Zaishen Challenge Quest

Every day, we challenge you with different objectives, all over the world, running the gamut from missions to bounties to PvP. Take our daily challenges and get big rewards, including Zaishen Coins! Both challenge quests and Zaishen Coins were introduced in our Fourth Anniversary Update.

The Zaishen post their challenges each day at Noon (Eastern Time) (16:00 UTC) on signs in the Great Temple of Balthazar. Click the signs to read the quest details and accept the challenge. Please note that, although you can finish them whenever you like, your Quest Log can only hold up to three of each type of Zaishen Challenge Quests.

Three quest types are offered each day
 * Zaishen Mission: Finish missions deemed high priority by the Zaishen. These are replays of campaign missions.
 * Zaishen Bounty: Eliminate bosses targeted by the Zaishen. These take you to various dungeons, veteran missions, and explorable areas.
 * Zaishen Combat: Triumph over other players or teams in various types of PvP combat.

All of the Zaishen Mission, Zaishen Combat, and Zaishen Bounty quests have already been created; to update the table, link to and edit the appropriate page as the challenge comes up.

At a Glance
Note: ANet has revealed a planned update that we expect will invalidate these forecasts.§

Longer Forecast
For a weeklong forecast, see Zaishen Challenge Quest/Forecast

Rewards
Each quest has one Base Objective, which is required to complete the quest. The rewards for completing a quest include:
 * Experience
 * Faction
 * Gold
 * Title points
 * Copper Zaishen Coins

Quests also have one or more optional Bonus Objectives, which reward extra Copper Zaishen Coins.
 * Prophecies missions have two bonuses, one for completing the mission in Hard Mode and one for completing the Bonus.
 * Factions and Nightfall missions have two bonuses, one for completing the mission in Hard Mode and one for achieving a Master's ranking.
 * Eye of the North missions have one bonus, completing the mission in Hard Mode.
 * The bounties have one bonus, killing the target in Hard Mode.
 * The PvP have two bonuses, requiring an increased number of victories, and potentially more difficult variants of the base objective, such as a streak of wins or a high-scoring victory.

Zaishen Coins
Zaishen Coins come in copper, silver, and gold denominations. The challenge quests reward only copper coins; the coppers can be exchanged for silvers and silvers for golds at the reward NPCs in the Great Temple of Balthazar (near the challenge signposts). Additionally, each coin type can be traded to these NPCs for a variety of other items.


 * Tesla [Zaishen Copper Rewards]
 * Pokhe [Zaishen Silver Rewards]
 * Jessie Llam [Zaishen Gold Rewards]

An update could invalidate the predictions above

 * Linsey Murdock's journal discusses ANet's plans to remove both the Hero Battles and Team Arena PvP formats and replace them with a 4v4 Sealed Deck format.
 * Gaile Gray has said HB/TA will be removed in this week's build. (likely 22 Oct, since updates are more often on Thursdays)
 * When the change takes place, it will invalidate the current Zaishen Combat rotation listed above.
 * ANet might also use this opportunity to add Pogahn Passage to the rotation, thereby re-scrambling the Zaishen Mission rotation.
 * Past resets of the rotation affected all three categories, so most "ANet watchers" expect that the Zaishen Bounty predictions will also have to be re-adjusted.

Time
The quests change at 16:00 UTC, which translates into other time zones as follows:

Trivia

 * The day with the highest reward so far was July 15, 2009 at 710 Copper Zaishen Coins.
 * The days with the least reward so far were May 12, 2009 and June 15, 2009 at 190 Copper Zaishen Coins.