Darkmoon Faire

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 and Elwynn forest. When the faire is on its way, barkers will stop by Orgrimmar and Ironforge 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) and just outside Thunder Bluff in Mulgore (H) 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 sleaves 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.

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 useable. 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."