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Comment by tmptfate

This is one of the items that your Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide can help you find. Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide is from Selina Dourman, who resides in the first tent on your left as you enter the Darkmoon Faire.

Turning in this item is part of 2 achievements: Darkmoon Defender and Darkmoon Despoiler

The artifacts needed for Darkmoon Defender are:

Collecting all the Darkmoon Faire Artifacts rewards Darkmoon Despoiler. The full list of Darkmoon Faire Artifacts is:

As stated by Blizzard (Source):

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. 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. 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!

Comment by Aislinge

There's not much info on how the PvP items come about.

I received a Captured Insignia 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!

Comment by MaccaSvenne

This, like the other two new Darkmoon Faire-related items starting a quest, can be looted in BGs by removing the insignia off an enemy. The droprate seems fairly high as well. I estimate I got 4 of these (1 duplicate for which there is no use, at least until next month if it turns out to be a monthly quest) from about 15-20 corpses.

Comment by 668582

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. Source
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. Source

Comment by Syous

As people said above you can only complete the quest once per month.
Please note however that those items are not BoP, you can probably sell the at them auction house.

Comment by 157913

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.

Comment by sandyra

What is this? This item Fallen Adventurer's Journal starts the quest The Captured Journal that you can turn in with the Darkmoon Faire whenever it is in town.

How do I get it? In order to be eligible to loot this, you must have the Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide in your ~~bags~~ inventory - which can be obtained in one of two ways:

Receive it as a reward from Gelvas Grimegate after completing The Darkmoon Faire for Alliance or The Darkmoon Faire for Horde.
Receive it from Selina Dourman just by talking to her, she stands at the first tent on the left-side of the entrance to the Darkmoon Faire.
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.

Where do I get it?

This particular item can be looted by removing insignias from fallen enemies in battlegrounds.

Why do I want it? There are several reasons that you may want this item:

What else do I need to know?

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.
This item can be looted anytime - that is to say, the Darkmoon Faire does not have to be currently on in order for you to be able to find these puppies.

What other Darkmoon Faire drops are there?

Banner of the Fallen -> A Captured Banner = 5 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Captured Insignia -> The Enemy's Insignia = 5 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Imbued Crystal -> A Curious Crystal = 10 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Monstrous Egg -> An Exotic Egg = 10 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Mysterious Grimoire -> An Intriguing Grimoire = 10 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Ornate Weapon -> A Wondrous Weapon = 10 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
Soothsayer's Runes -> = 10 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets
A Treatise on Strategy -> = 15 x Darkmoon Prize Tickets

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

Comment by 778466

Just received this from looting a corpse in WSG. I've been looting quite a few, has a fairly low drop rate as far as I can tell.

Comment by bookworm13

They really should have given this a different name from Adventurer's Journal.

I can already see the GM tickets for scammers and confused AH buyers.

Caveat emptor!

Comment by 163020

I can not return this the first day of the 2nd event. I hope it's just a 30 day cooldown or the quest is bugged.

Comment by wownighty

Also ■ Soothsayer's Runes is bugged for this second DMF edition; hope they will fix all and i can get my dancing bear :)

Comment by Bellabel

You can loot these and sell them. Now I turned in the quest, and managed to loot three of these in one BG. So at the very least I know you can loot many of them while off the quest. I do not know if you can have more than one on the quest. Hope this helps.

Comment by Zapph

6 Jan 2012 - Quote from a CM on the forums (Kaivax):

Attempting to turn in the Fallen Adventurer's Journal and Captured Insignia which are associated with these quests “The Captured Journal” and “The Enemy's Insignia”. If you are having difficulty turning in these items, please contact our customer service department at http://us.battle.net/support/en/ and they will be able to provide you with 5 Darkmoon Prize Tickets per item.

Source

I was affected by the bug so asked a GM and got my tickets I would have lost, just to confirm.

Edit: This should also be fixed by the next Faire (Feb 5th).

Comment by 870116

As of Patch 4.3.2, this item has been renamed to Fallen Adventurer's Journal, to differentiate from the previously same named Adventurer's Journal.

Comment by Abrin

As of 4.3.2 these items have been renamed to Fallen Adventurer's Journal (same item ID #).

Comment by mekikya

I ran into a bug, if you have the item previously named Adventurer's Journal, and had picked up the quest but didnt turn it in before the name change...the quest disappears from your log but you still cannot pick up the quest again...the way i fixed it was to destroy the item, /reload ui, and to get another one and take the quest again...

Comment by SoooWhoCares

"Dear diary,
today I joined my first BG - ever ! I'm sure it'll be awesome.

PS: What's this 'resilence' everyone is talking about ? I'm sure I can invastigate this later."

Comment by Kanegasi

Keep in mind that the current drop statistics in the "Dropped by" tab are incorrect. The Wowhead looter addon has had an unfixable bug for a long time that, if exploited, can make almost anything recorded as dropped from anything you choose. Given some of the incorrect drop tabs I've seen, I assume the code marks what you are targeting as the drop source since you target the looted mob as you are looting it. This is why there are some mobs in this drop list in AV. Someone either accidentally or purposely targeted one of those mobs while taking an enemy's insignia. A player character's corpse is not recordable in Wowhead's database.

Comment by Descentia

Isn't this now called "Fallen Adventurer's Journal" in-game? (probably to get rid of confusion with the Inscription item Adventurer's Journal )

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"A journal containing stories of a fallen enemy's epic exploits. Someone at the Darkmoon Faire would be interested in seeing this."

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