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.

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

How to Use

Solo / Party

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

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

Host:

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

Each participant:

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

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:

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

Requirements

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

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

Gold Party Challenge