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MoP Classic Challenge Modes Guide: Routes & More!
Welcome, or welcome back, to Mists of Pandaria Classic! Besides being able to experience some of the most stunningly beautiful zones WoW has to offer, you’ll also, at long last, be able to venture into Challenge Modes!
Challenge Modes, the precursor content to today’s Mythic+ dungeons, saw their very first iteration in Mists of Pandaria. They were designed to be just what they say on the tin: challenging! As such, Blizzard implemented some strict scaling and map rules to ensure that the content remained consistently difficult across tiers, no matter the gear, story, or legendary progression players returned with.
Completing Challenge Modes in Mists of Pandaria does not reward any epic gear, but it does reward some pretty unique armor sets, mounts, and a title! You can read more on the rules, restrictions, and rewards HERE.
Your completion time in each dungeon dictates your ending score and placement. The dungeon timers and requirements for
Gold, 
Silver, and 
Bronze for each Challenge Mode dungeon are shown in the table below:| Dungeon | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
 Gate of the Setting Sun | 13:00 | 22:00 | 45:00 |
 Mogu’shan Palace | 12:00 | 24:00 | 45:00 |
 Scarlet Halls | 13:00 | 22:00 | 45:00 |
 Scarlet Monastery | 13:00 | 22:00 | 45:00 |
 Scholomance | 19:00 | 33:00 | 55:00 |
 Shado-Pan Monastery | 21:00 | 35:00 | 1:00:00 |
 Siege of Niuzao Temple | 17:30 | 30:00 | 50:00 |
 Stormstout Brewery | 12:00 | 21:00 | 45:00 |
 Temple of the Jade Serpent | 15:00 | 25:00 | 45:00 |
Now let’s dive even deeper into the world of Challenge Modes!
Table of Contents
- What are Challenge Modes?
Rules & Restrictions Rewards - General Tips & Tricks
- Routes GATE: Gate of the Setting Sun MP: Mogu’shan Palace HALLS: Scarlet Halls SM: Scarlet Monastery SCHOLO: Scholomance SPM: Shado-Pan Monastery SNT: Siege of Niuzao Temple BREW: Stormstout Brewery TJS: Temple of the Jade Serpent
- Helpful Resources
What are Challenge Modes?
RULES & RESTRICTIONS
- All gear scales down to 463 ilvl; gear at or below 463 remains at full power, so aim for 463 items.
- Hit and expertise caps are still relevant and important after scaling; reforge your Challenge Mode set and zone into CM before you run your first dungeon, just to be sure your stats look good!
- Trinket procs are enabled but scaled appropriately; generally strong stat procs will serve you very well. Darkmoon trinkets are typically quite strong for their ilvl.
- Tier set bonuses, Sha-Touched gems, and legendary cloak procs are all disabled (though the cloak stats themselves are still quite good).
- Enchants, gems, and consumables are all still fully functional and very important!
- Profession bonuses and items all work within the dungeons.
- You can respec/reglyph as needed throughout a CM run if you are out of combat.
- Mass Resurrection is disabled; if you release, you will respawn at the entrance.
- Each dungeon has a set number of enemies you must kill alongside meeting the time requirement – you cannot skip all the trash!
- You can reset a Challenge Mode run as many times as you need, and there is no daily lockout or hourly dungeon cap.
REWARDS
Gold Rewards
If you complete all 9 dungeons within their
Gold timers, earning the Challenge Conqueror: Gold achievement, you will immediately receive a class-specific, eight-piece transmog set in your mailbox. Players who achieve full server-first Challenge Mode:
Gold runs will receive Realm First! Challenge Conqueror: Gold, which will be awarded to each player in the group who accomplished the entire achievement. Each
Gold dungeon you complete will also award you a teleport to that dungeon, just as completing a +10 dungeon on Retail will award you a dungeon teleport. 
Silver Rewards
Completing all 9 dungeons on
Silver and earning Challenge Conqueror: Silver rewards you with one of the following mounts from Kai Featherfall outside the Seat of Knowledge in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. At the time (and to this day in Classic), these Pandaren Phoenix mounts were a unique model and NOT account-wide, and one character could only ever have one mount:
Bronze Rewards
Completing all 9 dungeons on
Bronze and earning Challenge Conqueror Bronze rewards you with the Undaunted title.Completing Challenge Conqueror achievements in a guild group will award guild achievements, but only
Challenge Conquerors: Gold rewards a guildwide unlock: this cute little Thundering Serpent Hatchling pet! General Tips & Tricks
Macros
- Reset CM Dungeons Macro: /script C_ChallengeMode.Reset()
- Quick Proceed Dialogue Macro: /script SelectGossipOption(1)
- Meditate Macro (for Taran-Zhu, Shado-Pan Monastery): /cancelaura Meditate
/click ExtraActionButton1
WeakAuras
- Dungeon Automarker
- Small Group Kick Tracker
- Quick Talent Swaps (requires the MerfinPlus base addon)
- CM Timer & Objective Tracker
- Jandice Helper
Add-Ons
Consumables
Restorative Amber: This is practically a mandatory item for healers, as it provides DOUBLE the mana regen of any other vendor drink. While Amber is not usable in combat, it will also not break in combat either.
- To break your Amber early, you can use this macro: #showtooltip Restorative Amber
/cancelaura Restorative Amber
/stopmacro
/use Restorative Amber - Requires HONORED with the Klaxxi and is a little pricey!
- Golden Carp Consomme is a cheap alternative, but is not nearly as effective
Invisibility Potions: Highly recommended or required for 7 of the 9 CMs. Keep an eye out for Venerable Potion of Invisibility in MoP Classic.
Buff Food: Crucial even when gear is scaled. Use main stat food.
Flasks and DPS Pots: Clarify invis potion timing with your group before DPS potting.Drums of Forgotten Kings
Runescroll of Fortitude III
Drums of Speed
Battle Horn: Useful for tanks. Can pull mobs without Misdirection.
Rod of Ambershaping: Undispellable hard CC that doesn't pull when expired.
Salyin Battle Banner: Can help drop combat for resets.
Ra’sha’s Sacrificial Dagger: For intentional deaths to reset Bloodlust.
G91 Landshark: Engineer-crafted AoE rockets.
Rocket Boots Xtreme: Optional for speed-pushing.
Useful Professions
Engineering: Engineering is the king of CM professions, as it provides a number of useful items plus an incredible crafted helm.- Engineering-Only Goggles – offer one Meta Gem slot and two crafted Cogwheel slots.
- Synapse Springs are another massive, primary stat tinker that can be macro’d with your minor CDs and used every minute for a substantial increase in DPS.
- Nitro Boosts – amazing belt tinker for speed.
- Invisibility Field – can be alternated with Nitro Boosts if you swap belts.
- Goblin Glider – great for situational movement boosts.
Tailoring: Tailors can use special cloak and pants enchants, and craft Embersilk Nets. Alchemy: Reusable 2-hour primary stat flask and trinket.
Leatherworking: Exclusive enchants for legs and bracers; crafts buff drums and Drums of Speed.
Blacksmithing: Extra sockets for gloves and bracers.
Inscription: Shoulder enchants including scribe-only buffs, Runescrolls, and Darkmoon trinkets.
Jewelcrafting: Equip two Jewelcrafter-only gems – a big bonus in CM gear.Class-specific Tips
-
Death Knights (particularly tanks) can use Dark Simulacrum to absorb and re-use several hard-hitting spells in CMs dungeons. These have been indicated in each route. -
Blood Death Knights should be aware that Bloodworms CAN pull mobs and break an invisibility run early! -
Hunters (with glyphed Camouflage), 
Mages (with Invisibility), and 
Rogues (with Stealth AND the ever-useful Shroud of Concealment) do not need Invisibility Potions (but should bring a few JUST IN CASE). -
Shaman bring a huge amount of utility to a CM group, but a glyphed grounding totem is a pretty handy little spell to fling some damage back out at attackers, especially on bosses like Ming the Cunning in Mogu’shan Palace, whose Lightning Bolt hits unreasonably hard. - Wowhead’s MoP class guides each have a Challenge Mode page with tips, tricks, and profession/gearing advice. Check them out before you head into your first set of CMs!
Routes
Gate of the Setting Sun
Bloodlust Timings
Saboteur Kip’tilak, Raigonn on Weak Spot or P2
Mogu’shan Palace
Bloodlust Timings
1st pull, Xin the Weaponmaster
Scarlet Halls
Bloodlust Timings
Scarlet Monastery
Bloodlust Timings
Scholomance
Bloodlust Timings
Shado-Pan Monastery
Bloodlust Timings
Siege of Niuzao Temple
Bloodlust Timings
Stormstout Brewery
Bloodlust Timings
Temple of the Jade Serpent
Bloodlust Timings
1st pull and/or 1st boss, Sha of Doubt
Helpful Resources
For play-by-play video guides, more helpful resources, and additional information on Mists of Pandaria Classic, check out the resources below:
- Marza’s Aftermath Challenge Mode Guides Playlist (missing Shado-Pan Monastery)
- Tales of Lumin’s Challenge Mode Dungeon - Gold Guides Playlist
- Nerthech’s World Record Attempts Playlist
- The challenge mode tips and info thread by ferrofibrous
- Scottejaye’s detailed discussions on Vegeance changes for tanks in MoP Classic.
- Scottejaye’s seminar on the best tanks for MoP Classic.
A very special thanks to:
- Seagullible, creator of the MoP Challenge Modes Discord
- BigKev and everyone in the Challenge Modes Discord for their help and support!
Links
Join the Challenge Modes Discord
Download the Raider.IO Client
Set up Raider.IO Discord Alerts
Join Raider.IO on Discord
Follow Raider.IO on Twitter
About the Author
Gogogadgetkat has been playing WoW since late BC, and has been the GM of her guild Propaganda since its creation in 2014. As a career healer, Kat has a number of CEs and over 200 Challenge Mode golds under her belt, all on a variety of healing classes and specs—she’s a serial altoholic! In addition to Mythic raiding and a little Mythic+, creating safe, inclusive spaces in gaming is her longtime passion; Kat has been an admin for the Perky Pugs community since late BfA, and is also a founding council member and the Executive Director for the DEIBAJ initiative VISAGE. She is excited to bring her wealth of experience and love of writing to the Raider.IO team.
About the Editor
VitaminP (VP) is the Content Manager of Raider.IO. VP holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and has worked for Raider.IO since the formation of its News Section in November 2018. VP specializes in tanking classes and has loved doing competitive Mythic+ on and off since early Legion.
- What are Challenge Modes?
Rules & Restrictions Rewards - General Tips & Tricks
- Routes GATE: Gate of the Setting Sun MP: Mogu’shan Palace HALLS: Scarlet Halls SM: Scarlet Monastery SCHOLO: Scholomance SPM: Shado-Pan Monastery SNT: Siege of Niuzao Temple BREW: Stormstout Brewery TJS: Temple of the Jade Serpent
- Helpful Resources
