“A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.”
– Andrew Bernstein
So it’s been a while since I last posted about running Challenge Modes with the Challenge Mode Noobs. We’ve been running it on the weekends while we can and Navi‘s been detailing our adventures as we go. My screenshots have been piling up and I’ve been slacking on posting them, so here’s an image dump of our last runs.
There were three instances I needed to finish up the Challenge Conqueror: Bronze achievement:
Scarlet Monastery
Navi, me, Karn, Luxy and Lush in Scarlet Monastery
Shado-Pan Monastery
Luxy, Navi, Karn, me and Lush in Shado-Pan Monastery
Scholomance
Navi, Karn, me, Luxy and Lush in Scholomance
Completing all the Challenge Modes with a bronze medal rewards you with a sweet title, “the Undaunted”.
With bronzes safely secured, it was time to turn them into silvers. I already had two in hand; one from an earlier CMN run in Mogu’shan Palace and the other in a CMS (Challenge Mode Slackers – aka my guildies, lol) run in Gate of the Setting Sun.
Temple of the Jade Serpent
Sev, Navi, me, Luxy and Lush in Temple of the Jade Serpent
Siege of Niuzao Temple
Karn, Luxy, me, Navi and Lush in Siege of Niuzao Temple
Scarlet Halls
Luxy, me and Navi in Scarlet Halls
This past Sunday, we tried for another silver in the Scarlet Monastery, but we had trouble with the trash pack after Thalnos the Soulrender. When we finally figured out how to manage it, it got late and Sev had to go. I think we’ll be ready this weekend to snag the silver in there.
With those three silvers, that puts me at 5/9 (4/9 for the Frostees), leaving four instance”S” to complete: Scarlet Monastery, Stormstout Brewery, Shado-Pan Monastery and Scholomance. Halfway there to our Ancestral Phoenix Mount!
To echo a comment that Luxy made on her most recent post (which you should check out for a hilarious pic of Navi, haha), I really enjoy running these CMs with the CMN (me, Lush, Luxy, Navi and our fifth revolving member, lol). It can get frustrating at times when we make dumb mistakes on adds or missing medals by seconds, but the rewards for finally getting it are totally worth it. It may take us one or two or four resets to earn that medal, but we never give up, everyone is a good sport and we just laugh about it after all is said and done. Plus, what can beat bubble-running through adds and getting your favorite druid healer killed in the process? =P
The Crimson Hammer 
Grats!!! 😀
Thanks, now I need to get the rest of the Challenge Mode Slackers back into doing them so we can get some guild achievements out of it. I also want those titles coming out in patch 5.4 for each instance for having the best CM times on the server. =)
You gotta pry Slice away from TOR
Wat? The flashy bling-bling medals aren’t enticing enough? Oh, and we get a full set of transmog gear for all golds that will make him look even prettier, lol.
Might as well take advantage of being on a low-pop server, no?
I don’t know if they can compete with his new toon Chad.
Chad is pretty awesome
Like Chad from Charlie’s Angels, played by Tom Green??? =P
Nah, Chad is a Chiss Jedi Knight. He is built like a Ken doll.
Hold up, Slice is playing a male toon??? Unpossible, that’s not like him to abandon female models! He has definitely turned to the dark side….
He wanted to be able to romance the female companions and the only way he could was to play a guy.
He isn’t happy with the idea either.
So we made Chad. 😀
Lol!
trying to VP cap 37 90s is all the challenge mode I need
Lol, I capped four last week and that was a pain. You definitely win if you can do 33 more than that =P
Gosh, seeing them all like this shows how much work we have really put in to them even with just one night a week!
Yeah, we’ve definitely come a long way from when we first started these, but we still have a long ways to go, especially for the golds, lol.