Alliance Skinning Guide 1 - 525

Today I have decided to drop Engineering for my Night Elf Hunter and peruse the skinning profession again. This is my guide to quickly improve your skinning skill using my experience.

This is a quick note list as to where to go for each skinning skill.

1. Learn "Skinning" at your trainer
2. Skinning 1-50 (Elwyyn Forest)
3. :earn "Journeyman Skinner"
4. Skinning 51 - 90 (Westfall)
5. Skinning 91 - 110 (Loch Moden)
6. Skinning 111 - 150 (Wetlands)
7. Learn "Expert Skinner"
8. Skinning 151 - 185 (Wetlands)

Step 1: Finding your Skinning Trainer and get your tools.
My main base is Stormwind one of the largest Alliance bases. The skinning trainer is located in "Old Town" district. If you already have two primary professions you will need to unlearn one of the primary professions and learn "Skinning" from the "Skinning Trainer".

Before you head out of Stormwind be sure to pick up a "Skinning Knife" from a "Trade Goods Vendor".

Step 2: Skinning 1 - 50.
The best place to start your skinning is at a small farm in Elwyyn Forest. The farm is called "Maclure Vineyards" low level boars will be there, and they spawn very quickly. Its not unusual for 6 boars to spawn one after another as you kill them so this is by far the easiest place to start levelling up your skinning.

Stay at Maclure Vineyards killing boars until you reach level 50 in skinning. Once you have reached level 50 Skinning be sure to visit the "Skinning Trainer" again to get your "Journeyman Skinner".

Step 3: Skinning 51 - 90.
Next I headed out to "Westfall" to kill "Goretusk" boars. Don't bother too much with the Coyote or Young Goretusks as they are most likely to be "green" for skinning. Just stick with the "Goretusks" as they are much higher level and skinning will be "yellow" on them.

Stay in Westfall skinning "Goretusk" until you reach Skinning 90.

Step 4: Skinning 91 - 110
From Westfall head up to "Loch Moden" and stay around the bottom and right of the lake, you will find "Loch Crocolisk" which are a "yellow".

Once the "Loch Crocolisk" turn "green" focus on the "Mudbelly Boar" and "Lakebed Snapper" turtle that are also around the area. Continue to skin the "Mudbelly Boar" and "Lakebed Snapper" until you reach skinning level 110.

Step 5: Skinning 111 - 185.
Its time to fly up to the "Wetlands" try to land at "Wheelgear's Retreat". Start skinning the "Mottled Screecher" and "Mottled Raptor" located in the area highlighted in green below.

Continue to kill the raptor's until you reach skinning 120, then move over to the east of "Greenwardens Grove" (highlighted in yellow) and peruse to kill the "Ebon Whelp" and "Ebon Slavehunter" until 150.

GO SEE YOUR SKINNING TRAINER AT 150

Continue killing "Ebon Whelp"'s in wetlands until you reach Skinning 185

Step 6: Skinning 186 - 205

The best place to move to next is the Hinterlands. It wont take long to reach skinning 205 in this area, its kind of like a quick levelling stop off before the next area. Its best to skin the "Silvermane Wolf" which are popular in this area near the alliance flightpath.

Step 7: Skinning 206 - 265

Its time to go back to Stormwind and get your "Artisan Skinning Training". 

Once you have it pop onto the boat to the other large island and head over to "Thousand Needles".

Once you have reached thousand needles you will need to skin the following beasts to gain Skinning Skills

• "Needlespine Cobra"
• "Needlespine Shimmerback"
• "Scorpid Cliffcrawler"

Once you reach skinning skill 265 its time to move on to "Un'goro Crater"!

Step 8: Skinning 266 - 300

You need to head over to Un'goro crater and skin the following beasts.
They are all over the area and easy to locate so there is no need for a map.

• Dimetradon
• Young Dimetradon
• Ravasaur
• Ravasaur Runner

ONCE YOU REACH SKINNING 300 SEE YOUR SKINNING TRAINER.

Step 9: Skinning 301 - 310
You need to go through the "Dark Portal" to "Outland", when arriving in "Hellfire Peninsula" head over to the east side of "Honor Hold" and work your way down underneath "Honor hold" on foot killing the different types of "HellBoar" as you go round.

Once you reach 310 Skinning its time to move to Nagrand

Step 10: Skinning 311 - 375
Next head over to "Nagrand", this part is quite simple. If its a beast, skin it.
The best results are from first skinning the following beasts.

• Clefthoof
• Talbuck Stag
• Wild Elekk
• Clefthoof Calf
• Injured Talbuck

Once you have 335 skinning skills you can move onto the following beasts to gain skinning skills.

• Aged Clefthoof
• Talbuck Thorngrazer
• Clefthoof Bull

Step 11: Skinning 376 - 400.
Next get the boat to "Northrend" and go see your "Skinning trainer". There is one at "Valiance Keep" known as "Trapper Jack" who will give you the "Grand Master Skinning" training you need.

Head out to the Borean Tundra and farm/skin the following beasts to level up your skinning. Be sure to watch out for "Arctic Fur" that is dropped in this area as it can easily sell upwards of 80g per skin.

• Wooly Rhino Calf
• Wooly Rhino Matriarch
• Wooly Rhino Bull

The wooly rhino's are mostly found around the base of "Amber Ledge" and are in ample supply.

Alternatively you can farm the following beasts

• Infected Kodo
• Marsh Caribou
• Wooly Mammoth
• Mammoth Calf
• Tundra Wolf
• Tundra Crawler

Step 12: Skinning 401 - 415.

Next its recommended to head over to "Stars Rest" located in "Dragonblight" to farm several beasts to increase your skinning skills. This is a short farming area.

• Arctic Grizzly
• Arctic Grizzly Cub
• Arctic Ram
• Emaciated Mammoth
• Mammoth Calf
• Mammoth Bull
• Blighted Elk
• Rabid Grizzly
• Snowfall Elk
• Tundra Scavenger

Step 13: Skinning 416 - 425

Next head over to "Grizzly Hills" I flew up to "Amberpine Lodge" where there are lots of beasts to skin in the nearby woods. 

Try and focus on the following beasts found on the nearby hillside.

• Tallhorn Stag

However you can also skin the following if you so wish: 

• Infected Grizzly Bear
• Highland Mustang
• Silvercoat Stag
• Serpent Defender

Step 14: Skinning 426 - 450

Head over to "Sholazar Basin" there are lots of beasts in this area for your skinning pleasure, once you hit 445 skinning skill it will take longer to reach 450, if you want to level up your skinning quicker head over to "StormPeaks" otherwise stick with "Sholazar Basin" till you reach 450.

Step 15: Skinning 451 - 470.
Head back over to "Eastern Kingdoms" via the boat to "Stormwind" get your "Skinning training".
It may be worth adding "Stormwind" as your hearthstone as we will be coming back here shortly.
Head over to "Mount hyjal" which you can quickly access through the direct portal.

Kill the stags in this area until you reach 470 skinning.

Step 16: Skinning 471 - 485
Hearthstone back to stormwind and take the "Uldum" portal. Here you should focus on the "Crocalisks" until you hit skinning level 485.

Step 17: Skinning 486 - 525

This is the final step to maxing out your skinning skill. Hearthstone back to Stormwind and take the "Twilight Highlands" portal.

• Tawny Owls (yes you can skin these birds)
• Twilight Worg
• Twilight Stag

Keep skinning till you reach the maximum skill level of 525. And you are done!

Congratulations!

If you have found this post useful or have any further questions please feel free to comment below and I will update the page with the information that you require. 

World of Warcraft Gold Making Guide 2012

Six simple tips to make gold legally on World of Warcraft

Well we all would like a little more gold when playing World of Warcraft. Whether its for crafting amazingly epic items to equip to your character or just to pay the repair bills from questing, PVP or dungeons.

I go out of my way to make gold legally on the game and here are a few tips that I have put together so you will never run out of gold on your world of warcraft characters.

Using this guide I make approximately 2000g a day.

I made the mistake of levelling up engineering and wasted most of  my gold on mats, hence the low gold value on some of the screenshots. I don't want YOU to make this MISTAKE.

Tip 1: Max your level

The only reason I say this is because its so much easier to make gold once you reach level 85 on World of Warcraft. Why? Its because once you are top level you have access to most areas of the game, and it makes it so much easier when grinding mobs or fending off vicious beasts when gathering materials to sell on.

Tip 2: Gathering professions.

From my own personal experience of playing World of Warcraft I have found that the quickest way of earning gold is in fact through the gathering professions. My reason for this is it costs you NOTHING to gather ores, skins, herbs etc... no crafting costs thus 100% profit of gold for you.

My personal choice and experience of switching between primary professions over the past 5 years I highly recommend that if you wish to make gold.

Its always best to max out your chosen gathering profession, as the higher level areas will generally allow you to collect much more valuable items, thus profit for you.

Recommended: Mining

Mining is a very time consuming profession however the rewards for selling ores, gems and volatile items such as Volatile Water, Volatile Earth etc are very rewarding due to the amount of gold that you can very quickly earn through selling these items.

Gems are commonly used by players crafting and levelling in Jewel-crafting and Engineering.
Volatile items such as Volatile Earth, Volatile Fire, Volatile Water are used in Mining, Enchanting and Engineering.

Its always recommended to smelt your collected ores into bars as generally they tend to sell for more, however always check the cost to sell ores individually before smelting just in case there is more profit in selling them as raw ores.

You should focus on "Elementium Ore', "Pyrium Ore", and other high level area ores to maximise your profits.

Recommended: Skinning

Other players who specialise in tailoring, leather working and engineering will all require leather to complete their craft, and levelling so why not take the time to max out your skinning and go out of your way to gather leather from wild beasties of Azeroth.

On my server light leather sells for over 1 gold per item, while the tougher leathers to locate such as "Arctic Fur" will regularly sell for over 80 gold for one! So skinning is a great way to earn yourself some gold.

To maximise profits try to focus on "Knolthide leather", "Light Leather", "Medium Leather", "Heavy Leather, "Rugged Leather" and the highly desireable "Arctic Fur".

Avoid: Engineering

There is no profit in Engineering as a primary profession, it only costs you gold and you earn very little from it.

I spent several months levelling my character in Engineering, I found that items created in engineering cannot be used by other players who are not engineers themselves... so basically anyone crafting items from engineering will only be able to sell to other engineering players.... who quite frankly can make the item themselves anyway... why buy it?

Tip 3: Grinding Mobs for items and money

Basically killing NPC characters such as humanoid, beast or dragonkin will give you a variety of different items, some individual items such as Spiders Silk dropped from low level spiders (SEE SPIDER SILK FARMING GUIDE) are highly valuable to tailors, leatherworkers etc for making their items. Its always good to look into the different items which players can craft and see which items are most sought after.

Even grinding MOBS in low level areas such as Westfall is most profitable, as they die from one shot kills, and often drop money and green items. Sure they may be low value but you can kill many MOBS in a short period of time and putting items for sale in the auction house will give other players the opportunity to buy them, disenchant or equip the item to their character.

Tip 4: Farming Companions

Additional to this I recommend focusing on MOBS which can drop companions too. Companions are valuable and highly desirable non-combat (currently) pets which are very collectible.

The wetlands is a easy location to grind/farm for companions

• There is a Raptor cave where you can find a nest and collect a "Razormaw hatchling" companion which commonly sells for 150g.
• The "Ebon Whelp", "Dragonmaw Whelpstealer" found in ample numbers do drop the "Ebon hatchling" companion.
• The Oozes that populate several areas of the wetlands also drop "Ooze" companions so keep an eye out for them too. 

Tip 5: Auction House

Always sell any item that is used for crafting and obtained through the gathering professions at the auction house, other players NEED these items in order for them to level up and create what they WANT.

The World of Warcraft community in general is one which WANTS stuff.
So why not profit from other players but still help them out at the same time!

Tip 6: Never Destroy

Even if an item is grey "junk" never throw it out, simply sell it to a vendor, the amount of gold that you can earn from even junk items over time is immense.

If you choose to follow these simple top tips, you will never be coin shy again.

Tyrael's Charger Mount (Special)

Tyrael's Charger Mount: Featuring Latura (Level 85 - Emerald Dream)

The "Tyrael's Charger" mount is only obtainable by the World of Warcraft account holder choosing to take out a year payment plan with Blizzard known commonly as an "Annual Pass".

This sounds scary however if you are a regular player of World of Warcraft then its not bad at at all. You can still pay monthly if you so wish using your preferred payment method so its no different from a paying each month for your account anyways.

I would like to highlight that with the "Annual Pass" you do not have to pay for a year in advance, you can still pay £8.99 per month.

The mount itself is a flying horse type mount and once you purchase and confirm your "Annual Pass" through your Battle.net account it will be delivered to each of your characters mailbox's.

I am very fond of the horse type mounts however unlike the "Celestial Steed" this mount is a very quiet flying mount, and you do not hear the wings flapping, as they are not physical wings, more elemental.

The "Tyrael's Charger" increases ground speed by 100% and increases flight speed by 310%.

Guaranteed acceptance onto the "Mists of Pandaria"

Guaranteed acceptance onto the "Mists of Pandaria"

So far very little information has been released on the upcoming fourth world of warcraft that is to be known as "Mists of Pandaria". However what we do know is there will be the new panda race, a new monk class and a whole new area. Additionally Blizzard will be adding a pokemon style companion fighting system and increasing the player level cap to 90.

So with very little information to go off we can only hope that when "Mists of Pandaria" is released the only way we will be able to find out more about this interesting expansion before official release is by being accepted onto the BETA testing server when available. 

The only way to guarantee acceptance onto the "Mists of Pandaria" BETA is by signing up for a 12 month subscription for World of Warcraft. You can still pay monthly at £8.99. But you have to pay for 12 months without cancelling the subscription. 

I personally have done this as I hope that being able to explore the "Mists of Pandaria" in BETA will allow me to give a lot of information about the upcoming expansion pack here on SimplyWarcraft so you can hear about it first!

As an additional bonus if you do choose to sign up for a 12 month subscription you will get 

1. An exclusive mount

2. Diablo 3 when released

3. Guaranteed acceptance onto the "Mists of Pandaria" BETA server. 

For more information on the Annual pass and get these great bonus' please visit:

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3236609 

Hunters Pet Highlight:

While aimlessly wandering around the Dwarven District of Stormwind, I caught sight of a somewhat unusual hunter pet. It appears to be some kind of Technicolor cat.

Preparation – where are we going?

The owner of the pet informed me, very kindly, that it came from “Eversong Woods”, now I want to see if I can find this interesting looking feline, and tame it to call my own.
Eversong Woods is the north-most point of the main land of Eastern Kingdoms, located north of Ghostlands. (Please note I am not using any guides to locating this pet).

Finding a way to Eversong Woods.

If you don't have the flight path to Ghostlands then the best way I found to reach “Eversong Woods” is by flying up to Eastern Plaguelands, then going through the portal at the most north point of Eastern Plaguelands through to the Ghostlands.

If you do have the flight path to Ghostlands then fly there from your nearest flight master.
One you are in Ghostlands continue north, you need to run straight through Ghostlands (you cannot fly) then running through to the next zone to the north –“Eversong Woods”.

Where to find this beast?

After 30 minutes or so of looking for a animal that I didn't even know the name of I came across an area with the kitty which I was looking for. They are known as the “Springpaw Stalker”.
Below is a map which I have taken from my screenshots showing the location clearly of where I found the “Springpaw Stalker”.

The beast has been tamed

I selected a “Springpaw Stalker” to tame, they are only level 6-7 and so are very easy to trap and tame, therefore call your very own.

I hope that you have enjoyed this guide to finding this unusual pet. I believe that it is unusual for any Alliance Hunter to own this pet as it is only obtainable in a dense Hoard area, and cannot be found in any alliance areas of the game.

Mount Spotlight: Tyrael’s Charger

I just wanted to write a little about this unique looking flying horse type mount now available in World of Warcraft since the release of patch 4.3: Hour of Twilight.
The “Tyrael’s Charger” mount is given to any player that subscribes for a 12 month game play subscription to the World of Warcraft. The payment can still be made monthly but it has to be for a minimum of 12 months, basically you don’t have to pay for the whole 12 months in one payment. Additional to this anyone who signs up for the 12 month gaming will also receive a free download of Diablo III when it becomes available.
This is obviously one of Blizzards attempts to retain its players to the game, as we know that over 1 million users of world of warcraft have simply stopped playing the game due to one reason or another.

Personal Opinion of the “Tyrael’s Charger” mount.

I personally think that the “Tyrael’s Charger” mount looks stunning (from a female perspective) it doesn't seem to have any special perks or anything but its still a pretty mount to take a look at or use. It is one of those things that is not necessary to play the game but would be very nice to own.

The conclusion – its a matter of opinion.

Is this Blizzards way of attempting to retain players by subconsciously tapping into the greed gene built into everyone who plays the game (myself included), thus forcing them into another guaranteed 12 months of payment, roughly working out to £108 a year from each player choosing to take this option, and guarantying them a new mount and the promise of a free download of another of their games if it ever gets released (Diablo 3)?.
Or is it a simple gesture of kindness with a free mount and game for every loyal player who signs up for the next year?

The decision is yours to make – comments are appreciated on this.

Darkmoon Faire Ended - Feast of Winter Veil Begins

Well the Darkmoon Faire has ended and I hope that you worked hard to earn your new mounts available by exchanging Darkmoon Faire Tokens. With the closure of the Darkmoon Faire Blizzard have sprung upon us the beginning of the Feast of Winter Veil.
From what I can see so far its not much different from the past years. I think that the “rescue dancer” quest and “recover the stolen presents” quest have been changed as I do not remember a giant Grinch being there last time.
The main hub of the “Feast of winter veil” is around Ironforge as that is where Blizzards version of Santa is hanging out.

Starting the festive quests

However you can start the festive quests at any major city such as Stormwind (where the festive NPC’s are hanging out near where the old entrance to the Auction house was (pre-cataclysm), at the caravan where the Elder character once stood in the Trade District.

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Farming in the feast of winter veil

If you are a player who loves making gold the idea thing to do at this time is to Farm “Small Eggs” and collect “Ice Cold Milk” from mobs. I say this because one of the starting festive quests requires you to make “Gingerbread Cookies” and the ingredients include “Small Eggs” and a glass of “Ice cold milk” to give to Santa.

• Small Eggs currently sell for 3g 75s
• Ice Cold Milk currently sells for 84s                                              On my server
• Gingerbread Cookies sell for 5g 75s

Making Gingerbread Cookies for Santa

Remember that before you can make the gingerbread cookie you have to learn the cooking recipe first! I purchased the recipe several years ago originally however “Khole Jinglepocket” sells the recipe in Stormwind at the caravan shown in the above image.
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The ingredients of “Gingerbread Cookies” are as follows and you need a cooking fire to create the cookies themselves. You will require 5 Gingerbread cookies and 1 glass of ice cold milk to give to Santa:

• 1x Small Egg
• 1x Holiday Spices (which can be bought from any festive vendor)

Patch 4.3 Hour of Twilight Goes Live

Well the hour of twilight has been forced upon us and the rein of terror of Deathwing has come to a close. Personally I think that its a good thing as quite frankly when my character is out mining in the middle of Burning Steppes and as my character is normally the only one there - Deathwing usually homes in on my character like a moth to a flame. 

Always frustrating how he could take the time to go out of his way just to annoy me. Well since that is over hopefully there are more good things to come to the world of warcraft. 

You can view the official cut-scene of the downfall of "Deathwing" near the portals in Stormwind by clicking on "Chromie" near the left pillar in the picture.

Most people focus on the new PVP, raids, dungeons that new patches bring out but I prefer focusing on the littler things - small gestures that make playing worthwhile. This time round there is a brand new Darkmoon Faire with its own area and exclusive mounts and companions. 

So basically there are a good few new features presented to us with patch 4.3: Hour of Twilight. 

These include the following: 

Brand new Darkmoon Faire

I have written another post all about the brand new darkmoon faire experience so please check it out "here".  There is no point blabbering about repeating myself when there is a new page on it.

Transmogrification: 

You can now customise your apparel and weapons to look like any other item you have picked up. I have noticed that there are a few things you need to know when using transmogrification.

• Make sure you are wearing your best stat equipment but don't like the look of.
• Go to the transmogrification vendor and select the "shiny" item of the same type.
• Transmogrification will not effect the stats of your equipment / apparel only change the appearance to look like the item you combined with the equipped item. 

Void Storage: 

To be blunt, void storage is very expensive for what it actually is. It costs you gold to open an account, it costs you gold to put an item into void storage, it costs you gold to take an item out of you void storage.

Quite frankly I still prefer to use the bank and add large bags to it which is much cheaper than using void storage by a long way. However I understand that other players like to keep hold of their shiny items and not sell them so if you have a full bank then void storage is a great way to keep hold of your collectibles and unobtainables although it is at a price. 

Raid Finder Update: 

It appears that they have updated the raid finder. As I do not raid I don't have a clue what the old one looked like so I cannot say how it has changed, I'm sure that avid raiders will find it most useful when looking for a helpless town to go over and obliterate just because they are bored and need something to do for several hours. 

Valor Point changes: 

Another thing that I know little about are the in game currencies obtained by raiding, dungeons and such.  I am aware that originally there were several types of PVP currency - too many different types made it frustrating for players wanting to purchase certain PVP gear but found out after several hours of raids, dungeons etc that they earned the wrong type of currency. Blizzard have come to realise that its pretty stupid having so many currency types and it seems that they are planning and have started to narrow down the currency types obtained. Making it simpler and easier to understand. Quite frankly why people do PVP is beyond my understanding - its just not me. 

Darkmoon Faire Tickets: Old ones now useless.

One thing I did realise if you have any of the old darkmoon faire tickets they cannot be exchanged at the new vendors as its a different type of currency than before. So all your darkmoon faire old tickets obtained by several hours of game play over several years - now rendered useless. There is no way to exchange them for the new tickets at all. However don't throw them out just yet, maybe in the future Blizzard will write in a Darkmoon Faire old to new ticket exchange.... or maybe thats just wishful thinking. 

New Rogue Experience: Fangs of the Father

It appears that Blizzard have introduced a rogue only quest chain regarding Deathwing. Apparently rogues will have to travel far to reach their goals. There does seem to be a good reason for rogues to do this quest chain. Once completed the rogue player will obtain a pair of daggers that become more lethal against enemies over time, and with an added element of the Old Gods the player will be able to unravel a pair of wings from their own back while in combat. Is this a new way for Blizzard to keep players playing by making them roll out a Rogue if they do not already have one. Thus making them more money in the process? You decide.

11 New Tier 13 Armour Sets Released:

Blizzard have also added the new tier 13 armour sets to the world of warcraft with patch 4.3. One for each of the character classes on the game. As expected they look epic and most delightful. For more information on the tier 13 armour please click here.

Four new Raids and Dungeons:

Blizzard have given the PVP community four brand new raids and dungeons to play till their hearts content. Personally I hate PVP and so have no interest in the new raids etc, but I'm sure most players of World of Warcraft will go mad for this new content. 

The new raid and dungeons are: 

• Raid: Dragon Soul - click here for more information on this raid.
• Dungeon: End Time - click here for more information on this dungeon.
• Dungeon: Well of Eternity - click here for more information on this dungeon.
• Dungeon: Hour of Twilight - click here for more information on this dungeon.

Official Trailers for the latest patch: 

If you are looking for some official videos of the latest patch 4.3: hour of twilight then look no further, here they are all together for your viewing pleasure. 

Official Trailer: Cataclysm: Patch 4.3 Hour of Twilight

Patch 4.3: Hour of Twilight - Darkmoon Faire 2011

Hour of Twilight: Review of the new Darkmoon Faire. 

Well the long awaited 4.3 patch known as Hour of Twilight has gone live on the public realms of World of Warcraft. Personally I have not yet fully investigated or looking into most features of the new patch. However I have noticed that with the new patch the "Darkmoon Faire" has been greatly improved and enhanced in several different ways.

Darkmoon Faire: has been moved to its own little island, where it is... I'm not entirely sure however you can quickly get there from any major town by clicking on a dark moon fair NPC and ask for them to take you there for a small 20 silver fee. I personally do this from Stormwind as that is where my character's home base is (hearthstone) which takes me to the portal to the darkmoon fair located in Eywynn forest.

Brief outlook on the new Darkmoon Faire

The Darkmoon Faire itself is very quirky with lots of daily quests by playing the mini-games such as tossing a hoop onto a turtles back, shooting targets, whacking gnolls with mallets, and even firing yourself out of a cannon to land in a hoop located in the waters edge of the "Darkmoon Faire". At least this time Blizzard are focusing more on the fun factor than the raiding and dungeons, which I'm sure most people play however I am not one of them.

Before you can play the daily mini-games you need some "Darkmoon Fair" tokens which can be bought near the entrance to the fair itself from a vendor in a tent. Apparently there is a cap on how many tokens you can buy but its usually enough to get you what you want from the faire itself. Darkmoon Faire Game Tokens can be purchase from Sazz Coincatcher and Zina Sharpworth.

Darkmoon Faire Tokens: Companions and mounts

Benefits of the "Darkmoon Faire" are your can exchange your tokens for prizes as before however this time there are two mounts up for grabs, a dancing bear and a bird type mount, which the name currently eludes me.

Additional to this there are several companion types also available from the vendor and balloons can be purchased from the balloon seller which is a gnome pushing a cart around.

Sea Pony: A companion obtained by fishing

A bonus for the fishermen and fisherwomen if you fish off the coast of "Darkmoon faire" you have 1 in 1000 chance of obtaining a delightful little "Sea pony" companion which is basically a small sea horse that follows you in a bubble of water.

Darkmoon Faire one time quests

There are quite a few interesting quests also available in the "Darkmoon Faire" area including fishing ones, cooking ones, engineering ones and even archaeology ones all of which give your increase skill points in the profession and of course "Darkmoon Faire" tickets which can be redeemed and one of the many vendors in the area.

PVP Area: 

Yes there does appear to be a PVP area within the Darkmoon fair itself, personally I hate PVP and I am just glad that they didn't focus on that like they normally do with events and patches. The PVP area is located on the right side in a massive tent, you cannot miss it.

Darkmoon Armour and Weapons: Replica Armor

I did notice that there is "Darkmoon Faire" equipment and apparel that can be purchased, I only briefly looked at them sold by the vendor there so I cannot elaborate on what is actually sold. I didn't see anything of interest personally as my own equipment (although not PVP or Epic) was much better than those being sold at the vendor. Im sure they may look sparkly which would encourage players to use the newly added Transmogrification feature of the game but thats all I can really say about that. Equipment and apparel are not personally one of my strong points. They can be purchased from "Baruma" and "Barum" the replica armour prize vendors.

Souvenirs, Toys, Balloons, Fireworks and more!

There are several other vendors of the Darkmoon fair which allow you to purchase fireworks, balloons, souvenir & toys and even a very cool ride on tiger. I think this was originally the "Sandbox Tiger" which was acquired in the Rage of the Firelands Trading cards. The NPC who sells the Tiger that you can ride on is Gelvas Grimgate.

Ride on Tiger: Darkmoon "Tiger"

You can purchase a ride on tiger from "Gelvas Grimgate" during the Darkmoon Faire. When you purchase the item you are given 10 of them and personally I think its awesome!

Zoo and Pony Rides.

As an additional note there is a large Zoo type exhibition ( or petting zoo) near the dock side of the Darkmoon Faire area. There are small ponies, goats and other animals  (which are not in fenced off areas) that you can ride around for free. Its really funny seeing your character dwarf a pony which pelts round the area looks like a million miles a hour due to its small legs but its actually only 100% mount speed. I did notice that the exhibition animals all have their own individual names which is a nice personal touch I think.

Overall opinion of the new darkmoon faire.

Overall I personally think that the new re-vamped "Darkmoon Faire" should be a overall success as it brings back the fun and enjoyment to the game and doesn't focus you just on the fighting and killing of creatures and mythical beings. Im glad Blizzard have realised that not all players of world of warcraft are excited when new PVP, dungeons and arenas are brought out as some of us never do them, its reassuring that they are trying to keep everyone entertained - lets hope they keep on doing this and maybe it will start bringing back people to the world of warcraft.