Midsummer Fire Festival 2008 - lot of XP to grind !

[Taliesin]

Depending on who's math you trust, you cannot get enough flowers for all of the rewards.

If you are an achievement (Violet Proto) whore, make sure to get the clothes and juggling torches. Once these are done, I pray to be able to get the vendor pet, but just don't know if that will be possible.

I already got 1 Scorchling from Ahune, going back to farm status his ass.

With my mage, I did all the achievements last year except killing Ahune. Honoring/desecrating all the fires, doing the dailies every day, and capturing all the major city flames got me enough blossoms to buy all the clothes and only one of the 350 blossom items (I picked the dancing flames over the summer spirit companion). The only change I see this year over last year is about 3 new fires in eastern kingdoms and the dailies are the same, so the number of blossoms is only about 20 higher than last year. I would agree that you can't buy everything in one year, but keep in mind that you can't get everything for a lot of other events in one year either.

Getting all the clothes should definitely be the priority if you want the pole dancing achievement. The dancing flames and summer spirit are just for fun (or pet collecting achievements).

[Bovidae]

Thanks for the tip that juggling torches are trade able.

I am within striking distance of 50 pets, so that is my second priority (after the meta) but I'm also a collector (go figure) and want that brazier TOO.

Tips on Ahune: don't get within melee range, stand stacked up, and walk backwards for each spike (I have S bound to walk back on all toons), just try to stay alive for phase 1, then bloodlust on phase 2 and burn down the crystal. This way, I can solo/3man heroic Ahune.

I haven't had time to go look, but read there were bonfires in Northrend too. Can anyone confirm?

[Dominian]

Do the slavepen boss drop anything or is it just for the achivment?

Anyone that knows how much gold it would be for a level 80 to dozen all the flames?

[Taliesin]

Northrend does have fires for more xps/gold. These simply don't have any achievement related to them and are just for your own benefit.

I don't have an exact number, but doing all the fires in the world should net somewhere around 700-800g for a level 80. It will take about 5 hours to do it all in one run, so you can compare that against your typical daily runs if you're at all concerned about efficiency and don't care for the event achievements. (EDIT: I should state that 5 hours is assuming you have the epic flyer)

Ahune is just for the achievement and drops (companion and scythe drops are the major ones, EDIT: and the enchant drop). He doesn't drop blossoms, if that's what you meant.

[Drew]

Important note about the reset mentioned earlier!

Even if you have the achievement or have done some of the fires, you can still hit them again! 8o

I was just hunting up a few more flames to extinguish when I saw a ! over a flame keeper's head. Rode over to check it out, even though I'd previously hit that flame and was able to honor it again. Mind you, this is on a pair of toons that have the full EK and Kalimdor "honoring" achievements.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[Tonuss]

Yep, they reset it, and they didn't remove any blossoms that you'd already collected.

[EaTCarbS]

Yep, they reset it, and they didn't remove any blossoms that you'd already collected.

Its awesome, Ive got 3 full stacks of the damn things :thumbsup:

[Bloodcloud]

YAY leveled from 78 to 80 by doing the Fires two times

Now just the frost king

[Moorea]

One less positive thing about the reset is that I had done 2/4 (UC, Silvermoon) of the flame stealing; then completed the other 2 (Org,TB) and didn't get the thief quest :-( I assume it's because I lost my first 2 in between... I'll try again tonight to see if indeed I can get UC again but it ends up as several trips from the GY so it's a pain to have to redo those...

[Drew]

With the capital cities you receive a quest-starting item from each one. Check your bags, maybe?