Midsummer Fire Festival

The full write up of the Midsummer Fire Festival can be found at the official Blizzard page.

Midsummer Fire Festival is a celebration of summer and merrymaking that takes place in World of Warcraft from June 21st to July 5th.

The event also coincide with the Engineers' Explosive Extravaganza on July 4th, where the sky is filled with Fireworks.

Like most holiday event in World of Warcraft, this is a good occasion to run some new unique seasonal quests and earns some interesting "toy" rewards.

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The Festival
Updates
The Quests

Bonfire Locations

Notes

The Festival

The cities will take a much more festive look, with bonfires and fire dancing poles adorning several locations. More then mere decoration however, those items can be interacted with for some interesting results.

The Ribbon Pole - Clicking on the ribbon pole will create a red colored energy ribbon between you and it (similar in look to Drain Life or Mind Flay) and cause you to dance. Aside from the entertainment factor, you can also receive a +30 Fire Resistance Buff that lasts for 1 hour if more than one person is using the pole. After all, it's no fun to dance by yourself.
Touching a Bonfire will remove most debuffs that your character might be under.
Bonfires can be used with Burning Blossom - a quest item earned from a Midsummer Festival Quest - to earn a rather powerful buff, Fire Festival Fury, which grants +42 Critical Strike and Spell Critical Strike rating for 1 hour! Definitely not a bad idea to use those before an instance/raid or a Grinding session.
To add a bit of PVP mayhem, it is possible to steal the flame from the opposite faction's bonfire. Doing so will start the quest Stealing the [1]'s Flame (example, Stealing Orgrimmar's Flame). When you complete the quest, everybody in the capital city will receive a +30 Stamina buff called Fire Festival Fortitude which last for 1 hour. If you are brave enough to collect all 3 flames (only the original 3 cities of pre-TBC count), you will earn the Crown of the Fire Festival!
Several quest will reward you with Handful of Summer Petals, a neat little items that allows you to play some fun tricks.

Updates

Tending the Flames

Across Azeroth, brilliant bonfires have been lit to signify the hottest months of the year. The chosen Flamekeepers are eager to ensure they continue burning long into the days and nights of the celebration - and they seek the aid of able explorers in doing so. Traverse the land and delve into dangerous dungeons at their behest. You may return hot, sweaty, and a little sooty...but these spiritual guides understand well the need to reward adventurers beyond the promise of "enlightenment."

Burning Blossoms

Burning Blossoms are the currency used for the Fire Festival and are used to purchase seasonal reward items from Midsummer Suppliers and Merchants. You can collect Burning Blossoms by completing quests, including the daily quests that are part of the festival. Using them near a Fire Festival Bonfire also grants a temporary but useful buff to your character, or reignites an extinguished bonfire - but consumes the blossom in the process.

Ahune, the Frost Lord

One of the main additions to the Fire Festival this year is a new summonable boss. Level 70 players can undertake this questline that takes you to the Slave Pens to seek and defeat Ahune, the Frost Lord. Ahune is a special summonable boss, similar to the Headless Horseman, that is only available during the Fire Festival. Luma Cloudsister, located just inside the Slave Pens, directs your party to where you can find and defeat Ahune - and loot his special rewards. The loot in Heroic mode is more powerful than on normal mode and includes epic items. See the quests section below for quests relating to Lord Ahune.

Ahune's Loot Table

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
Icebound Cloak
The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Shroud of Winter's Chill
Cloak of the Frigid Winds
Scorched Stone (summon a Scorchling)
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost
Hailstone Pendant - Heroic only
Choker of the Arctic Flow - Heroic only
Amulet of Bitter Hatred - Heroic only
Amulet of Glacial Tranquility - Heroic only

The Quests

Most of the quest during the festival give you Burning Blossom, which on top of granting the aforementioned buff, can also be used as a currency with the many vendors of the festival. A lot of are repeatable, ensuring a constant supply of Blossom, while the festival last.

The easiest quest involve simply visiting the capital cities of your faction and finding the bonfire. It is given by the Festival Talespinner for the Horde and the Festival Loremaster for the Alliance - it is called The Festival of Fire.

You can earn additional Burning Blossoms by;

Honoring your own faction's flames (talk to Festival Keeper near any flame) - 5 Blossoms, 5g95s.
Desecrating your opposing faction's flames ("open" the fire) - 10 Blossoms, 11g90s.
Retrieving a fire from your opposing faction's capital cities ("open" the fire, return to Lorekeeper/Talespinner) - 25 Blossoms, 9g10s, choice of festival items (food, petals, drink)

Bonfire Locations

Kalimdor

Ashenvale - South-East of Astranaar (A) and South-West of Splintertree Post (H)
Azshara - None
Azuremyst Isle - West of Azure Watch (A)
The Barrens - Northeast of The Crossroads (H)
Bloodmyst Isle - South of Blood Watch (A)
Darkshore - Auberdine (A)
Desolace - South of Nijel's Point (A) and South of Shadowprey Village (H)
Durotar - South of Razor Hill (H)
Dustwallow Marsh - North-West of Theramore (A) and West of Brackenwall Village (H)
Felwood - None
Feralas - West of Feathermoon Stronghold (A) and West of Camp Mojache (H)
Moonglade - None
Mulgore - East of Bloodhoof Village (H)
Silithus - East of Cenarion Hold (A) and South-West of Cenarion Hold (H)
Stonetalon Mountains - East of Sunrock Retreat (H)
Tanaris - East of Gadgetzan (A) and West of Gadgetzan (H)
Teldrassil - Dolanaar (A)
The Barrens - North of Crossroads (H)
Thousand Needles - South-West of Freewind Post (H)
Un'Goro Crater - None
Winterspring - North-East of Everlook (A) and North-West of Everlook (H)

Eastern Kingdoms

Arathi Highlands - South of Hammerfall (H) and Northeast of Refuge Point (A)
Alterac Mountains - None
Badlands - Kargath (H)
Blasted Lands - West of Nethergarde Keep (A)
Burning Steppes - Morgan's Vigil (A) and Flame Crest (H)
Deadwind Pass - None
Dun Morogh - North of Kharanos (A)
Duskwood - South of Darkshire (A)
Eastern Plaguelands - None
Elwynn Forest - Goldshire (A)
Eversong Woods - East of the North Tower (H)
Ghostlands - North of Tranquillien (H)
Hillsbrad Foothills - North of Southshore (A) and Southwest of Tarren Mill (H)
Loch Modan - North of Thelsamar (A)
Redridge Mountains - South of Lakeshire, across the bridge (A)
Searing Gorge - None
Silverpine Forest - East of The Sepulcher (H)
Stranglethorn Vale - East of Booty Bay (A) (H)
Swamp of Sorrows - North of Stonard (H)
The Hinterlands - East of Aerie Peak(A) and just North of Raventusk Village (H) .
Tirisfal Glades - slightly west of Brill (H)
Wetlands - North of Menethil Harbor (A)
Western Plaguelands - Chillwind Camp (A)
Westfall - Sentinel Hill (A)

Outland

Hellfire Peninsula - East of Honor Hold (A) and South-East of Thrallmar (H)
Zangarmarsh - South of Telredor (A) and East of Zabra'jin (H)
Terokkar Forest - West of Allerian Stronghold (A) and East of Stonebreaker Hold (H)
Nagrand - West of Telaar (A) and West of Garadar (H)
Blade's Edge Mountains - East of Sylvanaar (A) and South-West of Thunderlord Stronghold (H)
Netherstorm - North-West of Area 52 (A) and South of Area 52 (H)
Shadowmoon Valley - North-East of Wildhammer Stronghold (A) and East of Shadowmoon Village (H)

There are also quests relating to Lord Ahune. These start with a quest given to you by the Earthen Ring Elder in Shattrath City:

Notes

The official write up of the Midsummer Fire Festival can be found at the Blizzard page.

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