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Hello! This is my guide for the Darkmoon Faire. When I first made this, the faire was pretty new and not much info was known about it. These days, there's tons of guides on the internet about it. Some of those guides are Wowhead, Icy Veins, and Joystiq. These guides focus on a more broad audience, mine focuses purely on F2P. They're pretty similar but mine has some stuff excluded, so P2Ps will probably want to view those other guides
If you played WoW Pre-4.3, then you may have gone to the original Darkmoon Faire. If you hadn't well, it wasn't exactly spectacular, in fact, it wasn't even really a faire. These days it's a pretty cool place to hangout, with games, tonks, and of course, loot!
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You can... fish up a Sea Pony! Take part in the Darkmoon Faire Deathmatch! Get exalted with the Darkmoon Faire with quests and turn-ins. Purchase Darkmoon Faire themed items for transmogrification or a dancing bear mount! Visit the Darkmoon Rabbit or the underwater cave! Even fish up a hat that looks like a fish, a fish hat that you fish to get!
Or... buy an heirloom?! Yep, you can do that. The Darkmoon Faire sells all of the PvE (ones you would normally buy with Justice Points) heirlooms for varying amounts of Darkmoon Prize Tickets. A type of currency you will get very familiar with shortly, but first more stuff you can buy!
Loot & Prizes
Heirlooms
Daenrand Dawncrest <Heirloom Prizes> sells all of the PvE heirlooms. You will see "duplicates" of heirlooms, these are to upgrade them so that they scale to 85. This has no effect for us.
2h Weapons & Bow: 160
Trinkets: 130
1h Weapons and Armor: 110
Need confirmation on Musty Tome of the Lost, I remember at being at the faire but I can't find it on Wowhead.
Mounts & Pets
Lhara <Pet & Mount Prizes> sells Darkmoon Faire exclusive pets and mounts. It will take at least two months to get one mount.
| Mounts | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Dancing Bear | 180 |
| Swift Forest Strider | 180 |
| Companion Pets | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Balloon | 90 |
| Darkmoon Cub | 90 |
| Darkmoon Hatchling | 90 |
| Darkmoon Monkey | 90 |
| Darkmoon Tonk | 90 |
| Darkmoon Turtle | 90 |
| Darkmoon Zeppelin | 90 |
Souvenirs & Stuff
Gelvas Grimegate <Souvenir & Toy Prizes> sells a variety of vanity items. Some for transmogrification! He also sells the Darkmoon Balloon for some reason.
| Transmogrification | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Hammer | 160 |
| Cloak of the Darkmoon Faire | 90 |
| Vanity | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Whistle | 90 |
| Darkmoon "Sword" | 20 |
| Darkmoon Flower | 1 |
| Consumables | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Top Hat | 10 |
| Darkmoon "Cougar" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Dragon" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Gryphon" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Murloc" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Nightsaber" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Rocket" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Snow Leopard" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Tiger" | 1 |
| Darkmoon "Wyvern" | 1 |
| Storage | Tickets |
| Darkmoon Storage Box | 1 |
Getting Started
The Darkmoon Faire - Is the starting quest for the faire, if you haven't already done it. You'll receive a Free Ticket Voucher which when turned in will give you 5 tickets and a Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide to get you started. If you can not obtain this quest you can receive your guide from a Darkmoon Faire greeter which can found by the portal to the faire.
Ticket Totals & Breakdown
For your first month of the faire you can get 163 tickets total. This is if you haven't already done the Darkmoon Faire intro quest (
Dailies: 35 or 40, if you did them before the first reset.
Kill Quest: 10
Artifacts: 40 for PvE, 15 for PvP.
Primary Professions: 44
Secondary Professions: 9, not counting Archaeology, of course.
Extra Tickets
Darkmoon Deathmatch: 5, from looting the chest.
Daily Quests
A large portion of available tickets you can get each month are through the daily quests listed below. They're fairly simple carnival type games, the cannon one can be effected by lag but the rest are straightforward. You need a Darkmoon Game Token for each attempt at each game, they can be bought from sellers throughout the faire at varying prices and amounts. Completing primary and secondary profession quests also provide one token each.
Each daily gives you a Darkmoon Game Prize, these prizes replaced the old reward system which was just a ticket. These prizes can contain 1 ticket and also a lot of the items that the faire has to offer such as the companion pets or the Darkmoon Cloak used for transmogrification!
Completing all the dailies at least once and will earn you the achievement Step Right Up.
Artifacts
What are artifacts? Artifacts are quest items you loot in dungeons and battlegrounds. You can turn each one in, once a month when the faire is in town. They give lots of tickets.
In order to find artifacts you need to have your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in your bags. They don't drop every run or every corpse you loot. If you are in a dungeon group others that have a guide can roll on it too, however, only the dungeons ones can be rolled on. The artifacts still drop when the faire isn't in town so its a good idea to stock up on them during the rest of the month. Like the profession quests these are repeatable but only once per month, unlike the dailies which reset everyday at 3:00 AM sever time.
PvE
These artifacts are looted from bosses in dungeons. Deadmines, The Stockade, Shadowfang Keep, Blackfathom Deeps, Wailing Caverns, and even Gnomeregan, all have at least one boss (some have two!) that can drop one of the following artifacts:
| ! | Ornate Weapon | Admiral Ripsnarl and Randolph Moloch |
| ! | Imbued Crystal | Twilight Lord Kelris |
| ! | Mysterious Grimoire | Lord Godfrey and Lady Anacondra |
| ! | Monstrous Egg | Mutanus the Devourer and Aku'mai |
It should be noted that Mekgineer Thermaplugg also drops Ornate Weapon. F2Ps can't queue Gnomeregan but we can still run the dungeon.
*F2Ps can't obtain or use A Treatise on Strategy or Soothsayer's Runes, so we can not get Darkmoon Dungeoneer or Darkmoon Despoiler.
PvP
These artifacts are looted from enemy corpses in battlegrounds. Just right click on enemy corpses to remove their insignia, you may have to loot a few before you see one.
| ! | Banner of the Fallen |
| ! | Adventure's Journal |
| ! | Captured Insignia |
Profession Quests
In order to do profession quests you have to have a skill level of at least 75. Otherwise, you won't even see the '!' on your minimap. Each profession quest can be done once per month including secondary professions.
Primary Professions
| Alchemy |
| ! A Fizzy Fusion - You'll need 5 Moonberry Juice which can't be bought at the faire and 5 Fizzy Faire Drink which can only be bought at the faire from Sylannia <Drink Vendor>. |
| Blacksmithing |
| ! Baby Needs Two Pair of Shoes - Take your Iron Stock that you receive from the quest giver and take it to the anvil/forge located by Daenrand Dawncrest <Heirloom Prizes> return and put the shoes on the horse. |
| Enchanting |
| ! Putting Trash to Good Use - You'll need to gather 6 Discarded Weapons which can be found around the faire grounds. Disenchant them into Soothsayer's Dust. |
| Herbalism |
| ! Herbs for Healing - You'll need to gather 6 Darkblossoms which can be found around the faire grounds. |
| Jewelcrafting |
| ! Keeping the Faire Sparkling - You'll need to gather 5 Sparkling 'Gemstone's which can be found around the faire grounds and 'cut' each one into a Bit of Glass. |
| Mining |
| ! Rearm, Reuse, Recycle - You'll need to gather 6 Tonk Scraps which can be found around the faire grounds. |
| Tailoring |
| ! Banners, Banners Everywhere! - Use your Darkmoon Banner Kit with 1 Red Dye, 1 Blue Dye, and 1 Course Thread. Place the banner. |
| Engineering |
| ! Talkin' Tonks - Take your Battered Wrench to the left of the shooting gallery and fix up the Damaged Tonks. |
| Inscription |
| ! Writing the Future - Use your Bundle of Exotic Herbs to mill them into Prophetic Ink, then use the ink to scribe Fortunes with Light Parchment. |
| Leatherworking |
| ! Eyes on the Prizes - Use your Darkmoon Craftsman's Kit to make 5 Darkmoon Prizes, you'll need 1 Course Thread, 1 Blue Dye, and 2 Shiny Baubles per prize. |
| Skinning |
| ! Tan My Hide - You'll need to gather 4 Scrape Staked Skins which can found around the faire grounds. |
Secondary Professions
| Cooking |
| ! Putting the Crunch in the Frog - Use your Plump Frogs with 5 Simple Flour to create 5 Breaded Frogs, bring them to Stamp Thunderhorn <Food Vendor> and toss them into the cauldron next to him. It doesn't seem like you can miss. So, no worries. |
| Fishing |
| ! Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs - Fish up 5 Great Sea Herrings from waters around the faire. |
| First Aid |
| ! Putting the Carnies Back Together Again - Use your Darkmoon Bandage on Injured Carnies which spawn right by the quest giver. |
Darkmoon Deathmatch
Deathmatch stuff.
Fishing
Fishing stuff.
Buffs
Darkmoon Carousel
Riding the carousel provides the buff WHEE! which stacks up to 60 mins the longer you stand on the carousel or ride it. It requires a Darkmoon Ride Ticket which can be bought from Kae Ti <Ride Tickets> standing right outside the ride.
Darkmoon Top Hat provides a similar buff but they do not stack and is lost when you die.
Sayge
Sayge buffs go here.
Achievements
| Easy | Points |
| Come One, Come All! | 5 |
| Attend the Darkmoon Faire. | |
| Blastenheimer Bullseye | 10 |
| Score a bullseye when launched from the Darkmoon Cannon. Can be difficult but you don't need help with it. | |
| Darkmoon Defender | 10 |
| Turn in all three battleground Darkmoon Artifacts. | |
| Faire Favors | 10 |
| Complete at least six profession-based quests at the Darkmoon Faire. | |
| I Was Promised a Pony | 5 |
| Ride a Darkmoon Pony. | |
| Quick Shot | 10 |
| Score a Quick Shot at the Shooting Gallery. | |
| Taking the Show on the Road / Taking the Show on the Road | 10 |
| Launch off Darkmoon Fireworks in every friendly capital city. | |
| Difficult | - |
| Darkmoon Duelist | 10 |
| Win the Darkmoon Deathmatch and receive a Pit Fighter trinket. | |
| Darkmoon Dominator | 20 |
| Win the Darkmoon Deathmatch twelve times and receive a Master Pit Fighter trinket. | |
| That Rabbit's Dynamite! | 10 |
| Slay the ferocious Darkmoon Rabbit. Will need help, ideally an invite to a raid. | |
| Impossible (can't do) | - |
| Darkmoon Dungeoneer | 10 |
| Turn in all five dungeon Darkmoon Artifacts. | |
| Darkmoon Despoiler | 10 |
| Turn in all nine Darkmoon Artifacts. | |
| Fairegoer's Feast | 10 |
| Consume one of every Darkmoon food and drink. |
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