Midsummer Fire Festival
Duration	June 21 - July 5, 2012
Currency	[Burning Blossom]
Boss	[85+] Lord Ahune <The Frost Lord>
Highlights	Fireworks, Bonfires
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The Midsummer Fire Festival is a seasonal event that celebrates the hottest season of the year. It starts on the (earthly) northern summer solstice, and lasts about two weeks (June 21 - July 4). It is similar to the Lunar Festival and other holidays, featuring some useful buffs, food, and toys to play with.

It was introduced in Patch 1.11, and given a major revamp in June 2008.

From Midsummer Fire Festival^[1] on the old official website:

Ah, so you weren't chosen for Flamekeeper this year? Don't fret, my friend! The Midsummer Fire Festival isn't merely about that traditional honor; it's a time of merriment, a chance to celebrate the hottest season of the year by lighting great fires across the land and sharing in what the elemental spirits can offer. Come to our camps and join in the revelry!

The ending of the Festival seems to have been merged with the Engineers' Explosive Extravaganza holiday:

The lengthy Midsummer Fire Festival traditionally ends with the sky itself being set alight. The goblins of Undermine have lent their considerable skill (and copious amounts of gunpowder) to the task, resulting in a tremendous fireworks show! Take up a festival mug and raise a toast to the season as the multicolored explosions dance across the sky above you!

Buffs Edit

  Ribbon Dance—Experience gained from killing monsters increased by 10%!

• Using Ribbon Poles causes a colorful streamer of energy to go to your hand and causes you to dance. This gives a 3-minute Ribbon Dance buff increasing earned experience by 10%. This buff stacks up to 20 times (60 minutes), increasing its duration by 3 minutes for every 3 seconds you keep dancing around the pole.

  Fire Festival Fury—Increases critical strike percent and spell critical strike percent by 3.

• When thrown into a festival fire, Burning Blossoms give you a buff Fire Festival Fury, 3% critical strike and spell critical strike rating for sixty minutes as well as causing fire damage to attackers.

  Bonfire's Blessing—Target gains a 30% chance to inflict Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack.

• If a bonfire has gone out, tossing a Burning Blossom in it will provide a zone-wide buff, Bonfire's Blessing, that gives you a 30% chance to inflict (<your level> x 10) Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack. Bonfire's Blessing is capable of delivering a critical hit with 100% additional damage and is affected by bonus spell damage. This buff goes away if the opposite faction desecrates the bonfire.

  Fire Festival Fortitude—Increases Stamina by 30 for 1 hour.

• Special flame samples can be collected from the bonfires in each of the four main cities of the opposing faction. Each sample will begin a quest called "Stealing the [City]'s Flame." Upon completing each quest, everyone in the capital city will receive Fire Festival Fortitude, a +30 stamina buff. Once all 4 have been collected and returned to a Festival representative, you receive the quest A Thief's Reward and are rewarded with the  [Crown of the Fire Festival].

  Reverence for the Flame—Experience gained from killing monsters increased by 10%! 1 hour remaining.

• Gained when honoring the new (for 2011) neutral flames in Deepholm, Mount Hyjal, and the Shimmering Expanse.

Burning Blossom redemption Edit

Below are the items you can purchase with  [Burning Blossoms] at Midsummer Suppliers and Midsummer Merchants. You can get 22 Blossoms (minimal) for normal quests, 20 Blossoms every day through daily quests, and 840 (H)/830 (A) Blossoms from the bonfires.

Sets	Item	Price	Note
	[Handful of Summer Petals]	2
	[Fiery Festival Brew]	2
	[Juggling Torch]	5	Used for  Torch Juggler
	[Elderberry Pie]	5
	[Midsummer Sausage]	5
	[Bag of Smorc Ingredients]	5
	[Toasted Smorc]	5
	[Fire-toasted Bun]	5
Components of the Midsummer Reveler three-piece set for  Burning Hot Pole Dance	[Mantle of the Fire Festival]	100
	[Vestment of Summer]	100	Causes your hands to catch fire for more festive dance moves.
	[Sandals of Summer]	200	Causes a fire to appear at your feet.
	[Brazier of Dancing Flames]	350	Creates a fiery, dancing female draenei who reacts to player emotes.
	[Captured Flame]	350	Small pet.

Quests Edit

[Burning Blossoms] can be earned through a variety of quests. The blossoms can be consumed for a small buff or saved for a variety of items including the [Brazier of Dancing Flames] or the [Captured Flame].

•  [1-80] Desecrate this Fire! (Alliance)
•  [1-80] Honor the Flame (Alliance)
•  [1-80] The Master of Summer Lore
•  [1-80] Incense for the Summer Scorchlings
•  [1-80] A Thief's Reward (Alliance)

•  [1-80] Desecrate this Fire! (Horde)
•  [1-80] Honor the Flame (Horde)
•  [1-80] The Spinner of Summer Tales
•  [1-80] Incense for the Festival Scorchlings
•  [1-80] A Thief's Reward (Horde)

Daily quests:

1.  [1-80] Torch Tossing
2.  [1-80] Torch Catching
   •  [1-80 Daily] More Torch Tossing
   •  [1-80 Daily] More Torch Catching

1.  [1-80] Torch Tossing
2.  [1-80] Torch Catching
   •  [1-80 Daily] More Torch Tossing
   •  [1-80 Daily] More Torch Catching

Quest chains:

1.  [70] Unusual Activity
2.  [70] An Innocent Disguise
3.  [70] Inform the Elder

Players then are given access to quests based on their level:

•  [22 Daily] Striking Back
•  [32 Daily] Striking Back
•  [43 Daily] Striking Back
•  [51 Daily] Striking Back
•  [60 Daily] Striking Back
•  [67 Daily] Striking Back
•  [70] Ahune, the Frost Lord (optional)
  •  [70D] Ahune is Here!
    •  [70D Daily] Summon Ahune

Lord Ahune Edit

A new chain of quests was added to the game, beginning at a Festival Talespinner. The end of the chain culminates in a daily quest to summon Lord Ahune, a new boss in the Slave Pens.

Bonfires Edit

See also: Alliance Bonfire, Horde Bonfire, Neutral Bonfire

The Flame Warden at each of your own faction's bonfires offers you Honor the Flame.

Right-clicking a bonfire of the opposite faction offers Desecrate this Fire!. The act of dousing a bonfire does not pull guards (though they will aggro as normal based on range and level - Wildhammer Stronghold in Shadowmoon Valley requires a flying mount or stealth to avoid aggro), making this a fast and easy way to generate money and Burning Blossoms. Be warned that dousing the opposite faction's bonfire will flag you for PVP combat.

The bonfires of capital cities have separate quests, and you cannot Honor the Flame of your own faction's Capitals.

There are a grand total of 100 bonfires across the four continents:

• Horde (49): 45 normal, plus 4 capitals
• Alliance (51): 47 normal, plus 4 capitals
• Neutral (3)
• Shattrath (1): unable to be honored or desecrated

Interacting with the fires rewards different amounts of Burning Blossoms:

• Stealing a fire from an opposing faction's capital city: 25
• Honoring a neutral fire: 15
• Desecrating an opposing faction's fire (excludes capitals): 10
• Honoring your own faction's fire (excludes capitals): 5

Here are the current amount of Blossoms you can collect:

• Horde: 47 * 10 + 45 * 5 + 4 * 25 + 3 * 15 = 840 total Burning Blossoms available
• Alliance: 47 * 5 + 45 * 10 + 4 * 25 + 3 * 15 = 830 total Burning Blossoms available

See Horde and Alliance for suggested routes.

MapsEdit

Note: Coordinates are not exact. General locations shown.

Key

• Alliance
• , Horde
• Location with both Horde and Alliance fires
• Horde capital city
• Alliance capital city
• Earthen Ring neutral fire; only honoring allowed (Shattrath City cannot honor or desecrate)

Kalimdor

Eastern Kingdoms

Outland

Northrend

Stealing the Cities' FlamesEdit

Each faction can loot the Flames of the opposing faction's cities, each of which starts a quest. Stealing all four cities' flames will offer the quest  [1-80] A Thief's Reward.

Horde capital gallery Orgrimmar fire Thunder Bluff fire Undercity fire Silvermoon fire 1 of 4 Add photo

Capital locations list Orgrimmar - Western Earthshrine [46.5, 37.3] Thunder Bluff - On the Spirit Rise [21, 25] Undercity - In the courtyard, just inside [68, 7] Silvermoon City - Court of the Sun, inside, in the back [68, 41] [Flame of Orgrimmar] ->  [70] Stealing Orgrimmar's Flame [Flame of Thunder Bluff] ->  [70] Stealing Thunder Bluff's Flame [Flame of the Undercity] ->  [70] Stealing the Undercity's Flame [Flame of Silvermoon] ->  [70] Stealing Silvermoon's Flame

Alliance capital gallery Stormwind fire Ironforge fire Darnassus fire Exodar fire 1 of 4 Add photo

Capital locations list Stormwind - Outside Stormwind Stockades, North of Mage Quarter[50, 72] Ironforge - Hall of Explorers [65, 24] Darnassus - near the Warrior's Terrace [63.6, 47.8] The Exodar - The Crystal Hall [41, 24] [Flame of Stormwind] ->  [70] Stealing Stormwind's Flame [Flame of Ironforge] ->  [70] Stealing Ironforge's Flame [Flame of Darnassus] ->  [70] Stealing Darnassus's Flame [Flame of the Exodar] ->  [70] Stealing the Exodar's Flame

Reward: [Crown of the Fire Festival] (no bonuses).

List of all bonfires Edit

Eastern Kingdoms Zone Region Coords Arathi Highlands Hammerfall [69, 42] Arathi Highlands Just north of Refuge Pointe [44, 46] Badlands Dragon's Mouth [19, 56] Badlands The Dustbowl-just northeast of New Kargath [24, 38] Blasted Lands Nethergarde Supply Camps-Just west of the keep [58, 17] Blasted Lands Dreadmaul Hold [46, 14] Burning Steppes Ruins of Thaurissan-just south of Flame Crest [51, 29] Burning Steppes Valley of Ashes-just northwest of Morgan's Vigil [68, 60] Dun Morogh Just north of Kharanos [54, 45] Ironforge Hall of Explorers [64, 25] Duskwood Darkshire [73, 55] Elwynn Forest Goldshire [43, 65] Stormwind The Canals-near Bobby Flay [49, 72] Eversong Woods North Sanctum [46, 50] Silvermoon City Court of the Sun [70, 43] Ghostlands Tranquillien [46, 26] Hillsbrad Foothills Tarren Mill [55, 50] Hinterlands Aerie Peak [14, 50] Hinterlands Revantusk Village [76, 74] Loch Modan Just northwest of Thelsamar [32, 40] Redridge Mountains Just South of Lakeshire-directly across the lake and west of FP [24, 53] Silverpine Forest The Sepulcher [49, 38] Northern Stranglethorn Fort Livingston [51, 63] Northern Stranglethorn Grom'gol Base Camp [40, 51] Cape of Stranglethorn Wild Shore-East of Booty Bay [52, 67] Cape of Stranglethorn Wild Shore-East of Booty Bay [50, 71] Swamp of Sorrows Bogpaddle [70, 14] Swamp of Sorrows Bogpaddle [76, 14] Tirisfal Glades Brill [57, 52] Twilight Highlands Thundermar [47, 28] Twilight Highlands Bloodgulch [53, 46] Undercity Ruins of Lordaeron [68, 9] Western Plaguelands Chillwind Camp [43, 82] Western Plaguelands The Bulwark [29.3, 57.1] Westfall Moonbrook [44, 62] Wetlands Menethil Harbor [13, 47]

Kalimdor Zone Region Coords Ashenvale Forest Song [86, 41] Ashenvale Silverwind Refuge [51, 66] Azuremyst Isle Azure Watch [44, 53] Azshara Bilgewater Harbor [59, 51] Exodar, The The Crystal Hall [41, 26] Bloodmyst Isle Blood Watch [55, 69] Darkshore South-West of Lor'danel [48, 22] Desolace Nijel's Point [65, 17] Desolace Shadowprey Village [26, 76] Durotar Razor Hill [52, 47] Orgrimmar Western Earthshrine [47, 38] Dustwallow Marsh Sentry Point - up the road from Theramore [62, 40] Dustwallow Marsh Brackenwall Village [33, 30] Feralas Feathermoon Stronghold [46, 43] Feralas Camp Mojache [72, 47] Mount Hyjal Nordrassil [63, 23] Mulgore Bloodhoof Village [51, 60] Northern Barrens Crossroads [50, 54] Thunder Bluff Spirit Rise [21, 26] Silithus Cenarion Hold [60, 33] Silithus Cenarion Hold [50, 41] Southern Barrens Desolation Hold [41, 68] Southern Barrens Fort Triumph [48, 72] Stonetalon Mountains Sun Rock Retreat [53, 62] Stonetalon Mountains Mirkfallon Post [49, 51] Tanaris Gadgetzan [52, 29] Tanaris Gadgetzan [49, 27] Darnassus Warrior's Terrace [64, 48] Teldrassil Dolanaar [55, 52.6] Uldum Ramkahen [53, 32] Uldum Ramkahen [53, 34] Un'Goro Crater Marshal's Stand [59, 63] Un'Goro Crater Marshal's Stand [56, 65] Winterspring Everlook [61, 47] Winterspring Everlook [58, 47]

Outland Zone Region Coords Blade's Edge Mountains Sylvanaar [42, 66] Blade's Edge Mountains Thunderlord Stronghold [50, 59] Hellfire Peninsula Honor Hold [62, 58] Hellfire Peninsula Thrallmar [57, 42] Nagrand Telaar [50, 70] Nagrand Garadar [51, 34] Netherstorm Area 52 [31, 63] Netherstorm Area 52 [32, 68] Shadowmoon Valley Wildhammer Stronghold [40, 55] Shadowmoon Valley Shadowmoon Village [33, 30] Shattrath Terrace of Light [61, 32] Terokkar Forest Allerian Stronghold [55, 55] Terokkar Forest Stonebreaker Hold [52, 43] Zangarmarsh Telredor [69, 52] Zangarmarsh Zabra'Jin [36, 52]

Northrend Zone Region Coords Borean Tundra Fizzcrank Airstrip [55, 20] Borean Tundra Bor'gorok Outpost [51, 12] Crystalsong Forest Windrunner's Overlook [78, 75] Crystalsong Forest Sunreaver's Command [80, 53] Dragonblight Wintergarde Keep [75, 44] Dragonblight Agmar's Hammer [39, 48] Howling Fjord Fort Wildervar [58, 16] Howling Fjord Camp Winterhoof [48, 13] Grizzly Hills Amberpine Lodge [34, 61] Grizzly Hills Conquest Hold [19, 61] Sholazar Basin River's Heart [47, 66] Sholazar Basin River's Heart [47, 62] Storm Peaks K3 [42, 87] Storm Peaks K3 [40, 86] Zul'Drak The Argent Stand [41, 61] Zul'Drak The Argent Stand [43, 71]

Maelstrom

	Zone	Region	Coords
	Shimmering Expanse	Silver Tide Hollow	[49, 42]
	Deepholm	Temple of Earth	[49, 51]

See also Alliance Bonfires, Horde Bonfires, and Neutral Bonfires

AchievementsEdit

Note: Meta achievements are located in a separate table at the bottom of this section.

	Title	Description	Reward
3	[Ice the Frost Lord]	Slay Ahune in the Slave Pens.	10
1	[Burning Hot Pole Dance]	Dance at the ribbon pole for 60 seconds while wearing the complete Midsummer set.	10
1	[King of the Fire Festival]	Complete the A Thief's Reward / A Thief's Reward quest by stealing the flames from your enemy's capital cities.	10
1	[Flame Warden of Eastern Kingdoms]	Honor the flames of Eastern Kingdoms. Arathi Highlands Blasted Lands Burning Steppes Dun Morogh Duskwood Elwynn Forest Loch Modan Northern Stranglethorn Redridge Mountains Cape of Stranglethorn The Hinterlands Western Plaguelands Westfall Wetlands	10
2	[Flame Keeper of Eastern Kingdoms]	Honor the flames of Eastern Kingdoms. Arathi Highlands Badlands Burning Steppes Eversong Woods Ghostlands Hillsbrad Foothills Northern Stranglethorn Silverpine Forest Swamp of Sorrows Cape of Stranglethorn The Hinterlands Tirisfal Glades	10
2	[Flame Warden of Kalimdor]	Honor the flames of Kalimdor. Ashenvale Azuremyst Isle Bloodmyst Isle Darkshore Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Silithus Southern Barrens Tanaris Teldrassil Winterspring	10
	[Flame Keeper of Kalimdor]	Honor the flames of Kalimdor. Ashenvale Desolace Durotar Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Mulgore Northern Barrens Silithus Southern Barrens Stonetalon Mountains Tanaris Winterspring	10
2	[Flame Warden of Outland]  [Flame Keeper of Outland]	Honor the flames of Outland. Blade's Edge Mountains Hellfire Peninsula Nagrand Netherstorm Shadowmoon Valley Terokkar Forest Zangarmarsh	10
2	[Extinguishing Eastern Kingdoms]	Desecrate the Horde's bonfires in Eastern Kingdoms. Arathi Highlands Badlands Burning Steppes Eversong Woods Ghostlands Hillsbrad Foothills Northern Stranglethorn Silverpine Forest Swamp of Sorrows Cape of Stranglethorn The Hinterlands Tirisfal Glades	10
1	[Extinguishing Eastern Kingdoms]	Desecrate the Alliance bonfires in Eastern Kingdoms. Arathi Highlands Blasted Lands Burning Steppes Dun Morogh Duskwood Elwynn Forest Loch Modan Northern Stranglethorn Redridge Mountains Cape of Stranglethorn The Hinterlands Western Plaguelands Westfall Wetlands	10
1	[Extinguishing Kalimdor]	Desecrate the Horde's bonfires in Kalimdor. Ashenvale Desolace Durotar Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Mulgore Northern Barrens Silithus Southern Barrens Stonetalon Mountains Tanaris Winterspring	10
2	[Extinguishing Kalimdor]	Desecrate the Alliance's bonfires in Kalimdor. Ashenvale Azuremyst Isle Bloodmyst Isle Darkshore Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Silithus Southern Barrens Tanaris Teldrassil Winterspring	10
2	[Extinguishing Outland]  [Extinguishing Outland]	Desecrate the Horde's bonfires in Outland. Blade's Edge Mountains Hellfire Peninsula Nagrand Netherstorm Shadowmoon Valley Terokkar Forest Zangarmarsh	10
3	[Torch Juggler]	Juggle 40 [Torches] in 15 seconds in Dalaran.	10

Meta achievements

	Title	Description	Reward
2	[The Fires of Azeroth]  [The Fires of Azeroth]	Complete the following achievements: Alliance:  Flame Warden of Eastern Kingdoms  Flame Warden of Kalimdor  Flame Warden of Outland Horde:  Flame Keeper of Eastern Kingdoms  Flame Keeper of Kalimdor  Flame Keeper of Outland	10
2	[Desecration of the Horde]  [Desecration of the Alliance]	Complete the following achievements: Alliance:  Extinguishing Eastern Kingdoms  Extinguishing Kalimdor  Extinguishing Outland Horde:  Extinguishing Eastern Kingdoms  Extinguishing Kalimdor  Extinguishing Outland	10

History Edit

2010 Edit

Previously, the Reveler set items could be used to get Burning Hot Pole Dance and then returned (within 2 hours of purchase) for a full refund, allowing you to use those Blossoms for other purchases. In 2010, Festival Garb ( [Mantle of the Fire Festival]  [Vestment of Summer]  [Sandals of Summer]) is no longer refundable, so spend your Blossoms wisely!

2009 issues Edit

When the Midsummer event started, flags for completion of the quests in 2008 had not been reset, preventing those who had completed one-time quests in 2008 from getting those quests and gathering Burning Blossoms. Further, characters above level 70 did not have a version of the quest Striking Back.

Recent In-Game Fixes - 6/22/09 | 2009-06-22 15:59 | Bornakk

We are in the process of applying an in-game fix that will restart all of the quests associated with the Midsummer Fire Festival event and allow players to complete them once again. If you are in the process of completing an achievement such as Extinguishing Kalimdor, this fix will reset your progress and you will need start over. This fix will require realms to be restarted.

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This fix allowed anyone who had already completed any bonfire quests in 2009 before the fix was applied to gather more Blossoms that year than are usually available. Completed achievements were not revoked, but partially completed ones lost all progress. The Striking Back quest for 67-70 characters was extended to 67-80, once again allowing 20 Blossoms per day from daily quests.

While the initial patch was to have reset all event quests, it proved incomplete in many cases. Many reported being unable to complete the "city flames" quests for Exodar and Silvermoon despite being able to repeat those for other cities. At least one realm was not reset properly the first time, and further issues were found.^[2] A number of players have continued to have problems with the Exodar and Silvermoon city flame quests.

References Edit

Patches and hotfixesEdit

• Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25):  Ahune <The Frost Lord> added in the Slave Pens. 
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-20): Added. 
  

External links Edit

Recent

World of Warcraft US Community Site Midsummer Fire Festival by Blizzard Entertainment, Jun 21, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

World of Warcraft EU Community Site Midsummer Fire Festival by Blizzard Entertainment, 21 Jun 2011 19:00 UTC

Wowhead News Midsummer Fire Festival Guide by Ashelia 2011/06/20 5:46 PM

WowInsider The OverAchiever: Guide to Midsummer Festival 2011 achievements by Allison Robert Jun 20th 2011 at 2:00PM

Info

WoWcore.nl Dutch / Nederlandse Midsummer Achievement Guide

WoWVault.IGN.com The Flame Keeper/Warden achievement guide

WarcraftOverachiever Complete Horde Midsummer/The Flame Keeper Achievement Guide and Maps

WarcraftOverachiever Complete Alliance Midsummer/The Flame Warden Achievement Guide and Maps

Old

Random Ravings of Warcraft blog Midsummer Festival guide "Fire is Hot !!" 12-Jun-2008

Related

Wikipedia Like other seasonal events in WoW, the Midsummer Fire Festival is based on a real world holiday, in this case the predominantly European Midsummer festivals celebrated around the summer solstice. The ending fireworks are reminiscent of the Independence Day holiday celebrated in the United States.