Sayge is located within the Darkmoon Faire camp, and simply speaking to him will give you a potent buff for 2 hours. This is most important on damage dealers as it increases their overall damage done by a whooping 10%.

To get the 10% damage increasing buff you have to go through Sayge’s dialogue and select the first answer to his questions twice.

Other buffs you can potentially get are outlined in the table above. Simply select the answers in the proper order and you will be blessed with a powerful two hour buff to your character.

Darkmoon buff cooldown

Another very important thing to understand about the Darkmoon Faire buff is its cooldown. The buff will last for two hours, but after it expires you can not take it again for another two hours.

The clock starts ticking when you first get the debuff, so even if you lose it by dying you will be unable to take another until the 4 hour mark. This time does not decrease while you are offline! Your character must be online for 4 hours after you first take the buff to be able to take another, so plan your play sessions accordingly.

Debuff limits may mean that your class can not be utilized to their highest potential. The biggest impact is on classes such as Warlocks who rely on multiple damage-over-time spells to achieve maximum DPS.

In majority of 40-man raids these are the debuffs which are expected on bosses:

1. Sunder Armor
2. Demoralizing Shout
3. Thunderfury (Thunder Clap effect)
4. Thunderfury (nature resistance debuff)
5. Curse of Recklessness
6. Curse of Shadows
7. Curse of the Elements
8. Shadow Vulnerability from Improved Shadowbolt
9. Faerie Fire
10. Hunter’s Mark
11. Shadow Vulnerability (Shadow Weaving)
12. Mind Flay
13. Shadow Word: Pain
14. Winter’s Chill (AQ: Improved Scorch)
15. Corruption (AQ: Ignite)
16. Flex Slot (Taunt, Stormstrike, Hunter T2 etc.)

Some guilds may prefer one ability over another. Some guilds may also be unwilling to take Shadowpriests or Fire Mages to their raids, even though in later phases these specs can be quite effective.

But in general as outlined above those are the common debuffs you will see used on bosses. So Hunters, stop using those Viper Stings, there are more important debuffs!

Songflower buff from Felwood is seen with increasing frequency as well. It gives players 5% to critical strike chance on all melee, ranged and spell attacks. This damage increase can be substantial so it’s no surprise players are looking to get it.

Map below includes all Songflower spawn locations in Felwood zone.

Each location has a 25 minute cooldown.