The Golden Lotus is a Pandaren faction that watches over the Vale of EternalBlossoms, having kept its doors closed for thousands of years. Recent developments(Mogu invasion, Sha manifestations, and arrival of the Alliance and the Horde) haveforced the Golden Lotus to reopen the gates of the Vale in order to seek outside help.

After reaching level 90, you will be able to increase your reputation with theGolden Lotus by doing daily quests in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, during whichyou will help the Pandaren in their struggle against the Mogu invasion.

In this guide, we will detail the daily quests and explain how toobtain all the related achievements.

1. Overview↑top

After the destruction of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms inPatch 5.4, the only remaining quest hub is the Setting Sun Garrison. We left theguide untouched, as a reminder of what it was like when the Vale was stillintact. The remaining quests do not seem to have received a buff inreputation given, so reaching exalted reputation with the Golden Lotus(through daily questing) should now take a lot more time than before.

Every day, you will start your Golden Lotus quests at the Golden Pagoda,in the central area of the Vale of Eternal Blossom. The daily quests aresplit in 3 parts, each part taking you to a different location in the valeto counter the Mogu invasion.

You will receive approximately 1,500 reputation every day, so it will takeabout 3 weeks to reach exalted reputationwith the Golden Lotus. It will take less if you are a Human or if your guildhas unlocked the +10% reputation perk.

You can earn another 400 reputation a day by doing the Golden Lotus Work Orderat your farm (see our Tillers guide).

1.1. Grand Commendation of the Golden Lotus

As soon as you reach revered reputation withthe Golden Lotus, make sure to purchase the Grand Commendation of the Golden Lotus fromthe faction quartermaster. Usingthis item will allow you to reach exalted reputationmuch faster.

1.2. Champion A Faction

In order to increase your reputation gains with the Golden Lotus, you canchoose to champion them in the reputation tab of your characterpanel. This will cause you to gain addition reputation when doing variousactivities, but mostly through running Heroic dungeons and scenarios.

2. Rewards↑top

The Golden Lotus will reward you with a tabard, three mounts, professionpatterns, and many pieces of gear. All the rewards can be bought fromJaluu the Generous in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

2.1. Tabard

After reaching exalted reputation, you canbuy the Golden Lotus Tabard, which costs 10 .

2.2. Mounts

After reaching exalted reputation, you can buythe following mounts:

• Reins of the Azure Riding Crane for 500 ;
• Reins of the Regal Riding Crane for 1,500 ;
• Reins of the Golden Riding Crane for 2,500 ;

2.3. Professions

Item	Profession	Reputation
Pattern: Greater Cerulean Spellthread	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Greater Pearlescent Spellthread	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Robes of Creation	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Gloves of Creation	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Spelltwister's Grand Robe	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Spelltwister's Gloves	Tailoring	honored
Pattern: Angerhide Leg Armor	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Ironscale Leg Armor	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Shadowleather Leg Armor	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Chestguard of Earthen Harmony	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Gloves of Earthen Harmony	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Greyshadow Chestguard	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Greyshadow Gloves	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Lifekeeper's Robe	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Lifekeeper's Gloves	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Wildblood Vest	Leatherworking	honored
Pattern: Wildblood Gloves	Leatherworking	honored

2.4. Gear

2.4.1. Armor

Blue quality items have a level of 458while Epic quality item have a level of489. As of Patch 5.4, reputation requirements for these items havebeen removed.

Item Name	Armor	Slot	Main Stats	Cost
Mantle of the Golden Sun	Shoulder	Cloth	Intellect/Hit	1,750
Tenderheart Shoulders	Shoulder	Cloth	Intellect/Spirit	1,750
Vestments of Thundering Skies	Chest	Cloth	Intellect/Hit	2,250
Robe of the Five Sisters	Chest	Cloth	Intellect/Spirit	2,250
Tranquility Bindings	Wrist	Cloth	Intellect	1,250
Bracers of Eternal Resolve	Wrist	Cloth	Intellect/Spirit	1,250
Whitepetal Shouldergarb	Shoulder	Leather	Intellect	1,750
Mistfall Robes	Chest	Leather	Intellect	2,250
Wandering Friar's Gloves	Hands	Leather	Intellect/Spirit	440
Imperion Spaulders	Shoulder	Leather	Agility	1,750
Softfoot Silentwrap	Chest	Leather	Agility	2,250
Surehand Grips	Hands	Leather	Agility	440
Mindbender Shoulders	Shoulder	Mail	Intellect	1,750
Robes of the Setting Sun	Chest	Mail	Intellect	2,250
Snowpack Waders	Legs	Mail	Intellect	565
Windwalker Spaulders	Shoulder	Mail	Agility	1,750
Breastplate of the Golden Pagoda	Chest	Mail	Agility	2,250
Leggings of Twisted Vines	Legs	Mail	Agility	565
Paleblade Shoulderguards	Shoulder	Plate	Intellect	1,750
Battleguard of Guo-Lai	Chest	Plate	Intellect	2,250
Bracers of Inner Light	Wrist	Plate	Intellect	1,250
Stonetoe Spaulders	Shoulder	Plate	Strength	1,750
Shoulders of Autumnlight	Shoulder	Plate	Strength/Dodge	1,750
Dawnblade's Chestguard	Chest	Plate	Strength	2,250
Cuirass of the Twin Monoliths	Chest	Plate	Strength/Sodge	2,250
Serrated Forearm Guards	Wrist	Plate	Strength	1,250

2.4.2. Amulets, Rings, and Trinkets

Blue quality items have a level of 458while Epic quality item have a level of489. As of Patch 5.4, reputation requirements for these items havebeen removed.

Item Name	Type	Main Stats Level	Cost
Burning Necklace of the Golden Lotus	Neck	Intellect/Hit	No cost, reward from The Final Power
Mending Necklace of the Golden Lotus	Neck	Intellect/Spirit	No cost, reward from The Final Power
Delicate Necklace of the Golden Lotus	Neck	Agility	No cost, reward from The Final Power
Ferocious Necklace of the Golden Lotus	Neck	Strength	No cost, reward from The Final Power
Durable Necklace of the Golden Lotus	Neck	Strength/Parry	No cost, reward from The Final Power
Necklace of Jade Pearls	Neck	Intellect/Hit	1,250
Simple Harmonius Ring	Finger	Intellect/Hit	1,250
Pendant of Endless Inquisition	Neck	Intellect/Spirit	1,250
Leven's Circle of Hope	Finger	Intellect/Spirit	1,250
Amulet of Swirling Mists	Neck	Agility	1,250
Anji's Keepsake	Finger	Agility	1,250
Triumphant Conqueror's Chain	Neck	Strength	1,250
Ring of the Golden Stair	Finger	Strength	1,250
Gorget of Usurped Kings	Neck	Strength/Dodge	1,250
Alani's Inflexible Ring	Finger	Strength/Dodge	1,250
Mogu Rune of Paralysis	Trinket	Mastery	440

2.5. Achievements

There is a total of 10 achievements related to the Golden Lotus:

• A Taste of History;
• Collateral Damage;
• Dog Pile;
• Eternally in the Vale (currently broken on live servers);
• One Many Army;
• One Step at a Time;
• Ready for Raiding III;
• Roll Club;
• Spreading the Warmth;
• The Golden Lotus.

We detail them in a later section.

3. Milestones↑top

There are 5 milestones that you will reach by grinding reputation withthe Golden Lotus, as indicated by the objectives of the Eternally in the Valeachievement: The Golden Gate, Remember to Close the Door,The Jade Army, Weapons of the Thunder King, andWelcome Home.

The Golden Gate is automatically granted after you openthe Golden Gate, although this is currently bugged on live servers.

Remember to Close the Door is automatically granted afteryou complete the introductory quest line to the Golden Lotus, whichends with Leaving an Opening.

The Jade Army is granted when you complete The Secrets of Guo-Lai,which is given to you by Leven Dawnblade, at the GoldenPagoda, when you reach honored reputation withthe Golden Lotus.

Weapons of the Thunder King is granted after completingBattle Axe of the Thunder King, Battle Helm of the Thunder King,and Battle Spear of the Thunder King, which are given to you byZhi the Harmonious, at the Golden Pagoda, when youreach revered reputation with theGolden Lotus.

Welcome Home is granted after completing the finalquest line that is given to you after reaching exaltedreputation with the Golden Lotus. The quest line starts with The Mogu's Message(given by Leven Dawnblade at the Golden Pagoda), and continueswith What Comes to Pass, The Might of Three, and The Final Power.

3.1. Phasing Issues

When you reach honored, revered,exalted reputation with the Golden Lotus, doing the one-timequests that become available at the Golden Pagoda should be given priority over all otherGolden Lotus daily quests.

The reason for this is that when you unlock or take these quests, you enter a phase thatis different from the phase where you can kill your daily quest mobs and see yourdaily quest givers.

The phasing issues should have been solved by ahotfix from November 12.However, we are not removing this notice yet, in case some of the phasing issues still persist.

4. Daily Quests↑top

The daily quests consist of four stages.

1. Stage 1: you will start with a first series of quests at the Golden Pagoda.
2. Stage 2: you will obtain a second series of quests:
   • Mistfall Village;
   • Attack on Mistfall Village;
   • Whitepetal Lake;
   • Attack on Whitepetal Lake.
3. Stage 3: you will be given a third series of quests (only after reaching honored reputation):
   • Mistfall Village (only if the previous series of quests was not already in Mistfall Village);
   • Attack on Mistfall Village (only if the previous series of quests was not already in Mistfall Village);
   • Ruins of Guo Lai;
   • Attack on Ruins of Guo Lai;
   • Setting Sun Garrison.
4. Finally, you will get a quest that requires you to kill an elite mob in the vale.
   • If you are not honored with the Golden Lotus yet, then you will be given the final elite quest after the second series of quests.

All daily quests reward reputation with the Golden Lotus and 5x .

4.1. Stage 1: Golden Pagoda

You will always start the daily quests at the Golden Pagoda, where you will begiven 5 daily quests. The quests will grant you a total of 500 reputation with theGolden Lotus.

These quests are relatively easy and reading the quest description should bemore than enough to complete them. That said, remember that you can doFree Spirits entirely on your flying mount, which makes it a lot easier.

4.2. Stage 2: Whitepetal Lake

After completing the Stage 1 quests, you may receive theWhitepetal Lake quest, which will lead you to the lake, west of theGolden Pagoda. There, you will receive4 follow-up quests, which will grant you a total of 400 reputation,as described in the table below.

4.3. Stage 2: Attack on Whitepetal Lake

After completing the Stage 1 quests, you may receive a newseries of quests from the NPCs at the Golden Pagoda, which willconsist in defending the Whitepetal Lake area against the Moguattacks. The series of quests consists of 4 quests, which will grant youa total of 400 reputation, as described in the table below.

4.4. Stage 2 or 3: Mistfall Village

After completing the Stage 1 quests, you may receive theMistfall Village quest, which will lead you to Mistfall Village.You may also receive this quest after completing your Stage 2 quests.At Mistfall Village, you will be given a series of 4 series, which willgrant you a total of 400 reputation. There are 4 possible sets of 2 questsand you will be given 2 of these four sets, randomly.

4.5. Stage 2 or 3: Attack on Mistfall Village

After completing the Stage 1 quests, you may receive theAttack on Mistfall Village quest, which will send you to defendMistfall Village against the Mogu attacks.You may also receive this quest after completing your Stage 2 quests.At Mistfall Village, you will be given a series of 4 series, which willgrant you a total of 400 reputation, as described in the table below.

4.6. Stage 3: Ruins of Guo-Lai

After completing the Stage 2 quests, you may receive theGuo-Lai Infestation or The Ruins of Guo-Lai quest, dependingon your Stage 2 questing location. Both quests send you to the Ruinsof Guo-Lai where you will be given a series of 4 quests, which willreward you with a total of 400 reputation, as described in the tablebelow.

After completing the 3 quests given to you by Zhi the Harmonious uponreaching revered reputation with the Golden Lotus(Battle Axe of the Thunder King, Battle Helm of the Thunder King, andBattle Spear of the Thunder King), you will be offered eitherThe Crumbling Hall or The Thunder Below, as a 5th quest in Guo-Lai.We detailed these quests, which reward 200 reputation, in a later section,as you need to complete them in a particular way to earn the One Step at a Time achievement.

4.7. Stage 3: Attack on the Ruins of Guo-Lai

After completing the Stage 2 quests, you may receive theMogu within the Ruins of Guo-Lai or Guo-Lai Encampment quest, dependingon your Stage 2 questing location. Both quests send you to defend the Ruinsof Guo-Lai against the Mogu attacks. At the ruins, you will be given a seriesof 4 quests, which will reward you with a total of 400 reputation, asdescribed in the table below.

After completing the 3 quests given to you by Zhi the Harmonious uponreaching revered reputation with the Golden Lotus(Battle Axe of the Thunder King, Battle Helm of the Thunder King, andBattle Spear of the Thunder King), you will be offered eitherThe Crumbling Hall or The Thunder Below, as a 5th quest in Guo-Lai.We detailed these quests, which reward 200 reputation, in a later section,as you need to complete them in a particular way to earn the One Step at a Time achievement.

4.8. Stage 3: Setting Sun Garrison

After completing the Stage 2 quests, you may receive theSetting Sun Garrison quest, which will send you to the SettingSun Garrison in the south-western area of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.There, you will be given a series of 4 quests, which willreward you with a total of 400 reputation, as we describe in thissection.

First, you will need to complete 2 quests.

Then, you will be given the remaining 2 quests, which canbe from the combinations listed in the table below.

After completing the 3 quests given to you by Zhi the Harmonious uponreaching revered reputation with the Golden Lotus(Battle Axe of the Thunder King, Battle Helm of the Thunder King, andBattle Spear of the Thunder King), you will be offered eitherRoll Club: Serpent's Spine or Enemy at the Gates, as a 5th quest in theSetting Sun Garrison, which rewards 200 reputation.

We detail Roll Club: Serpent's Spine in thesection about the Roll Club achievement, andEnemy at the Gates in the section aboutthe Spreading the Warmth achievement.

4.9. Stage 4: Final Quest

The final daily quest depends on the Stage 3 quests of the day. In somecases, the final quest is actually a follow-up of one of the Stage 3daily quests. Each final quest rewards 200 reputation with the GoldenLotus, Treasures of the Vale, and 5x .

We believe that 3 of the elite enemies you have to kill during these finalquests are worthy of a mention.

• Cracklefang has a very dangerous ability called Devastating Arc,which he casts in the entire semi-circle in front of him. This ability has a2-second cast, which gives you little time to take cover behind him. As a result,ranged players will want to always keep a short distance between them and Cracklefang,so that they can easily move behind him when needed.
• Vicejaw has an ability called Strong-Headed, which creates a shieldthat deflects all attacks made to him from the front. When this happens, you needrun behind him and attack him from there. Sadly, if you are soloing him, he willkeep turning around to face you, which can make it very difficult to dealdamage to him. To deal with Strong Headed, you have several possibilies.
  • You can kite him to nearby patrolling Golden Lotus guards and let them assist you.
  • You can get very close to him, which will enable you to attack him without having your attacks deflected. Clothies may find it difficult to survive Vicejaw's attacks at close range.
  • You can force Vicejaw to use Upchuck. To do so, kite him over the corpses of nearby mobs (like gazelles or sauroks). Eating a corpse will grant him 10 Energy. At 100 Energy, he will cast Upchuck, which incapacitates him and increases the damage he takes.
• Kri'chon (from the Under the Setting Sun quest) can be easily killed byfollowing the right strategy. There are several Oil Kegs around the area where you fightthis scorpion. Kiting him through a keg will cause the keg to break and will debuffKri'chon with Flammable Oil. From there on, you need to attack him with a Firespell (or wait for the Shado-Pan rangers to do so) in order to inflict him with Burning Oil. Repeat whenever Burning Oil drops.

5. Achievements↑top

In the process of reaching exalted, you willearn the The Golden Lotus achievement. Normally, you should also earn Eternally in the Vale (see section about milestones).

We will walk you through the 8 remaining achievements in the followingsections.

5.1. A Taste of History

Mogu mobs in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms have a chance to drop an Ancient Guo-Lai Cache Key, which you can use to open anAncient Guo-Lai Cache and complete A Taste of History. Originally,these caches could only be found in the Guo-Lai halls, but thanks to aPatch 5.0.5 hotfix, Ancient Guo-Lai Caches can now be found in more variedlocations within the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. So, you will find thesecaches all around the vale (although you will still find them more frequentlyin the Halls of Guo-Lai).

An important mention needs to be made regarding the way in which thesecaches open. After finding a key and using it to open a cache, there will bea confirmation screen for the items in the cache. It will ask you if you arecertain that you want to loot a given item because it binds it to you. If youmove away from the cache before you looted all the items, the cache closes andlocks again. Your key is then wasted. This can easily happen if you expectthe cache to auto-loot and you just keep moving, or if you get hit by a falling stoneor if you get knocked back, etc.

The loot from the caches is extremely varied, but you will most oftenget the following items: Relic of the Thunder King, Relic of Guo-Lai, Lesser Charm of Good Fortune, and Spirit of Harmony.

5.2. Collateral Damage

To complete Collateral Damage, you need to get a Mogu Statueto kill another enemy with its Crushing Slam ability. Proceed as follows:

• Engage an enemy and bring them to low health (about 10%).
• Engage a Mogu Statue (get close enough and they will activate).
• Wait for the statue to cast Crushing Slam and kill your first enemy.

Make sure to move the first enemy away from the statue if it starts casting Crushing Stomp (it will kill the enemy without triggering the achievement).

It appears that the achievement can trigger if the statue kills a critterwith Crushing Slam.

5.3. Dog Pile

Dog Pile is very straightforward to complete. On a day whenyou quest at the Setting Sun Garrison, accept the The Battle Ringquest and go stand in the battle ring. The Shado-Pan trainees willactivate one by one. Wait for 10 of them to have become active and killthem. They do very little damage.

5.4. One Many Army

To complete One Many Army, you need to kill all the elite enemies from thefinal Golden Lotus quests. By the time you reach exaltedreputation with the Golden Lotus, you should have killed most of them. The spawninglocations of the NPCs are always the same and they do not travel much, so you cansimply fly to the locations of the NPCs you are still missing and use a/target macro in the hope of locating them precisely.Below, you will find a list of the enemies to kill and their related daily quest.

5.5. One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time is a very difficult achievement. To complete it,you need to complete The Crumbling Halland The Thunder Below without taking any damage. This include fall damageand damage absorbed by shields. So basically, if you fall or get hit by theslightest thing, you can abandon the quest and start over.

When doing The Crumbling Hall, you will have to avoid activatingthe statues, all the while dodging traps, patrols, and stones fallingfrom the ceiling. This requires practice, but any class will eventuallymanage.

When doing The Thunder Below achievement, you will also haveyour share of things to avoid on your way to Milau, but whenyou will reach him, you will have to fight him without taking damage, somethingthat is very hard for melee classes.

Milau does not auto attack, but he uses three abilities thatyou will have to constantly watch out for:

• when he starts casting Lightning Pool, start moving to avoidbeing damaged by the pool of lightning that is going to be created where youwere standing at the beginning of the cast (he will normally cast Lightning Poolseveral times in a row);
• when he starts casting Lightning Breath, get behind him where you willbe able to damage him for a few seconds;
• when he casts Lightning Sweep (at 66% and 33% health), he will pull you tohis location and you will, in most cases, take fall damage, which will prevent you fromcompleting the achievement objective. What you need to do is stand behind one of thepillars to be out of Milau's line of sight.

The easiest way to complete the achievement objectives is by having a friend accompanyyou and trigger the traps, kill the statues, patrols, and elite enemies while you stand behindsafely.

5.6. Ready for Raiding III

Ready for Raiding III will require a bit of patience but is not overly difficult.It may be frustrating for players with a bad latency, as they will find it very hard toreact in time. To complete the achievement, you need to not take damage from any sourcefrom the moment you take the quest until the moment you turn it in (avoid stepping into the bonfire next to the quest givers).

The first objective requires you to complete Survival Ring: Flame without taking damage.Simply run around the survival ring while avoiding the flames.

The second objective requires you to complete Survival Ring: Blades without takingdamage. This is more difficult than the first objective. What you need to do is find apillar and always stick to it, going around it to avoid the incoming Shado-Pan trainees.

Be careful not to take damage from the bonfire near the quest giver when you turn in the quest.

5.7. Roll Club

Roll Club requires you to finish the Serpent Spine course in 70 seconds or less, somethingthat you can only do when the Roll Club: Serpent's Spine quest is available.

Make sure to take all the early speed boosts, but do not go over 13 or 14 stacks of thespeed increasing buff, as it makes it very hard to maneuver your character. By properly avoidingoil patches and using proper trajectories, you should be able to easily obtain this achievement.

5.8. Spreading the Warmth

Spreading the Warmth can be done while you are on the Mantid Under Firequest. To complete the achievement, you need to kill 60 Krik'thik Hivelingswith a single Shado-Pan torch.

During Mantid Under Fire, you are given a vehicle action bar.Pressing 1 will throw oil and pressing 2 will throw a torch that willlight the oil.

To kill 60 Krik'thik Hivelings with a single torch (so by pressing2 only once), you first need to spam 1 to spread oil on as many hivelingsas possible and then throw a torch, hoping to have spread enough oil to kill60 hivelings. Note that you can keep throwing oil while the fire is burning,just do not throw another torch.

It appears that you can also trigger the achievement during the Enemy at the Gatesquest by killing 60 Krik'thik Hivelings in a very short time.

6. Conclusion↑top

If you have read us this far, we would like to thank you for the time youspent on the site and we hope that the guide brought you all the information you needed.

7. Changelog↑top

• 14 Sep. 2013: Updated reputation requirements and costs of gear rewards.
• 14 Sep. 2013: Added a note regarding the destruction of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.The guide will remain intact, as a reminder of what things were like before Patch 5.4.
• 16 Jul. 2013: Added section on championing a faction.
• 21 May 2013: Patch 5.3 update: Reaching reveredwith the Golden Lotus is no longer a prerequisite for the Shado-Pan and the August Celestials.
• 15 Apr. 2013: Added mention of Tillers Work Orders.