by David Piner on Jun 22, 2013
The Midsummer Fire Festival is a seasonal holiday in World of Warcraft that celebrates the Summer Solstice. It runs two weeks, starting on June 21st and ending on July 5th. The event has players juggling torches, lighting bonfires, attacking enemy bonfires, a full set of seasonal items, and an epic fight against the Frost Lord Ahune.
The majority of the holiday related achievements focuses on going through Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Outland assaulting enemy bonfires (stomping them out) and honoring allied bonfires. The rest of the holiday focuses on the collection of Burning Blossoms which acts as a currency for the holiday themed items. Lord Ahune, the seasonal boss, drops ilvl 480 cloaks.
There is achievements for Pandarian flames (not required for the meta), new ilvl 480 cloaks, and runs from June 21st until July 5th.
There are now achievements for Cataclysm and Northrend. In addition, a new hat is now available.
There are neutral bonfires located in the Cataclysm zones with the Earthen Ring which give 15 Burning Blossoms. Ahune has ilvl 353 items. There have been no other changes, other than the bonfires being moved around slightly.
Each bonfire has a ribbon pole that you can right click and dance on. The ribbon pole is part of the achievement 'Burning Hot Pole Dance' and gives the Ribbon Dance buff which increases experience gained by 10% for 3 minutes. Every 3 seconds on the pole increases the buff up until a one hour duration.
Bonfire's Blessing is the result of your faction controlling a burning bonfire. It gives you a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage per level (800 at level 80) on any ranged/melee/or spell attack.
You can see our Lord Ahune guide right here that gives you all of the details about this icy monster.
The following a list of items you can purchase with Burning Blossoms. You can no longer return items that you've bought.
Item Cost Novelty items Fiery Festival Brew 2 Juggling Torch (x5) 5 Handful of Summer Petals 2 Food Fire-toasted Bun (x5) 5 Elderberry Pie (x5) 5 Midsummer Sausage (x5) 5 Bag of Smorc Ingredients (x5) 5 Toasted Smorc (x5) 5 Clothes & Misc Mantle of the Fire Festival 100 Vestment of Summer 100 Sandals of Summer 200 Brazier of Dancing Flames 350 Captured Flame (Companion Pet) 350There are bonfires located throughout the world in World of Warcraft during the Midsummer Fire Festival. Allied bonfires (bonfires located near your faction's town) can be honored while enemy bonfires can be extinguished, both for a reward. Visiting every bonfire in Azeroth and Outland results in a massive amount of gold in addition to counting towards the meta-achievement for the Midsummer Fire Festival.
Capital City Bonfires
There are four "quests," one for each opposing capital city. Once you loot a flame it will offer you a quest to return the flame back to your capital city. You simply have to go to each capital city's bonfire and "loot" it. It has a 1 second cast time so you should be able to do it by either stealthing in and doing it really quickly or dying by the bonfire, resurrecting, and using the few seconds before anyone can target you to loot the flame.
Horde
Orgimmar: Located in the Valley of Wisdom near Mannoroth's armor. Undercity: In the courtyard. Silvermoon City: All the way in the back, located in the Court of the Sun. Thunder Bluff. On the Spirit Rise.Alliance
Stormwind: North of the Mage Quarter. Ironforge: Hall of Explorers, be careful going up the hill. The Exodar: Inside The Crystal Hall. Darnassus: Inside of Rut'theran Village, you don't even have to go inside.World Bonfires
Simply use the achievement tracker to get a list of cities and travel city to city. Each bonfire is located somewhere near the city and you should be able to visit most without even pulling any guards.
Capital City Quests
The Spinner of Summer TalesTwilight Hammer Chain
Unusual ActivityFrom there you will be given a daily quest that will award 10 Burning Blossoms each. The daily quest most players will do is:
Striking Back (67+)Well that's all there is to the Midsummer Fire Festival. Why not come by our community forums and share your experiences with this holiday?