on useful locations: Every trash pack in Everbloom; UBRS when ogres try to release proto-drakes.
Does not share CD with potions (1 min CD).

Commentaire de lahtinen

Flasks last for an hour and are removed upon death.

Is this correct in the challenge modes?

Commentaire de LoDvampire

Blizzard just forgot to make a "male" version of the CM Bow, the other weapons are full of spikes and fire, but the Bow has flowers and buterflies, wtf?

Commentaire de xoneka

Tambours de fureur is a nice addiction since Tambours de rage could not be used in Mysts, so a shaman or a mage are not a must have on this expansion :)

Commentaire de Knitten

It may be worth adding that hunters, mages, and warlocks with pets should dismiss pets before entering invisibility. Any DOTs, including monk tank stagger, will cancel invisibility.

Commentaire de 1260608

All engineering belt tinkers can misfire, CMs are no exception. In addition to triggering potion CD (most notably Nitro Boosts and Invisibility Field), they can have nasty side effects. Nitro Boosts (aka rocket belt) can start to leak fuel, inflicting aggresive fire DoT on the user. If invisibility field malfunctions, you will see the blurry shady animation as if it worked, but monsters can see you.

In short: engineering enchants are unreliable and should not be used in serious CMs - any malfunction can cost you the medal.

Commentaire de matoh

So that's why Cobalt ore is pretty hard to get in my server. Apparently people are farming it for bombs.

Commentaire de Taoma

You should add you can't use Rune d'amélioration concentrée Rune d'amélioration ultime Rune d'amélioration costaude in CMs. Great guide!

Commentaire de 271202

In the Useful Items section you may want to add a mention to Enigme perpétuelle de Pajeet-Nov, Statue d'elekk en bronze, and Bracelet de Bajheric, and Pierre philosophale draenique for those gearing alts on a budget.

Comparing Enigme perpétuelle de Pajeet-Nov to Pièce à deux faces porte-bonheur, the cheaper alternative procs for a similar agility, and has just 40 less stats on it.

Comparing Statue d'elekk en bronze to Eidolon arcanique de scrutation éternelle, the cheaper version has less useful stats and less bonus armor proc, but for someone who doesn't want to raid on their tank the statue is a very strong alternative.

The strength version Bracelet de Bajheric of Fourreau de Kyanos isn't nearly as strong when both are in a CM, but scabbard is also really overpowered. If you are limited to a low budget and only heroic dungeon loot, then Bracelet de Bajheric is probably the best option to get huge bladestorms since it procs a main stat and the alternatives proc secondary stats.

The alchemy trinket Pierre philosophale draenique is very strong because it lasts 15 seconds on a 55s icd, so it ends up having high uptime on a pretty strong proc.

If you only have access to heroic dungeon loot, and cheap auction house items, then they are probably BiS for classes that do lots of burst damage in their openers. I usually can grab each of the boe items for 100-300 gold, and leveling alchemy to use the trinket is very cost-effective if you create potions.

Commentaire de don1010220

in UBRS there are 3 weapons that i know of that have special procs:

Mornelame de Shahram
Saule pétrifié
Tranche-destin de Main-Noire

do these 3 weapons still include thier procs while in CMs

Commentaire de Serjekk

There's a minor mistake to the list of potions. Says you need Ignescente x3 but you actually need Orchidée de Talador x3 in order to make Potion d'Intelligence draenique.

Commentaire de Kamikaze28

With the Baleful Tokens from Tanaan, equipment optimization for CMs just got a lot easier:

Farm Apexis Crystals
Buy the token that could improve your CM gear
If it has the right stats, move on to another slot, if not repeat steps 1+2 as needed

Commentaire de GreySage

Does the Legendary Ring work in CM?

Commentaire de ElentilSDS

I have a question : Do we know how will the new void storage / transmog system affect challenge mode rewards? For example, if I complete the achievement on a tank, will I be able to use the weapons for transmog on other characters through the account-wide system? Has Blizzard mentioned anything on this matter?

Commentaire de 857276

Are the Feats of Strength for realm-best times persistent or do they go away if the time is beaten? I know the titles go away if someone beats your time, but I'm not seeing anything saying whether the achievement itself gets revoked.

Also, if I complete gold for all the dungeons on one character, will my other characters have access to the special weapons, or are those locked to just the character that completes the achievement?

Commentaire de Sarthorius

Here needs to change:

Planeur gobelin:
Permanently attaches a specialized folding assembly to a cloak, allowing you to deploy a goblin glider and fall slowly for 30 sec.
On a five minute cooldown, requires 500 Engineering to use.
Reagents: Kit de bricoleur

to:

Planeur gobelin:
Permanently attaches a specialized folding assembly to a cloak, allowing you to deploy a goblin glider and fall slowly for 120 sec.
On a three minute cooldown, requires 500 Engineering to use.
Reagents: Kit de bricoleur

Blizz never updated the tooltip to match the previous glider spell, which, as we all that have used them in wod already know, it has the second quote's duration/cooldowns.

Same for Engineer-crafted (but anyone can use) Kit de planeur gobelin.

Commentaire de iSondre

Just to clearify.

https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/691770861519532032

Does this mean that if I do this on my Warrior - and I buy ALL of the weapons, can my other toons that has not completed challenge mode use the weapons in Legion? Or do I need to complete it on all of my characters?

Commentaire de jjanchan

I've created a guide that outlines the use of Grounding Totem, Dark Sim, Spell Reflect and Glyphed Deterrence. Check it out here - it can definitely be helpful to net you a Gold medal, or even to gun for realm first times!

Commentaire de Malgrain

I have a question. My Destro Warlock is geared for PvP- nearly full conquest. I have been told that I need BiS and that it would be baleful or pieces like it- I'm trying to do gold challenge mode, not record. Do I need to farm baleful or is nearly full conquest enough to work? It gets scaled down, so I feel like it'd work, right?

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