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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Faire Quests 2.1 Darkmoon Faire Sets 2.2 Darkmoon Prize Tickets 3 Mini Game

Introduction

When: Monthly, alternate factions for 1 week
Where: Mulgore, Goldshire and Terokar Forest

A gathering of the exotic from around the world and beyond, Silas Darkmoon has brought together the Darkmoon Faire as a celebration of the wondrous and mysterious found in Azeroth. While the Faire spends most of its time in parts unknown, they do stop from time to time in Mulgore, Elwynn forest and Terrokar Forest. When the faire is on its way, barkers will stop by Orgrimmar, Ironforge and Shattrath to announce its arrival.

The Darkmoon Faire begins set up on the first Friday of each month, and continues for 3 days. On the early morning of Monday (4am server time), the Faire will begin and last for one week. It alternates between Goldshire in Elwynn Forest (A), just outside Thunder Bluff in Mulgore (H) and outside Shattrath in Terrokar Forest (neutral) each month.

You can buy weird and wonderful things from the travelling vendors, such as the [Darkmoon Ring], [Pickled Kodo Foot] or the [Darkmoon Special Reserve].

Faire Quests

Darkmoon Faire Sets

As you'd expect from these colourful characters they have a few tricks up their sleeves and will happily send you on some pretty involved quests.

There are four Darkmoon Faire Sets of cards scattered around Azeroth which you must collect. Each deck comprises eight cards - Ace to Eight. Once you have a deck you return it to Professor Thaddeus Paleo at the Faire for a reputation bonus and one of the following trinkets (of which you can carry 2 in trinket slots). Click the drop locations for maps of where each card is dropping.

Image	Deck	Drop locations	Image	Trinket Reward	Effect of Trinket
	Beasts	[Ace of Beasts], [Two of Beasts], [Three of Beasts], [Four of Beasts], [Five of Beasts], [Six of Beasts], [Seven of Beasts], [Eight of Beasts]		[Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon]	2% chance on successful spellcast to allow 100% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec.
	Portals	[Ace of Portals], [Two of Portals], [Three of Portals], [Four of Portals], [Five of Portals], [Six of Portals], [Seven of Portals], [Eight of Portals]		[Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether]	Gives the wearer a 10% chance of being able to resurrect with 20% health and mana.
	Elementals	[Ace of Elementals], [Two of Elementals], [Three of Elementals], [Four of Elementals], [Five of Elementals], [Six of Elementals], [Seven of Elementals], [Eight of Elementals]		[Darkmoon Card: Maelstrom]	Chance to strike your melee target with lightning for 200 to 300 Nature damage.
	Warlords	[Ace of Warlords], [Two of Warlords], [Three of Warlords], [Four of Warlords], [Five of Warlords], [Six of Warlords], [Seven of Warlords], [Eight of Warlords]		[Darkmoon Card: Heroism]	Sometimes heals bearer of 120 to 180 damage when damaging an enemy in melee.
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	Blessings	[Ace of Blessings], [Two of Blessings], [Three of Blessings], [Four of Blessings], [Five of Blessings], [Six of Blessings], [Seven of Blessings], [Eight of Blessings]		[Darkmoon Card: Crusade]	Each time you deal melee or ranged damage to an opponent, you gain 6 attack power for the next 10 sec., stacking up to 20 times. Each time you land a harmful spell on an opponent, you gain 8 spell damage for the next 10 sec., stacking up to 10 times.
	Lunacy	[Ace of Lunacy], [Two of Lunacy], [Three of Lunacy], [Four of Lunacy], [Five of Lunacy], [Six of Lunacy], [Seven of Lunacy], [Eight of Lunacy]		[Darkmoon Card: Madness]	+51 Stamina; Equip: Each time you land a killing blow on an enemy, you gain the Power of Madness.
	Furies	[Ace of Furies], [Two of Furies], [Three of Furies], [Four of Furies], [Five of Furies], [Six of Furies], [Seven of Furies], [Eight of Furies]		[Darkmoon Card: Vengeance]	+51 Stamina; Equip: You have a 10% chance when hit by an attack or harmful spell to deal 95 to 115 holy damage to your attacker.
	Storms	[Ace of Storms], [Two of Storms], [Three of Storms], [Four of Storms], [Five of Storms], [Six of Storms], [Seven of Storms], [Eight of Storms]		[Darkmoon Card: Wrath]	Each time one of your direct damage attacks does not critically strike, you gain 17 critical strike rating and 17 spell critical strike rating for the next 10 sec. This effect is consumed when you deal a critical strike. (Stacks up to 20 times)

The trinkets require level 60 to wear, level 70 if they are TBC ones.

• Once the cards have been combined to make a deck it can not be separated.

Decks have been known to go for 500+ gold on some servers and you can also sell individual cards of a deck in the Auction House.

"Don't bother collecting them (the decks) unless you come across an Ace for cheap. They're the hardest to find, apparently, and certainly the most expensive. I bought the Ace of Beasts for 250g and sold the deck for 400g. Turned a profit, but a narrow one. The deck I really made a chunk of change on was the Portals deck--I picked up the Ace for 25g. The deck sold for 800.

Still, like I said, don't bother collecting the cards until you have an ace. The rest are easy enough to come by. Without that, you'll just have a lot of used up bag space." - DrunkCajun

Darkmoon Prize Tickets

There are also Faire quests to collect varying quantities of tickets that will net you tasty prizes once handed in such as this [Amulet of the Darkmoon]. You have to be level 60 to wear it but still, with stats like that it's worth the effort collecting the tickets. Or there's this handy [Darkmoon Storage Box].

Visit Yebb Neblegear who will tell you which items you should be collecting. Once collected return to him to exchange them for Darkmoon Tickets. The table below shows you what you can redeem and in return for how many Darkmoon Prize Tickets and the linked names will show you maps of where the items dropped.

Link to Item Drop Location Map	Icon	Qty of items to Redeem	No. tickets rewarded
[Small Furry Paw]		5	1
[Torn Bear Pelt]		5	4
[Soft Bushy Tail]		5	8
[Vibrant Plume]		5	12
[Evil Bat Eye]		10	20
[Glowing Scorpid Blood]		10	20

Once you have enough Darkmoon Prize Tickets you can hand them into Gelvas Grimegate to exchange for items.

Item	Icon	No. Tickets Required
[Darkmoon Flower]		5
[Minor Darkmoon Prize]		5
[Last Month's Mutton]		10
[Lesser Darkmoon Prize]		10
[Greater Darkmoon Prize]		40
[Darkmoon Storage Box]		50
[Last Year's Mutton]		50
[Amulet of the Darkmoon]		1200
[Orb of the Darkmoon]		1200

Mini Game

There's been a distinct lack of mini-games at the faire until patch 1.8 it seems when a cannon game was introduced. Here it is explained by Havoc Jack:

"On the eastern end of the faire (in Elwynn at the moment) there's a cannon that's usable. When you use it, it shoots you out over the crystal lake where there's a target floating. The cannon gives you a slow falling debuff, and if you cancel it at the right time, you can hit the target. Now here's the point that will turn most of you off; THERE'S NO REWARD! I haven't been pointed to it by anybody, and nobody will reward you if you hit the sweet spot."

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