Darkmoon Faire Reborn

Blizzard has pretty much done away with a lot of the concrete details of the Darkmoon Faire as part of the 4.3 patch that seems to be rolling out today.

I am not laughing or crying over this.  I do have some regret that I did not farm more of the tribute items to turn in for more reputation.

On the one hand, I probably could have gotten a lot more reputation if I really focussed on collecting and crafting the necessary items.  Now, that I have finally converted a bunch of my alts into bankers it would be practical to do.  I now have storage to stockpile the items, at least.  However, I was just a little too late with that conversion to do this, it seems.

On the other hand, I did not get too badly burned by this change.

For one thing, I was not stockpiling a giant quantity of the now obsolete tickets.  I had a hunch they would be going away and that hunch proved right according to the  latest WoW Insider and Wowpedia Darkmoon Island information.

The other thing that bolsters my mood is that I did do a little farming and decently organized turn-ins of the tribute items this autumn. So when Darkmoon Faire opens at its new location in a few days, I can at least poke my head in with higher than Neutral reputation on a few characters.

One thing that really makes me happy is the items that the tickets bought are probably going away.

Those items were decent when the Faire debuted.  For the past few years they were kind of a joke for people who had already been playing WoW for years.  New characters or not, longtime players are just not going to be all that excited with a 14-slot bag when their tailor is able to create 20+ slot bags for all of their characters.

Basically, when I was turning in tickets this year, I considered the items I got back little more than vendor trash.

The change is a reminder that the joke is on any of us who collect quest and tribute items and hold onto them for a long time.  It seems a lot of them are destined to vanish or be turned to grays.  Best to farm enough to top off the amount needed to do a turn-in, turn it in, and get your reputation points.  Holding onto a couple here or there for ages is likely just to take up valuable bank space with this ultimately never get used.

It sounds like more than a few grins lie in store for all of us who venture into Darkmoon Faire at its new island locale, Darkmoon Island.