Darkmoon Faire Guide for World of Warcraft

Table of Contents

• 1. Overview
• +2. Date and Timeline
  • 2.1. Currency
  • 2.2. Location
• +3. Rewards
  • 3.1. +10% Reputation and Experience Buff
• +4. Profession Skill-Ups
  • 4.1. Pets and Mounts
  • 4.2. Inky Black Potion
  • 4.3. Sayge's Buffs
  • 4.4. Vanity Items from Vendors
  • 4.5. Vanity Items from Other Sources
  • 4.6. Toys
  • 4.7. Darkmoon Fireworks
• +5. Flasks
  • 5.1. Heirlooms
  • 5.2. Item Sets Replicas for Transmogrification
• +6. Darkmoon Faire Replica Appearances
  • 6.1. Mage Darkmoon Replicas: Magister's Regalia and Sorcerer's Regalia
  • 6.2. Priest Darkmoon Replicas: Vestments of the Devout and Vestments of the Virtuous
  • 6.3. Warlock Darkmoon Replicas: Dreadmist Raiment and Deathmist Raiment
  • 6.4. Druid Darkmoon Replicas: Wildheart Armor and Feralheart Armor
  • 6.5. Rogue Darkmoon Replicas: Shadowcraft Armor and Darkmantle Armor
  • 6.6. Hunter Darkmoon Replicas: Beaststalker Armor and Beastmaster Armor
  • 6.7. Shaman Darkmoon Replicas: The Elements and The Five Thunders
  • 6.8. Paladin Darkmoon Replicas: Lightforge Armor and Soulforge Armor
  • 6.9. Warrior Darkmoon Replicas: Battlegear of Valor and Battlegear of Heroism
  • 6.10. Darkmoon Decks
  • 6.11. Achievements
• +7. Activities in the Darkmoon Faire
  • 7.1. Darkmoon Arcade
  • 7.2. Cauldron of Rock and Blight Boar Concerts
  • 7.3. Testing Your Strength
  • 7.4. Darkmoon Faire Mini Games
    • 7.4.1. Whack-a-Gnoll
    • 7.4.2. The Darkmoon Cannon
    • 7.4.3. Shooting Gallery
  • 7.5. Tonk Challenge
  • 7.6. Firebird's Challenge
  • 7.7. Ring Toss
  • 7.8. Races
  • 7.9. Darkmoon Deathmatch Arena
    • 7.9.1. Achievements
  • 7.10. Fishing Darkmoon Daggermaw
  • 7.11. Darkmoon Artifacts
  • 7.12. Reputation Grind
  • 7.13. Darkmoon Faire Concert — Tauren Chieftains
• 8. Changelog

The Darkmoon Faire is a mysterious, carnival-themed event in World of Warcraft that happens once a month. Learn everything there is about the Darkmoon Faire!

The Darkmoon Faire is a spooky event held once every month, in which you can participate by partaking in minigames like a real carnival. There are a lot of rewards tied to the Darkmoon Faire event!

The Darkmoon Faire event happens every month, on the first week of the month. The Darkmoon Faire will open for business on the first Sunday of the month, and stay up for that entire week.

The currency of the Darkmoon Faire is the Darkmoon Prize Ticket. These tickets are earned by participating in activities within the Faire, primarily through mini-games, though the faire provides other ways to get them.

If you are lucky, you can also buy Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack from the Black Market Auction House. This item contains between 250 to 480 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

Every month, you will be able to earn a maximum of 287 Darkmoon Prize Tickets per character during a Darkmoon Fair event. As Darkmoon Prize Tickets are Warbound, you can use multiple alts to grind for more tickets if going for certain rewards.

Outside of the main Darkmoon Faire event, you can also buy Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack from the Black Market Auction House. This item contains between 250 to 480 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

The Darkmoon Faire is located on Darkmoon Island, a special zone dedicated to the Darkmoon Faire. There are two main ways of getting to the Faire. The first way is by physically going to their main portal locations and teleporting there - One is located just south of Goldshire in Elwynn Forest, and the other is southwest of, Thunder Bluff in Mulgore.

The second way is by interacting with Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages (Alliance/Horde). These NPCs are located in most capital cities, and will teleport you to your faction's Darkmoon Faire portal area for a measly 30 .

Below, we have a map for all relevant NPCs in the Faire:

The Darkmoon Faire offers a variety of rewards, from temporary buffs, profession skill-ups to exotic pets and mounts. Most of these rewards are purchased with Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

The Darkmoon Carousel or the Darkmoon Rollercoaster will grant you WHEE! after riding them for about 30 seconds. This buff increases your experience and reputation gains by 10% for 1 hour, however, it does not persist through death. This buff stacks with other experience and reputation buffs.

As of Patch 12.0, the WHEE! does not work with Midnight expansion Reputations.

To ride the carousel and roller coaster, you need a Darkmoon Ride Ticket. You can find these tickets inside a Ride Ticket Book, which you can buy from the NPC at the attraction's entrance.

A similar buff is given by consuming a Darkmoon Top Hat, which you can buy for 10 from Gelvas Grimegate. These can be used to obtain the buff without needing to travel all the way to the Faire, but you can only use them while the Darkmoon Faire is in town.

Every month, you can complete profession-related quests in the Darkmoon Faire. Each of these quests rewards 2 skill points in the corresponding profession, 3 Profession Knowledge for the most recent expansion, 1 Darkmoon Game Token, 3-4 Darkmoon Prize Tickets, and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire. This is a great way of obtaining skill-ups for a profession, especially early on in a new expansion.

You can complete a total of 5 Profession Quests every month: 2 for your Primary professions, and 3 for the secondary professions of Cooking, Fishing and Archaeology. You can complete these quests even if your assigned Profession is maxed out.

Below is the list of profession skill-up quests:

• Gathering Professions
  • Herbalism: Herbs for Healing
  • Mining: Rearm, Reuse, Recycle
  • Skinning: Tan My Hide
• Crafting Professions
  • Alchemy: A Fizzy Fusion
  • Blacksmithing: Baby Needs Two Pair of Shoes
  • Enchanting: Putting Trash to Good Use
  • Engineering: Talkin' Tonks
  • Inscription: Writing the Future
  • Jewelcrafting: Keeping the Faire Sparkling
  • Leatherworking: Eyes on the Prizes
  • Tailoring: Banners, Banners Everywhere!
• Secondary Professions
  • Archeology: Fun for the Little Ones
  • Cooking: Putting the Crunch in the Frog
  • Fishing: Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs

The quests for Alchemy, Archeology, Cooking, Inscription, Leatherworking, and Tailoring will require reagents from, or otherwise venturing outside Darkmoon Island.

The Darkmoon Faire has plenty of pets and mounts for sale. Some of them are sold by Lhara and Gelvas Grimegate for Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

Lhara and Gelvas Grimegate's Pets and Mounts

Item	Type	Vendor	Cost
Darkmoon Balloon	Pet	Lhara or Gelvas Grimegate	90
Darkmoon Cub	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Hatchling	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Monkey	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Tonk	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Turtle	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Zeppelin	Pet	Lhara	90
Darkmoon Dancing Bear	Mount	Lhara	180
Swift Forest Strider	Mount	Lhara	180
Darkmoon Dirigible	Mount	Lhara	1000

In addition, you can get the following Mounts and Pets from other sources in the Darkmoon Faire:

• The Sea Pony pet comes from fishing in the Darkmoon Island.
• The Darkmoon Rabbit pet has a chance to drop from the Darkmoon Rabbit.
• The Moon Moon pet and Shimmering Moonstone mount have a chance to drop from Moonfang. The Shimmering Moonstone is a temporary mount that works during the Darkmoon Faire event.
• The Hogs' Studded Collar pet comes from the achievement That's Whack!.
• Galissa Sundew has a variety of pets and mounts that are purchased with Darkmoon Daggermaws, which can be fished from Darkmoon Island or purchased from the Auction House:
  • The Blorp's Bubble pet requires 50 Darkmoon Daggermaws.
  • The Translucent Shell pet requires 100 Darkmoon Daggermaws.
  • The Darkwater Skate mount requires 500 Darkmoon Daggermaws.
• The Race MiniZep Controller pet comes from the achievement Big Rocketeer: Gold.
• Carl Goodup sells ballon-themed battle pets for 90 Darkmoon Prize Tickets each: Horse Balloon, Murloc Balloon, and Wolf Balloon.

One of the more famous features of the Darkmoon Faire is the Inky Black Potion. This potion sold by Rona Greenteeth by a minimal amount of gold forces your game to look like as if its always Midnight.

The effect from the Inky Black Potion is darker than the normal night time in the game, and its ambience change may also make it easier to see certain mechanics.

Sayge is a Darkmoon Faire NPC who provides you with various temporary buffs. These buffs can be helpful when leveling up a character, especially since they do not require anything else than going to the Darkmoon Faire and talking to Sayge. These buffs do have limited usefulness however, as they go away when going inside any kind of instanced content.

At first, he offers you 4 different conversation choices that we numbered from 1 to 4 in descending order. Whatever conversation choice you make, you will have to make a second choice between 3 possibilities that we numbered from 1 to 3 in descending order. After choosing this second possibility, you will be granted a buff.

Below, we have listed the various buffs he gives and the conversation choices you must make to obtain them. Note that the same conversation choices will always lead to the same buff.

• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Agility: 3–3
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Armor: 1–3 or 4–3
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Damage: 1–1
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Intelligence: 2–2 or 4–1
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Resistance: 1–2 or 2–3
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Spirit: 2–1 or 4–2
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Stamina: 3–1
• Sayge's Dark Fortune of Strength: 3–2

Several vendors in the Darkmoon Faire sell vanity items for Darkmoon Prize Ticket.

• Gelvas Grimegate sells several Darkmoon Faire-themed vanity items.
• Chester sells noble-themed cosmetic gear.

Gelvas Grimegate Vendor Wares

Item	Type	Cost
Darkmoon "Tiger"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Dragon"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Gryphon"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Murloc"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Rocket"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Wyvern"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Cougar"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Nightsaber"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Snow Leopard"	Temporary and Stationary Ride	1
Darkmoon "Sword"	Role Play Gear	20
Darkmoon Flower	Role Play Gear	1
Darkmoon Hammer	Role Play Gear	160
Darkmoon Storage Box	16-slot Bag	1
Cloak of the Darkmoon Faire	Role Play Gear	90

Chester Vendor Wares

Item	Type	Cost
Noble's Fancy Boots	Role Play Gear	55
Noblewoman's Skirt	Role Play Gear	75
Nobleman's Pantaloons	Role Play Gear	75
Noblewoman's Finery	Role Play Gear	75
Nobleman's Coat	Role Play Gear	75
Last Deck of Nemelex Xobeh	Gives Random Buffs	130

Henry Gust sells vanity dance sticks and masks for a bit of Gold:

• Green Dance Stick;
• Purple Dance Stick;
• Devlynn Styx Mask;
• Blighthead Electric Beehive Mask;
• Blighthead Bitter Wounds Mask;
• Blighthead Grim Smile Mask;
• Blighthead Slack-Jaw Mask;
• Blighthead Mohawk Mask;
• Blighthead Romero Mask.

You can also fish Severed Crimsonscale Head and Severed Azurefin Head from the waters around Darkmoon Island. These can be used to give you a temporary fish head appearance.

Finally, several vanity items are achievement rewards related to the Darkmoon Faire races:

• Checkered Flag from Big Race Roadhog.
• Darkmoon Cannon from Big Powermonger: Gold.

Killing the Death Metal Knight during a Blight Boar concert gives you a chance to loot a helm transmog with a unique headcage appearance:

• Chain-Linked Cage Helm;
• Leather-Lined Cage Helm;
• Lightly-Padded Cage Helm;
• Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm;
• Necromedes, the Death Resonator.

Several Darkmoon Faire toys come from achievement rewards:

• Darkmoon Ring-Flinger from Triumphant Turtle Tossing.
• Attraction Sign from Wanderluster: Gold.
• Everlasting Darkmoon Firework from Rocketeer: Gold.
• Gaze of the Darkmoon from Powermonger: Gold.
• Fire-Eater's Vial from Darkmoon Racer Roadhog.
• Darkmoon Tonk Controller from Ace Tonk Commander.
• Darkmoon Gazer from Big Wanderluster: Gold.

Additional toys can be purchased from vendors in the Faire:

• Darkmoon Whistle is sold for 90 Darkmoon Prize Ticket by Gelvas Grimegate.
• Haunting Memento is sold for 90 Darkmoon Prize Ticket by Chester.
• Seafarer's Slidewhistle is sold by Galissa Sundew for 25 Darkmoon Daggermaws.

The Ring of Broken Promises is obtained by killing Erinys, located in the underwater cave beneath the shipwreck at 74, 39. Killing the NPC gives you an item that starts a quest, and completing that quest rewards you with the Ring of Broken Promises. You need to be Level 40 for this quest and reward.

You can obtain Blight Boar Microphone during a Blight Boar concert, after killing and looting the Death Metal Knight.

Finally, you can obtain Hot Buttered Popcorn from Stamp Thunderhorn for 50 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

In addition to selling several fireworks items that you can buy from many other vendors, Boomie Sparks also sells Darkmoon Firework, which is specific to the Darkmoon Faire and is needed for one of the Darkmoon Faire achievements.

Faldar Willowshade sells several flasks and potions, each for 1 Darkmoon Prize Ticket. These flasks have a 7-day duration and are not very useful, but they also come with size changes for your character, which can be fun for roleplaying purposes.

Darkmoon Flasks from Faldar Willowshade

Item	Description
Darkmoon Draught of Alacrity	Increases Haste by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Defense	Increases Armor by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Deflection	Increases Parry by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Deftness	Increases Dodge by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Divergence	Increases Multistrike by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Flexibility	Increases Versatility by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Precision	Increases Critical Strike by 2% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Draught of Supremacy	Increases primary stats by 1% for 20 minutes. Increases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Alacrity	Increases Haste by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Defense	Increases Armor by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Deflection	Increases Parry by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Deftness	Increases Dodge by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Divergence	Increases Multistrike by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Flexibility	Increases Versatility by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Precision	Increases Critical Strike by 2% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.
Darkmoon Tincture of Supremacy	Increases primary stats by 1% for 20 minutes. Decreases size.

Daenrand Dawncrest sells Heirloom items for Darkmoon Prize Tickets during the event. Read more about these on our dedicated Heirloom guide:

Barum and Baruma sell replicas for the Dungeon Sets 1 and 2. These items were originally mostly removed from the game, with the revamp that happened in the Cataclysm expansion.

• Wrists, Hands, Waist, and Feet items cost 55 Darkmoon Prize Tickets each.
• Head, Shoulders, Chest, and Legs items cost 75 Darkmoon Prize Tickets each.

Each set used to correspond to a specific class, which each class having access to two sets. We have the sets separate by armor type and class below for historical purposes, but there are no class restrictions on the Darkmoon Faire replica sets.

One of the main stays of the Darkmoon Faire are the Darkmoon Decks. Every expansion launches new deck-themed trinkets every expansion. Although the system has since slowly been moved away from the Darkmoon Faire physical event itself, some expansions require the faire itself for deck turn-ins.

Darkmoon Decks from Vanilla WoW to Mists of Pandaria are turned in with Professor Thaddeus Paleo. Each turn-in gives 350 Reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

The following achievements are related to the Darkmoon Faire.

• Come One, Come All!: Attend the Darkmoon Faire.
• Faire Favors: Complete five profession-based quests at the Darkmoon Faire.
• Fairegoer's Feast: Consume one of every Darkmoon Faire food and drink.
• I Was Promised a Pony: Ride a Darkmoon Pony.
• That Rabbit's Dynamite!: Slay the ferocious Darkmoon Rabbit.
• Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde): Launch off Darkmoon Fireworks in every friendly capital city.
• Mini-Game achievements:
  • Step Right Up: Play five different Darkmoon Faire games.
  • Quick Shot: Score a quick shot at the Shooting Gallery.
  • Ace Tonk Commander: Score 45 points in a single session of the Tonk Challenge.
  • Triumphant Turtle Tossing: Successfully toss 10 rings onto Dubenko the Darkmoon Turtle in one session of the Ring Toss.
  • That's Whack!: Score 45 points in one session of Whack-a-Gnoll.
  • Blastenheimer Bullseye: Score a bullseye when launched from the Darkmoon Cannon.
  • Flying High: Collect 10 Blazing Rings in one session of the Firebird's Challenge.
  • Ringmaster: Collect 25 Blazing Rings in one session of the Firebird's Challenge.
  • Brood of Alysrazor: Collect 50 Blazing Rings in one session of the Firebird's Challenge.
• PvA Deathmatch:
  • Darkmoon Duelist: Win the Darkmoon Deathmatch and receive a Pit Fighter trinket.
  • Darkmoon Dominator: Win the Darkmoon Deathmatch twelve times and receive a Master Pit Fighter trinket.
• Darkmoon Artifacts:
  • Darkmoon Dungeoneer: Turn in all five dungeon Darkmoon Artifacts.
  • Darkmoon Defender: Turn in all three battleground Darkmoon Artifacts.
  • Darkmoon Despoiler: Turn in all nine Darkmoon Artifacts.
• Blight Boar Concert:
  • Hey, You're a Rockstar!: Participate in the Blight Boar concert.
  • Mosh Pit: Don't allow any ghouls to reach Devlynn Styx during the Blight Boar concert.
  • Perfect Performance: Participate in a perfect performance of the Blight Boar concert.
  • Taking this Show on the Road: Have each of the band's roles assigned to you after participating in the Blight Boar concert.
• Darkmoon Racing games:
  • Darkmoon Like the Wind: Stay aloft with the Wanderluster's Glider fot more than 10 seconds.
  • Darkmoon Race Enthusiast: Successfully complete Welcome to the Darkmoon Races or The Real Race with the Racing Strider.
  • Darkmoon Racer Novice: Complete The Real Race with the Racing Strider within 25 tolls.
  • Darkmoon Racer Jockey: Complete The Real Race with the Racing Strider within 20 tolls.
  • Darkmoon Racer Leadfoot: Complete The Real Race with the Racing Strider within 15 tolls.
  • Darkmoon Racer Roadhog: Complete The Real Race with the Racing Strider within 11 tolls.
  • Blast Off!: Complete The Real Race with the Rocketeer within 25 tolls.
  • Rocketeer: Bronze: Complete The Real Race with the Rocketeer within 20 tolls.
  • Rocketeer: Silver: Complete The Real Race with the Rocketeer within 15 tolls.
  • Rocketeer: Gold: Complete The Real Race with the Rocketeer within 11 tolls.
  • Go-Getter: Complete The Real Race with the Powermonger within 25 tolls.
  • Powermonger: Bronze: Complete The Real Race with the Powermonger within 20 tolls.
  • Powermonger: Silver: Complete The Real Race with the Powermonger within 15 tolls.
  • Powermonger: Gold: Complete The Real Race with the Powermonger within 11 tolls.
  • Wayfarer: Complete The Real Race with the Wanderluster within 25 tolls.
  • Wanderluster: Bronze: Complete The Real Race with the Wanderluster within 20 tolls.
  • Wanderluster: Silver: Complete The Real Race with the Wanderluster within 15 tolls.
  • Wanderluster: Gold: Complete The Real Race with the Wanderluster within 11 tolls.
  • Big Race Enthusiast: Complete The Real Big Race with the Racing Strider within 40 tolls.
  • Big Race Novice: Complete The Real Big Race with the Racing Strider within 35 tolls.
  • Big Race Jockey: Complete The Real Big Race with the Racing Strider within 30 tolls.
  • Big Race Leadfoot: Complete The Real Big Race with the Racing Strider within 25 tolls.
  • Big Race Roadhog: Complete The Real Big Race with the Racing Strider within 20 tolls.
  • Rocket Man: Complete The Real Big Race with the Rocketeer within 40 tolls.
  • Big Rocketeer: Bronze: Complete The Real Big Race with the Rocketeer within 30 tolls.
  • Big Rocketeer: Silver: Complete The Real Big Race with the Rocketeer within 25 tolls.
  • Big Rocketeer: Gold: Complete The Real Big Race with the Rocketeer within 20 tolls.
  • Vagabond: Complete The Real Big Race with the Wanderluster within 40 tolls.
  • Big Wanderluster: Bronze: Complete The Real Big Race with the Wanderluster within 30 tolls.
  • Big Wanderluster: Silver: Complete The Real Big Race with the Wanderluster within 25 tolls.
  • Big Wanderluster: Gold: Complete The Real Big Race with the Wanderluster within 20 tolls.
  • Goal-Oriented: Complete The Real Big Race with the Powermonger within 40 tolls.
  • Big Powermonger: Bronze: Complete The Real Big Race with the Powermonger within 30 tolls.
  • Big Powermonger: Silver: Complete The Real Big Race with the Powermonger within 25 tolls.
  • Big Powermonger: Gold: Complete The Real Big Race with the Powermonger within 20 tolls.
• Darkmoon Dancing game:
  • First Dance: Successfully participate in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game.
  • Don't Stop Dancing: Successfully participate in 30 Darkmoon Faire Dance games.
  • You Got the Beat: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the easiest difficulty.
  • Feeling It: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the easiest difficulty 10 times.
  • What a Feeling: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the medium difficulty.
  • Can't Stop the Feeling: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the medium difficulty 10 times.
  • Make You Sweat: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the hardest difficulty.
  • Maniac on the Dance Floor: Earn a perfect score in the Darkmoon Faire Dance game on the hardest difficulty 10 times.
  • Dancing Machine: Complete all Darkmoon Faire Dance Game achievements.

There are many activities to do in the Darkmoon Faire. These usually give rewards such as Darkmoon Prize Ticket, used to purchase most of the rewards within the Darkmoon Faire.

The Darkmoon Arcade is an attraction that allows you to play many minigames added over the years in WoW.You can seek out Lynnish Hardmode behind the Darkmoon Rollercoaster to get started playing.

It costs 1 Darkmoon Game Token to unlock the console for the day, and you will be able to play any games from the Darkmoon Arcade for the duration of the day. There are no rewards for playing games in the Darkmoon Arcade.

• Hexsweeper: A most dangerous game wherein one must traverse an arcane minefield and identify all the booby-trapped areas.
• Rune Matching: Match 3 or more runes for points. If you get 100,000 points, you will unlock an additional difficulty level.
• Bull-E: Uncross the wires to fix Bull-E's circuits. There is only one difficulty level: Pretty easy to insane-o hard. Give up, and you have to start from the beginning.
• Barrels o' Fun: Keep your eye on the barrel. One barrel will flash at the start of each round. Remember which one it is, and pick it when they are all done moving around.
• Remember: Flip the shells, remember where they are, and match the pairs.
• Totemic Matrix: You need to match patterns by pairing totems around.

Every hour, on the half-hour, the Blight Boar will appear in Cauldron Rock for a concert. Immediately, the Death Metal Knight will appear to disrupt the concert. Killing him gives you a chance to loot several things:

• Chain-Linked Cage Helm;
• Leather-Lined Cage Helm;
• Lightly-Padded Cage Helm;
• Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm;
• Blight Boar Microphone;
• Necromedes, the Death Resonator;
• as well as any of the items sold by Henry Gust, outside the cave.

During the fight, you will get a score, tracked by the buff Casual Fan. As you progress during the encounter, your score will increase by damaging ghouls and killing the Death Metal Knight, and decrease if you hit walls of banshees that spawn during the encounter.

The buff will become Serious Fan at 75+ points, then Hardcore Fan at 150+ points, and finally Number One Fan at 225+ points.

Every month you get a chance to test your strength by completing the Test Your Strength quest given to you by Kerri Hicks.

Completing this quest requires you to kill 250 creatures that offer experience or honor while having the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in your bag. It rewards 10 Darkmoon Prize Tickets and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

Most of the Darkmoon Faire rewards are bought with Darkmoon Prize Tickets. The most efficient way to collect these tickets is to do the daily quests associated with each of the mini-games currentlyavailable at the Darkmoon Faire.

Each daily quest rewards 1 ticket and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

Note that you can do the mini-games over and over again, as long as you have Darkmoon Game Token to pay the entry fee. Each mini-game requires 1 Darkmoon Game Token to play. You can buy these from Zina Sharpworth at the entrance, Sazz Coincatcher further down to the right, and Trixi Sharpworth next to the Deathmatch Arena. The prices are the following:

• Pouch o' Tokens: 5 tokens for 60 .
• Sack o' Tokens: 20 tokens for 1 and 92 .

You can also obtain these tokens by doing the profession skill-up quests.

The Whack-a-Gnoll game is associated with the It's Hammer Time daily quest. In the ring, there are 9 barrels, out of which three types of creatures randomly appear. Before they disappear, you must smack them with a hammer. The game will present you with 3 possible types of creatures:

• Smacking a Doll stuns you for a few seconds and awards 0 points.
• Smacking a Gnoll awards 1 point.
• Smacking a Hogger Gnoll awards 3 points.

30 points are needed to complete the daily quest.

The Darkmoon Cannon game is associated with the The Humanoid Cannonball daily quest. You need to climb into a giant cannon, that will fire you off the ground. Then, you need to initiate the fall. The objective is to land in a circle off the Darkmoon Faire docks:

• Landing outside the circle stuns you for a few seconds and awards 0 points.
• Landing inside the circle awards 1 point.
• Landing close to the center awards 3 points.
• Landing precisely in the center awards 5 points and the Blastenheimer Bullseye achievement).

The daily quest requires you to obtain 5 points, and you need precise timing to make it inside the circle. Landing exactly in the middle of the circle is very difficult. After an attempt, you can talk to Teleportologist Fozlebub next to the circle to get back to the cannon) and try again.

The Shooting Gallery game is associated with the He Shoots, He Scores! daily quest. In the stand, there are three targets. One gets marked with a green arrow every few seconds, and you need to fire at it by facing it and pressing the fire button.

The daily quest requires you to hit 25 targets. When a target is marked with an arrow, you only have time to hit it twice before the mark moves to another target. Then, you must wait a few seconds before another target is marked. When no target is marked, you cannot hit anything.

The Tonk Challenge game is associated with the Tonk Commander daily quest. You need to hit targets in the ring by making your tank face them before pressing the fire button. The objective of the daily quest is to hit 30 targets, and completing it will often require you to play the game several times.

Enemy tanks also show up in the ring. They can be hit in the same way you hit targets. When facing an enemy tank and a target, you will randomly hit one of them. If the enemy tank is hit, it will most likely start attacking you. You can start over if your tank gets destroyed; you will not reset your kill count.

Note that when targeted by an enemy tank, you use your second ability. This will make your tank sprint for a few seconds, making the enemy tank lose sight of you.

The Firebird's Challenge is associated with the Firebird's Challenge daily quest. Starting the game gives you the Wings of Flame buff, which allows you to fly for 10 seconds. Passing through a fiery ring refreshes your buff. The objective of the daily quest is to pass through 15 fiery rings. You can complete this quest through multiple playthroughs.

The Ring Toss game is associated with the Target: Turtle daily quest. The objective of the daily quest is to land 3 rings on the Darkmoon Turtle that walks inside the arena. To toss a ring, target the turtle with the mouse, and left-click.

Even if you are perfectly aimed at the turtle, there is no guarantee that the ring will land there, as the landing location of the rings is somewhat random. One way to complete the daily quest is to spam rings when the turtle stops moving, hoping to have 3 of them land properly.

You can find the races on both sides of the pier at the faire: the Real Race on the right and the Real Big Race on the left.

• On the right side, Malle Earnhard first gives you Welcome to the Darkmoon Races, to introduce you to the Real Race. Then, you can complete the The Real Race to obtain your daily prize. You can do subsequent runs through Let's Keep Racing!, also offered by Malle.
• On the left side, Patti Earnhard offers you the The Real Big Race daily quest. Subsequent runs can be done through More Big Racing!, also offered by Patti.

Both races require you to reach posts around the island in a given order before returning to the pier. Before starting a race, you need to select a mount. Currently, there are two mounts available, each with its own abilities.

• The Racing Strider has the following abilities:
  • Jump To Banner, which allows you to jump to a banner, saving you time
  • Lasso Powerup, which allows you to take a nearby power-up withouh having to touch it.
  • Jump To Racer, which allows you to jump to another racer and can be abused to gain a lot of time.
• The Rocketeer has the following abilities:
  • Boosters, which gives you a speed boost, causes you to leap forward, and makes you immune to stuns.
  • Giant Leap, which makes you leap high into the air.
  • Rocket Barrage, which disorients nearby MiniZeps that try to stun you.
  • Cancel Parachute, which cancels the parachute of Giant Leap.

Each circuit features power-ups that you can take to help you complete the race faster, banners that grant you a speed boost, trip wires that daze you, and MiniZeps that try to stun you. Below, you will find screenshots for all of these features.

Buffs you with So Fast!.	Makes you leap forward.
Makes you leap high into the air.	Makes you leap very high into the air.
Gives you a Racing Regs, which you need to cast Jump To Racer or Rocket Barrage.	Banner; buffs you with So Fast!.
Electrified Tripwires; daze you.	MiniZeps; stun you.

The Darkmoon Deathmatch happens every 3 hours (00:00, 03:00, and so on) at the Deathmatch Ring, the large building located in the southwestern part of the faire.

The Deathmatch is a free for all event that lasts until someone manages to loot the chest in the center of the ring. The ring marks every player as hostile, even players in your own faction. Only players in your party will show up as friendly.

The cast for opening the chest is quite long - 8 seconds - and anyone can easily interrupt you.

To enter, click the gate of the Deathmatch Ring right behind Korgol Crushskull at the entrance of the building.

Looting the chest rewards you with a Pit Fighter trinket. This item starts the Pit Fighter quest. Turning it in gives you the follow-up Master Pit Fighter quest, which requires looting 12 Pit Fighter trinkets. After completing this quest, you will be rewarded with Master Pit Fighter trinket.

Winning the Darkmoon Deathmatch will reward you with the Darkmoon Duelist achievement. Winning 12 times will reward you with the Darkmoon Dominator achievement.

Darkmoon Daggermaw can be fished in the waters surrounding Darkmoon Island. You can turn them in with Galissa Sundew for fishing-related rewards.

Galissa Sundew's Wares

Item	Cost	Description
Day-Old Darkmoon Doughnut	1x	+200 Fishing for 10 minutes
Recipe: Lemon Herb Filet	10x	Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Lemony Herb Filet	10x	Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast	25	Versatility food
Seafarer's Slidewhistle	25x	Toy
Recipe: Sugar-Crusted Fish Feast	25x	Versatility food
Darkmoon Firewater	25x	Increases gathering speed for Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning
Recipe: Fancy Darkmoon Feast	50x	Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast	50	Versatility food
Blorp's Bubble	50x	Pet
Translucent Shell	100x	Pet
Faded Treasure Map	100x	Starts a short quest that rewards Darkmoon Prize Tickets and Gold
Darkwater Skate	500x	Mount

Thanks to your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide, you can loot artifacts you would not usually see. There is a total of nine Darkmoon artifacts. Each can only be collected certain activities - Dungeons, Battlegrounds or Raids. Each artifact starts a quest that you can turn in at the Darkmoon Faire, and that rewards a number Darkmoon Prize Tickets as well as 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire:

• Each Darkmoon Dungeon artifact quest gives you 10 Darkmoon Prize Tickets, for a total of 5 per month.
• Each Darkmoon Battleground artifact quest gives you 5 Darkmoon Prize Tickets, for a total of 15 per month.
• The one Darkmoon Raid artifact quest gives you 15 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

The Darkmoon Artifacts are not bound to anything, so you can trade them with other players, as well as sell them in the Auction House. The only limitation on these is that you can only turn them in once per Darkmoon Faire. You can turn these in with multiple characters, though.

The nine artifacts are:

• Dungeon Artifacts (randomly drop from mobs in dungeons of your level):
  • A Treatise on Strategy: Starts The Master Strategist.
  • Imbued Crystal: Starts A Curious Crystal.
  • Monstrous Egg: Starts An Exotic Egg.
  • Mysterious Grimoire: Starts An Intriguing Grimoire.
  • Ornate Weapon: Starts A Wondrous Weapon.
• Battleground Artifacts (randomly drop from dead enemies in battlegrounds):
  • Fallen Adventurer's Journal: Starts The Captured Journal.
  • Banner of the Fallen: Starts A Captured Banner.
  • Captured Insignia: Starts The Enemy's Insignia.
• Raid Artifact (randomly drops from bosses in raids of your level):
  • Soothsayer's Runes: starts Tools of Divination.

Every month, you can gain reputation with the Darkmoon Faire by doing activities in the Darkmoon Faire. We consider the following to be activities in the Darkmoon Faire:

• Mini-Games: 2,000 (8x250) reputation per day, so 14,000 per Darkmoon Faire.
• Profession Skill-ups: 1,500 (6x250) reputation per Darkmoon Faire.;
• Testing Your Strength: 250 reputation per Darkmoon Faire.
• Artifacts: 2,250 (9x250) reputation per Darkmoon Faire.

Note that the Darkmoon Faire starts at Midnight, Pacific time for North American servers, and Central European Time for European servers. If you manage to do a set of daily quests between then and the next daily quest reset, you can do them 8 times per Darkmoon Faire.

Finally, turning in decks of cards to obtain Darkmoon Card trinkets will always reward 350 reputation. Remember that grinding reputation this way will cost you quite a bit of Gold.

Every hour, at the concert stage located next to the docks, people will be able to attend a concert of the Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain band, the virtual alter ego of The Tauren Chieftains. This is a reference to the band formed by former Blizzard employees, including Mike Morhaime (former CEO) and Samwise Didier (former Art Director).

• 23 Mar. 2026: Part 1 of the guide revamp.
• 04 Dec. 2022: Decks and Profession quests updated for Dragonflight.
• 08 Dec. 2020: Decks updated for Shadowlands.
• 07 Dec. 2020: Extra Sugary Fish Feast added.
• 06 Dec. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands with 2 new items.
• 04 Mar. 2020: Minor updates.
• 01 Feb. 2020: Updated with Darkmoon Arcade for Patch 8.3.
• 07 Oct. 2019: Reviewed for Patch 8.2.5. No updates needed.
• 08 Jul. 2019: Guide reviewed for Patch 8.2. No updates needed.
• 09 Apr. 2019: Updated for Patch 8.1.5.
• 06 Jan. 2019: Mentioned the 8.1 update with profession quests now giving +5 skill points to BfA professions.
• 03 Sep. 2018: Updated for Battle for Azeroth.
  • Added the new Hot Buttered Popcorn toy.
  • Added the new Darkmoon Faire cards.
• 07 Oct. 2017: Added Darkmoon Dirigible.
• 04 Jul. 2017: Updated for 7.2.5 and Blight Boar concert.
• 04 Apr. 2017: Added Inky Black Potion.
• 09 Nov. 2016: Added new Darkwater Skate mount.
• 05 Sep. 2016: Updated for Legion.
• 05 Jul. 2015: Updated for Patch 6.2.
• 02 May 2015: Finally added all relevant information on races.
• 12 Dec. 2014: Updated Darkmoon Cards.
• 02 Nov. 2014: Added new game and new items to some of the vendors. New Darkmoon Cards will be in next month's update, as they are not yet available.

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