Darkmoon Faire Guide for World of Warcraft

Last updated on Dec 04, 2022 at 14:35 by Damien 43 comments

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As its name indicates, the event is a faire during which you will be given mini-games to play and various other tasks to complete.

In Shadowlands, Recipe: Extra Lemony Herb Filet Icon Recipe: Extra Lemony Herb Filet, Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast Icon Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast and Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast Icon Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast can be purchased for Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws. The recently-added food is usable above level 50. New Darkmoon trinkets are also available, and the Professions skill-up quests are back, helping you save gold if you are missing the last few skill points.

In Dragonflight, Profession Quests have been changed to grant 2 Skill Points and 3 Knowledge. New Darkmoon Trinkets have been added.

In Battle for Azeroth, updated Darkmoon Cards have appeared and a new toy, Hot Buttered Popcorn Icon Hot Buttered Popcorn, was added and can be purchased from Stamp Thunderhorn.

In Patch 8.3, a new Darkmoon Arcade was added, allowing adventurers to play their favorite Azerothian arcade games. Seek out mechagnome Lynnish Hardmode the Arcade Proprietor behind the Darkmoon Rollercoaster to take on your favorite Azerothian arcade games.

In Patch 8.1.5, 3 new pets were added (Horse Balloon Icon Horse Balloon, Murloc Balloon Icon Murloc Balloon, and Wolf Balloon Icon Wolf Balloon and can be purchased for 90 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets. Fishing in the area also has a chance to yield two new cosmetic items: Severed Crimsonscale Head Icon Severed Crimsonscale Head and Severed Azurefin Head Icon Severed Azurefin Head.

In Patch 8.1, the Profession skill-up quests were fixed to once again give +5 skills per profession, up from +1 since the beginning of BfA.

1.

Overview

The main matter of the Darkmoon Faire is the mini-games that many will probably do every day to gather enough tickets to purchase the rewards they want. There are so many different rewards that everyone should find a reason to participate in the faire.

In addition to the mini-games, the faire offers other less efficient means to collect tickets and increase your reputation with the Darkmoon Faire, such as:

  • Profession skill-up quests;
  • Artifact gathering;
  • PvA Deathmatch;
  • etc.

We will detail them all in this guide.

1.1.

Currency

The currency of the Darkmoon Faire is the Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Ticket. You will earn these tickets primarily through mini-games, though the faire provides other ways to get them.

You can also buy Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack Icon Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack from the Black Market Auction House. This item has been reported to contain between 400 and 500 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

1.2.

Date and Timeline

The Darkmoon Faire is a monthly event. It always lasts precisely 1 week and starts one minute after midnight on the first Sunday of every month.

Every month, you will be able to earn at most 145 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets. This is enough to buy 1 interesting reward. There are so many interesting rewards that you will need to participate in the faire for many months before getting them all.

For players interested in reaching exalted standing with the Darkmoon Faire, this should take about 5 months from neutral.

1.3.

Location

The Darkmoon Faire is located on Darkmoon Island, where you can teleport when the faire is running. Below, you will find a detailed map of the surrounding of the faire and indications of where the relevant NPCs are located.

2.

Rewards

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

2.1.

Darker Nights with Inky Black Potion

As of Patch 7.2., Rona Greenteeth sells Inky Black Potion Icon Inky Black Potion for a bit of Gold. Using this potion makes your nights darker in-game.

2.2.

Sayge's Buffs

Sayge is a Darkmoon Faire NPC who provides you with various temporary buffs (such as +10% Intellect). These buffs can be helpful when leveling up a character, especially since they do not require anything else than going to the Darkmoon Island and talking to Sayge. Unfortunately, these buffs disappear when you enter a dungeon or a raid instance.

Since obtaining these buffs requires you to interact with Sayge in a particular way, a specific section of the guide is dedicated to them.

2.3.

WHEE! Buff: +10% Reputation and Experienced Gained

The Darkmoon Carousel (a few dozen yards on the right as you enter the faire) or the Darkmoon Rollercoaster will grant you WHEE! Icon WHEE! after riding them for about 30 seconds. This buff increases your experience and reputation gains by 10% for 1 hour (it does not persist through death). It stacks with other experience and reputation buffs.

To ride the carousel and roller coaster, you need a Darkmoon Ride Ticket Icon Darkmoon Ride Ticket. You can find these tickets inside a Ride Ticket Book Icon 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 Icon Darkmoon Top Hat, which you can buy for 10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket from Gelvas Grimegate.

2.4.

Vanity Items

Gelvas Grimegate sells several Darkmoon Faire vanity items.

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

Since Patch 6.0.3, Chester has also been selling several Darkmoon Faire vanity items.

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

Since Patch 7.2.5, Henry Gust has been selling vanity dance sticks and masks for a bit of Gold:

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

Since Patch 8.1.5, you can fish Severed Crimsonscale Head Icon Severed Crimsonscale Head and Severed Azurefin Head Icon Severed Azurefin Head from the waters around Darkmoon Island.

Finally, several vanity items are achievement rewards:

  • Darkmoon Gazer Icon Darkmoon Gazer from Big Wanderluster: Gold Icon Big Wanderluster: Gold;
  • Checkered Flag Icon Checkered Flag from Big Race Roadhog Icon Big Race Roadhog;
  • Darkmoon Cannon Icon Darkmoon Cannon from Big Powermonger: Gold Icon Big Powermonger: Gold.
2.5.

Gear

Since Patch 7.2.5, killing the Death Metal Knight during a Blight Boar concert gives you a chance to loot gear that scales with your level:

  • Chain-Linked Cage Helm Icon Chain-Linked Cage Helm;
  • Leather-Lined Cage Helm Icon Leather-Lined Cage Helm;
  • Lightly-Padded Cage Helm Icon Lightly-Padded Cage Helm;
  • Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm Icon Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm;
  • Necromedes, the Death Resonator Icon Necromedes, the Death Resonator.
2.6.

Darkmoon Firework

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

2.7.

Pets & Mounts

Pets and mounts are sold by Lhara and Gelvas Grimegate for Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

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

In addition, you can get:

  • a Sea Pony Icon Sea Pony pet from fishing in the sea around Darkmoon Island;
  • a Darkmoon Rabbit Icon Darkmoon Rabbit pet from killing the Darkmoon Rabbit;
  • a Moon Moon Icon Moon Moon pet from killing Moonfang;
  • a Hogs' Studded Collar Icon Hogs' Studded Collar pet from completing That's Whack! Icon That's Whack!;
  • a Blorp's Bubble Icon Blorp's Bubble pet by turning in 50x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew;
  • a Translucent Shell Icon Translucent Shell pet by turning in 100x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew;
  • a Darkwater Skate Icon Darkwater Skate mount by turning in 500x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew;
  • a Shimmering Moonstone Icon Shimmering Moonstone mount from killing Moonfang;
  • a Race MiniZep Controller Icon Race MiniZep Controller by completing Big Rocketeer: Gold Icon Big Rocketeer: Gold.
  • Horse Balloon Icon Horse Balloon, Murloc Balloon Icon Murloc Balloon, and Wolf Balloon Icon Wolf Balloon from Carl Goodup for 90 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
2.8.

Toys

Several toys are achievement rewards:

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

Darkmoon Whistle Icon Darkmoon Whistle and Haunting Memento Icon Haunting Memento are sold for 90 Darkmoon Prize Ticket by Gelvas Grimegate and Chester, respectively. Seafarer's Slidewhistle Icon Seafarer's Slidewhistle is sold by Galissa Sundew for 25x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws.

You can obtain Ring of Broken Promises Icon Ring of Broken Promises. As reported on Wowhead, you can obtain this item 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. Note that the quest requires level 40.

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

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

3.

Flasks

Faldar Willowshade sells several flasks and potions, each for 1 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Ticket.

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

The duration of these flasks can be increased to 35 minutes by stacking them once.

3.1.

Heirlooms

Daenrand Dawncrest sells Heirloom items for Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets during the event. The Heirlooms scale from Level 1 through 29.

Item Type Main Statistics Cost
Tattered Dreadmist Mantle Icon Tattered Dreadmist Mantle Cloth Shoulders Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Tattered Dreadmist Robe Icon Tattered Dreadmist Robe Cloth Chest Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Preened Ironfeather Shoulders Icon Preened Ironfeather Shoulders Leather Shoulders Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Preened Ironfeather Breastplate Icon Preened Ironfeather Breastplate Leather Chest Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders Icon Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders Leather Shoulders Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Stained Shadowcraft Tunic Icon Stained Shadowcraft Tunic Leather Chest Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Mystical Pauldrons of Elements Icon Mystical Pauldrons of Elements Mail Shoulders Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Mystical Vest of Elements Icon Mystical Vest of Elements Mail Chest Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Champion Herod's Shoulder Icon Champion Herod's Shoulder Mail Shoulders Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Champion's Deathdealer Breastplate Icon Champion's Deathdealer Breastplate Mail Chest Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Polished Spaulders of Valor Icon Polished Spaulders of Valor Plate Shoulders Strength 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Polished Breastplate of Valor Icon Polished Breastplate of Valor Plate Chest Strength 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Burnished Pauldrons of Might Icon Burnished Pauldrons of Might Plate Shoulders Strength/Parry 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Burnished Breastplate of Might Icon Burnished Breastplate of Might Plate Chest Strength/Dodge 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Devout Aurastone Hammer Icon Devout Aurastone Hammer Two-Hand Mace Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Dignified Headmaster's Charge Icon Dignified Headmaster's Charge Staff Intellect 160 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Balanced Heartseeker Icon Balanced Heartseeker 1.7 One-Hand Dagger Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Venerable Mass of McGowan Icon Venerable Mass of McGowan One-Hand Mace Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge Icon Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge Main Hand Sword Agility 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Charmed Ancient Bone Bow Icon Charmed Ancient Bone Bow Bow Agility 160 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Repurposed Lava Dredger Icon Repurposed Lava Dredger Two-Hand Mace Agility 160 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Burnished Warden Staff Icon Burnished Warden Staff Staff Agility 160 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Bloodied Arcanite Reaper Icon Bloodied Arcanite Reaper Two-Hand Axe Strength 160 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver Icon Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver Main Hand Sword Strength/Parry 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Discerning Eye of the Beast Icon Discerning Eye of the Beast Trinket Intellect 130 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Swift Hand of Justice Icon Swift Hand of Justice Trinket Haste 130 Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Daenrand Dawncrest also sells the level 35 upgrades for all of these items. Upgrading an Heirloom item which scales from Level 1-29 will cost you between 425 Gold and 850 Gold plus between 44 and 64 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

Finally, Daenrand Dawncrest sells 3 unique Level 35 Heirlooms.

Item Type Main Statistics Cost
Flamescarred Draconian Deflector Icon Flamescarred Draconian Deflector Shield Strength/Parry 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Weathered Observer's Shield Icon Weathered Observer's Shield Shield Intellect/Spirit 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
Musty Tome of the Lost Icon Musty Tome of the Lost Off-Hand Intellect 110 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
3.2.

Item Sets Replicas for Transmogrification

Barum and Baruma sell replicas for the Dungeon Sets 1 and 2 that were removed from the game when Cataclysm was released. Wrists, Hands, Waist, and Feet items cost 55 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets while Head, Shoulders, Chest, and Legs items cost 75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets. This makes 18 sets that you can use for transmogrification, 6 Cloth sets, 4 Leather sets, 4 Mail sets, and 4 Plate sets.

Each set used to correspond to a specific class, and each class had one Dungeon Set 1 and one Dungeon Set 2 (remember that, at the time, Death Knights had not yet been introduced to the game). The class restrictions do not exist for the replica armor sets, so you can use all the sets that match the armor type of your class (Cloth for Mages, Leather for Rogues, etc.).

Cloth Cloth Cloth
Dreadmist Raiment Deathmist Raiment Magister's Regalia
Cloth Cloth Cloth
Sorcerer's Regalia Vestments of the Devout Vestments of the Virtuous
Leather Leather Leather
Shadowcraft Armor Darkmantle Armor Wildheart Raiment
Leather Mail Mail
Feralheart Armor Beaststalker Armor Beastmaster Armor
Mail Mail Plate
The Elements The Five Thunders Battlegear of Heroism
Plate Plate Plate
Battlegear of Valor Lightforge Armor Soulforge Armor
3.3.

Darkmoon Decks

The Darkmoon Deck trinkets are not an integral part of the event and are not, technically speaking, rewards for doing the Darkmoon Faire. You can obtain these items after spending a lot of time or gold crafting or trading cards until you get an entire deck. Turning in this deck used to be the only step of the process that required the Darkmoon Faire, but this is no longer the case.

Dragonflight adds a new set of 4 Item Level 372 Darkmoon trinkets that can be upgraded to Item Level 382.

  • Darkmoon Deck: Dance Icon Darkmoon Deck: Dance (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Inferno Icon Darkmoon Deck: Inferno (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Rime Icon Darkmoon Deck: Rime (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Watcher Icon Darkmoon Deck: Watcher (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Watcher Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Watcher (Item Level 382)
3.4.

Achievements

The following achievements are related to the Darkmoon Faire.

  • Entering the Faire: Come One, Come All! Icon Come One, Come All!
  • Mini-games
    • Step Right Up Icon Step Right Up
    • Quick Shot Icon Quick Shot
    • Ace Tonk Commander Icon Ace Tonk Commander
    • Triumphant Turtle Tossing Icon Triumphant Turtle Tossing
    • That's Whack! Icon That's Whack!
    • Blastenheimer Bullseye Icon Blastenheimer Bullseye
    • Flying High Icon Flying High
    • Ringmaster Icon Ringmaster
    • Brood of Alysrazor Icon Brood of Alysrazor
  • Profession skill-up quests: Faire Favors Icon Faire Favors
  • PvA Deathmatch
    • Darkmoon Duelist Icon Darkmoon Duelist
    • Darkmoon Dominator Icon Darkmoon Dominator
  • Artifacts
    • Darkmoon Dungeoneer Icon Darkmoon Dungeoneer
    • Darkmoon Defender Icon Darkmoon Defender
    • Darkmoon Despoiler Icon Darkmoon Despoiler
  • Blight Boar Concert
    • Hey, You're a Rockstar! Icon Hey, You're a Rockstar!
    • Mosh Pit Icon Mosh Pit
    • Perfect Performance Icon Perfect Performance
    • Taking this Show on the Road Icon Taking this Show on the Road
  • Miscellaneous
    • Fairegoer's Feast Icon Fairegoer's Feast
    • I Was Promised a Pony Icon I Was Promised a Pony
    • Taking the Show on the Road Icon Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde)
    • That Rabbit's Dynamite! Icon That Rabbit's Dynamite!

There are also 35 achievements related to Darkmoon Racing, which we detail in a specific section.

Note that there is no meta-achievement or title related to the Darkmoon Faire.

4.

Getting to the Darkmoon Faire

The Darkmoon Faire takes place on Darkmoon Island. To get there, there are only two portals that you can take. One is located just south of Goldshire in Elwynn Forest, and the other is southwest of Thunder Bluff in Mulgore.

Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages (Alliance/Horde) are present in every major city, and for 30 Silver, they will teleport you to the Darkmoon Island portal of your faction.

4.1.

Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages

When the Darkmoon Faire is running, you will find Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages (Alliance/Horde) at the following locations.

  • Alliance locations
    • Darnassus: next to the portal to Rut'theran Village
    • Exodar: outside the Bank
    • Ironforge: outside the Auction House
    • Stormwind City: outside the Auction House in the Trade District
  • Horde locations
    • Orgrimmar: next to the Flight Master
    • Silvermoon City: at the entrance of the city
    • Thunder Bluff: at the base of the central totem tower
    • Undercity: in the Trade Quarter
  • Neutral locations
    • Dalaran: in the middle of Runeweaver Square
    • Shattrath: outside the Auction House
4.2.

First Timers

If you have never been to Darkmoon Island before, you should talk to the nearest Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mage (Alliance/Horde) to be given the The Darkmoon Faire (Alliance/Horde) quest. Completing this quest will give you a Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide Icon Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide (needed for collecting artifacts) and your first 5 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets.

As soon as you teleport to Darkmoon Island for the first time, you will be rewarded with the Come One, Come All! Icon Come One, Come All! achievement.

5.

Darkmoon Arcade

Darkmoon Arcade is an attraction added to Darkmoon Faire in Patch 8.3. You can seek out Lynnish Hardmode behind the Darkmoon Rollercoaster to get started playing the following Azerothian arcade games.

  • Hexsweeper: A most dangerous game wherein one must traverse an arcane minefield and identify all the booby-trapped areas. Instant death rewards the slightest misstep.
  • 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 poor 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: To develop harmony with the elements, one must study and understand the interactions between them. The totemic matrix is an ancient training method, a puzzle that will challenge one's mind and spirit. The exercise aims to transform all the totems into water totems. Touch a totem to invoke it. Know that everything is connected, a lesson invaluable in this puzzle... as in life.

It will cost 1 Darkmoon Game Token Icon Darkmoon Game Token to unlock the console for the day, but you will be able to play as long as you like, and there are no rewards, just the warm fuzzy feeling of achieving victory in the pursuit of mind over machine. There are no rewards associated with playing the Darkmoon Arcade.

6.

Cauldron of Rock and Blight Boar Concerts

Darkmoon Faire Map - Death Metal Knight

Every hour, on the half-hour, the Blight Boar will appear in the cave called 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 Icon Chain-Linked Cage Helm;
  • Leather-Lined Cage Helm Icon Leather-Lined Cage Helm;
  • Lightly-Padded Cage Helm Icon Lightly-Padded Cage Helm;
  • Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm Icon Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm;
  • Blight Boar Microphone Icon Blight Boar Microphone;
  • Necromedes, the Death Resonator Icon 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, materialized by a buff: Casual Fan Icon Casual Fan. As you progress during the encounter, your score will increase (it is decreased when you get hit by the walls of banshees that move during the encounter and is supplemented by you damaging the Ghouls and killing the Death Metal Knight). The buff will become Serious Fan Icon Serious Fan (after a score of 75), then Hardcore Fan Icon Hardcore Fan (after a score of 150), and finally Number One Fan Icon Number One Fan (after a score that we are uncertain of).

6.1.

Achievements

  • Hey, You're a Rockstar! Icon Hey, You're a Rockstar! is granted after you defeat the Death Metal Knight;
  • Mosh Pit Icon Mosh Pit is obtained by preventing every Ghoul that spawns during the fight against the Death Metal Knight from reaching Devlynn Styx;
  • Perfect Performance Icon Perfect Performance is granted after a perfect performance during the fight against the Death Metal Knight — we currently do not what makes up a perfect performance;
  • Taking this Show on the Road Icon Taking this Show on the Road requires you to obtain all 4 role buffs: Bassist Icon Bassist, Drummer Icon Drummer, Guitarist Icon Guitarist, and Vocals Icon Vocals (you randomly get one of these buffs after you successfully kill the Death Metal Knight).
7.

Obtaining Sayge's Buffs

To get a buff from Sayge, you need to talk to him at the Darkmoon Faire.

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

After obtaining a buff, you cannot talk to him again before a few hours have passed.

8.

Testing Your Strength

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

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

9.

Profession Skill-ups

Every month, you can do the 6 profession skill-up quests (for your 2 primary professions and 4 secondary professions, even if they are maxed out). Each of these quests rewards 2 skill points in the corresponding profession, 3 Knowledge (new in Dragonflight), 1 Darkmoon Game Token Icon Darkmoon Game Token (required to play the mini-games), 3 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets (4 for the primary profession quests), 15 Artisan's Mettle Icon Artisan's Mettle (new in Dragonflight), and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

If you have done a profession quest before (in a previous month), you will not get it right as the faire begins. Instead, you will have to wait until the 6 AM dungeon reset on Sunday before seeing them.

You need a skill of 75 in your profession before obtaining the corresponding quest. If you drop a profession and skill up another profession to 75 before the faire ends, you can do the related monthly quest. This can be a means to collect Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets faster.

Below is the list of profession skill-up quests. Note that none of them are complicated, so we will not go beyond listing them.

  • 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
    • First Aid: Putting the Carnies Back Together Again
    • Fishing: Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs

The quests for Alchemy, Archeology, Cooking, Inscription, Leatherworking, and Tailoring will require you to wander outside Darkmoon Island.

9.1.

Achievement

Completing the profession skill-up quests related to your 6 professions (2 main professions and 4 secondary professions) will reward you with the Faire Favors Icon Faire Favors achievement.

10.

Mini Games

Most of the Darkmoon Faire rewards are bought with Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets. The most efficient way to collect these tickets is to do the daily quests associated with each of the 8 (the races count as 2) mini-games currently available at the Darkmoon Faire (more games might be added later on, as several buildings are not finished yet).

Each daily quest rewards up to 1 ticket (meaning that you can earn up to 8 tickets a day with the daily quests) and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire (meaning that you can earn 2,000 reputation a day with the daily quests).

Note that you can do the mini-games over and over again, as long as you have Darkmoon Game Token Icon Darkmoon Game Tokens to pay the entry fee.

10.1.

Darkmoon Game Tokens

Each mini-game requires you to pay an entry fee of 1 Darkmoon Game Token Icon Darkmoon Game Token. You can buy these from Zina Sharpworth (right at the entrance), Sazz Coincatcher (further down the right), and Trixi Sharpworth (next to the Deathmatch Arena). The prices are the following:

  • Pouch o' Tokens Icon Pouch o' Tokens: 5 tokens for 60 Silver;
  • Sack o' Tokens Icon Sack o' Tokens: 20 tokens for 1 Gold and 92 Silver (the better alternative).

You can also obtain these tokens by doing the profession skill-up quests (in minimal quantities).

10.2.

Whack-a-Gnoll!

Darkmoon Faire - Whack-a-Gnoll 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 (by pressing '1'). The game will present you with 3 possible types of creatures, all of which are shown in the screenshot on the right:

  • 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. If you cannot obtain them in the time allotted by the mini-game, you can play again. Your points are carried over from one game to the other.

10.3.

The Darkmoon Cannon!

Darkmoon Faire - The Darkmoon Cannon The Darkmoon Cannon game is associated with the The Humanoid Cannonball. The idea is to climb in a cannon that will fire you off the ground. Then, you initiate the fall by pressing '1'. The objective is to land in a circle off the Darkmoon Faire docks (at the southern extremity of the island):

  • 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 Icon 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 extremely difficult, so many players will require 3 or more attempts to complete the daily quest (after an attempt, you can talk to Teleportologist Fozlebub next to the circle to get back to the cannon).

This game is very sensitive to lag, and players with varying latency will find it hard to initiate the fall at the right time.

10.4.

Darkmoon Faire - Shooting Gallery The Shooting Gallery game is associated with the He Shoots, He Scores! daily quest. In the stand, there are 3 targets. One gets marked with a green arrow every few seconds, and you need to make your character face it before pressing '1' to fire at it.

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 it gets unmarked (you can also start casting before the arrow appears, but then you need to be quick to make your character face the right target when the arrow appears). Then, you must wait a few seconds before another target is marked. When no target is marked, you cannot hit anything. Taking all this into account, it is hard to finish the daily quest in only one try.

10.5.

Tonk Challenge!

Darkmoon Faire - Tonk Challenge 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 '1'. The objective of the daily quest is to hit 30 such targets, and completing it will often require you to play the game several times (although it is possible to finish it on the first try).

You need to know that enemy tanks will be in the ring. You hit them the same way you hit the targets, facing them and pressing '1'. When facing an enemy tank and a target, you will randomly hit one of them upon pressing '1'. If the enemy tank is hit, it will most likely start attacking you, in which case you will have to destroy it before it destroys 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 (a green arrow will appear on top of your tank), you can hit '2' to use your second ability. This will make your tank sprint for a few seconds, making the enemy tank lose sight of you.

10.6.

Ring Toss!

Darkmoon Faire - Ring Toss 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 (you need to remain in the stand to be able to toss the rings). To toss a ring, press '1', 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 on the turtle, 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.

10.7.

Firebird's Challenge

Darkmoon Faire - Firebird's Challenge The Firebird's Challenge is associated with the Firebird's Challenge daily quest. Starting the game gives you the Wings of Flame Icon Wings of Flame buff, which allows you to fly for 10 seconds. If you pass through a fiery ring before the 10 seconds are up, the buff is refreshed for another 10 seconds. The objective of the daily quest is to pass through 15 fiery rings. It is fine if you do not reach the objective in a single game. You can pay another Darkmoon Game Token Icon Darkmoon Game Token to play again and keep going.

10.8.

Races

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, offered by Malle, 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!, which is 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 Icon Jump To Banner, which allows you to jump to a banner, saving you time (see below for a screenshot of a banner);
    • Lasso Powerup Icon Lasso Powerup, which allows you to take a nearby power-up without having to touch it (see below for more information about power-ups);
    • Jump To Racer Icon 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 Icon Boosters, which gives you a speed boost, causes you to leap forward, and makes you immune to stuns;
    • Giant Leap Icon Giant Leap, which makes you leap high into the air;
    • Rocket Barrage Icon 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! Icon So Fast!. Makes you leap forward.
Darkmoon Faire Power-up: Sprint Darkmoon Faire Power-up: Leap
Makes you leap high into the air. Makes you leap very high into the air.
Darkmoon Faire Power-up: Vertical Leap Darkmoon Faire Power-up: Rocket Jump
Gives you a Racing Regs, which you need to cast Jump To Racer Icon Jump To Racer or Rocket Barrage Icon Rocket Barrage. Banner; buffs you with So Fast! Icon So Fast!.
Darkmoon Faire Power-up: Racing Regs Darkmoon Faire Banner
Electrified Tripwires; daze you. MiniZeps; stun you.
Darkmoon Faire Electrified Tripwires Darkmoon Faire MiniZeps
10.8.1.

Times and Achievements

Your time in the races is measured in tolls, which you can hear every 6 seconds approximately while racing. There are 33 achievements related to your time in each race with each mount.

  • Real Race
    • Racing Strider
      • Darkmoon Racer Roadhog Icon Darkmoon Racer Roadhog: finish within 11 tolls (video) — rewards you with Fire-Eater's Vial Icon Fire-Eater's Vial
      • Darkmoon Racer Leadfoot Icon Darkmoon Racer Leadfoot: finish within 15 tolls
      • Darkmoon Racer Jockey Icon Darkmoon Racer Jockey: finish within 20 tolls
      • Darkmoon Racer Novice Icon Darkmoon Racer Novice: finish within 25 tolls
    • Rocketeer
      • Rocketeer: Gold Icon Rocketeer: Gold: finish within 11 tolls (video) — rewards you with Everlasting Darkmoon Firework Icon Everlasting Darkmoon Firework
      • Rocketeer: Silver Icon Rocketeer: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
      • Rocketeer: Bronze Icon Rocketeer: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
      • Blast Off! Icon Blast Off!: finish within 25 tolls
    • Wanderluster
      • Wanderluster: Gold Icon Wanderluster: Gold: finish within 11 tolls — rewards you with Attraction Sign Icon Attraction Sign
      • Wanderluster: Silver Icon Wanderluster: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
      • Wanderluster: Bronze Icon Wanderluster: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
      • Wayfarer Icon Wayfarer: finish within 25 tolls
    • Powermonger
      • Powermonger: Gold Icon Powermonger: Gold: finish within 11 tolls — rewards you with Gaze of the Darkmoon Icon Gaze of the Darkmoon
      • Powermonger: Silver Icon Powermonger: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
      • Powermonger: Bronze Icon Powermonger: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
      • Go-Getter Icon Go-Getter: finish within 25 tolls
  • Real Big Race
    • Racing Strider
      • Big Race Roadhog Icon Big Race Roadhog: finish within 20 tolls (video) — rewards you with Checkered Flag Icon Checkered Flag
      • Big Race Leadfoot Icon Big Race Leadfoot: finish within 25 tolls
      • Big Race Jockey Icon Big Race Jockey: finish within 30 tolls
      • Big Race Novice Icon Big Race Novice: finish within 35 tolls
      • Big Race Enthusiast Icon Big Race Enthusiast: finish within 40 tolls
    • Rocketeer
      • Big Rocketeer: Gold Icon Big Rocketeer: Gold: finish within 20 tolls (video) — rewards you with Race MiniZep Controller Icon Race MiniZep Controller
      • Big Rocketeer: Silver Icon Big Rocketeer: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
      • Big Rocketeer: Bronze Icon Big Rocketeer: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
      • Rocket Man Icon Rocket Man: finish within 40 tolls
    • Wanderluster
      • Big Wanderluster: Gold Icon Big Wanderluster: Gold: finish within 20 tolls (video) — rewards you with Darkmoon Gazer Icon Darkmoon Gazer
      • Big Wanderluster: Silver Icon Big Wanderluster: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
      • Big Wanderluster: Bronze Icon Big Wanderluster: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
      • Vagabond Icon Vagabond: finish within 40 tolls
    • Powermonger
      • Big Powermonger: Gold Icon Big Powermonger: Gold: finish within 20 tolls (video) — rewards you with Darkmoon Cannon Icon Darkmoon Cannon
      • Big Powermonger: Silver Icon Big Powermonger: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
      • Big Powermonger: Bronze Icon Big Powermonger: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
      • Goal-Oriented Icon Goal-Oriented: finish within 40 tolls

Finally, there are 2 racing achievements, which are not tied to your time:

  • Darkmoon Like the Wind Icon Darkmoon Like the Wind requires you to stay aloft with the Wanderluster's Glider for more than 10 seconds;
  • Darkmoon Race Enthusiast Icon Darkmoon Race Enthusiast requires you to finish a race.
10.9.

Achievements

In addition to the racing achievements, which we presented above, the other mini-games enable you to complete 9 achievements:

  • Step Right Up Icon Step Right Up will be completed as soon as you have played the 5 mini-games that were available the day the revamped Darkmoon Faire was released: Cannon Blast, Ring Toss, Shooting Gallery, Tonk Battle, and Whack-A-Gnoll.
  • Quick Shot Icon Quick Shot requires you to hit the target as soon as it is highlighted when playing the Shooting Gallery game. Note that a Quick Shot counts as 2 hits. You can normally hit the target again after a Quick Shot, making it possible to complete the daily quest in one mini-game.
  • Blastenheimer Bullseye Icon Blastenheimer Bullseye requires you to make a perfect landing (in the exact middle of the circle) when playing the Darkmoon Cannon game.
  • Ace Tonk Commander Icon Ace Tonk Commander requires you to score 45 hits in one session of the Tonk Challenge.
  • Triumphant Turtle Tossing Icon Triumphant Turtle Tossing requires you to successfully toss 10 rings onto Dubenko in one session of the Ring Toss.
  • That's Whack! Icon That's Whack! requires you to score 45 points in one session of Whack-a-Gnoll.
  • Flying High Icon Flying High requires you to fly through 10 fiery rings in a single flight session of Firebird's Challenge.
  • Ringmaster Icon Ringmaster requires you to fly through 25 fiery rings in a single flight session of Firebird's Challenge.
  • Brood of Alysrazor Icon Brood of Alysrazor requires you to fly through 50 fiery rings in a single flight session of Firebird's Challenge. This achievement rewards you with the Blazing Wings Icon Blazing Wings toy.
11.

PvA Deathmatch

The PvA Deathmatch is organized 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 middle of the ring. During the event, every other player is your enemy and can attack you, Alliance or Horde. 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. This makes it almost mandatory to go there with a group of friends so that they can protect you while you open your chest.

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 Pit Fighter Icon Pit Fighter, an item level 37 tanking trinket. This item starts the Pit Fighter quest. Turning it in gives you the Master Pit Fighter quest. To complete this second quest, you must win the Deathmatch 12 times. After completing this assignment, you will be rewarded with Master Pit Fighter Icon Master Pit Fighter, an item level 37 tanking trinket.

11.1.

Achievements

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

12.

Fishing Darkmoon Daggermaw

Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Darkmoon Daggermaws can be fished in the waters surrounding Darkmoon Island. You can turn them into Galissa Sundew for rewards.

Item Cost Description
Day-Old Darkmoon Doughnut Icon Day-Old Darkmoon Doughnut 1x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon +200 Fishing for 10 minutes
Recipe: Lemon Herb Filet Icon Recipe: Lemon Herb Filet 10x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Lemony Herb Filet Icon Recipe: Extra Lemony Herb Filet 10x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast Icon Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast 25 Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Seafarer's Slidewhistle Icon Seafarer's Slidewhistle 25x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Toy
Recipe: Sugar-Crusted Fish Feast Icon Recipe: Sugar-Crusted Fish Feast 25x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Darkmoon Firewater Icon Darkmoon Firewater 25x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Increases gathering speed for Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning
Recipe: Fancy Darkmoon Feast Icon Recipe: Fancy Darkmoon Feast 50x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast Icon Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast 50 Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Versatility food
Blorp's Bubble Icon Blorp's Bubble 50x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Pet
Translucent Shell Icon Translucent Shell 100x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Pet
Faded Treasure Map Icon Faded Treasure Map 100x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Starts a short quest that rewards Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets and Gold
Darkwater Skate Icon Darkwater Skate 500x Darkmoon Daggermaw Icon Mount
13.

Artifacts

Thanks to your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide Icon Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide, you can loot artifacts you would not usually see. There is a total of 9 artifacts. Each can only be collected while doing something specific (running a dungeon or playing in a battleground). Each artifact starts a quest that you can turn in at the Darkmoon Faire, and that rewards 15 Darkmoon Prize Ticket Icon Darkmoon Prize Tickets as well as 250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

Note that you can trade artifacts between players and on the Auction House.

The only constraint when turning in artifacts is that you can only turn them in once per Darkmoon Faire. This means that you can turn all 9 artifacts during a Darkmoon Faire, and then again at the next Darkmoon Faire, and so on.

The 9 artifacts are:

  • Dungeon Artifacts (randomly drop from mobs in dungeons of your level)
    • A Treatise on Strategy Icon A Treatise on Strategy: starts The Master Strategist (10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
    • Imbued Crystal Icon Imbued Crystal: starts A Curious Crystal (10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
    • Monstrous Egg Icon Monstrous Egg: starts An Exotic Egg (10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
    • Mysterious Grimoire Icon Mysterious Grimoire: starts An Intriguing Grimoire (10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
    • Ornate Weapon Icon Ornate Weapon: starts A Wondrous Weapon (10 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
  • Battleground Artifacts (randomly drop from dead enemies in battlegrounds)
    • Fallen Adventurer's Journal Icon Fallen Adventurer's Journal: starts The Captured Journal (5 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
    • Banner of the Fallen Icon Banner of the Fallen: starts A Captured Banner (5 Darkmoon Prize Ticket
    • Captured Insignia Icon Captured Insignia: starts The Enemy's Insignia (5 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
  • Raid Artifact (randomly drops from bosses in raids of your level)
    • Soothsayer's Runes Icon Soothsayer's Runes: starts Tools of Divination (15 Darkmoon Prize Ticket)
13.1.

Achievements

Collecting all 5 dungeon artifacts will grant you the Darkmoon Dungeoneer Icon Darkmoon Dungeoneer achievement.

Collecting all 3 battleground artifacts will grant you the Darkmoon Defender Icon Darkmoon Defender achievement.

Collecting all the artifacts will grant you the Darkmoon Despoiler Icon Darkmoon Despoiler achievements.

14.

Obtaining Darkmoon Trinkets

The Darkmoon Decks are not integral to the event. These trinkets are obtained after a crafting (Inscription only) and trading process that can be long or costly, depending on whether you decide to gather the materials and craft the items yourself.

You can still obtain

Decks from previous expansions, but we will not detail them here. The process for obtaining them is almost the same. You can receive the following new trinkets in Dragonflight:

  • Darkmoon Deck: Dance Icon Darkmoon Deck: Dance (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Inferno Icon Darkmoon Deck: Inferno (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Rime Icon Darkmoon Deck: Rime (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck: Watcher Icon Darkmoon Deck: Watcher (Item Level 372)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Inferno (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Rime (Item Level 382)
  • Darkmoon Deck Box: Watcher Icon Darkmoon Deck Box: Watcher (Item Level 382)

For the lower item-level trinkets, scribes can craft deck bundles containing 2 random cards from any of the four decks in Dragonflight. The recipe requires a specialization of Archiving - Darkmoon Mysteries. To create Bundle O' Cards: Dragon Isles Icon Bundle O' Cards: Dragon Isles, you will require: 3 Awakened Order Icon Awakened Order, 3 Awakened Air Icon Awakened Air, 3 Awakened Earth Icon Awakened Earth, 3 Awakened Fire Icon Awakened Fire, 3 Awakened Frost Icon Awakened Frost, and 3 Glittering Parchment Icon Glittering Parchment./p>

Alternatively, you can fish up Soggy Clump of Darkmoon Cards Icon Soggy Clump of Darkmoon Cards, which also contains 2 random Darkmoon Cards.

Once you have a complete set, you need to right-click one of the cards to create a deck, which can then be right-clicked to create the corresponding trinket.

The lower item-level decks can be upgraded to Item Level 382 versions, requiring the scribe to specialize in Archiving Air/Fire/Frost/Earth and spend even more materials. The exact cost for upgrading a single trinket is 1 Spark of Ingenuity Icon Spark of Ingenuity, 60 Primal Chaos Icon Primal Chaos, 10 Writhebark Icon Writhebark, 12 Cosmic Ink Icon Cosmic Ink, and 10 Awakened Air/Fire/Frost/Earth components, depending on the trinket. You will also require the lower item-level variation of the Darkmoon Deck.

You will find more details in our Inscription guide.

15.

Reputation Grind

Every month, you can gain 18,000 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire by doing the core activities. This means that you will need 3 Darkmoon Faires (or 3 months) to grind your way to exalted, from neutral (possibly only 3, if you are a Human). We consider the following to be the core activities:

  • 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 (9*250) reputation per Darkmoon Faire.

Note that doing the daily quests as soon as the Darkmoon Faire is up and before the daily quest reset, you can do them 8 times per Darkmoon Faire (instead of only 7 times).

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.

Mini-games and the profession skill-up quests continue awarding reputation all the way to exalted.

Winning the PvA Deathmatch rewards no reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.

16.

Darkmoon Faire Concert — Tauren Chieftains

Darkmoon Faire - Concert Tauren Chieftains Every hour, at the concert stage located next to the docks, on the western side of the faire, people will be able to witness a concert of the Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain band, the virtual alter ego of The Tauren Chieftains, a band formed by Blizzard employees, including Mike Morhaime (CEO) and Samwise Didier (Art Director). The band will play their usual Power of the Horde song. More information can be found on WoWWiki.

17.

Remaining Achievements

This section will cover the achievements that have not been described yet, because they are not related to a particular event of the Darkmoon Faire: Fairegoer's Feast Icon Fairegoer's Feast, I Was Promised a Pony Icon I Was Promised a Pony, Taking the Show on the Road Icon Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde), and That Rabbit's Dynamite! Icon That Rabbit's Dynamite!.

17.1.

Fairegoer's Feast

The Fairegoer's Feast Icon Fairegoer's Feast achievement requires you to taste all 10 types of food sold by Stamp Thunderhorn and all 8 types of drinks sold by Sylannia. These two NPCs are located within the Darkmoon Faire, slightly south of the Tonk Challenge ring.

17.2.

I Was Promised a Pony

To complete the I Was Promised a Pony Icon I Was Promised a Pony achievement, go to the animal farm just south of the Ring Toss arena. There, find a Darkmoon Pony and ride it (right-click it).

17.3.

Taking the Show on the Road

To complete the Taking the Show on the Road Icon Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde) achievement, buy 6 Darkmoon Firework Icon Darkmoon Fireworks from Boomie Sparks at the Darkmoon Faire and launch them off in the 4 capital cities of your faction as well as in Shattrath City and Dalaran.

17.4.

That Rabbit's Dynamite

That Rabbit's Dynamite! Icon That Rabbit's Dynamite! is granted to you when you kill the Darkmoon Rabbit.

18.

Conclusion

If you have read us this far, we would like to thank you for the time you spent on the site, and we hope that the guide brought you all the information you needed. You can rest assured that We will update the information presented here as the Darkmoon Faire evolves.

As always, we would be pleased to read your feedback (typos, suggestions, praise, etc.) by e-mail or in a comment below.

19.

Changelog

  • 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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