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Comment by katora

The "new" Darkmoon currency, replacement the old tickets. These are picked up from the new quests and daily quests at the Darkmoon faire. At 90 per pet, and 180 per mount it will take 900 to get all 6 pets and 2 mounts (540 for pets, 360 for mounts).

Currently looks like you can get 150 per week of the faire with quests, dailies and turn-ins combined, for a total of 6 weeks(months) to get all mounts and pets.

More accurate breakdown:
5 per set of dailies for 40 total (get an extra days worth if you start before reset on the sunday)
10 for Test Your Strength
4 each for Primary profession quests = 8 Total
3 each for Secondary profession quests = 12 Total

So 70 total from quests picked up at the faire. The remaining amount is obtained by hand-ins that drop if you have your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide with you.
There is a total of nine quest items, 5 tickets each for the 3 pvp, 10 each for the 5 dungeon ones and 15 for the raid hand-in, totalling 80.

Also if you manage to loot the chest in the Darkmoon Deathmatch you will get an additional 5 Prize tickets.

If you haven't done the lead in quest pre-patch you can get an additional 5 from The Darkmoon Faire (thanks elionor).

Edit: Month 2 and it looks like some of the quests haven't reset properly, i.e. 2 out of the 9 item hand ins appear to think I've already done them this month. Hopefully they can fix this bug or it could slow ticket acquisition down a fair bit.

Comment by spacemoo

More importantly, can the mounts/pets be sold on AH?

Comment by Cyno01

It will take you about 6 months to earn all the pets and mounts, 2 months for a set of transmog gear, and unless youre not interested in either of those, youre probably better off getting heirlooms with justice/honor points still.

Test Your Strength 10 tickets monthly.

Assuming you have all secondary professions, thats 6 more monthly quests, at 4 tickets each for primaries and 3 for secondaries; a total of 20 tickets.

There are the 5 faire games, which on live are now only rewarding 1 ticket each. If you do them after midnight on the saturday before dailies reset, gives you an extra day, so thats 8 days times five tickets for another 40 tickets.

And finally, with your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in hand, youre eligible to loot the Darkmoon Artifacts, which im assuming are also weekly turn ins. With the 3 battleground ones being worth 5 tickets, the 5 dungeon boss ones being worth 10 tickets each and the one raid one (still speculative) being worth 15. for a total of 80 more tickets.

Theres also the 5 tickets from the one time quest The Darkmoon Faire, which you cant even get if youve done the faire prior to its 4.3 incarnation, so i wont count that.

Unless i missed something, that gives you a grand total of 150 tickets per faire, so a little more than one pet or not quite one mount per month.

It seems like a lot, but if i recall correctly, this is a similar time investment to getting your Crusader title and all 13 mounts and 11 pets from the argent tournament, i think that took me maybe 4 months, but that was EVERY day, not 8 days a month. 120 days for 24 mounts and pets, vs 48 for 8, not too bad.

Comment by Deluge

It should also be noted that these tickets are worth 2g 50s each (buying the 14 slot bags and reselling them). So 12,5g per day for doing these darkmoon dailies.

Considering the rewards for a normal quest at 85, this doesn't seem like much, however for the time spent and perhaps at a much lower level, this might be worth doing. Heck, it will give you something to do with these tickets if you aren't into the whole mount/pet collection thing.

Also, I keep imagining the faces of people farming these, when I vendor them for 2g 50s each right in front of them :)

Comment by T2HSLM

how does one exchange old tix for the new ones?

Comment by Vlad

You can purchase many items using the Darkmoon Prize Ticket (note that on live it is now a currency: ), here is a small sample:

Mounts and companions:
# Purchase
180 Swift Forest Strider
180 Darkmoon Dancing Bear
90 Darkmoon Balloon
90 Darkmoon Monkey
90 Darkmoon Turtle
90 Darkmoon Tonk
90 Darkmoon Zeppelin
90 Darkmoon Cub
You can also purchase the Dungeon Set 1 (Level 60) as replica items from Barum for Transmogrification:
# Slot
75 Head
75 Shoulders
75 Chest
75 Legs
55 Wrist
55 Hands
55 Waist
55 Feet
520 tickets for a full set
There will also be heirlooms available from tickets from Daenrand Dawncrest.

There are various ways of earning tickets for the faire:

You can PvP in the Darkmoon Arena: each 3 hours (1200, 1500, 1800, 2100, e.g.) you can battle for the Darkmoon Arena Chest and earn 5 extra tickets!
You can do quests:
#
10 Test Your Strength
1 Tonk Commander
1 The Humanoid Cannonball
1 He Shoots, He Scores!
1 Target: Turtle
1 It's Hammer Time
You also have profession related quests (these are monthly quests, you can do them each time the faire is "in town"):
#
4 Alchemy A Fizzy Fusion
4 Blacksmithing Baby Needs Two Pair of Shoes
4 Engineering Talkin' Tonks
4 Enchanting Putting Trash to Good Use
4 Herbalism Herbs for Healing
4 Inscription Writing the Future
4 Jewelcrafting Keeping the Faire Sparkling
4 Leatherworking Eyes on the Prizes
4 Mining Rearm, Reuse, Recycle
4 Skinning Tan My Hide
4 Tailoring Banners, Banners Everywhere!
3 Archaeology Fun for the Little Ones
3 Fishing Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs
3 Cooking Putting the Crunch in the Frog
3 First Aid Putting the Carnies Back Together Again
There are also world drop quests during the faire: (NB: You need Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide to loot these quests. Also you can only do them once per character!)
#
15 The Master Strategist
10 A Curious Crystal
10 An Exotic Egg
10 An Intriguing Grimoire
10 A Woundrous Weapon
10 Tools of Divination
5 A Captured Banner
5 The Enemy's Insignia
5 The Captured Journal

Comment by Vlad

I wrote this chart showing tickets and reputation one can earn doing the various quests (each faire/week):
Combination Tokens Reputation Ne->Ex Fr->Ex Ho->Ex Re->Ex
Q+D 10+35 45 250+8750 9000 4.6668 4.3334 3.6668 2.3334
Q+D+P 10+35+20 65 250+8750+1500 10500 4.0001 3.7144 3.1430 2.0001
Q+D+W 10+35+80 125 250+8750+2250 11250 3.7334 3.4668 2.9334 1.8668
Q+D+P+W 10+35+20+80 145 250+8750+1500+2250 12750 3.2942 3.0589 2.5883 1.6471

As mentioned in my other post, if you actively PvP in the Darkmoon Arena (event starts each 3 hours, 1500, 1800, 2100, e.g.) and win you earn 5 extra tickets from the chest.

Comment by Transducer

Another breakdown of ticket total, paraphrased from this blue post, italics are details I added:

Primary Tradeskills: 8 ( 2 quests x 4 tickets )
Cata Raid: 10 ( 1 item drop ) ~ *req. lvl 85*
'Kerri's Kill Count Quest': 10
Secondary Tradeskills: 12 ( 4 quests x 3 tickets )
Cata Heroic Dungeon: 15 ( 1 item drop ) ~ *req. lvl 85*
Battlegrounds: 15 (3 item drops x 5 tickets) ~ *req. lvl 15*
Mini Games: 35 ( 5 dailies x 1 ticket x 7 days)
Dungeon: 40 ( 4 item drops x 10 tickets ) ~ *req. lvl 15*

Total Tickets per faire: 145

+ 5 if you squeeze in time before dailies reset on sunday, between midnight and 3am server time.
+ 5 one time only, if your character has never done The Darkmoon Faire(A) / The Darkmoon Faire(H) breadcrumb quest before 4.3.
*edit* +5 more each and every time you manage to loot the Darkmoon Arena Chest.

~ Item drop quests requires Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in bag, or you can get them from other players / AH. Items can be looted even when Darkmoon Faire is closed.

Comment by Andea

The only quests that remain dailies, are the tonk, ring toss, cannon ball, shooting gallery, and the whack a gnoll.

Which means after you do the secondary quests and professions quests, book turn ins, and test your strength, you will only get 5 dailies a day. Which is 35 per week, unless you do the extra set after midnight on Saturday, before 3 am on Sunday, to give you 40 tickets per a week.

This means it will NOT take 7 weeks for the pets and mount to be all collect, but 14 weeks. And since the faire comes around once a month, those 14 weeks, is 1 year and 4 months.

It will be 18 days of doing the 5 dailies, for a pet. Which is 2 faire cycles, and 3 days. You will get 4 (or 5 if you do the extra set of dailies on Saturday after 12 before 3 am on Sunday) to count towards you next pet. SO basically, 2 pets every 5 months. Or 1 mount, every 5 months.

IF the other quests become monthly, which cannot be confirmed yet, it would be the 6 months. But since so many of the above posts, banked on all quests being daily or monthly, the numbers may be inaccurate.

Comment by Raistar

Tickets you can earn *Per* Faire:

Dungeons:55 (Monthly quest)
>A Treatise on Strategy=15
>Ornate Weapon=10
>Mysterious Grimoire=10
>Monstrous Egg=10
>Imbued Crystal=10
Raid: 10 (Monthly quest)
>Soothsayer's Runes=10
BGs: 15 (Monthly quest)
>Captured Insignia=5
>Banner of the Fallen=5
>Adventurer's Journal=5
Trade-skill quests (primary&secondary)=20 (Monthly Quest)
>You will have to do 6 of these, all will be related to professions you have that are at LEAST level 75.
Kill Quest: 10 (Monthly Quest)
>Test Your Strength=10
Mini Games*: 35 (Daily, during event)
>It's Hammer Time=1
>The Humanoid Cannonball=1
>He Shoots, He Scores!=1
>Tonk Commander=1
>Target: Turtle=1
* 5 mini games, available daily: 7*5=35
Pet Battle*: 5 (Daily, during event)
>>*New* Darkmoon Pet Battle!
* Pet Battle daily, available daily: 7*5=35

Total Tickets per faire:200 (Up from 145 with the addition of pet battle daily)

>Taken from MMO-Champion>Just to clarify one point, the quest drops that happen in the dungeons/raids/BG’s happen all the time, even if the faire isn’t in town. Think of it sort of like the Darkmoon Card redemption's. You’re out playing all month, while you’re doing stuff you’re getting chances at the items, then when the faire is in town you turn it all in. (It’s also worth pointing out that the turn-in items aren’t soul-bound, so just like the cards I’d expect some people to farm them just to put them up on the AH.) <Taken from MMO-Champion<

EDIT: Captured Insignia & Adventurer's Journal are now working.
EDIT: To add pet battle quest and update weekly total

Comment by jeeyeop

THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TICKETS ONE MAY ACQUIRE THE FIRST AND FOLLOWING WEEKS

I'm pretty sure there are others like me with the OCD of trying to get as many tickets as possible in order to purchase as many faire items as they can, so here are my findings: 5 tickets for the one time only quest entering the faire, 10 for test your strength, 80 for artifacts, 40 for daily quests (keep in mind, to get 8 days worth of dailies, you have to do the first day's worth at midnight before the daily reset on Sunday), and 20 for professions (8 from primary, 12 from secondary (must be min lvl 75 in all)) gives you a total of 155.

However, there are 9 other primary professions! You can drop your primary professions and pick up new ones and level them to 75 for an additional 4 tickets per profession picked up leading to a potential of an additional 36 tickets. New total 191!

Yet again, more? Yes, you can also acquire 5 more tickets per chest looted during the Faire at the arena (starts every 3 hours, 55 times a week). Theoretically speaking, you could get 275 more tickets here!

Grand total possible tickets? 467 :o. But realistically, expecting 200 is not unrealistic with hardcore grinding!

Some things to keep in mind, next faire, the max would be 462 because the faire entry quests is one timer only, ever. Also, one of the dungeon artifacts, A Treatise On Strategy is fairly rare and for those without the spare gold, may not be able to readily afford it (it does reward the most tickets thought at 15).

Happy farming! Gots mais Darkmoon bird mount dis week :D Sincerely, Salty Anchovy of KT

Comment by WLLR

For other people, like me, who have already gotten the 12 trinket achievement but are still after tickets because of mounts/pets - what I do is help people out with getting the trinket, and making a deal of me looting the tickets and leaving the trinket for them.

The tickets for looting the Darkmoon Arena chest are currency loot (i.e. Mote of Darkness in Dragonsoul) and get rewarded to you as soon as you loot the chest (first looter). You can leave the rest of the loot inside but still acquire the tickets.

This for me is a fast way to still get tickets at a nice pace and help people out at the same time.

Comment by Tarenmere

Soooo.. I like all this new stuff I can buy with this new, non-bag cluttering, curency. Although.
What do I do with all my old tickets?Tattered Darkmoon Faire Prize Ticket
Leave them to rot in my bank?
Spread them equally across all my storage and look at them in contempt of them being useless?
Or, sit and ask myself "why did i not use these?"
I surely can't throw them away...right?

Comment by QuickBASIC37

Even if you done the primary profession quests that week, if you drop a profession during Darkmoon Faire week, you can do the quests for the profession that you pick up as well. Even rewarding the achievement Faire Favors without completing one of the secondary skill quests such as Archaeology or Fishing.

Possibly means that if your toon has no professions you could conceivably do the quest for every primary profession each month, awarding you with 36 Darkmoon Prize Tickets instead of just 8. (Assuming you're willing to get each profession to 75 and really really want the tickets right meow.)

Comment by Damonra

Is there a limit to how many Darkmoon Prize Tickets someone can have at once? Right now, I have 307 of them.

Comment by Bastwiest

Stupid question, are they soulbound! I'd like to give 'm to an alt.

Comment by FrostbornDwarf

Here's a handy tip.

Create a text document on your computer or calendar in the format of a quest tracker for each date of the week the Darkmoon Faire is here.

Display all the weekly objectives on a separate place, and then all the daily tasks.

Then each day, just do them and check them off your calendar.

This helps to get all 145 Darkmoon tickets a month, which is really essential for going for the high-end items that cost a lot of tickets, like the mounts, vanity pets, or replica sets.

Comment by FrostbornDwarf

Here's a sample format I use...

-=July 06=-

Daily Mini Games: 0/5 Completed

-=Month of July=-

Test Your Strength: 0/250 trophies (also turn this in)

Tradeskill Quests (Monthly)

Profession 1:
Profession 2:
Archaeology:
First Aid:
Fishing:
Cooking:

Artifact Turn-ins (Monthly)

Dungeons

A Treatise on Strategy:
Ornate Weapon:
Mysterious Grimoire:
Monstrous Egg:
Imbued Crystal:

Raid

Soothsayer's Runes:

BGs

Captured Insignia:
Banner of the Fallen:
Adventurer's Journal:

Then just do your monthly ones, and each day make sure you get the 5 daily quests.

Comment by Damonra

Does anyone know what the limit is on how many tickets 1 toon can have at once? My shaman currently has 406. I wanted to save enough to get all the Darkmoon Faire mounts & companions at once.

Comment by Dragomir

Darkmoon Pet Supplies, from Darkmoon Pet Battle! also contains currency: Darkmoon Prize Ticket x5. This adds up to an extra 35 tickets every Darkmoon Faire, as the quest is a daily.

Comment by Dragomir

Darkmoon Pet Supplies, from Darkmoon Pet Battle! also contains currency: Darkmoon Prize Ticket x5. This adds up to an extra 35 tickets every Darkmoon Faire, as the quest is a daily. Note: This daily is only completable one time a day per account, so make sure you complete it on the character that you're collecting tickets on.

Comment by voodoopimp

It doesn't seem to have been mentioned specifically, but with the extra tickets from the pet battles it's now possible to get 180 tickets (on one character) per week, which is just enough to get one of the mounts (the most expensive prizes). Pre-85 characters can get up to 155 tickets, unfortunately not quite enough for the 2h heirlooms.

Comment by ShadowQueen95

My suggestion is if you are new to a realm BUY HEIRLOOMS FIRST this is the cheapest (most of the time) and easiest way to get them. Try buying the quest items either in the middle of a month, or in the middle of the faire week

Comment by McGrignr

For those using every alt available to buy lots of Darkmoon items in a week, keep this in mind.

I used all 11 characters I had on a server to save up tickets for and buy most of the heirlooms I was missing during one Darkmoon week, and then I had the idea to save up for and buy replica Lightforge for my panda warrior the following month, because nostalgia or something. I got enough on my level 90 shaman and 65 DK to buy a few pieces, then I go to my 42 warlock to buy another piece:

"You must be level 54 to purchase this item."

Apparently the replica armor not only has a level requirement to equip it or to transmog to it, but the alt that is buying the item also has to be high enough level to equip it. Not having the requisite armor proficiency isn't a problem (my mail-wearing shaman could purchase the plate armor just fine), but being too low a level is, even if it's not intended for use on the particular alt with the tickets that's doing the purchase.

So, basically, you need alts to be at least level 52-58 to purchase pieces of replica Dungeon Set 1 armor, and at least level 60 to purchase replica Dungeon Set 2. This obviously doesn't apply to buying heirlooms, as they're all usable from level 1. I presume the mounts would require level 20, but if you're stockpiling 180 tickets on one alt, they're most likely that far along anyway.

Comment by stickshift

I had some old mail, plate and weap heirlooms sitting in banks that I had no reason to burn these "upgrade-to-85" tickets on since my wearers were all lvl 90. Glad I hung on to them because Blizz recently gave the go-ahead for us to mail BoA stuff to characters in other realms (horde or alliance!)

So if you've been stockpiling Prize Tickets you can bump your BoA's to 85 and mail them cross-realm in the following manner;

toonsname-realmname (note the dash)

My Crusader enchant stuck on my Hardened Arcanite Reaper after I mailed it, but I can't speak for the transmog... I would imagine you lose that. If you forget to enchant your stuff before mailing to your tiny toons, just send it back. Make sure that you Upgrade before you Enchant or else you'll lose the enchant.

This seems almost too good to be real, but there ya are.

Comment by lecanard2

i get these ticks like a kid just opened the machine at chucke cheese, any currensy out there you know canard got it, full set of darkmoon cards from 60-90,hmu

Comment by Patrick43

So we can't combine all tickets from all your toons and give them to one?

Comment by Yowl

You can mail the unopened Darkmoon Game Prize's [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=93724#reward-from-q to any of your char's.! They also can be stored in personal bank or a guild bank (until next months 'faire). Mail the 'boxes' to one Char. to stack your tickets, share the hat's around for the 10% buff. Shift click to see what is in the Game Prize without opening it.

Comment by NaAbPwNzOr420

i can buy it for money? im rich :). i can buy this tickets show where

Comment by macklemost

I was only 15 tickets away from my first 180 so I could get a Darkmoon Mount finally and I looted (A Treatise on Strategy) from Scarlet Halls Armsmaster. Sadly the Darkmoon Faire had just ended 20 minutes prior :(

Comment by nirv

I don't get it. I have Auto Loot checked and the Auto Loot Key as "SHIFT" as I have for years. But on my main character it auto loots the Darkmoon Prize contents whether I'm holding shift or not, whether I delete the WTF folder, or even when I remove all addons, yet it isn't behaving that way on two of my alts despite the same settings. I can't pinpoint why it's behaving this way.

I want to open the prizes one by one and send any experience buff items to alts but it just keeps auto looting no matter what I do and I don't know how to fix it. It didn't do this last month when Darkmoon Faire was opened last. What the hell changed and how do I fix it?

Edit: I see what happened. Blizzard changed something between the last Darkmoon and this one because I used to be able to open the prizes without pulling out the Darkmoon ticket but now, even when holding shift, it will pull the ticket out and add it to your currency automatically. If there is an additional item in the container and you're holding shift, it will consume the ticket but leave the other item in the container. It didn't do that before.

Comment by nirv

Just to confirm:

If you have auto loot enabled in Interface -> Controls -> you can hold Shift while right clicking these prizes to look at the contents without actually looting them into your bags. Why would you do this? Because the prize box itself is not BoP, so it is tradable. One of my prizes had a Darkmoon Balloon in it so I traded it to my cousin and he was able to add it to his pet list without a problem.

Comment by Mystterious

If you want like 75x darkmoon prize ticket really real fast. Go on Soothsayer's Runes page. in commets section click NEWEST FIRST. Then check the sandyra comment. It explain that you can buy or find some items. These items begin a quest. Each quests give 5 to 15 darkmoon prize tickets. You can do each quests 1 time per months.

Because thèses daily quests in darkmoon faire give 1 darkmoon prize ticket each, and its really long, if you only do them.

HOPE IT HELP!

Good game, good luck, have fun!

Vote for me :)

Comment by Aaahead

If you're looking to turn Darkmoon Prize Tickets into gold, you should buy either transmog armor or pets to sell on the auction house or directly to other players. The Darkmoon Faire pets need to be learned and then caged to sell or trade them.

Many of the 75-ticket armor items, like Replica Breastplate of Valor, are listed at median prices of around 10000 gold on mid-population US realm auction houses (lower on high-population realms). As with other high-end transmog items, they can take a while to sell, so don't expect next-day sales. Armor with a broader audience, like Nobleman's Coat and Breath of Talador (also 75 tickets each), have lower median US listing prices (5000-6000 gold), but may sell faster, especially on roleplay servers. Darkmoon faire pets like the Darkmoon Cub, which all sell for 90 tickets each, have even lower median listing prices (3249g for the cub), but usually sell faster than transmog items on the AH, and offer the advantage that you can buy and learn the pet on one realm, and cage and sell it on a different realm, if you want gold on a different realm.

Comment by Aaahead

An occasional source of Darkmoon Prize Tickets to consider is the Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack, which is sometimes listed on the Black Market Auction House. It has a starting bid of 5000 gold. Reported contents range from 275 to 486 Darkmoon Prize Tickets, and it seems evenly distributed, so probably has around 380 tickets on average.