When Does "Dark Fall" in Hallowfall Commence and End?

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Like so many other players, the “Umbral Amalgam”, is the last pet I need in order to acquire the achievement in this expansion. From what I understand that battlepet only shows up in Hallowfall during “dark time” and (according to WoWhead) the dark time that I speak of only occurs every three hours for 30 minutes.

And (according to WoWhead again) dark time occurs at 9:00, 12:00, 3:00, and 6:00 Pacific Time… but they don’t say whether or not it’s A.M. or P.M. which makes a BIG difference since I’m in an EST State.

When I read that article, it reminded me of a line from the film “Clerks” when a customer in a video store says (to the clerk waiting on him): “Do you have that one, with that guy, who was in that movie, that was out last year?”

See… lots of words but no info that I can use. And then I’m not even sure THAT’S correct because I’ve been in Hallowfall outside of the PST hours that WoWhead mentions, and it’s already “Dark” in Hallowfall (today I was there at 11:45 AM EST (as well as server time… I’m on an East Coast Realm) and it was Dark in Hallowfall. (That made it 8:45 A.M. Pacific Time).

Anyway the whole thing about “Dark Time” confuses me (I can’t understand why they just didn’t make it 30 minutes every 3 hours but that would have been a simple solution).

Not that it matters. From what I’ve read the “Umbral Amalgam” is broken anyway, and not showing up anyway.

But can someone please humor me and tell me what the exact “Dark Time” hours are in Hallowfall.

Thank you in advance for your response to this post.

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It’s both AM and PM, so just add 3 hours to any of those times (AM or PM, doesn’t matter) and you will get EST time (which since EST is 3 hours different from Pacific, it ends up being the same times for EST as it is for Pacific). That said, I believe it is modified by daylight savings time, so also subtract 1 hour.

However, it’s about server time not your local time, so you need to adjust for your server time, not your local time. It won’t matter if you live in an EST state, only what time zone your server is for.

That means the times for EST servers right now should be:
2am, 5am, 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm, 11pm

When we get out of DST it’ll go back to:
3am, 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, 12am

If your server isn’t an EST server, then you have to adjust those time. For Central time subtract 1 hour, for mountain time, subtract 2 hours, etc.

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Thank you for your response. I did what you said tonight at 8:00 PM server time and it worked… went off without a hitch. But after reading so many post here and on WoWhead about how this achievement seems to be broken (at least for now) I’ve decided to try again when I see that it’s been “fixed”. IMHO this achievement is poor planning on the developers part.

Battlepets used to be fun for me. Now it’s become an ordeal and one that doesn’t interest me.

Thanks again and good luck if you’re still trying to get this battlepet.