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

Di Wowhead Aggiornato: 16/02/2013

Punti ValoreVerga del Filatore d'AmbraClick the cut to read the guide!Challenge Mode Overview

Challenge Modes are timed instance runs in which your gear is scaled down to ilvl 463. 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, teleports, and transmoggable armor 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.

Challenge Modes are an efficient way to get Punti Valore. There are daily challenge mode quests that reward between 60 and 80 Punti Valore. This is on top of the additional amounts of Punti Valore you get for completing a timed run: 5 Punti Valore for Gold, 0 Punti Valore for Silver, 5 Punti Valore for Bronze.

Zones OverviewHamlethereGate of the Setting Sun Narrated VideoMogu'shan Palace Narrated VideoScarlet Halls Narrated VideoScarlet Monastery Narrated VideoScholomance Narrated VideoShado-Pan Narrated VideoSiege of Niuzao Narrated VideoStormstout Brewery Narrated VideoTemple of the Jade Serpent Narrated Video

Zone

Gold

Silver

Bronze

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Porta del Sole Calante

13:00

22:00

45:00

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Palazzo Mogu'shan

12:00

24:00

45:00

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Sale Scarlatte

13:00

22:00

45:00

Leaderboard

Monastero Scarlatto

13:00

22:00

45:00

Leaderboard

Scholomance

19:00

33:00

55:00

Leaderboard

Monastero degli Shandaren

21:00

35:00

1:00:00

Leaderboard

Assedio al Tempio di Niuzao

17:30

30:00

50:00

Leaderboard

Birrificio Triplo Malto

12:00

21:00

45:00

Leaderboard

Tempio della Serpe di Giada

15:00

25:00

45:00

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RewardshereGold Reward: Transmog Gear

For completing Conquistatore delle sfide: Oro, you'll get a full eight-piece set of epic transmoggable gear.

These armor sets have unique visual procs when casting certain spells--we've included links to Blizzard's videos documenting these effects.

This gear is initially mailed upon completion of the achievement--if you've lost it, you can buy it back from Sfidante Soong or Sfidante Wuli.

Cavaliere della MorteDruidoCacciatoreLich Lord PlateCycle ArmorHowling Beast SetDeath KnightDruidHunterNote: The Druid set in the Modelviewer displays neon green planes instead of the glowing set details.MagoMonacoPaladinoSacerdoteElemental Triad RegaliaRegal Lord ArmorHoly Warrior PlateLight RegaliaMageMonkPaladinPriestLadroSciamanoStregoneGuerrieroSilent Assassin ArmorWindfury SetBetrayer RegaliaGolden King PlateRogueShamanWarlockWarriorGold Reward: Teleport

When getting the Gold achievement for completing a particular instance, you will get a teleport spell to that dungeon. All teleport spells are on a shared 8 hour cooldown and reset when a Challenge Mode has been successfully completed.

The teleport rewards are pretty convenient with Have Group Will Travel gone. Here's a list below:

Sentiero dello Yak Nero

Assedio al Tempio di Niuzao: Oro

Sentiero della Serpe di Giada

Tempio della Serpe di Giada: Oro

Sentiero dell'Imperatore dei Mogu

Palazzo Mogu'shan: Oro

Sentiero del Negromante

Scholomance: Oro

Sentiero della Lama Scarlatta

Sale Scarlatte: Oro

Sentiero della Mitra Scarlatta

Monastero Scarlatto: Oro

Sentiero del Sole Calante

Porta del Sole Calante: Oro

Sentiero degli Shandaren

Monastero degli Shandaren: Oro

Sentiero del Birrificio

Birrificio Triplo Malto: Oro

Silver Reward: Mount

Conquistatore delle sfide: Argento rewards you with a Phoenix Mount.

Uovo della Fenice Ancestrale will be mailed to you. It is used to redeem one of the following mounts from Kai Piuma Fioca.
Redini della Fenice Cinerea dei Pandaren

Redini della Fenice di Smeraldo dei Pandaren

Redini della Fenice Viola dei Pandaren

Redini della Fenice Cremisi dei Pandaren

notBronze Reward: Title

Conquistatore delle sfide: Bronzo rewards the title The Undaunted.

Gearing Rules

Any item above ilvl 463 are scaled down to ilvl 463; items that are 463 or below are not affected or scaled up.

Any trinket of ilvl 463 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.

For specs with hit, you remain hit capped even in downgraded gear.

Tier set bonuses are not active, and neither are Sha-Touched Gems.

Stats from consumables, enchants, other gems, and profession bonuses are not reduced.

It is currently unknown how scaling effects on 5.2 legendary metagems will work.

Instance Rules

cannot be used in a Challenge Mode.

If you release, you get rezzed at the instance's entrance.

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 Pozione Inferiore dell'Invisibilità and Pozione dell'Invisibilità. Isteria degli Antichi does not reset though.

You can respec/reglyph during the run, as long as you're out of combat.

Useful ItemsInvisibility

Pozione dell'Invisibilità:
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 Ruggito Impetuoso before activating your potion.

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

If you have a Rogue, Manto d'Occultamento can be used instead, which doesn't put your other potions on a long cooldown.

Reagents: Fungo Fantasma, Erbasole, Ampolla di Cristallo.

Pozione Inferiore dell'Invisibilità

This is the cheaper version of Pozione dell'Invisibilità which is sometimes sufficient.

It is taught by Alchemy trainers at 165 skill.

Reagents: Foglia Eterea, Fiordiferro Selvatico, Ampolla di Cristallo

Campo d'Invisibilità

"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 3 minute cooldown.

Requires 450 Engineering to use. Reagents are Kit del Meccanista.

In past expansions, it appears there was a chance for the invisibility to break early. This seems to have been removed in MoP.

Consider having this on an extra belt and Acceleratori Nitrogeni on your main belt if an Engineer.

Stats

Tamburi dei Re Dimenticati:
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, or Paladin in the group.

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

Reagents: 8x Cuoio Boreale Pesante, 8x Scaglie di Drago del Gelo.

Pergamena Runica della Fermezza III

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

Reagents: 5x Cartapecora Leggera, 10x Inchiostro dei Sogni.

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, or Warrior.

Health/Mana

Ambra Ristoratrice:
Allows you to eat/drink twice as fast as regular food (the tooltip is incorrect).

Requires Honored with Klaxxi to purchase.

Will not break if you are pulled into combat.

Stuns you when you use it, so you will need to click off buff to stand up.

Not usable in combat.

Carpa Dorata in Brodo

If you are doing practice runs and want cheap food, this restores the most mana without overriding your stat food buffs.

It is now sold by many vendors in Patch 5.1.

Movement

Aliante dei Goblin:
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 del Meccanista

Acceleratori Nitrogeni

Greatly increases run speed for 5 seconds. Your runspeed is increased to 250%, which stacks multiplicatively with other runspeed talents.

Can be activated every 3 minutes and requires 400 Engineering to use.

Reagents: Kit del Meccanista

Tamburi della Velocità

Increases movement speed of nearby party members by 15%. Lasts 30 sec, 2 minute cooldown.

Requires Leatherworking 340 to use.

Recipe is obtained by reaching Honored with Kurenai or Mag'har.

Materials are very easy to get: 6x Cuoio Nodoso Pesante and 4x Scaglie del Vento for 50 drum charges.

Crowd Control

Rete di Telardente:
3 second root that also deals fire damage.

Can be used up to 35 yards away, on a 1 minute cooldown.

Requires Tailoring 425 to use, costs 6x Tessuto di Telardente to make.

Verga del Filatore d'Ambra

CCs the target for one minute, or until damage is taken. 5 minute cooldown.

Dropped by Ski'thik, a rare in Massiccio del Kun-Lai.

Combat

Bombasqualo G91:
Uncapped AoE of around 40,000 per target. 1 second cast, 1 minute cooldown. Usable by all players.

Schematic trained by Engineers at 525. Materials are 2x Viti di Ectoferro and 2x Polvere da Sparo Altamente Esplosiva

This is also commonly found in Regalo di Orotron 4000.

Fiala di Acido Poliformico Quasi Piena

Does additional damage against Maestro Oscuro Gandling with the buff Pozione Acida Poliformica.

Can be obtained during a normal-mode run of Scholomance.

After killing Professor Slate, all players can loot Fiala di Acido Poliformico Vuota and fill it with the acid potion on the table.

Corno da Battaglia

Lets you aggro everything in 40 yards easily, on a 2 minute cooldown.

This item is not a trinket--it does not need to be equipped to be used.

Drops from Zoccolo Nero in Valle dei Quattro Venti.

Commenti

Commento di 1120174

Very nice guide been wanting to do challenge mode for a long time but hard to find group. Really want the teleport spells

Commento di snippyk

Awesome guide :)

Commento di xinaro

Please note: G91 Landshark shares a cooldown with pots!

Commento di Elfeaterdk

I must say I find this guide much more thorough, though I do thank you very much for the Tamburi della Velocità note which is missing in the other.

You have "updated" this for 5.4 according to the note, but if that is the case there are some items you have missed:

Bombasqualo G91
You have not put in that Bombasqualo G91 counts as a potion like Xinaro wrote mid-summer - which means a clear dps loss to use (imo it shouldn't even be on a list for what you need for CM - unless to warn NOT to use it).
Metagems
It is no longer "currently unknown how scaling effects on 5.2 legendary metagems will work" - they are disabled and people should get hold of an old hat to stuff a normal meta in it, or they will basically run it without any meta-effect at all.
After that you should probably note that the legendary cloak effect is also disabled, but it remains a good cloak for CM's due to it having a socket.

Commento di 1064015

Great guide except that:

1. Goblin Glider is 3 minute cool down.

2. Nitro-boost is not 250% speed it is +150% of you current speed, for example if I use a speed up for +100% my speed will be 200% so it will be +300% so 500% speed!

Nitro boosts are awesome but unfortunately engi only :(

Commento di solitha

Need to update this guide to reflect the announced change to the Phoenix reward. That being, if you've earned one, when the CM season ends you will have all four, and they will be account-wide.

Commento di Sw1nk

Here's a spreadsheet that provides a list of gear that is believed to be BiS for Challlenge Mode content: World of Warcraft: Challenge Mode BiS List

It also has some valuable information about macros and WeakAuras in Challlenge Modes.

Tracking and taking advantage of trinket procs will help a lot for DPS classes. Here's a WeakAuras display that includes the trinket, enchant, and profession procs that I use for CMs. It should be easy enough to duplicate the icons I've made to add in any trinkets not already tracked.

Commento di 398394

Path of the... lands you in/at... in or near...

Black Ox Townlong: 36, 84 Isle of Thunder
MoP Valor/Justice QM
MoP Zandalari

Necromancer W Plaguelands: 70, 75

Scarlet Mitre/ Trisfal: 85, 30 Scarlet Monastery
Scarlet Blade

Setting Sun Vale: 16, 77 MoP Honor/Conquest QM

Mogu King Vale: 80, 34 MoP players' hubs
MoP Archaelogy QM

Shado-Pan Kun-lai: 37, 49

Stout Brew Valley: 36, 66 Halfhill Farms

Jade Serpent Jade Forest: 56, 58

Commento di kunglao

out of mana to quick on resto

Commento di dustcloud

If one earns Conqueror Silver or Gold, are the rewards for the lower achievements (Bronze and Silver, respectively) awarded automatically as well?

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

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