Gold Party Challenge

GoldChallenge

Track your gold farming runs in real-time — solo, in party, or across separate instances with friends.

GoldChallenge monitors every item you loot and every gold coin that hits your bags during a session. It values items using TSM (with vendor price fallback), displays a live leaderboard, and lets you compete with others even when you're each in your own instance of a dungeon.

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Features

• Real-time gold & item tracking — looted items are priced via TSM (dbminbuyout → dbmarket → regionmarketavg) with automatic vendor price fallback
• Live leaderboard — see who's winning the gold run at a glance, sorted by total value
• Party mode — start a challenge as host, party members auto-join and their loot syncs to your leaderboard
• Cross-instance whisper mode — players outside your party (e.g. each in their own Razorfen Downs instance) can join via the in-game addon channel without any visible chat spam
• Compact mini-mode — collapse the window to just the 3 stat banners, recent loots, and top-3 leaderboard
• Recent loots list — last 5 looted items with their values
• Invite system — invite players to your party directly from the addon window
• TSM optional — works without TSM installed, falls back to vendor sell price

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How to Use

Solo / Party

1. Open the window with /gchal
2. Click START — if you're in a party, you automatically become the host and all party members are notified
3. Loot items and farm gold — everything is tracked automatically
4. Click STOP when done

Cross-instance (e.g. solo dungeon runs with friends)

Host:

1. Click START (or /gchal host)
2. Share your character name with participants

Each participant:

1. Open the window with /gchal
2. Type the host's name in the JOIN SESSION box and click Join
3. The addon connects silently via whisper — no chat spam
4. Track your own loot normally, scores sync to the host's leaderboard in real-time

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Slash Commands

Both /gchal and /goldchallenge are supported.

Command	Description
/gchal	Open the GoldChallenge window
/gchal host	Open a lobby — party members can join before the challenge starts
/gchal start	Start the challenge timer and loot tracking
/gchal stop	Stop the session and close the lobby
/gchal join [Name]	Join another player's lobby or running challenge by their character name
/gchal leave	Leave the current session (without stopping it for others)
/gchal invite [Name]	Invite a player to your party
/gchal debug	Toggle debug output

   

Typical flow:

1. /gchal host — open a lobby, wait for friends to join via /gchal join YourName
2. /gchal start — everyone's timer begins simultaneously
3. /gchal stop — end the challenge and broadcast the final leaderboard

   

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Requirements

• World of Warcraft Retail (The War Within / latest patch)
• TSM (TradeSkillMaster) — optional, recommended for accurate item pricing

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Notes

• Item prices are pulled in this priority: TSM minimum buyout → TSM 14-day market average → TSM region average → vendor sell price
• Gold tracking counts only incoming gold (loots, quest rewards) — repairs and purchases are excluded
• The leaderboard resets with each new session