Captured Insignia

This is one of the items that your [item=71634] can help you find. [item=71634] is from [npc=10445], who resides in the first tent on your left as you enter the Darkmoon Faire.

[b]Turning in this item is part of 2 achievements: [/b][achievement=6028] and [achievement=6029]

The artifacts needed for [achievement=6028] are: [quote][ol] [li][item=71953] & [quest=29458][/li] [li][item=71951] & [quest=29456][/li] [li][item=71952] & [quest=29457][/li] [/ol][/quote]

Collecting all the Darkmoon Faire Artifacts rewards [achievement=6029]. The full list of Darkmoon Faire Artifacts is: [quote][ol] [li][item=71953] & [quest=29458][/li] [li][item=71951] & [quest=29456][/li] [li][item=71952] & [quest=29457][/li] [li][item=71635] & [quest=29443][/li] [li][item=71636] & [quest=29448]/[quest=29444][/li] [li][item=71637] & [quest=29445]/[quest=29449][/li] [li][item=71638] & [quest=29446]/[quest=29450][/li] [li][item=71716] & [quest=29464]/[quest=29465][/li] [li][item=71715] & [quest=29451][/li] [/ol][/quote]

As stated by Blizzard ([url=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3390849/43_Preview_-_The_All_New_Darkmoon_Faire-8_25_2011#blog]Source[/url]):

[quote]The Darkmoon Faire Field Guide

It’s your passport to riches, my friend. Y’see, we need a few things -- just some junk, nothing valuable to a big hero like you. [u]We call ‘em Darkmoon Artifacts, and there’s all different kinds to be found all over Azeroth. The Darkmoon Field Guide helps you discover artifacts while you’re explorin’ dungeons, slayin’ monsters, and fightin’ in Battlegrounds. Without a guide, you’d never notice ‘em, and it’ll help keep you focused on the stuff we want. [/u]Whether you just reached level 10, or you’ve crushed the biggest baddies in the land, we need somethin’ from nearly everybody. You won’t have to go too far out of your way to get ‘em and each month you’ll get a new opportunity to seek out an Artifact for us. What do you get out of the deal? Don’t you worry, you’ll get your cut. When you bring a Darkmoon Artifact back to us, you’ll get valuable experience (it builds character, you know!), earn a better reputation, and possibly earn precious Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets too![/quote]

There's not much info on how the PvP items come about. I received a [item=71952] while looting a body in Isle of Conquest. So far, I've not received anything for capturing bases, flags, towers etc or for winning a battleground. So, all I can say is make sure you loot those bodies!

yup! tho i looted mine in battle for gilneas

These can be traded and sold on the AH. Can not be traded in a bg, as per usual rules however.

Please keep in mind that the quest is not repeatable during one DMF festival. After you complete the quest you cannot get it for the second time, as it states when you use an item for the second time "You have already completed this quest". In other words - you can do the quest once every month. Now, to all the naysayers, Blizzard has confirmed that these quests are to be repeated each month. [url=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3657441916?page=25#485]Source[/url] They have also stated that the quest drops that happen in the dungeons/raids/BG’s happen all the time, even if the faire isn’t in town. [url=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3657441916?page=30#596]Source[/url]

The text the NPC says to you when you get the Adventurer's Guide includes the sentence, "You won’t have to go too far out of your way to get ‘em and each month you’ll get a new opportunity to seek out an Artifact for us." That leads me to believe they will be repeatable each time the Faire comes around again. What I am still trying to figure out is if you can only do one artifact per month or as many different ones as you can find.

you can do one of every artifact per month can't do same artifact twice so if you get it twice either sell it or hold onto it for next month

I just prepared my 9 Darkmoon artefacts to turn in, went to the Darkmoon Faire, and found out that for some reason the Captured Insignia and Adventurer's Journal gave "You have completed that quest." message. All others I could turn in, even though I had already turned in all except A Treatise on Strategy last month.

I just received a reply on the ticket I wrote, saying that a hotfix has been deployed to fix this issue. However, characters who have already encountered the issue will have to wait to turn in these two items until the next time the Darkmoon Faire comes around.

I'd recommend going to Isle of Conquest to farm for this. It's a 40-man, so there are a lot of people dying, and it has a lot more actual PvP than Alterac Valley. Most active combat is near the keeps, and the enemy keep is often your best bet. A few stragglers will periodically rez, only to be torn up by your own forces, leaving behind their corpses, fresh for looting. Be sure you're the first to snag their insignia; this isn't group loot.

Seems to be an error in the quest text. When I turned this in Thaddeus said 'This is a remarkable example of an Alliance insignia", but I am Alliance, so it was obviously a Horde insignia.

Maybe a Horde killed an Alliance, stole his insignia then you killed the Horde and stole back the insignia and flogged it off to the Darkmoon Faire.

Basically it can drop in any battleground each having it own drop rate...around 3-4 corpses you should get one but the chances are to not get any.Remember to loot the corpse after u kill him and have in bag a guide from Darkmoon Faire if u want to get these.P.S.: they go pretty high on AH atm.

Why downrate when what ive said its true...nabs xD

[b]What is this?[/b] This item [item=71952] starts the quest [quest=29457] that you can turn in with the Darkmoon Faire whenever it is in town.

[b]How do I get it?[/b] In order to be eligible to loot this, you must have the [item=71634] in your [s]bags[/s] inventory - which can be obtained in one of two ways: [ul] [li]Receive it as a reward from [url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=14828]Gelvas Grimegate[/url] after completing [url=http://www.wowhead.com/quest=7905]The Darkmoon Faire[/url] for Alliance or [url=http://www.wowhead.com/quest=7926]The Darkmoon Faire[/url] for Horde.[/li] [li]Receive it from [url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=10445]Selina Dourman[/url] just by talking to her, she stands at the first tent on the left-side of the entrance to the Darkmoon Faire. [small]Note: if you have The Darkmoon Faire quest in your quest log, Selina will not offer to give you the guide - you will either need to drop the quest and speak to her again or simply hand in at which point you get the guide anyway.[/small] [/li] [/ul]

[b]Where do I get it?[/b] [ul] [li]This particular item can be looted by removing insignias from fallen enemies in battlegrounds.[/li] [/ul]

[b]Why do I want it?[/b] There are several reasons that you may want this item: [ul] [li]Receive 5 [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url] upon handing it in - these tickets allow you to purchase mounts, pets and other collectibles whenever the Darkmoon Faire is on.[/li] [li]Receive 250 reputation [small](or more depending on your racial/guild bonuses etc)[/small] with the [url=http://www.wowhead.com/faction=909]Darkmoon Faire[/url] - great for anyone who is either a rep junkie or is working towards [url=http://www.wowhead.com/title=145]The Insane[/url] title awarded by the [url=http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2336]Insane in the Membrane[/url] achievement.[/li] [li]Having completed the quest that this item starts will count towards the achievements [url=http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6028]Darkmoon Defender[/url] and [url=http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6029]Darkmoon Despoiler[/url].[/li] [li]Gold gold GOLD - since this item isn't BoP (bind on pickup), it is tradable and sellable via the auction house. If you don't care about the above three points, then you can profiteer from someone who does![/li] [/ul]

[b]What else do I need to know?[/b] [ul] [li]The quest can only be turned in once per Darkmoon Faire. You can certainly collect more of these, however if you've turned in for the current faire, you'll have to wait till it's next in town.[/li] [li]This item can be looted anytime - that is to say, the Darkmoon Faire [b]does not[/b] have to be currently on in order for you to be able to find these puppies.[/li] [/ul]

[b]What other Darkmoon Faire drops are there?[/b] [ul] [li][item=71953] -> [quest=29458] = 5 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71951] -> [quest=29456] = 5 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71635] -> [quest=29443] = 10 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71636] -> [quest=29444] = 10 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71637] -> [quest=29445] = 10 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71638] -> [quest=29446] = 10 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71716] -> [quest=29464] = 10 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [li][item=71715] -> [quest=29451] = 15 x [url=http://www.wowhead.com/currency=515]Darkmoon Prize Tickets[/url][/li] [/ul]

Will frequently amend and extend this post as users request it or as I learn more.

<i>You can certainly collect more of these, however if you've turned in for the current faire, you'll have to wait till it's next in town.</i>

I tried to turn one in today. It would not let me repeat the quest.

there was a bug (fixed with 4.3.2) whereby if you turned in for the previous faire, it would not let you re-accept the quest.

it has a chance to drop when you remove someone's insignia in a battleground, the drop chance from people seem to be about 5%

I'd rather say 1%, after looting approximately 100 bodies I have only seen it drop once.

Edit: It is February 4, the day before third round of DMF starts and I can pick up the repeatable quests already. It seems Blizzard fixed this. Yay.

[s]It is January 1st and the second round of DMF is here. I am unable to start the quest for [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=71951]Banner of the Fallen[/url], [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=71953]Adventurers Journal[/url] or [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=71952]Captured Insignia[/url]. I appears that they can be used only once as of today. I could however turn in the other 5 that drop from dungeons and raids.[/s]

As well here. Trying to determine if this is a glitch/bug on blizzards part or if the PvP item quests are indeed only turned in once ever, wouldn't seem fair though

It's clearly bugged, I was able to complete Banner of the Fallen, but not the other ones linked above.

It seems like this drops much more often then both [item=71951 domain=www] and http://www.wowhead.com/item=71953#comments in battlegrounds

"Cannot roll Need" . Just imagine the reaction of all those stealers in the game .

Here is a macro for quickly determining which Darkmoon Artifacts you've turned in so far for that month... [code]/run for k,v in pairs({{80,8},{316,13},{317,14},{318,15},{0,0},{1,1},{2,2},{3,3},{81,21}})do n,l=GetItemInfo(v[1]+71635)print(l,": ",(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v[2]+29443) and "\124cff00ff00TURNED IN" or "\124cffff0000NOT TURNED IN".."\124r"))end[/code] After running it you should see each artifact's name and either "TURNED IN" or "NOT TURNED IN" next to it. If you see a bunch of nil's instead just run it again.

Is the Captured Insignia a repeatable quest, because it says I have already done the quest.

You can turn in the quest only [i]once per month[/i].

Since the Shadowlands pre-patch released, it appears that the developers have reduced/removed the level requirements for use of these artefacts. Good news for alts and lower-level characters. [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71953]Fallen Adventurer's Journal[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]level 7[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71951]Banner of the Fallen[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]level 7[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71952]Captured Insignia[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]no level requirement[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71635]Imbued Crystal[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]level 7[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71636]Monstrous Egg[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]no level requirement[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71637]Mysterious Grimoire[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]level 7[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71638]Ornate Weapon[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]level 7[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71716]Soothsayer's Runes[/url] [s]level 60[/s] [b]no level requirement[/b] [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=71715]A Treatise on Strategy[/url] [s]level 15[/s] [b]no level requirement[/b] There is also, a required level improvement to, [url=https://www.wowhead.com/item=105891/moonfangs-pelt]Moonfang's Pelt[/url] [s]level 90[/s] [b]level 1[/b]

Macro for checking if DMF-quests are turned in. This is an updated macro which works after the Shadowlands expansion. Blizzard did a few changes with 9.0 I added Moonfang's Pelt as well [code]/run for k,v in pairs({{0,0},{1,1},{2,2},{3,3},{80,8},{81,21},{316,13},{317,14},{318,15},{34256,3911}})do n,w=GetItemInfo(v[1]+71635)print(w,": ",(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v[2]+29443) and "Delivered" or "Not Delivered"))end[/code]

Updated Macro for checking which Darkmoon Faire quest artifacts have been turned in: [code]/run for k,v in pairs({{0,0},{1,1},{2,2},{3,3},{80,8},{81,21},{316,13},{317,14},{318,15},{34256,3911}})do w=GetItemInfo(v[1]+71635)print(w,": ",(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v[2]+29443) and "Delivered" or "Not Delivered"))end[/code]

You can import this shopping list into Auctionator for a quick search: [code]Darkmoon Quests^Fallen Adventurer's Journal^banner of the fallen^Captured insignia^imbued crystal^monstrous egg^mysterious grimoire^ornate weapon^soothsayer's runes^moonfang's pelt^a treatise on strategy [/code]