Darkmoon Dirigible

Darkmoon Dirigible is an epic flying mount shaped like a small single-seat airship in a bright purple color. Visually it is a steam zeppelin with a gondola, a propeller and a pot-bellied canopy in the style of the Darkmoon Faire. The mount was added in the Legion expansion (patch 7.3.0) and became the first "aircraft" in the game rather than a living creature under a saddle.

The mount is sold by the vendor Lhara on Darkmoon Island for 1000 Darkmoon Prize Tickets. It is the most expensive mount sold by Lhara — ordinary faire mounts cost 180 tickets each, which makes the Darkmoon Dirigible the main goal of long monthly farming cycles.

Prize tickets cannot be bought, traded between characters or earned outside the faire. They are earned strictly during one week each month, when the Darkmoon Faire comes to Azeroth. With the introduction of the warband system, tickets now go into the warband bank and accumulate across all characters on the account, which dramatically speeds up the path to the mount.

• Unique model — it is the only airship-style flying mount of this silhouette in the game. A giant purple zeppelin with a propeller is guaranteed to catch the eye
• A full-fledged flying mount — a flying mount's speed scales together with your riding skill. At max level in Midnight the mount flies at expert rider speed
• Shared across all characters — once purchased, the mount unlocks for every character on the account, of any faction and class. Buy it once and you have it forever
• Low requirements — the mount is available to characters from level 10 (the requirement was lowered in patch 9.0.1 from level 20). Any level of riding skill is enough
• Nostalgia and collector's value — the Darkmoon Faire has existed since Classic, and the Dirigible has become its most recognizable souvenir mount. A great excuse to close out monthly achievements and raise your reputation with the Darkmoon Faire faction
• No raids and no luck required — unlike mounts from bosses and crates, the Darkmoon Dirigible is bought for a fixed price. No drop chance and no risk of ending up with nothing

The main path is to visit the Darkmoon Faire every month, complete the maximum number of daily and monthly tasks, save up prize tickets and buy the mount from Lhara. Below is the detailed order of actions.

1. Wait for the Darkmoon Faire to go live. The event opens on the first Sunday of each month and lasts one week (until the following Sunday)
2. Get to Darkmoon Island. For the Alliance the portal is in the staging camp in Elwynn Forest just south of Goldshire, for the Horde it is in the staging camp in Mulgore to the southwest of Thunder Bluff. In major cities (Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Dalaran) Faire mystic mages are on duty who teleport you straight to the portal
3. On your first entry, take the free Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide from Selina Dourman. It is needed for the monthly quest "Test Your Strength" and for collecting special artifacts from mobs
4. Find the vendor Lhara within the faire grounds. She stands next to the mini-game arena, in the ring of faire vendors
5. Check your current ticket supply in the character's "Currency" tab. The Darkmoon Prize Ticket is stored in the warband bank, so the tickets of all your characters are counted
6. Complete the maximum number of daily mini-games, monthly quests and profession tasks to make up the missing tickets
7. Return to Lhara and buy the Darkmoon Dirigible for 1000 tickets. The item activates immediately upon use — the mount will appear in the collection of the character and the entire account

You need 1000 tickets for the mount. A single character earns a limited amount during the faire week, but thanks to the warband system the tickets now accumulate in a shared bank — you can farm on several characters and buy the mount much faster.

Daily mini-games

There are five mini-games and one daily PvP task at the faire. Each gives one ticket, for a total of about 5 tickets per day.

The games require Darkmoon Game Tokens — one per attempt. Tokens are sold by nearby NPCs for gold, so the limit will be your personal resources, not cooldowns.

Monthly and profession quests

• Test Your Strength — kill 250 mobs of a certain type out in the open world. Requires the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide. Reward — 10 tickets
• Profession quests — every profession NPC at the faire has a monthly quest for your profession (Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Engineering, Leatherworking, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Tailoring, First Aid, Skinning, Cooking, Fishing, Herbalism, Mining, Inscription). Reward — 3–4 tickets, profession experience and the profession knowledge of the current expansion
• Artifact collecting — special items that drop from mobs out in the open world while you carry the guide. Each artifact is turned in for 10 tickets and 250 reputation with the faire
• Dungeon and raid quests — one monthly quest each for obtaining a special artifact in a random raid or battleground. Reward — 10–15 tickets per artifact

Hidden treasure map quest

From Galissa Sundew you can buy a Faded Treasure Map for 100 gold. The map starts a chain of searching for caches around the island and leads to a chest with 100 prize tickets. Thanks to the warband system the quest can now be completed on several characters during a single faire, and each alt brings 100 tickets.