Darkmoon Faire Guide (Shadowlands 9.0.2)
Table of Contents
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,
Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast and Recipe: Extra Fancy Darkmoon Feast
can be purchased for 
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 Battle for Azeroth, new, updated Darkmoon Cards
have appeared and a new toy, 
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, 
Murloc Balloon, and
Wolf Balloon and can be purchased for 90 
Darkmoon Prize Tickets. Fishing in the
area also has a chance to yield two new cosmetic items: 
Severed Crimsonscale Head and
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.
Overview
The main matter of the Darkmoon Faire is the mini-games that many will probably do every day in order to gather enough tickets to purchase the rewards that 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.
Currency
The currency of the Darkmoon Faire is the Darkmoon Prize Ticket.
You will earn these tickets mostly through mini-games, though
the faire provides other ways to get them.
You can also buy 
Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack from the Black Market
Auction House. This item has been reported to
contain
between 400 and 500 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
Date and Timeline
The Darkmoon Faire is a monthly event. It always lasts exactly 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 Tickets.
This is enough to buy 1 interesting reward. There
are so many interesting rewards that you will probably need to participate in
the faire for many months before being able to get them all.
For players interested in reaching exalted standing with the Darkmoon Faire, this should take about 5 months, from neutral.
Location
The Darkmoon Faire is located on Darkmoon Island, where you will be able to teleport when the faire is running. Below, you will find a detailed map of the surrounding of the faire and indications as to where the relevant NPCs are located.
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 Tickets.
Darker Nights with Inky Black Potion
As of Patch 7.2., Rona Greenteeth sells
Inky Black Potion for a bit of gold. Using this potion makes
your nights darker in-game.
Sayge's Buffs
Sayge is a Darkmoon Faire NPC who provides you with various temporary buffs (such as +10% Intellect). These buffs can be useful 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.
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! 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.
These tickets can be found inside a 
Ride Ticket Book, which you can buy from
the NPC at the entrance of the attraction.
A similar buff is given by consuming a 
Darkmoon Top Hat, which you
can buy for 10 from
Gelvas Grimegate.
Vanity Items
Gelvas Grimegate sells a number of Darkmoon Faire vanity items.
| 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 |
Since Patch 6.0.3, Chester has also been selling a number of Darkmoon Faire vanity items.
| 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 |
Since Patch 7.2.5, Henry Gust has been selling 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.
Since Patch 8.1.5, you can fish Severed Crimsonscale Head and
Severed Azurefin Head from the waters around Darkmoon Island.
Finally, a number of vanity items are achievement rewards:
Darkmoon Gazer from 
Big Wanderluster: Gold;- Checkered Flag from Big Race Roadhog;
Darkmoon Cannon from Big Powermonger: Gold.
Gear
Since Patch 7.2.5, killing the Death Metal Knight during a Blight Boar concert gives you a chance to loot item level 62 gear (it scales with your level and is 62 at Level 110):
Chain-Linked Cage Helm;- Leather-Lined Cage Helm;
- Lightly-Padded Cage Helm;
- Steel-Reinforced Cage Helm;
Necromedes, the Death Resonator.
Darkmoon Firework
In addition to selling a number of fireworks items that can be bought from
many other vendors, Boomie Sparks also sells 
Darkmoon Firework, which
is specific to the Darkmoon Faire and needed for one of the Darkmoon Faire
achievements.
Pets & Mounts
Pets and mounts are sold by Lhara and Gelvas Grimegate for
Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
| 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:
- a
Sea Pony pet from fishing in the sea around Darkmoon Island; - a
Darkmoon Rabbit pet from killing the Darkmoon Rabbit; - a
Moon Moon pet from killing Moonfang; - a
Hogs' Studded Collar pet from completing 
That's Whack!; - a
Blorp's Bubble pet by turning in 50x 
Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew; - a
Translucent Shell pet by turning in 100x Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew; - a
Darkwater Skate mount by turning in 500x Darkmoon Daggermaws to Galissa Sundew; - a
Shimmering Moonstone mount from killing Moonfang; - a
Race MiniZep Controller by completing Big Rocketeer: Gold. 
Horse Balloon, 
Murloc Balloon, and 
Wolf Balloon
from Carl Goodup for 90 
Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
Toys
A number of toys are 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 Whistle and 
Haunting Memento are
sold for 90 by Gelvas Grimegate
and Chester, respectively. 
Seafarer's Slidewhistle
is sold by Galissa Sundew for 25x Darkmoon Daggermaws.
You can obtain 
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 100.
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.
Flasks
Faldar Willowshade sells a number of flasks and potions, each for 1
Darkmoon Prize Ticket.
| 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. |
The duration of these flasks can be increased to 35 minutes by stacking them once.
Heirlooms
Daenrand Dawncrest sells all the level 80 Heirloom items for Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
Daenrand Dawncrest also sells the level 85 upgrades for all of these
items. Upgrading a level 80 Heirloom will cost you between 425
and 850 plus between
44 and 64 Darkmoon Prize Tickets.
Finally, Daenrand Dawncrest sells 3 unique Level 85 Heirlooms.
| Item | Type | Main Statistics | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Flamescarred Draconian Deflector | Shield | Strength/Parry | 110 |
 Weathered Observer's Shield | Shield | Intellect/Spirit | 110 |
 Musty Tome of the Lost | Off-Hand | Intellect | 110 |
Item Sets Replicas for Transmogrification
Barum and Baruma sell replicas for the Dungeon Sets 1 and 2 that
have been removed from the game when Cataclysm was released. Wrists, Hands, Waist,
and Feet items cost 55 Darkmoon Prize Tickets while Head, Shoulders, Chest, and
Legs items cost 75 Darkmoon Prize Tickets. In total, 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.).
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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. These are items that you can obtain after spending either a lot of time or a lot of gold crafting or trading cards until you obtain an entire deck. Turning in this deck used to be the only step of the process that requires the Darkmoon Faire, but this is no longer the case.
The item level 60 Darkmoon Decks are the following:
Achievements
The followin achievements are related to the Darkmoon Faire.
- Entering the Faire: Come One, Come All!
- Mini-games
- Profession skill-up quests:
Faire Favors - PvA Deathmatch
- Artifacts
- Blight Boar Concert
- Miscellaneous
Fairegoer's Feast
I Was Promised a Pony
Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde)
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.
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 one is located just south-west of Thunder Bluff in Mulgore.
Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages (Alliance/Horde) are present in every major city and
for 30 
, they will teleport you to the Darkmoon Island
portal of your faction.
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
First Timers
If you have never been to Darkmoon Island before, you should talk to
the nearest Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mage (Alliance/Horde) in order to be given the
The Darkmoon Faire (Alliance/Horde) quest. Completing this quest will give you a
Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide (needed for collecting artifacts) and
your first 5 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! achievement.
Darkmoon Arcade
Darkmoon Arcade is a new attraction added to Darkmoon Faire in Patch 8.3, and 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 mine field and identify all the booby-trapped areas. Instant death rewards the slightest misstep.
- Rune Matching: Match 3 or more runes for points. If you manage to get 100,000 points, you will unlock an additional level of difficulty.
- 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.
- Remembery: 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 object of the excercise is to transform all the totems to water totems. Simply touch a totem to invoke it. Know that all things are connected, a lesson invaluable in this puzzle... as in life.
It will cost 1 
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.
New 7.2.5 Zone: Cauldron of Rock and Blight Boar Concerts
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 a number of 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, materialized by a buff:
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 increased by you damaging the Ghouls and killing the
Death Metal Knight). The buff will become 
Serious Fan (after a score of
75), then 
Hardcore Fan (after a score of 150), and finally
Number One Fan (after a score that we are uncertain of).
Achievements
Hey, You're a Rockstar! is granted after you defeat the Death Metal Knight;;
Mosh Pit is obtained by preventing every Ghoul that spawns during the fight against
the Death Metal Knight from reaching Devlynn Styx;
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 requires you to obtain all 4 role buffs: 
Bassist,
Drummer, Guitarist, and Vocals (you randomly get one of these buffs
after you successfully kill the Death Metal Knight).
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 that he gives and the conversation choices that you must make in order 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
After obtaining a buff, you cannot talk to him again before a few hours have passed.
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 being in possession of the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide).
It rewards 10 Darkmoon Prize Tickets and 250 reputation with the Darkmoon
Faire.
Profession Skill-ups
Every month, you can do the 6 profession skill-up quests (for your 2 main
professions and 4 secondary professions, even if they are maxed out).
Each of these quests rewards
5 skill points in the corresponding profession, 1 Darkmoon Game Token
(required to play the mini-games), 3 Darkmoon Prize Tickets (4 for
the main profession quests) and
250 reputation with the Darkmoon Faire.
If you have done a profession quest before (in a previous month), then you will not get it right as the faire begins. Rather, 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 being able to obtain
the corresponding quest. If you drop a profession and skill up another
profession to 75 before the faire ends, you will be able to do
the related monthly-quest. This can be a means to collect
Darkmoon Prize Tickets faster.
Below, you will find the list of profession skill-up quests. Note that none of them is difficult or 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.
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 achievement.
Mini Games
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 to 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 Tokens to pay the entry fee.
Darkmoon Game Tokens
Each of the mini-games require you to pay an entry fee of 1
Darkmoon Game Token. These can be bought 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: 5 tokens for 60 
;
Sack o' Tokens: 20 tokens for 1 
and 92 (the better alternative).
These tokens can also be obtained by doing the profession skill-up quests (though in very limited quantities).
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. You must smack them with a hammer (by pressing '1') before they disappear.
You will be presented 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 alloted by the mini-game, you can simply play again. Your points are carried over from one game to the other.
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 exactly in the center awards 5 points (and the
Blastenheimer Bullseye achievement).
The daily quest requires you to obtain 5 points and you need a 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 who have a varying latency will find it hard to initiate the fall at the right time.
Shooting Gallery!
The Shooting Gallery game is associated with the He Shoots, He Scores! daily
quest. In the stand, there are 3 targets. Every few seconds, one gets marked
with a green arrow 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 really quickly to make your character face the right target when the arrow appears). Then, you need to 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.
Tonk Challenge!
The Tonk Challenge game is associated with the Tonk Commander daily quest.
In the ring, there are targets that you need to hit 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 at the first try).
You need to be aware of the fact that there will be enemy tanks in the ring. You hit them in the same way that you hit the targets, by facing them and pressing '1'. When you are facing both an enemy tank and a target, you will random 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. If your tank gets destroyed, you can simply start over; your kill count will not be reset.
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.
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 perfectly aimed at the turtle, there is no guarantee that the ring will actually 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 landing properly.
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 buff, which
allows you to fly for 10 seconds. If you manage to pass through a fiery ring
before the 10 seconds are up, then the buff is refreshed for another 10 seconds.
The objective of the daily quest is to simply pass through 15 fiery rings. If you
do not reach the objective in a single game, this is not a problem, you can pay
another Darkmoon Game Token to play again and keep going.
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 to you by Malle, to obtan your daily prize. Subsequent runs can be done through Let's Keep Racing!, which is 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 coming back to the pier. Before starting a race, you need to select a mount. Currently, there are two mounts available, each with own abilities.
- The Racing Strider has the following abilities:
Jump To Banner, which allows you to jump to a banner, saving you time (see below for a screenshot of a banner);
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, 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. |
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| Makes you leap high into the air. | Makes you leap very high into the air. |
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Gives you a Racing Regs, which you need to cast  Jump To Racer
or  Rocket Barrage. |
Banner; buffs you with So Fast!. |
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| Electrified Tripwires; daze you. | MiniZeps; stun you. |
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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: finish within 11 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Fire-Eater's Vial
- Darkmoon Racer Leadfoot: finish within 15 tolls
- Darkmoon Racer Jockey: finish within 20 tolls
- Darkmoon Racer Novice: finish within 25 tolls
- Rocketeer
- Rocketeer: Gold: finish within 11 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Everlasting Darkmoon Firework
- Rocketeer: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
- Rocketeer: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
- Blast Off!: finish within 25 tolls
- Wanderluster
- Wanderluster: Gold: finish within 11 tolls —
rewards you with Attraction Sign
- Wanderluster: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
- Wanderluster: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
- Wayfarer: finish within 25 tolls
- Powermonger
- Powermonger: Gold: finish within 11 tolls —
rewards you with Gaze of the Darkmoon
- Powermonger: Silver: finish within 15 tolls
- Powermonger: Bronze: finish within 20 tolls
- Go-Getter: finish within 25 tolls
- Racing Strider
- Real Big Race
- Racing Strider
- Big Race Roadhog: finish within 20 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Checkered Flag
- Big Race Leadfoot: finish within 25 tolls
- Big Race Jockey: finish within 30 tolls
- Big Race Novice: finish within 35 tolls
- Big Race Enthusiast: finish within 40 tolls
- Rocketeer
- Big Rocketeer: Gold: finish within 20 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Race MiniZep Controller
- Big Rocketeer: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
- Big Rocketeer: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
- Rocket Man: finish within 40 tolls
- Wanderluster
- Big Wanderluster: Gold: finish within 20 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Darkmoon Gazer
- Big Wanderluster: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
- Big Wanderluster: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
- Vagabond: finish within 40 tolls
- Powermonger
- Big Powermonger: Gold: finish within 20 tolls
(video)
— rewards you with Darkmoon Cannon
- Big Powermonger: Silver: finish within 25 tolls
- Big Powermonger: Bronze: finish within 30 tolls
- Goal-Oriented: finish within 40 tolls
- Racing Strider
Finally there are 2 racing achievements, which are not tied to your time:
Darkmoon Like the Wind requires you to stay aloft with the Wanderluster's Glider
for more than 10 seconds;- Darkmoon Race Enthusiast requires you to finish a race.
Achievements
In addition to the racing achievements, which we presented above, the other mini-games enable you to complete 9 achievements:
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 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 requires you to make a perfect landing (in the exact
middle of the circle) when playing the Darkmoon Cannon game.
- Ace Tonk Commander requires you to score 45 hits in one session of the Tonk Challenge.
- Triumphant Turtle Tossing requires you to successfully toss 10 rings onto Dubenko in
one session of the Ring Toss.
- That's Whack! requires you to score 45 points in one session of Whack-a-Gnoll.
Flying High requires you to fly through 10 fiery rings in a single flight
session of Firebird's Challenge.
Ringmaster requires you to fly through 25 fiery rings in a single flight
session of Firebird's Challenge.
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
toy.
PvA Deathmatch
The PvA Deathmatch is organised every 3 hours (00:00, 03:00, and so on) at the Deathmatch Ring, the large building located in the south western 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, whether they are Alliance or Horde. Only players in your own party will show 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 the chest.
To enter, simply 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, 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 need to win the Deathmatch 12 times. After completing this
assignment, you will be rewarded with 
Master Pit Fighter, an item level 37
tanking trinket.
Achievements
Winning the PvA Deathmatch will reward you with the 
Darkmoon Duelist
achievement. Winning 12 times will reward you with the 
Darkmoon Dominator achievement.
Fishing Darkmoon Daggermaw
Darkmoon Daggermaws can be fished in the waters surrounding Darkmoon Island.
You can turn them in to Galissa Sundew for rewards.
| 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 (New in Shadowlands) |
| Recipe: Extra Sugary Fish Feast |
25 |
Versatility food (New in Shadowlands) |
| 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 (New in Shadowlands) |
 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 |
Artifacts
Thanks to your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide, you can loot artifacts that
you would not normally see. There is a total of 9 artifacts.
Each of them 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 Tickets as well as 250 reputation
with the Darkmoon Faire.
Note that artifacts can be traded 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: starts The Master Strategist (10 )
Imbued Crystal: starts A Curious Crystal (10 )
Monstrous Egg: starts An Exotic Egg (10 )
Mysterious Grimoire: starts An Intriguing Grimoire (10 )
Ornate Weapon: starts A Wondrous Weapon (10 )
- Battleground Artifacts (randomly drop from dead enemies in battlegrounds)
Fallen Adventurer's Journal: starts The Captured Journal (5 )
Banner of the Fallen: starts A Captured Banner (5 
Captured Insignia: starts The Enemy's Insignia (5 )
- Raid Artifact (randomly drops from bosses in raids of your level)
Soothsayer's Runes: starts Tools of Divination (15 )
Achievements
Collecting all 5 dungeon artifacts will grant you the Darkmoon Dungeoneer achievement.
Collecting all 3 battleground artifacts will grant you the 
Darkmoon Defender achievement.
Collecting all the artifacts will grant you the 
Darkmoon Despoiler achievements.
Obtaining Darkmoon Trinkets
The Darkmoon Decks are not an integral part of 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.
Decks from Mists of Pandaria, Cataclysm, Warlords of Draenor, Legion, and before can still be obtained, but we will not detail them here, the process for obtaining them being almost exactly the same. These current cards are:
To obtain these cards, you first need to craft or buy cards until you have a complete set of 8 cards. Once you have a complete set, simply right-click one of the cards to create a deck, which in turn can be right-clicked to create the trinket.
There are 4 sets of cards (Indomitable, Putrescence, Repose, and Voracity),
each of them being made of 8 cards (Ace to Eight). These cards are created by
Darkmoon Card of Death. You can learn rank 1 at Scribe Au'tehshi
in Oribos at Inscription skill 80. Every time you use this
ability, it creates a random card from a random set, so you only have 1 chance
out of 32 to obtain a specific card. To craft a card, you will need 12
Luminous Ink, 7 
Umbral Ink, 1 
Tranquil Ink, and 1
Dark Parchment. Higher ranks reduce the cost of materials required to
craft Darkmoon cards.
Scribes in Shadowlands can also craft random crafts from specific sets.
Darkmoon Card of Putrescence — Crafts a random Darkmoon
Card from the Putrescence deck.- Darkmoon Card of Repose — Crafts a random Darkmoon Card
from the Putrescence deck.
- Darkmoon Card of the Indomitable — Crafts a random
Card from the Indomitable deck.
- Darkmoon Card of Voracity — Crafts a random Darkmoon Card
from the Voracity deck.
The 4 sets of cards are the following:
Once you have a complete set, you simply need to right-click one of the cards to create a deck, which can then be right-clicked to create the corresponding trinket.
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 by 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 for obtaining Darkmoon Card trinkets will always reward 350 reputation. Keep in mind 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.
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 90 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.
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, 
I Was Promised a Pony,
Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde), and 
That Rabbit's Dynamite!.
Fairegoer's Feast
The 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.
I Was Promised a Pony
To complete the I Was Promised a Pony achievement, simply go to the
animal farm, just south of the Ring Toss arena. There, find a Darkmoon
Pony and ride it (right-click it).
Taking the Show on the Road
To complete the Taking the Show on the Road (Alliance / Horde) achievement, buy
6 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.
That Rabbit's Dynamite
That Rabbit's Dynamite! is granted to you when you kill
the Darkmoon Rabbit.
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 the information presented here will be updated as the Darkmoon Faire evolves.
As always, we would be pleased to read any feedback that you have (typos, suggestions, praise, etc.) by e-mail or in a comment below.
Changelog
- 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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