On Monday, November 9, at 4:00 realm time, the Darkmoon Faire opens in Elwynn Forest in WoW Forever. It stays for 168 hours, or seven days, until Sunday, November 15. Anyone can visit, but the Horde will have to cross Alliance territory to reach it.
Blizzard has not published any announcement about this faire for Forever. The dates come from the game itself: endgametools and warcraftmaps pulled them from the client data (the game files installed on your computer). Warcraftmaps notes that Blizzard could still change them.
Darkmoon Faire: November 9 to 15 in Elwynn, then Mulgore
Each Darkmoon Faire visit starts on a Monday at 4:00 realm time (the game server’s clock) and lasts 168 hours. Neither source gives that time in Paris time: it depends on your realm’s time zone. After Elwynn, the faire switches sides every month: endgametools places it at the foot of Thunder Bluff, in Mulgore, from Monday, December 7 to Sunday, December 13, then back in Elwynn from January 4 to 10, 2027.
| Opens (Monday, 4:00 realm time) | Location |
|---|---|
| November 9, 2026 | Elwynn Forest |
| December 7, 2026 | Foot of Thunder Bluff, Mulgore |
| January 4, 2027 | Elwynn Forest |
| February 8, 2027 | Foot of Thunder Bluff, Mulgore |
| March 8, 2027 | Elwynn Forest |
| April 5, 2027 | Foot of Thunder Bluff, Mulgore |
| May 3, 2027 | Elwynn Forest |
| June 7, 2027 | Foot of Thunder Bluff, Mulgore |
This table reproduces the warcraftmaps schedule. It stops in June 2027, and nothing on those pages says whether Blizzard will extend the rotation beyond that.
The monthly rhythm is the same as in Classic. In February 2020, according to Blizzard’s announcement, the first faire opened on the Horde side, in Mulgore, from February 10 to 16, before moving to Elwynn from March 9 to 15. In Forever, the Alliance goes first. Blizzard reminded players back then that on a PvP realm, entering enemy territory calls for caution: the same goes for the Horde in Elwynn.
Sayge: eight fortunes, two hours, no effect in raids
According to endgametools, Sayge, the faire’s fortune teller, hands out eight fortunes, meaning eight temporary bonuses (buffs). Each one gives 10% more damage, armor, Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intellect or Spirit, or 25 more points to every resistance. The page does not say what determines the fortune you get. It does not give the names of the eight fortunes either. The bonus lasts two hours.
The limit comes down to one line of in-game text, quoted by the same page: “No effect while in a raid instance.” So this bonus is useful for leveling, farming and open-world PvP, not for the first raid on December 9.
In 2020, Blizzard described a two-question mechanic: Sayge asked two questions, and the fortune depended on your answers. The pages about Forever do not describe that process.
Tickets, cards and two items at 1,200 tickets
The currency of the Darkmoon Faire is the Darkmoon Faire Ticket. Warcraftmaps quotes its description from the client: “awarded for winning games or doing favors at the Darkmoon Faire.” The games and favors in question are not described for Forever, and none of the pages we read says whether they work as in Classic. In 2020, Blizzard explained that the faire’s games and quests earned tickets, and that a complete deck of cards turned in to Professor Thaddeus Paleo was worth an epic-quality trinket.
As for rewards, the client lists four cards (Heroism, Blue Dragon, Maelstrom and Twisting Nether), a Darkmoon ring and a Darkmoon necklace, as well as the Orb of the Darkmoon and the Amulet of the Darkmoon. Only those last two have a known price: 1,200 tickets each, according to endgametools. The ring and necklace are sold at the faire from level 50, with no published price.
Endgametools also says the Orb of the Darkmoon is a first choice in 19 of its best-in-slot lists (BiS, the best possible piece for each slot), and that the Amulet of the Darkmoon appears in 28 lists, ranking first in 3. Warcraftmaps cannot say whether the level 60 rewards show up as early as this first faire. For the rest of the content in the first months, our launch content guide covers it.
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