Challenge Mode Dungeons Re-open on Wednesday - Updated July 29

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For a few hours following the launch of Mists of Pandaria Classic, Challenge Mode Dungeons were accessible to max-level characters and due to a bug, players incorrectly received Achievements for accomplishments they did not complete. We quickly closed access to Challenge Mode dungeons as soon as the issue appeared, while we worked to diagnose the problem.

We have fixed the issue, and to resolve it and equal the playing field, we’re moving forward with a clean slate and removing all Challenge Mode Achievements that were attained during the period of time that Challenge Modes were open. Further, so that all players will have access to Challenge Modes again at the same time, we will unlock access to Challenge Modes on MoP Classic realms in this region at 03:00 CEST on Wednesday, July 30.

Thank you very much for your feedback. We’re excited to see you dive back into Challenge Modes in MoP Classic.

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equal playing field = releasing CM on midnight during the week instead of the scheduled time where people could plan around? lol, lmao even

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good thing i did not bother to try this XD

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Greetings,

I would like to share a few thoughts regarding the EU Golemagg Challenge Mode realm first 9/9 Gold achievement. (Although what I’m about to say likely applies to most other realms as well.)

Our realm first attempt on Golemagg had us leading by approximately three or four dungeons compared to others. We were extremely well-prepared and pushed hard through leveling, barely taking a break — I don’t think we paused for even 10 minutes during that night and early morning.

I do not feel it is fair that those who didn’t put in the same level of effort might now have the opportunity to obtain this achievement due to it being removed from others. I believe anyone in our position would feel the same way.

I’m confident it would be technically feasible to revoke the Gold achievement only from those who did not actually complete the dungeons with Gold times, while allowing those who did to keep theirs. I don’t think this would be a huge effort for Blizzard, as this could be verified through the API.

Alternatively, a fair compromise might be to award the Realm First! Challenge Conqueror: Gold achievement to the first team on each realm that completed 8 out of 9 dungeons with Gold times.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Don’t forget to remove the dungeon teleports from people’s spell books as well. Could easily be overlooked and ruin the race.

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As a fellow realms first CM pusher I second this notion. A full reset on an arbitrary day will nullify the hard afford put into preparing and exectuting on launch night.

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Same for us. We were over 2 hours ahead. Would’ve been an easy Realm First

Instead of Blizzard actually putting in some effort, they just remove everything, it’s crazy.

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We’d like to share more about what happened with the Challenge Mode Dungeon system last week, and our plans moving forward.

What happened?

After the launch of Challenge Mode Dungeons, we encountered a few bugs that heavily impacted those who were pursuing realm firsts. To help maintain a fair race, we disabled Challenge Mode until we could get those issues fixed. Those bugs included:

  • Players who did Challenge Mode Dungeons were awarded every medal (Gold, Silver, Bronze) regardless of the completion time. This affected a small number of players, but these achievements have unique associated rewards that players would get without earning them. It also had a huge potential impact on the race on each realm.
  • Players who completed Heroic Temple of the Jade Serpent were not being rewarded the Heroic achievement, which blocked their access to the Challenge Mode version of that dungeon. This halted groups at 8/9 progress.

Now what?

We fixed the Heroic Temple of the Jade Serpent bug, and players will be able to access that Challenge Mode when they go live tomorrow.

We’ve identified the players who obtained Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals incorrectly and we’re clearing those achievements from players during maintenance. Thereafter, anyone impacted will log in to find those achievements and rewards removed.

We’ve identified the players would would have earned the Realm First! Challenge Conqueror Gold! achievement if the system had not been taken offline, and we’re going to award the Realm First! achievement to them before Challenge Modes are reopened. Again, players will log in and find the achievements awarded.

Our process for determining who would have earned the Realm First! Challenge Conqueror Gold! achievement was quite comprehensive. We took many factors into consideration such as: completion times, acquisition speed of the achievements, players current progress toward Realm First! when the dungeons were disabled, and their lead on the second and third place teams.

In cases where the times were extremely close, we’re awarding it to multiple groups of players.

The removal and addition of achievements will take place during realm maintenance, which is scheduled for 03:00 CEST on July 30.

Thank you so much for your passion for the game, your participation in Challenge Modes, and you patience as we get the system functioning properly!

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Big W for blizzard. Good job.

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Can you atleast give people who clear it first after the fresh start a realm first Achievement? My team got realm first 90s and was in the lead by 1 or 2 hours for CMs but we stopped for a bit because we knew that we couldn’t do Jade Temple and CMs were bugged in general, people getting gold Achi when not clearing in time etc. We adjusted strategy and prio’d gearing up instead so that when Jade temple was fixed we could clear it the fastest, how could we possibly know it would be a race for 8/9.

We were looking forwards to doing the race on an even playing field, could you atleast award additional realm firsts to teams who put in the effort to clear it first on the midnight re-open, seems like people who got screwed over by the bug atleast get a second chance this way and the best teams can prevale.

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It would be love if u as devs would adress the bugreport i made. We are a small server but we still earned our realm first achievements the right way. It would be nice if u dont rip of our achievements because u are not able to follow your own FAQs/Eligable players for realm firsts :slight_smile:

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I agree, this should be taken into account.

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I know this is a long shot, but could you atleast grant my team realm firsts also, we only stopped to take a break and sort professions etc because it was impossible to complete realm first, we (correctly) expected it wouldn’t be fixed until atleast a bit later. When we stopped we were head and shoulders above any other team on the server.

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100% agree.

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Of course Blizzard fumbling and dropping the bag. It was clear as day which team would get the realm first on Firemaw. Make it right.

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Well given the description in bluepost it seems like they’re gonna give realm first to one team per server, so even ppl who did 8/9 aren’t guaruanteed to get it

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Update July 29

Challenge Mode dungeons will be activated in this region with weekly maintenance, which begins at 03:00 CEST.

When realms come back up after maintenance, Challenge Modes will be available to all.

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this is a joke right?

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This is really bad.
At least set it to a time instead of “sometime when the servers open after maintenance”

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Blizzard just farming L’s it’s actually insane LOL :rofl:

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