Crimson Cloud Serpent

GuaranteedAbout 4 h to unlock firstDungeon · HeroicA step needs 2 players

Mists of Pandaria · Achievement

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Achievement: Glory of the Pandaria Hero

Category: Dungeons & Raids

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How to get it

Reward of the achievement Glory of the Pandaria Hero: Pandaria Dungeon Hero (the nine Mists of Pandaria dungeons finished on Heroic) and 27 achievements inside those dungeons, all but two of them on Heroic difficulty. The reward item is Reins of the Crimson Cloud Serpent.

Inside The Mists of Pandaria dungeons, a dungeon (Heroic)

Guide Wowhead: Glory of the Pandaria Hero

Before you go

The 28 achievements: one Heroic run of each of the nine dungeons doing its achievements on the way. Temple of the Jade Serpent 3, Stormstout Brewery 4, Mogu'shan Palace 3, Shado-Pan Monastery 3, Gate of the Setting Sun 2, Scarlet Halls 2, Scarlet Monastery 2, Scholomance 4, Siege of Niuzao Temple 3, then Polyformic Acid Science (six bosses of the Pandaria dungeons killed under a one-hour potion fetched from Scholomance) and Pandaria Dungeon Hero for finishing all nine on Heroic · about 4 h
A second player for School's Out Forever (Scholomance): Darkmaster Gandling only casts Harsh Lesson while two party members are in combat with him, and then sends the two in turn into the side rooms until every room is open and all 50 Expired Test Subjects are out, to be killed within 20 seconds
Two players at the same moment for What Does This Button Do? (Mogu'shan Palace): the two crystals that light up in opposite corners of Xin the Weaponmaster's room have to be activated together

In all: about 4 h of play, starting from nothing.

Getting there

Temple of the Jade Serpent entrance (six of the nine dungeons are in Pandaria; the Scarlet Halls and the Scarlet Monastery are in Tirisfal Glades, Scholomance in the Western Plaguelands)

The Jade Forest · 56.2, 57.9

/way The Jade Forest 56.2 57.9

From Stormwind (Alliance) about 1.4 min of travel

Take the portal from Wizard's Sanctum to Jade Forest*
Fly the rest of the way

From Orgrimmar (Horde) about 1.8 min of travel

Take the portal from Pathfinder's Den to Jade Forest*
Fly the rest of the way

/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.

Notes and sources

The place given is one dungeon entrance of nine; the time there is left at 0 and the whole of the work is under Before you go, as for the other dungeon-glory mounts. The 28 criteria are the same in Wowhead's tooltip and on the wiki, and the tooltip marks progress as account-wide.

Below, by dungeon: the entrance from the game's own table, and each requirement from the wiki or Wowhead's guide.

Temple of the Jade Serpent (The Jade Forest 56.2, 57.9):

Hydrophobia: Wise Mari without being hit by Corrupted Water, Hydrolance or Wash Away
Cleaning Up: the Sha of Doubt killed while the Purified Water from Wise Mari's death still runs, five minutes by the guide
Seeds of Doubt: the Sha of Doubt killed under 4 Seeds of Doubt

Stormstout Brewery (Valley of the Four Winds 36.1, 69.4); the last two count on any difficulty:

Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin': Ook-Ook hit with 20 Rolling Brew Barrels
Hopocalypse Now!: 100 virmen with one hammer swing
How Did He Get Up There?: make the Hozen Clinger let go
Ling-Ting's Herbal Journey: 30 Golden Hoplings, seen only under Ling-Ting's Favorite Tea

Mogu'shan Palace (Vale of Eternal Blossoms 81.6, 29.9):

Glintrok N' Roll: Gekkan and his entourage dead within 5 minutes of being spotted by the Glintrok Scout
What Does This Button Do?
Quarrelsome Quilen Quintet: the five Jade Quilen

Shado-Pan Monastery (Kun-Lai Summit 36.7, 47.3):

Respect: bow to the beaten Shado-Pan Novices in the Master Snowdrift event
The Obvious Solution: release and kill the sha of the Sealed Chambers, then the Sha of Violence
Hate Leads to Suffering: Taran Zhu killed with every party member at maximum hatred

Gate of the Setting Sun (Dread Wastes 75.8, 20.1 in the table):

Bomberman: 15 explosions within 15 seconds on Saboteur Kip'tilak
Conscriptinator: three stacks of Resin Residue from Mantid Conscripts

Scarlet Halls (Tirisfal Glades 85.3, 32.3):

Humane Society: Houndmaster Braun without killing a hound
Mosh Pit: 8 players and Scarlet Defenders between them caught in Armsmaster Harlan's Blades of Light

Scarlet Monastery (Tirisfal Glades 84.8, 30.3):

Burning Man: Brother Korloff sets six training dummies alight
And Stay Dead!: let High Inquisitor Whitemane cast Mass Resurrection, kill the revived Scarlet Judicators, then her

Scholomance (Western Plaguelands 69.0, 72.7):

Attention to Detail: Jandice Barov without destroying a false image
Rattle No More: Rattlegore with no more than 5 stacks of Rusting
Sanguinarian: a Krastinovian Carver killed at 99 stacks of Boiling Bloodthirst
School's Out Forever

Siege of Niuzao Temple (a western island of Townlong Steppes; the table has no entrance for it and the wiki no coordinates):

Where's My Air Support?: kill the Sik'thik Amberwing, then Commander Vo'jak
Return to Sender: General Pa'valak killed with 20 stacks of Detonate
Run with the Wind: Ner'onok killed under Tenwu's Resolve

Pandaria Dungeon Hero is the nine Heroic clears.

Polyformic Acid Science: the Polyformic Acid Potion stands on the table by Professor Slate in Scholomance once he is dead and lasts one hour (wiki); the guide adds that Normal Scholomance gives the potion too and that an Empty Polyformic Acid Vial can bottle the disguise for later. Under it these have to die on Heroic:

Liu Flameheart
Yan-Zhu the Uncasked
the Trial of the King
Gu Cloudstrike
Commander Ri'mok
Vizier Jin'bak

On the number of players: for School's Out Forever the guide of 2012 has Gandling send each of five players into a room once, and comments of 2014 and 2017 on the meta-achievement still ask for five. The comments on the achievement itself show that since late 2020 he keeps alternating between two. Several of them (2021, +58; 2022; 2022, +79) do it with two characters of one account, leaving the game on one and logging in the other. He does not cast until taunted or struck (2024), and has to be kept alive meanwhile.

Other points of doubt:

What Does This Button Do? rests on the wiki and the guide alone, as said under Before you go
Return to Sender: a 2014 comment could not get 20 stacks alone and thought two or three people were needed for the bombs; nothing newer was found
Mosh Pit: the wiki's text says the eight have to be caught 'simultaneously', the guide that they need not be at once and that Scarlet Defenders count
a 2023 comment reported Wise Mari's two achievements broken and was later edited to say they work again

Many of the achievements ask for a boss to live until something has happened, which a strong character has to hold back for.

Wowhead's guide (MasterGaming101, 2012, last updated 2018) gives each achievement's wording and a way to do it, written for a level 90 party of five; it lists two that are not criteria (Mantid Swarm, Empowered Spiritualist). wow.gg's guide (2026) calls most of the achievements by names that do not exist and gives '1-2 hours'; it is not linked and its time not used.

Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.

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