Guide to Professions at the Darkmoon Faire

By Keldesh Updated: 2022/09/04

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Was removed in patch 6.2.

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Ignore the Darkened, Eerie Woods, Ignore the Eyes That Blink and Stare
Fun & Games & Wondrous Sights! Music & Fireworks to Light Up The Night!
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Please be aware that how point distribution works has been changed multiple times over the years, and may be changed again. I'll try to keep it as updated once I have tested.

Faire NPCSChronosSylanniaYebb NeblegearSaygeRinlingSelina DourmanProfessor Thaddeus PaleoStamp ThunderhornShopping Lists

Primary Professions

Profession

Item

Alchemy

5x Moonberry Juice
5x Fizzy Faire Drink

Inscription

5x Light Parchment

Leathworking

10x Shiny Bauble
5x Coarse Thread
5x Blue Dye

Tailoring

1x Coarse Thread
1x Red Dye
1x Blue Dye

Secondary Professions

Profession

Item

Archaeology

15x Fossil Archaeology Fragment

Cooking

5x Simple Flour

Tharynn BoudenShadi Mistrunner

Barkeep DobbinsKuruk

Sylannia

Brann BronzebeardGrakisSrikka

Crate of Fossil Archaeology Fragments

Gathering Professions

Quest:
Herbs for Healing

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Herbalism
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
6x Darkblossom

Quest NPC:
Chronos

DarkblossomDarkblossomChronos

Quest:
Rearm, Reuse, Recycle

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Mining
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
6x Tonk Scrap

Quest NPC:
Rinling

Tonk ScrapTonk ScrapRinling

Quest:
Tan My Hide

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Skinning
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
4x Staked Skin

Quest NPC:
Chronos

Staked SkinStaked SkinChronosProduction Professions

Quest:
A Fizzy Fusion

Provided:
Cocktail Shaker

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Alchemy
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Moonberry Juice
5x Fizzy Faire Drink

Quest NPC:
Sylannia

Fizzy Faire DrinkSylanniaMoonberry JuiceShopping ListCocktail ShakerMoonberry FizzMoonberry FizzSylannia

Quest:
Baby Needs Two Pair of Shoes

Provided:
Iron Stock

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Blacksmithing
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
4x Horseshoe

Quest NPC:
Yebb Neblegear

Yebb NeblegearBabyIron StockHorseshoeChronosThermal AnvilHorseshoeBabyHorseshoeBabyBaby

Quest:
Putting Trash to Good Use

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Enchanting
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
6x Discarded Weapon

Quest NPC:
Sayge

Discarded WeaponDiscarded WeaponSoothsayer's DustSoothsayer's DustSayge

Quest:
Talkin' Tonks

Provided:
Battered Wrench

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Engineering
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Damaged Tonk

Quest NPC:
Rinling

Damaged TonkDamaged TonkBattered WrenchDamaged TonkRinling

Quest:
Writing the Future

Provided:
Bundle of Exotic Herbs
5x Prophetic Ink

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Inscription
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Light Parchment

Quest NPC:
Sayge

Bundle of Exotic HerbsProphetic InkLight ParchmentFortuneFortuneSayge

Quest:
Keeping the Faire Sparkling

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Jewelcrafting
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Bit of Glass

Quest NPC:
Chronos

Bit of GlassSparkling 'Gemstone'Sparkling 'Gemstone'Chronos

Quest:
Eyes on the Prizes

Provided:
Darkmoon Craftsman's Kit

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Leatherworking
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
10x Shiny Bauble
5x Coarse Thread
5x Blue Dye

Quest NPC:
Rinling

Shiny BaubleCoarse ThreadBlue DyeShopping ListDarkmoon Craftsman's KitShiny BaubleCoarse ThreadBlue DyeDarkmoon PrizeDarkmoon PrizeRinling

Quest:
Banners, Banners Everywhere!

Provided:
Darkmoon Banner Kit

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
4x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Tailoring
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
1x Red Dye
1x Blue Dye
1x Coarse Thread

Quest NPC:
Selina Dourman

Darkmoon Banner KitRed DyeBlue DyeCoarse ThreadSelina DourmanSecondary Professions

Quest:
Fun for the Little Ones

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
3x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Archaeology
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
15x Fossil Archaeology Fragment

Quest NPC:
Professor Thaddeus Paleo

Professor Thaddeus PaleoRestored Artifactwhich can be bought with Spirit of Harmony orBrann BronzebeardGrakisSrikkaCrate of Fossil Archaeology FragmentsFossil Archaeology FragmentFossil Archaeology FragmentProfessor Thaddeus Paleo

Quest:
Putting the Crunch in the Frog

Provided:
Plump Frogs

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
3x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Cooking
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Breaded Frog
5x Simple Flour

Quest NPC:
Stamp Thunderhorn

Simple FlourShopping ListStamp ThunderhornPlump FrogsSimple FlourBreaded FrogStamp ThunderhornBreaded FrogCrunchy FrogBreaded Frog

Quest:
Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs

Provided:
None

Rewards:
1x Darkmoon Game Token
3x Darkmoon Prize Ticket
+5 Fishing
+250 Darkmoon Faire

Quest Item:
5x Great Sea Herring

Quest NPC:
Stamp Thunderhorn

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Comments

Comment by 1197307

Excellent guide, thank you very much. Information is accurate and layout and formatting are impressive!

Comment by b34tst34k

Minor mistake: you say the "Inscription" Quest NPC is Rinling but actually it is Sayge.

However really good and handy guide.

Comment by designadrug

I've found that a lot of hassle can be saved by having a stack of flour, baubles, dyes, thread and contributed spare ride tickets in a public tab of the guild bank - if you forget anything you can use the Mobile Banking perk to grab what you need, depending on how your Guild Master sets-up the Guild Bank.

Comment by avatarofshadow

I wish they'd make a new DMF mount, and have it sell all the things you might need for the DMF as well as a transmog version of the DMF mage outfit.

Comment by Bardsoul

Minor c&p mistake: On the Jewelcrafting tab under "Production Professions" it says it rewards +5 Inscription. Well, I hope it's a c&p mistake, otherwise I'll be slightly bummed. ;)

Comment by lexbria

I have to use this guide every month lol. Thank you for making it so easy to navigate!

Comment by RealUnimportant

Perfect guide, everything you need to know all in one place, and no fluff.

Comment by SiegmundFretzgau

good guide, minor nitpick, you can't buy Restored Artifact with Spirit of Harmony anymore.

Comment by redlabel

Don't forget to start the profession quest from 700-800 in Legion, as I have just experienced that completing a quest without doing so does NOT credit you +5 profession point gains.

Comment by Illidana

I was searching to see what profession level one needed to have in order to get the profession quests from DMF.
This guide gave me the exact answer I needed and much more other info such as shopping list and best vendors for mats with maps.
Excellent guide with very friendly and easy to use navigation as well ⍟⍟⍟⍟⍟✚

Comment by Aamunkajo

With the professions having split to several separate progressions in 8.0, this applies the classic skill only (the one that is up to 300).

I tested this with classic, Outland and Legion, the two later of which didn't go up anymore, but I think it is safe to assume that it applies for all the other special ones in between.

Comment by Blushadows

I did post a reply elsewhere in this thread but wanted to also put the unedited (except for names) ticket for all to read here. Darkmoon professions quests have changed along with the professions changes that dropped in Patch 8.0.1 Without further ado, the full ticket response:

Dear *****,

Issue ID: #***********

Your ticket has received the following response:

Hey there, *****!

I'm Game Master ***********, and I'm here to help!

So, I understand you're not getting the +5 from the profession quests at the Darkmoon Faire. That definitely sounds disconcerting, and I'm glad you got in touch with us so I could check it out for you!

This actually threw me for a loop as well when I ran into it, but it's a result of the way professions were changed with patch 8.0. Each profession is split up by expansion, and the Darkmoon quests count for classic, so to get them you need at least one rank in the classic profession, and the benefit from the quest stops at 300/300.

This is something we have sent to our developers to look into; hopefully, the quest text will be more concise when it comes back around for this month. For this month, it looks like the behavior is intended. Customer Service will not assist with those five points in a different category! We are, however, passing up all of the feedback related to this to improve it for future Darkmoon Faires.

I hope this information helps. Have a fantastic day, my friend, and please let us know if there's ever anything else we can help with!

Click here to review and resolve your ticket. If you continue to experience issues, you can respond to your ticket with additional information.

If you do not resolve the ticket or provide an additional response within one week, we will resolve the ticket automatically and you'll receive a final update via email.

Regards,
Blizzard Support

Comment by Ziboo

Nice guide. You might want to remove the First Aid as that's out of the game for BfA.

Definitely bummed that the crafting +5 is useless now or so it appears 8/7/18. I guess it's still viable for a few coin and the tickets, but boo Blizzard on making this useless past Vanilla.

Comment by zlloyd1

This is ignorant, like most of the changes that Blizzard decides to do to destroy the game....
I was close to maxxing out my Mining in Legion, and was using the faire to get my last 15 points, because the morons at Blizzard decided to make it so that the nodes in Broken Isles all go grey at 785. However, now you cannot even get skill ups at the faire anymore.
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT BLIZZARD?
Just another attempt to ruin the game for role players? Also, why was it made to be so impossible to complete your professions in Legion? Almost every single profession in Legion was setup that it was near to impossible to finish, and now you want to take away the one option that players had?
Are you stupid, or just trying to chase away everyone who pays your salaries? I have a suggestion Blizzard, just completely remove professions from game entirely, then you can stop needling the players every time you get near a computer.
Is there any possible way now to max Legion Mining anymore, without the faire, and with the removal of profession quests? Does anybody know?
Don't get me wrong, I am not hating on BFA, but I am sick of finding out that Blizzard has made yet another dramatic change to the game that breaks it.
The profession split was totally unnecessary, and pointless!

Comment by spacecheeserocks

It seems that in Battle for Azeroth, the only quest to reward BfA-level Skill is Fun for the Little Ones (Archaeology).

None of the others i tried (alchemy, herbalism, fishing or cooking) rewarded skill for their 'Kul Tiran' or 'Zandarli' flavours.

Comment by Malachi68

As some people have pointed out, the Darkmoon Faire no longer provides any increase to Profession Skills (except Archaeology, which still follows the pre-BfA point system).

The problem is that it still states that one will receive +5 points in the profession when one completes the quest. So Blizzard should really have updated the in-game text if they wanted this to be a smooth transition.

Comment by Wylyth

Question: do you need to be level 35 to buy Moonberry Juice (thus making the Alchemy quest impossible for starter edition players) or do you just need to be that level to use it?

Comment by babajaga1

The Darkmoon Professional quest now award skill up for Zandalari and other expansion skills! I was able to add to my mains Zandalari Fishing and my alts Legion Jewel crafting .

Comment by Fitzgibbons

Darkmoon Faire quest-based skillups now apply automatically to the most recent expansion profession progress that is not at its maximum.

This is either too ambiguous, or not actually working as stated. For example:

I am levelling an alt and raising his engineering skill.
Alt is level 83.
Cataclysm engineering is at 16.
Northrend engineering is at 63.
I am trying to get Northrend eng to max level, so I craft an orange Northrend recipe.
Northrend eng is now at 64. Therefore this is my "most recent expansion profession progress".
Rinling's quest reward is 5 skill ups for Cataclysm engineering. Going by the patch note, shouldn't this be applied to Northrend engineering instead?

Comment by noobix

For the engineering macro you have to delete the "s" to Damaged Tonk"s " if don't do that the macro doesn't work.

#showtooltip Battered Wrench
/target Damaged Tonk
/use Battered Wrench

Comment by Ariecho

I ran into a different problem with Darkmoon Faire:

I tried to get the +5 in blacksmithing on two different characters. One is Horde, one is Alliance and they are on different server clusters. I was able to get the profession quest twice.

I then tried to get the +5 in leatherworking on two characters on the same server cluster (Shu'Halo and Eitrigg). Two are Alliance, one is at the Legion level, the other one is still leveling in Eastern Kingdoms. The quest worked for the first one, but didn't appear for the second one.

It is not a level problem, as for blacksmithing, I had a level-120 and a level-33. They both got the quest.

Comment by d3xx

I have found in 8.1.5 that Rinling offers my char the engineering quest but not the leatherworking quest

Comment by PallyRogue

What skill level do you need to be to obtain quests? My Zandulari JC is 77 and mining is 31. The toon is boosted so it skips MoP, WoD, & Legion. Skill sets go from Vanilla, to Cata to Zandalri.

Comment by Amgrod

Beware - if you switched a profession (as I did in Legion) or otherwise don't have level 75 in VANILLA for that profession, the DMF profession quest will not be available. I just found that out with Herbalism. In this case, the combination of GatherMate 2, Routes, a Sky Golem mount, and about 30 minutes in Elwynn Forest was enough to get me from 13 to 75, and I was able to pick up and complete the quest. Now that professions are broken up by expansion, this is not immediately obvious.

Keldesh pointed this out in a reply to one of the posts in here; just wanted to bring more attention to it.

Comment by Nadiv

Updated/fixed macros that shows if character completed profession quests (macro prints all professions names. Red color means that quest is completed):

Primary professions:
/run a=29506 c="\124cff" d={a,'Alch',a+2,'BS',a+4,'Ench',a+5,'Eng',a+8,'Herb',a+9,'Insc',a+10,'JC',a+12,'Min',a+11,'LW',a+13,'Skin',a+14,'Tailo'} for i=1,22,2 do print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(d) and c.."ff0000" or c.."00ff00", d) end

Secondary professions:
/run local d={29507,'Archaeology',29509,'Cooking',29513,'Fishing'} for i=1,6,2 do print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(d) and "\124cffff0000" or "\124cff00ff00", d) end

Quick macro - shows if ANY profession quest (primary of secondary) was completed (can be used to see if your current toon visited DMF island this event). Result is "Completed" or "Not Compelted":
/run a=29506;d={a,a+2,a+4,a+5,a+8,a+9,a+10,a+12,a+11,a+13,a+14,a+1,a+3,a+7};r=nil for i=1,14,1 do r = r or C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(d) end print(r and "\124cffff0000 " or "\124cff00ff00Not ", "Completed")

Comment by krilvyn

Quest giver for the Mining quest is Rinling (14841), not Derina Rumdnul (1484).

Comment by yllijina

Very usefull guide, I love it.
I will however add a note. To get the Darkmoon Faire profession quest you need to lvl 75 (also said above). What tricked me is that it is lvl 75 in the original profession ("vanilla skill"), thus working your BfA profession lvl is not going to help towards getting these quests. (sigh)

Comment by Janamaceye

Well, I have all skill levels at maximum, except Kul'Tiran fishing and got NO points for after turning in the fishing quest....

Comment by brionl

They seem to have re-kajiggered the way these quests work again.

You only need skill level 1 in Classic skills to get the quest.
It will apply the skill levels to the latest expansion that you don't have maxed out. I have a character with max Shadowlands cooking, and never even trained BfA cooking, so it's getting skill points in Legion cooking, which isn't maxed.
If you read the quest, it tells you which expansion the skills will be applied to.
You can get the quests even if your Classic skill level is maxed out.

These quests are pretty good exp for the time spent for characters with levels <50. If you have an alt you don't play much it's probably worthwhile to learn mining, herbalism and cooking just to get a free level (plus or minus a half level) every month.

I'd advise against getting the fishing quest, unless your Classic fishing is well over 100, since that's the minimum skill to not catch trash. At level 1 fishing skill you'll be catching 10 or more trash for every successful catch.

Comment by Mycoro

In Dragonflight, both production and gathering professions now give 1x Darkmoon Token , 4x Tickets, +3 Knowledge, +2 Skill and 15x Artisan's Mettle.

Cooking and Fishing only gives +3 Skill now.

Comment by Raffiq

As of patch 11.0.2, all quests still provide 2 skill points and 3 knowledge points for the latest extension profession skills you've learned.

However, make sure you've learned the profession from the current expansion to earn points in it. For example, I hadn't learned fishing in Khaz Alghar, so the profession master offered to increase my fishing from Dragonflight instead.

I’m not sure how you'd choose to gain points from an earlier expansion, like Classic, though.

Comment by Elvenwarrior2001

If you're having trouble finding the mining and engineering quests it's because the NPC also gives a blue quest, so it won't show up. He's the NPC that does the shooting game.

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