WoW Forever Darkmoon Faire Guide

WoW Forever Darkmoon Faire TL;DR

• The Faire stays open for seven days, alternating between Elwynn Forest and Mulgore each month.

• What most players do is pick option 1 twice when talking to Sayge for 10% more damage for two hours. While it doesn’t work in dungeons and raids, you can make use of it during questing.

• Trade animal drops or crafted goods for Darkmoon Prize Tickets daily.

• Some of the most prized picks cost a lot of tickets. The Darkmoon Storage Box costs 50 tickets. The Orb and Amulet of the Darkmoon cost 1,200 each.

• Darkmoon decks are a separate way to relatively easily earn decent level 60 trinkets. You need eight cards of one suit, including the Ace.

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WoW Forever Darkmoon Faire Schedule and Locations

The Faire spends one week in either Elwynn Forest or Mulgore, then switches zones the following month. November’s camp is south of Goldshire. In December, head to the foot of Thunder Bluff. The schedule pulled from Forever’s in-game calendar uses realm time, so check your calendar before making the trip on opening day.

Both factions can visit either camp. For Alliance in November, leave Stormwind and head south past Goldshire. As Horde, take the zeppelin to Grom’gol, head north through Stranglethorn and Duskwood, and cross the river into Elwynn. Approach the Faire from the south to give Goldshire’s guards a wide berth. If you’re underleveled for the route and only want to browse, the December stop is a much easier trip for Horde.

How to Get Sayge’s Darkmoon Faire Buff

One of the better things you can do during the event is to talk to a gnoll named Sayge inside the camp and answer his two questions. For Sayge’s Dark Fortune of Damage, select the first answer on both questions. You’ll get quite a powerful fortune that lasts 2 hours in the open world, so get all of your unfinished tasks before getting the buff that can significantly speed up your open world progression. There are a bunch of other fortunes you can opt to get, but I think they’re all lacking compared to a flat 10% increase:

Another thing to keep track of is opening each fortune Sayge gives you. Some of them start Your Fortune Awaits You…, a short quest that rewards a lockbox.

Best Darkmoon Faire Rewards

If you’re still leveling with small bags, I’d take the Darkmoon Storage Box first. It’s unique, so you can carry only one, but 14 slots for 50 tickets is a better target than farming 1,200 before you can equip the reward. At level 60, I’d check dungeon and quest rewards before spending gold on 1,200 tickets’ worth of materials. A small upgrade is a hard sell when you’re looking at 60 hand-ins. With that said, some of the best rewards you can get are:

The two necklace quests are listed at level 55, but the items require level 60 to equip. Also check Lhara for the limited-stock Darkmoon Ring and Darkmoon Necklace, which are sold for gold. Both require level 50. The ring gives 14 Stamina and 14 health per five seconds; the necklace gives 6 Intellect and 6 mana per five seconds. The full tickets rewards list looks like this: 

Besides that, if you’d rather spend gold, check Lhara for the limited-stock Darkmoon Ring and Darkmoon Necklace. Both require level 50 and bind on pickup. The ring gives 14 Stamina and 14 health every five seconds; the necklace gives 6 Intellect and 6 mana every five seconds, both could be somewhat useful if you don’t have anything better. 

How to Farm Darkmoon Prize Tickets

Start with the Darkmoon Faire intro if it’s available. It sends you to Gelvas Grimegate to redeem a voucher for five tickets. After that, hand in crafted stuff and animal parts to corresponding NPCs in the camp.  The Classic Darkmoon Faire guide on Wowhead is a good reference point for rewards and ticket prices since they stayed the same in Forever. Also, some lower-tier quests stop being available as your Faire reputation rises, so check what the NPC will still take before you stock up.

If you’re looking to get the bag from rewards: If you can do the plume quest, four hand-ins plus the voucher give 53 tickets. That’s 20 plumes for enough tickets to buy the bag. For a necklace: Starting from zero, 60 hand-ins at 20 tickets each gets you to 1,200. That would be 360 Thorium Widgets, 480 Dense Grinding Stones, or 600 Evil Bat Eyes.

How to Get Darkmoon Deck Trinkets

Trinkets are some of the most valued prizes. To get them, collect the Ace through Eight of the same suit, combine them into a deck, and hand it in to Professor Thaddeus Paleo while the Faire is in your town. Here’s the full lineup and what each one does in Forever:

You mostly get Aces from dungeons and open world bosses - the old farming targets are The Beast in Upper Blackrock Spire for Beasts, King Gordok in Dire Maul for Warlords, Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance for Portals, and high-level elemental bosses like The Windreaver for, well, Elementals. Forever’s odds are unconfirmed right now, but I think they weren’t changed.

Darkmoon Faire Pets

Flik sells the Tree Frog and Wood Frog. For Jubling, pick up two Dark Iron Ale Mugs from Plugger Spazzring in Blackrock Depths before you head to the Faire. Put one mug on the ground near Morja and wait for Jubjub to come back. Then talk to Morja and give her the second mug for the egg, which then takes seven days to hatch.

Check out another WoW Forever guide:

• WoW Forever Best Professions
• WoW Forever Gold Farming Guide
• WoW Forever Leveling Guide