A new PvP event has surfaced in Stranglethorn Vale in WoW Season of Discovery Phase 2 - the Blood Moon. In this guide, I'll furnish you with all the details regarding this event, including its rewards, along with valuable tips on easily obtaining your epic items.

About The Event

This Blood Moon event starts every 3 hours in the Stranglethorn Zone, with the first one at midnight and subsequent ones at 3:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., and so on. After starting, every player in the zone will be hostile towards each other, except for players in a group. This also means your own faction will play against you. It is basically a free-for-all fight for 30 minutes. For every player kill, you will receive a buff called 'Blood for the Blood Loa', with 6 stacks. Every time you die, you lose one stack. This buff can stack up to 255 times. So, what you basically just need to do is to kill as many players as possible.

When you do this, you’ll receive some blood, and this blood you need to hand in at an Altar. During the event, you could just open up your map. You don’t need to do anything beside just getting close to it, and then you will receive some copper blood coins. This is a currency you’ll need in order to get your new rare or epic items.

How To Do This Event?

You can turn in your buff at 1 of the 5 Altars on the map. They will spawn during the event and are marked by red flags on your map. Simply walk over them with your buff to receive the same amount of copper blood coins in your bag. Make sure to have bag space for it. You can right-click 100 copper coins to turn it into 1 silver blood coin. 100 silver can be turned in for 1 WoW SOD Gold. When you have a decent amount of these, you can also use it to purchase one of the new Level 40 items. The Altars are also choke points for fighting, so be prepared if you go there. If you die, you receive a debuff called 'Bloodless'.

The same goes for other players. As long as you have this debuff, you don’t give a blood stack to another player if you die. The same goes for other players, so don’t hesitate to kill someone with the debuff. It has a duration of 30 seconds. Be careful around the arena. There spawns an elite mob called Kha'damu, which basically kills everyone going near. If you don’t want to participate in the event, you can go to 2 NPCs called Selarin and Emissary. If you talk to them, you can get protection from the Blood Moon and won’t fight against your own faction during the event.

After the event ends, you can turn your coins in at a Troll NPC, Myin, which can be found inside the Gurubashi Arena. Your class-specific epic 2-handed weapon - Sanguine Crusher and Bloodlight Avenger's Edge costs 15 silver blood coins. Epic rings Emberblood Seal cost 5 silver blood coins. Epic bows and one-handed weapons like Bloodharvest Blade, Bloodlash Bow and Exsanguinar cost 10 silver blood coins. Off-hand weapons, such as Swift Sanguine Strikers and Bloodstorm Barrier, cost 5 silver blood coins. You can also get a class-specific epic trinket called Tigerblood Tailsman for 5 silver blood coins.

You can also get 2 mounts, Sabercat and Raptor, for 1 blood gold coin each. For 50 copper blood coins, you can get 250 honor with the Bloodstained Commendation. And for 2 silver each, you can get a different rare cloak with spell power or crit.

Quick Tips

Talking about grouping or being a party, the best possible thing to do is to be a party of 5 players. When you have 5 players, you could even be farming creatures in the open world. Every single kill gives you 1 copper blood coin. Better to just PvP and kill other players, as you will get a lot more blood coin this way. You could also try to do this solo, but the thing is that when you kill another player and you get blood, then the amount of blood you receive will be the exact same even if you were in a group.

During the event, there will also be a new world boss and you should not try to engage it, one-shots every single player, but there’s a benefit of being close to the NPC. This will provide you with a new buff that increases the amount of blood coin you receive, but you have to stay close in order to get this buff. If you end up dying, there will also be chain spirits you can speak to to release instantly so you don’t have to move all the way to your corpse. When you release at these locations, you will also get a buff that prevents you from rewarding any blood to other players for 1 minute, so maybe this could prevent you from also being killed for 1 minute.