World buffs in WoW Forever: timers, Darkmoon Faire dates and where to get every buff

World buffs are the big temporary buffs you pick up in the open world: a dragon head raised over a capital, a flower in Felwood, a tribute from the Dire Maul ogres, a fortune at the Darkmoon Faire. Stacked together they make a character a lot stronger, which is why guilds plan their raid nights around them.

Forever has its own versions of these buffs, with numbers that differ from the old ones, and gives the Alliance its own blessing for Rend’s head. Everything below is read from the Forever game files.

Timers

The faire countdown works for everyone. For the head and songflower timers, type your realm and pick your faction: each realm keeps its own times in this browser. Press Dropped now when you see the buff go out, or Set time if you are late. Copy link for the guild gives a link that opens this page with your times, so one person can keep the whole guild up to date.

The same timers in game

ForeverBase World Buffs, our own addon, keeps these timers without you pressing anything: it hears the herald and Thrall, sees the fresh buff on you in the city, marks the songflower you picked, reads the faire dates from the game calendar and shares drop times with your guild and group. A click on a songflower or on the faire line puts the game’s map pin there, and its Open on the site button opens this page with your timers filled in.

All world buffs at a glance

Buff	What it gives in Forever	Lasts	Where	Available
Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer	+10% critical chance with spells and attacks, +140 attack power and ranged attack power, +80 spell damage and healing	2 h	Onyxia’s or Nefarian’s head raised in Orgrimmar or Stormwind	Onyxia from December 9
Warchief’s Blessing	+300 health, +15% melee haste, 10 mana every 5 sec	1 h	Rend’s head handed to Thrall, Orgrimmar (Horde)	Now
Might of Stormwind	+300 health, +15% melee and spell haste, 10 mana every 5 sec	1 h	Rend’s head in Stormwind (Alliance)	Now
Songflower Serenade	+5% critical chance, +15 to all stats	1 h	Cleansed songflowers in Felwood	Now
Fengus’ Ferocity	+200 attack power and ranged attack power, +230 spell damage and healing	2 h	Dire Maul North tribute	Now
Mol’dar’s Moxie	+15% Stamina	2 h	Dire Maul North tribute	Now
Slip’kik’s Savvy	+3% critical chance with spells and attacks	2 h	Dire Maul North tribute	Now
Sayge’s Dark Fortune	One of: +10% damage, +10% Strength, Agility, Stamina, Intellect or Spirit, +10% armor, +25 to all resistances	2 h	Sayge at the Darkmoon Faire	From November 9

Not in Forever: Spirit of Zandalar from the Heart of Hakkar. The game files have no Forever version of it, unlike every buff above.

What changed against the old buffs

• Rallying Cry gives 10% critical chance to attacks as well as spells (the old one gave 5% to melee and ranged), and adds 80 spell damage and healing on top.
• Warchief’s Blessing reads “15% melee haste” in its tooltip, but the Forever version also carries a 15% casting speed effect, the same one Might of Stormwind lists openly.
• The Alliance gets a Rend buff. Forever adds an Alliance copy of Rend’s head and the Alliance blessing, Might of Stormwind, with the same numbers as the Horde one.
• No raid line. The old buffs still sitting in the game files say “No effect while in a raid instance”. The Forever versions do not. Whether they work inside the new raids we will confirm on December 9.

Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer: dragon heads

Kill Onyxia and one player loots her head. The Alliance takes Head of Onyxia to Highlord Bolvar Fordragon in Stormwind (Victory for the Alliance), then hands in Celebrating Good Times to Major Mattingly. The Horde takes Head of Onyxia to Thrall in Orgrimmar (Victory for the Horde), then For All To See to Overlord Runthak. When the second quest is handed in, the head goes up on the city gate and everyone nearby gets the buff a few seconds later.

Onyxia’s Lair opens with the first Forever raids on December 9, and you need the attunement first: see raid preparation. Nefarian’s head gives the same buff through Field Marshal Afrasiabi (Stormwind) or High Overlord Saurfang (Orgrimmar), but Blackwing Lair is not announced for Forever yet.

A city takes a new head only after a cooldown. The timer starts with 6 hours for Onyxia, 8 for Nefarian and 3 for Rend, the classic values; change them in the timer if your realm shows different ones.

Warchief’s Blessing and Might of Stormwind: Rend’s head

Warchief Rend Blackhand waits at the top of Blackrock Spire, which is a 10-player dungeon in Forever. The Horde needs For The Horde! from Thrall to loot his head; handing it in casts the blessing over Orgrimmar.

For the Alliance, Forever adds its own Head of Rend Blackhand and Might of Stormwind. Which Stormwind NPC takes the head we will add here as soon as it is confirmed in game.

Songflower Serenade: Felwood

Fly to Felwood and click a Cleansed Songflower. The buff lasts an hour, anyone can take it, and the flower grows back after a while (25 minutes in the timer, change it if your realm differs). The eight spots are in the timer table above: click the coordinates to copy a pin command for your map, press Picked when you take one, and the row counts down to its return.

Corrupted songflowers can be cleansed too: the Corrupted Songflower quest needs Cenarion Plant Salve, and the cleansed flower then gives the same buff.

Dire Maul tribute: three buffs from the ogres

In Dire Maul North, leave Guard Fengus, Guard Mol’dar and Guard Slip’kik alive and defeat King Gordok. The ogres crown your group, Mizzle the Crafty hands out the tribute, and each guard still standing gives his buff when you talk to him: Fengus’ Ferocity, Mol’dar’s Moxie and Slip’kik’s Savvy. The run can be repeated after an instance reset.

Sayge’s Dark Fortune: Darkmoon Faire

When the faire is in town, find Sayge among its tents and let him read your fortune. He asks a couple of questions, and your answers decide which of the eight fortunes you get, so pick the one for your role: damage for most damage dealers, Intellect or Spirit for healers, Stamina or armor for tanks. The fortune lasts two hours. The faire comes to Elwynn Forest in odd months and to Mulgore in even months; the dates are in the timer at the top of the page.

Tips for buff day

• Fortune and tribute first, heads last. Sayge, Dire Maul and the songflowers are yours to take whenever you like; heads go up when someone hands them in, so collect the rest and wait in the city.
• Dying removes world buffs. Keep them for the raid and play carefully in between.
• Short ones last. Songflower and the Rend buffs last an hour, the others two hours. Take the one-hour buffs right before the pull.
• The Chronoboon Displacer (the item that stores world buffs for later) is in the game files, but no one in Forever sells it so far.

Addons for world buffs

Nova World Buffs has no Forever version, so we wrote our own: ForeverBase World Buffs (download above) keeps the head, songflower and faire timers in game and shares them with your guild. These addons by other authors work in Forever too and help with the rest:

• Buff Reminder ForeverForever version

  Reminds you when a buff is missing. Add world buffs by their Forever spell IDs: 1304452 Rallying Cry, 1304594 Warchief's Blessing, 1304678 Might of Stormwind, 1304690 Songflower, 1304759 Fengus, 1304753 Mol'dar, 1304751 Slip'kik, 1304769 Sayge (damage).

• TellMeWhenForever version

  Icons with the time left on each world buff and an alert before one runs out.

• EverscribeForever version

  Countdown timers right on the world map, shared with your group or guild: handy for songflowers.

• AttuneForever version

  Tracks the Onyxia attunement for you and your guild, so the heads can start dropping on December 9.

See also: raid preparation with consumables and the attunement chain, and the full addon catalog.

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