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What is with all the flames all around the city?! Uh oh… *checks calender* I’m about to miss an entire World Event!! It is the last day of the Midsummer Fire Festival Event! *checks achievements* Looks like I have a lot of running to do!

Flames

I had already did most of the flames from the year before, but thankfully I can still do them again this year, since I will be needing the [Burning Blossom] to purchase the outfits needed for the Burning Hot Pole Dance achievement.

I already had the [Vestment of Summer] from last year, so I still needed 300 x [Burning Blossom] for the other 2 pieces to make up the set.

There wasn’t as much PvPing going like there was last year from what I remember. Probably because it is the last day of the event and everyone has already done the achievements. I did have a problem getting out of Booty Bay though. Seems that all the guards in the city are all sleeping, and players are just having a free for all there.

The rest of the flames including all the Horde capital ones were fairly easy to get. Traveling time was cut down with teleports (Mages FTW!)

A Visit from Megs!

This was a boring achievement to be honest. Running around from one area to the next to hit up all the flames was seriously putting me to sleep. At about 2hrs into my journey, I received a whisper from a baby Draenei Paladin.

It was real nice of Megs to take a break from grilling to visit my server to say hi. She may be done with blogging, but it is good to see her still running around Azeroth.

With an encouraging, “Run Forrest, Run” from Megs, I was able to fight off the sleepiness and get the three Flame Achievements. Thanks Megs! Awesome choice for a name too!

Ahune

No Ahune for me this year. There was nobody online that would run it with me, and I couldn’t queue myself into LFG Slave Pens since my level was too high. Oh wells, no chance at the pet for me this year. Good thing I’ve already had the achievement to kill him done from last year. Still, I would have liked to get the pet and sick looking staff.

And the Rest

I had around 350 x [Burning Blossom] when I was done. Should I finish the achievements, or buy the pet?! I already had the Brazier from last year, and had planned to get the pet this year. Stupid achievement messed up my plans.

I bought the 2 missing set pieces for 300 Blossoms, and danced around the fire pole for 60 seconds and got the Burning Hot Pole Dance achievement.

I then bought 15 x [Juggling Torch], and teleported to Dalaran. Yay lag! Good thing I have my handy dandy [The Schools of Arcane Magic - Mastery] from the Higher Learning achievement, and teleported to the lag-free secret room in Dalaran.

Torch Juggler achievement completed, which also completed The Flame Warden achievement!

Two weeks worth of the Midsummer Fire Festival all done in 3hrs! Not too bad

The Midsummer Fire Festival is going on in the World of Warcraft. It began on June 21st and will continue until July 5th. When I came back from my weekend away from the ‘puter, I had no idea what was going on when I logged on with fires burning all over the place.

There were a lot of new events which were pretty fun. I don’t think last year’s Fire Festival had any at all. Fire Throwing, Fire catching (which was a pain in the butt), and dowsing/honoring of flames all throughout the world.

Fire Throwing was easy once I put the torch where my Ice Lance key was. Fire Catching took me several attempts. It made it easier when I changed the camera to point directly down, zoomed all the way out, and all I did was chase shadows. The usual lag will sometimes mess me up.

Why go through all of this? For me was for the dancing draenei statue, which was for 350 Burning Blossoms (the Fire Festival Currency). Each of the dailies I believe gave 10 Burning Blossoms. Each fire you honor was 5, and each fire you destroyed was 10. The fires in the opposing faction’s 4 capitals were 25 each.

Me and my Priest friend (and arena partner on her Warlock) began going around Outland honoring each Alliance fire, and putting out each Horde fire. Then I read up on, A Dwarf Priest’s website all about the locations of all the fires and we began with Undercity.

Undercity was actually super easy to get. I thought it was going to be actually underground in the middle somewhere, but it was right by the entrance. No horde trouble there.

Next was Silvermoon City. I’ve never been anywhere past Zul’Aman, so the Blood Elf area was all new to me. We ran around for a bit, stopping at each fire we saw. I stopped at each group of level 20ish Blood Elf npc’s that were sitting around a campfire, and AoE’d them. I dunno why, but I HAD to, maybe it’s a Mage thing. We made it to the city, it looked like I was in the SunwellPlateau. We mounted straight through, except I got netted by the giant robot, then got dazed/stun. Luckily there was no Horde around, and I managed to kill them all with the help and heals from my partner in crime. We found the bonfire, put it out, and left without further complications.

Ogrimmar… we were joined by a guildie Mage who has done these on his Pally already, so he knew where to go. We were all mounted up near the entrance to Ogrimmar and charged in. There were a bunch of Horde dueling outside while we rode into the city. I saw a Mage just lose a duel, I didn’t see what class he lost to, but it was unacceptable. A quick Fireblast to the face taught him not to lose ever again. His horde friends weren’t amused though (thought I know they were all laughing inside), and chased me into the city. I promptly died moments later. The Spirit Rezzer was way way way far from the city. It was a long hike back, so I tried avoiding anymore Horde from now on. The bonfire for Ogrimmar was pretty far into the city and I died a good 4-5 times total, but I finally put it out.

Last was Thunder Bluff, there were barely any horde resistance. They chased us all the way to the fire, but didn’t jump after me after I put out the fire and slow falled off the mountain. All four cities accomplished.

It took a good 4-5 hours of running all around Azeroth, but I made like 500+ gold and got enough tickets for my [Brazier of Dancing Flames]. I’ll go for the pet next year, cause I don’t think I’ll have another 350 blossoms for it this year.

[Picture up top from Fanart Page on WoW's Website]

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