Midsummer Fire Festival

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Midsummer Fire Festival
Duration	June 21st - July 4th
Currency	[Burning Blossom]
Boss	[72+] 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 on the 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!

Overview

Touching the Ribbon Pole gives a 3 minute buff increasing earned experience by 10%. Up to 60 minutes can be stacked.

• 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. Shamans, buff your weapon with flametongue.
• 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.
• 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 Fire damage on any melee, range or spell attack - the exact amount of Fire damage dealt is based on your level x10. Bonfire's Blessing is capable of delivering a critical hit with 100% additional damage and is subject to spell bonus damage. This buff goes away if the opposite faction desecrates the bonfire.
• 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. Anyone can loot the flame, but taking the quest requires level 50.

Burning Blossom redemption

There are several items you can get from redeeming  [Burning Blossoms] at Midsummer Suppliers and Midsummer Merchants. You can get 722 (H), 712 (A) Blossoms at the first day of the Festival and 20 Blossoms through daily quests from the second day until the end of the festival. It is not possible to get all rewards in one year if you farm the maximum possible amount of Blossoms. (Exception: In the 2009 event, it was theoretically possible to get almost double the Blossoms. Because of problems relating to completing the Achievements for people who did the quests in 2008, Blizzard reset the quest flags after the first few days of the event, allowing everyone to get the Achievements but also allowing people to honor or desecrate the same fires more than once that year.)

Item	Price	Note
[Handful of Summer Petals]	2
[Fiery Festival Brew]	2
[Juggling Torch]	5	Useful for  Torch Juggler
[Elderberry Pie]	5
[Midsummer Sausage]	5
[Bag of Smorc Ingredients]	5
[Toasted Smorc]	5
[Fire-toasted Bun]	5
[Mantle of the Fire Festival]	100	Part of the three-piece set for  Burning Hot Pole Dance
[Vestment of Summer]	100	Causes your hands to catch aflame 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

Given from Festival Loremasters & Talespinners

The symbol of the Midsummer Fire Festival.

Midsummer decorations

[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].

Starter quests:

•  [1-80] The Master of Summer Lore
•  [1-80] Incense for the Summer Scorchlings
•  [1-80] The Spinner of Summer Tales
•  [1-80] Incense for the Festival Scorchlings

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

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

Bonfires

See also: Alliance Bonfire, Horde Bonfire

Finding a bonfire of your own faction and speaking to the appropriate NPC will reward you with 5 Burning Blossoms and 6 63 at level 80.

Finding a bonfire of the opposite faction and using "stamping upon", (right clicking it) will reward 10 Burning Blossoms and 13 23 at level 80. All opposing faction bonfires may be doused without pulling guards, providing players are sufficiently high level, but the bonfire in Wildhammer Stronghold in Shadowmoon Valley may be doused without pulling guards only if players have a flying mount or can stealth to the fire, making this a fast and easy way to generate money and Burning Blossoms. Be warned that dousing the opposite faction's bonfire will flag players 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 86 bonfires across the four continents: 42 Horde, 44 Alliance. Excluding the 4 capital cities on each side, that leaves 38 and 40.

• Alliance: total Burning Blossoms available
• Horde: total Burning Blossoms available

Suggested routes for both the Horde and Alliance are available.

All bonfires in Eastern Kingdoms.

All bonfires in Kalimdor.

All bonfires in Outland.

All bonfires in Northrend.

Interactive maps of the bonfire locations can be found at scribblemaps and wyrimaps

Stealing the Cities' Flames

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  [60] A Thief's Reward. Any level character can loot the quest item and begin the quest, whereas in the past the quest item would only allow level 50s to actually complete it.

Horde

• Orgrimmar - Next to Mannoroth's armor in the Valley of Wisdom ^{[46, 38]}
• 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 Darnassus] ->  [70] Stealing Darnassus's Flame
• [Flame of Ironforge] ->  [70] Stealing Ironforge's Flame
• [Flame of Stormwind] ->  [70] Stealing Stormwind's Flame
• [Flame of the Exodar] ->  [70] Stealing the Exodar's Flame

Alliance

• Stormwind - Outside Stormwind Stockades, North of Mage Quarter ^{[50, 72]}
• Ironforge - Hall of Explorers ^{[65, 24]}
• Darnassus - Rut'theran Village ^{[55, 91]}
• The Exodar - The Crystal Hall ^{[41, 24]}

• [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

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

Sortable list of bonfires

	Continent	Zone	Region	Coords
	Eastern Kingdoms	Arathi Highlands	Hammerfall	[74, 41]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Arathi Highlands	Refuge Pointe	[50, 44]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Badlands	Kargath	[4, 49]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Blasted Lands	Nethergarde Keep	[58, 17]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Burning Steppes	Flame Crest	[62, 29]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Burning Steppes	Morgan's Vigil	[80, 62]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Dun Morogh	Kharanos	[46, 46]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Ironforge	Hall of Explorers	[64, 25]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Duskwood	Darkshire	[74, 51]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Elwynn Forest	Goldshire	[43, 65]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Stormwind	The Canals	[49, 72]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Eversong Woods	North Sanctum	[46, 50]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Silvermoon City	Court of the Sun	[70, 43]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Ghostlands	Tranquillien	[46, 26]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hillsbrad Foothills	Southshore	[50, 46]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hillsbrad Foothills	Tarren Mill	[58, 25]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hinterlands	Aerie Peak	[14, 50]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hinterlands	Revantusk Village	[76, 74]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Loch Modan	Thelsamar	[32, 40]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Redridge Mountains	Lakeshire	[24, 59]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Silverpine Forest	The Sepulcher	[49, 38]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Stranglethorn Vale	East of Booty Bay	[33, 73]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Stranglethorn Vale	East of Booty Bay	[32, 75]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Swamp of Sorrows	Stonard	[47, 47]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Tirisfal Glades	Brill	[57, 52]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Undercity	Ruins of Lordaeron	[68, 9]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Western Plaguelands	Chillwind Camp	[43, 82]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Westfall	Sentinel Hill	[56, 54]
	Eastern Kingdoms	Wetlands	Menethil Harbor	[13, 47]
	Kalimdor	Ashenvale	Astranaar	[38, 54]
	Kalimdor	Ashenvale	Splintertree Post	[70, 69]
	Kalimdor	Azuremyst Isle	Azure Watch	[44, 53]
	Kalimdor	Exodar, The	The Crystal Hall	[41, 26]
	Kalimdor	Barrens	Crossroads	[52, 28]
	Kalimdor	Bloodmyst Isle	Blood Watch	[55, 69]
	Kalimdor	Darkshore	Auberdine	[37, 46]
	Kalimdor	Desolace	Nijel's Point	[65, 17]
	Kalimdor	Desolace	Shadowprey Village	[26, 76]
	Kalimdor	Durotar	Razor Hill	[52, 47]
	Kalimdor	Orgrimmar	Valley of Wisdom	[47, 38]
	Kalimdor	Dustwallow Marsh	Theramore Isle	[62, 40]
	Kalimdor	Dustwallow Marsh	Brackenwall Village	[33, 30]
	Kalimdor	Feralas	Feathermoon Stronghold	[28, 44]
	Kalimdor	Feralas	Camp Mojache	[72, 47]
	Kalimdor	Mulgore	Bloodhoof Village	[51, 60]
	Kalimdor	Thunder Bluff	Spirit Rise	[21, 26]
	Kalimdor	Silithus	Cenarion Hold	[57, 34]
	Kalimdor	Silithus	Cenarion Hold	[46, 44]
	Kalimdor	Stonetalon Mountains	Sun Rock Retreat	[50, 60]
	Kalimdor	Tanaris	Gadgetzan	[52, 29]
	Kalimdor	Tanaris	Gadgetzan	[49, 27]
	Kalimdor	Teldrassil	Rut'theran Village	[55, 91]
	Kalimdor	Teldrassil	Dolanaar	[55, 60]
	Kalimdor	Thousand Needles	Freewind Post	[41, 52]
	Kalimdor	Winterspring	Everlook	[62, 35]
	Kalimdor	Winterspring	Everlook	[59, 35]
	Outland	Blade's Edge Mountains	Sylvanaar	[42, 66]
	Outland	Blade's Edge Mountains	Thunderlord Stronghold	[50, 59]
	Outland	Hellfire Peninsula	Honor Hold	[62, 58]
	Outland	Hellfire Peninsula	Thrallmar	[55, 40]
	Outland	Nagrand	Telaar	[50, 70]
	Outland	Nagrand	Garadar	[51, 34]
	Outland	Netherstorm	Area 52	[31, 63]
	Outland	Netherstorm	Area 52	[32, 68]
	Outland	Shadowmoon Valley	Wildhammer Stronghold	[40, 55]
	Outland	Shadowmoon Valley	Shadowmoon Village	[33, 30]
	Outland	Terokkar Forest	Allerian Stronghold	[55, 55]
	Outland	Terokkar Forest	Stonebreaker Hold	[52, 43]
	Outland	Zangarmarsh	Telredor	[69, 52]
	Outland	Zangarmarsh	Zabra'Jin	[36, 52]
	Northrend	Borean Tundra	Fizzcrank Airstrip	[55, 20]
	Northrend	Borean Tundra	Bor'gorok Outpost	[51, 12]
	Northrend	Crystalsong Forest	Windrunner's Overlook	[78, 75]
	Northrend	Crystalsong Forest	Sunreaver's Command	[80, 53]
	Northrend	Dragonblight	Wintergarde Keep	[75, 44]
	Northrend	Dragonblight	Agmar's Hammer	[39, 48]
	Northrend	Howling Fjord	Fort Wildervar	[58, 16]
	Northrend	Howling Fjord	Camp Winterhoof	[48, 13]
	Northrend	Grizzly Hills	Amberpine Lodge	[34, 61]
	Northrend	Grizzly Hills	Conquest Hold	[19, 61]
	Northrend	Sholazar Basin	River's Heart	[47, 66]
	Northrend	Sholazar Basin	River's Heart	[47, 62]
	Northrend	Storm Peaks	K3	[42, 87]
	Northrend	Storm Peaks	K3	[40, 86]
	Northrend	Zul'Drak	The Argent Stand	[41, 61]
	Northrend	Zul'Drak	The Argent Stand	[43, 71]

See also Alliance Bonfires and Horde Bonfires.

Achievements

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

	Title	Description	Reward
2	[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 Hillsbrad Foothills Loch Modan Redridge Mountains Stranglethorn Vale The Hinterlands Wetlands Western Plaguelands Westfall	10
2	[Flame Keeper of Eastern Kingdoms]	Honor the flames of Eastern Kingdoms. Arathi Highlands Badlands Burning Steppes Eversong Woods Ghostlands Hillsbrad Foothills Silverpine Forest Stranglethorn Vale Swamp of Sorrows 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 Tanaris Teldrassil Winterspring	10
	[Flame Keeper of Kalimdor]	Honor the flames of Kalimdor. Ashenvale Desolace Durotar Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Mulgore Silithus Stonetalon Mountains Tanaris Barrens Thousand Needles 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 Silverpine Forest Stranglethorn Vale Swamp of Sorrows 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 Hillsbrad Foothills Loch Modan Redridge Mountains Stranglethorn Vale The Hinterlands Wetlands Western Plaguelands Westfall	10
1	[Extinguishing Kalimdor]	Desecrate the Horde's bonfires in Kalimdor. Ashenvale Desolace Durotar Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Mulgore Silithus Stonetalon Mountains Tanaris Barrens Thousand Needles Winterspring	10
2	[Extinguishing Kalimdor]	Desecrate the Alliance's bonfires in Kalimdor. Ashenvale Azuremyst Isle Bloodmyst Isle Darkshore Desolace Dustwallow Marsh Feralas Silithus 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 Terrokar 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

Notes

2009 issues

When the Midsummer event started, flags for completion of the quests had not been reset. This severely limited the ability of characters who had completed quests (particularly including Honoring/Desecrating bonfires) to gather the Burning Blossoms needed to acquire items needed for the achievements. 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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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 through daily quests.

While the initial patch was to have reset all event quests, it proved incomplete in many case. Large numbers of players 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. ^[1] A number of players have continued to have problems with the Exodar and Silvermoon city flame quests.

References

External links

• 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.
• Random Ravings of Warcraft blog Midsummer Festival guide "Fire is Hot !!"
• ign.com WoWVault The Flame Keeper/Warden achievement guide