Proving Yourself: Gold Damage (Level 90)

Your gear is scaled down to item level 463 for the trial, set bonuses and the special effects of legendary meta gems are disabled, and potions cannot be used. Flasks and food buffs are allowed, and profession perks such as Synapse Springs or Nitro Boosts remain active.

Waves 1 through 6 are manageable without using major cooldowns (3-minute or longer), so hold those abilities in reserve. Use whatever crowd control your class provides — roots, stuns, fears, interrupts, or silences — to manage enemies during these early rounds.

Banana-Tossers run around and continuously fire Bananastorm at you, so use a root or snare to stop their movement immediately when they appear. Follow up by using an Amber-Weaver's orb to stun the Banana-Tosser and then burst it down quickly.

Always interrupt Heal Illusion from Mystic-type enemies to prevent them from recovering health. On waves featuring both a Banana-Tosser and a Mystic, CC one while killing the other, then clean up remaining targets in the order that leaves the least dangerous enemy for last.

Wave 7 is a significant jump in difficulty — pop your major class cooldowns here. Stand between the guardian and mystic, immediately root the Banana-Tosser and let the Amber-Weaver's orb stun it, then burn the Banana-Tosser, kill the banshee as it spawns, and finish the mystic before clearing the remaining enemies.

On waves 8 through 10, rotate your remaining major cooldowns as they come off cooldown — Ret Paladin players for example use Avenging Wrath for wave 7, Berserker for waves 8 and 9, and Avenging Wrath again on wave 10 when it returns. Survival Hunters should use Ice Trap on Weavers, Counter Shot on Mystics, and save Stampede and Rapid Fire for the wave 10 Sha when its shield drops.