Midsummer Fire Festival 2008 - lot of XP to grind !

[Drew]

I didn't start playing WoW until last Fall, so this is my first time for this one. With RaF XP, it's great!

The two things I've sussed out that make the torch juggling dailies easier are:
1. speed buffs - class (aspect of the cheetah, ghost wolf, travel/cat forms) or potion, they're both a big help
2. turn with your mouse! - I had a hard time getting to the torches in time until I started doing this. Once I did, though, it was a snap.

I'd like to see more courtesy on my PvE server (Saurfang). I know it goes against the nature of the game and the reason we have 2 factions, but both side are trying to do the same thing, and it doesn't hurt anybody to just let somebody else pop in and get the fires.

[Multibocks]

What kind of xp are you seeing with RAF? I dont want to do the juggle quest, is there any other way to get the flowers so I can get the easy xp?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Talk to the NPC then throw a flower at the fire.

Do NOT need to throw a flower at the fire to get the achievement credit.

[Drew]

What kind of xp are you seeing with RAF? I dont want to do the juggle quest, is there any other way to get the flowers so I can get the easy xp?

For the juggling daily (10 tosses) I got 7050xp at level 30 with my druids. I've not tried it with my hunter/mage team (level 51), though I just realized I can use Aspect of the Pack to give them the speed boost. I'll post what they get after I've done it on them.

EDIT: I just did this on my 51 Hunter. For the starting juggle and toss quests (that you have to do to unlock the dailies) I got 21,150xp each. For the daily juggle and toss I got 22,050xp each. That's 86,400xp for less than 5 minutes of work. I only need 131,500 to get to level 52, so I'd say that if you're still on RaF time, you're mad not to try and master these two quests.

EDIT 2: Honor/desecrate those flames! With RaF my team (now at 52) is getting 10,950 xp to honor and 22,050 xp to desecrate. I've already gotten one free level out of this stuff and I've barely gotten started!

[Taliesin]

Just because I saw an a post earlier in this thread about the xps/gold discrepency and I didn't notice any correction to it, I just wanted to clarify.

The rewards for honoring your faction's fires and for desecrating the opposing faction's fire actually scale with your level, as do the rewards for the dailies. So, for example, doing the fire tossing and fire catching dailies in the major cities each day nets you about 10% of a level, regardless of what level you are. Doing them every day for the 14 days of the event will get you about 1.4 levels just spending about 5 minutes a day on those two dailies.

If you are still in the process of leveling, I highly recommend at least logging in to do these each day even if you don't have time to do any other questing. Besides, they are just plain fun to do (at least I think so).

Sidetrack....
I was cycling through all my toons doing the dailies last night when I saw someone get "XXXXX has earned the achievement [Level 20]!", followed very shortly after by "Goddamn it!!". That was an absolutely classic moment, and I still laugh thinking about it, especially given the optional ability to disable xps coming in the next patch. :P

[Malekyth]

Woohoo! One of my druids is getting his epic flyer off this. I wasn't even planning to do it but was bored and looking for flagged Alliance on my safe little PvE server, when I figured, what the hell, I'm running around anyway, might as well get the achievement. It didn't even occur to me that every bonfire was the cash equivalent of an Icecrown daily. Awesome event!

[chaosultimamage]

I really need to do all these quests on my toons that have mounts. I can probabably ding a level or two at least on my warlocks.

I did a few of them in passing last night (Doused Loch Modan's flame, Honored a lot of the Horde ones), but didn't really go out of my way.

[Dominian]

Is there any gold by doing this on 80?

[EaTCarbS]

Just hit Flame Keeper x5 in a day.

Made at least 1,000 gold on each character.

Totally worth it imo.

Your faction bonfires will give 6g, enemy faction bonfires give 13g.

[Drew]

If you're still leveling, you can expect to get at least 2 levels out of it, possibly 3. And that's just from doing your own side's fires. My hunter/mage have just one fire left to go in Kalimdor and have already finished Eastern Kingdoms. And they've only hit 3 Horde fires (the Vale, Winterspring and Gadgetzan are too easy not to hit). I'll be hitting all the old-word fires again with my DK and other mage once they're closer in levels and can get the RaF bonus. (My lvl 30 Druid twins will be doing some also, but I'm not sure how much they'll be able to manage on their own.)

Worth noting - Druids can honor/desecrate flames while in Flight Form! Very handy for those Outland fires.