Temple of the Jade Serpent: Gold

Stuff we learned on our way to gold:

The only viable route seems to start with Wise Mari (to the left). Kite all Packs on the way to the boss room (we actually killed one on the way). This way you'll have something to do between the Water Elemental spawns (which are still the #1 priority of course). The boss will hit you with 200k-water spouts when you don't stand at least in the outer ring, furthermore there seemed to be random single hits whenever you stand near the quarter where Corrupted waters are active, so stay away from it if you can. We used Heroism for the Boss to have it again for the final boss.

On the way to the "Trial of the Yaungol" (2nd boss) we started with a short invisibility potion to skip all the packs before the bridge. Beware of the sleep/silence of the last two packs (songbird, cheetah and bug along with some trash). Start the roleplaying as soon as the first pack goes down.
The boss does not switch from normal/heroic: Just dps one until he reaches 6-7 stacks, then switch. Run to the door while the bosses die, clean the four trash packs.

The third boss (Liu Flameheart) is just tank&spank but hits extremely hard with her dispellable debuff in the first phase.

If you are able to skip the following three trashmobs you'll save A LOT of time, however they have true sight, so probably only hunters can kite them away and feign death or something. Of course your tank could kite them into the room and die if you're into stuff like that, but that feels like cheating :-)

We tried some kite-tactics for the final boss (Sha of Doubt), the idea being that he'd run to his spawn position before becoming unattackable, giving you some crucial extra seconds. However, we were more successfull by dully dpsing him where he stands. While we didn't, I'm convinced you can kill him before the seconds shadow spawn phase, probably if you burst away the first shadows extremely fast.

Let me finally say that Challenge Modes are the most fun I had in 5-mans since Classic and early BC, thanks a lot Blizz for this truly challenging (see what i did there?) experience.

Have fun!

Completing these Gold achievements rewards a teleport spell so you can quickly get to the instance when ever you want. These spells are fly-out spells, meaning they are grouped and only take one actionbar slot -that's nice. The fly-out group consists of:

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Temple of the Jade Serpent: Gold

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Stormstout Brewery: Gold

[spell=131206]

Shado-Pan Monastery: Gold

[spell=131222]

Mogu'shan Palace: Gold

[spell=131225]

Gate of the Setting Sun: Gold

[spell=131231]

Scarlet Halls: Gold

[spell=131229]

Scarlet Monastery: Gold

[spell=131232]

Scholomance: Gold

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Siege of Niuzao Temple: Gold

The complete list (in case this gets outdated) of Gold dungeon challenge achievements can be found here.

Also, if you ever wonder what heroics you have yet to complete and unlock challenge mode for, simply paste this into the chat on your character:
/run for x,i in ipairs({6456,6470,6756,6758,6759,6760,6761,6762,6763})do local _,_,_,c,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,m,b=GetAchievementInfo(i)print(x,"\124cff"..(m and"00ff00C"or"ff0000Inc").."ompleted\124r",GetAchievementLink(i))end

anyone have some idea about guide on how to get gold ? team setup , usefull hints , anything ? i know they reduce gear lvl so maybe there a way to reforge or enchant gear to make it better runs , please give me some info , wowhead is a very usefull source of information and strategy and im very surprise to find nothing on some of the most hard challenge in game atm !