oh! What dose that do?

We all make mistakes in WOW, some big, some small. Some we don't even know until after we've made them. This noob moment is one of those. If you've made it to Level cap in Pandaria then you know it's the land of dailies. It's easy to get burned out on them, day after day doing the same pool of thirty or so quests. It's not surprising that I like most players jump on it when a world event, or any other distraction pops up. So when the Darkmoon Fair rolled into town I went on over as soon as I realized it was back. I made this realization shortly after finishing my dailies. I step through the portal hoped on my mount and rode on down the path to the fair grounds. I played the games in hopes of gaining a fun new pet. As I looked around I saw the new Darkmoon carousel. I figured I should ride it for two reasons; It looked awesome and it might offer an achievement. I bought my tickets hoped on, no achievement. "Ok, I'll ride them all. Maybe then". Nope. Their is no achievement for riding the carousel. What it dose offer is a buff that I thought I read (Which is not actually the same as reading it). This buff allows you to continue riding the carousel for the course of a hour. I didn't think much of it. The wife came home and I logged out for the day. I continued to visit the Darkmoon Fair for the rest of the week before doing my dailies. Always opting out of riding the carousel. About a week after the fair ended I heard on a podcast that the carousel offers a rep. bonus for a hour. That's right. I had missed out on a weeks worth of rep. while grinding my dailies.
The moral of the story, always read all buffs that appear on your screen. Actually read them, don't just skim. It's only by fully reading and understanding things that we get the most out of it.
Remember we're all noobs, some of us just fly the flag higher.   
Morison-