API GetInstanceLockTimeRemaining

Returns info for the instance lock timer for the current instance. lockTimeleft, isPreviousInstance, encountersTotal, encountersComplete = GetInstanceLockTimeRemaining

• lockTimeLeft: - Seconds until lock period ends.
• isPreviousInstance: - Whether this instance has yet to be entered since last lockout expired (allowing for lock extension options).
• encountersTotal: - Total number of bosses in the instance.
• encountersComplete: - Number of bosses already dead in the instance.

• On the continent of Pandaria, unlike other open world continents, is reported as 4. According to, this corresponds with the first 4 Pandaria world bosses of the expansion - Galleon, Sha of Anger, Nalak, and Oondasta.
• As of patch 5.4, the new world boss system isolates non-instance lockouts to and . It is likely that interacting with those bosses or their loot no longer has any effect on the old instance-based system represented by this function.

• (...) - drills down to specific boss
• (...) - newer, expanded version of this function