Midsummer Fire Festival 2008 - lot of XP to grind !

[Moorea]

I had completed the quests - but I filled a ticket and they sent me back the flames - but because I had filled the ticket only on 1 toon - I went ahead and redid the 2 missing cities anyway with other - I now have 2 flame warden (got the awesome brazier on other toons so I didn't complete; plus anyway I want to keep some titles for some toons)

[Malekyth]

My druids have gotten almost a level (78-79) out of the event so far, and my locks have just gotten rich. I'm pretty pleased with it. Except ...

The festival is compelling me to PvP a lot more, mostly because I'm almost always flagged so I might as well attack flagged Alliance I run across. In almost every case where I don't manage to get off the first shot, though, I'm being pummeled. There's a single druid whose been kicking my five druids' asses across the face of the world. I think we're following the same bonfire route. There's also an Arms warrior I keep running into who reminds me why Bladestorm is at the bottom of the tree. I'm afraid I'm giving these guys an almost undeserved amount of joy! I can just imagine them patting themselves on the back, "yeah! Killed all five of them! Hah! I rock!" ... "NO!!!", I want to say, "I'm a carebear multiboxer! Not only do I suck at PvP, but four of me are arthritic retards who REALLY suck at PvP! You're burning ants here!" ... Sigh.

So at the moment I'm stuck in Stormwind, rather far from the bonfire, and logged out for the night as five lonely tauren ghosts.

[Drew]

Malekyth, do you have any ally toons? Before I sent my lvl 70 Druid into SW or IF I had my Draenei Hunter ride ahead and ask the locals not to help the guards. Most of them gave me a free pass, which definitely helped me get the flames. I did the same thing in IF after getting there on the tram and it paid off. (I'd already gotten Darnassus and Exodar, the latter of which I thought was the hardest of all 4.)

Granted, my hunter was in his 50s, so that may have helped. I can't imagine a level 1 ally toon asking for the locals to lay off a hordie would've carried much weight.

[Taliesin]

I have the advantage of sneaking my druid in first to scout the run before I decide the best time to charge the rest in. Silvermoon is one of the longest runs, but that city is absolutely devoid of player life (I saw one level 40 the whole way in during primetime). TB is fairly open and easy to avoid most of the guards by staying near the edge of the spires (enter from the NE elevator for maximum stealth), besides the fact that the fire is in a relatively unpopulated spire and isn't swarming with many players. UC is possible to run in and get the fire, then spawn OUTSIDE the city wall if you happen to get ganked, but tends to be a little busy with people. Org is by far the hardest to run for alliance, and is best attempted from the back door where you can avoid agg most of the way to the fire after getting past the bridge guards. You probably won't even be seen by players until you approach the bridge to the wyvern rider tower.

SW is always going to be difficult due to all the guards around the Stockades as well as just generally being in a very busy and cramped spot, but don't discount running into the Stockades and hiding there for a little while until everyone gets bored camping you (go eat dinner or something while AFKing), then simply running out the west door right next to the fire and catching people by surprise. Run toons out one at a time if you want then just corpse-hop back into stockades again. IF isn't exactly in a bad spot (fairly open area), but what sucks is the greater chance of being seen on the way in no matter which route you take (front door or tram from SW) as well as being rather busy with people. Darnassus is pretty easy, though ironically its one of the little fires that is the pain since you have to go completely from one end of Darnassus to the other just to get to the noob zone. Exodar is a fairly long run, but at least it is fairly unpopulated like Silvermoon; consider it just bad luck if you even encounter an 80 there.

[Multibocks]

So is Ahune harder this year? Or can my hunters+priest handle him when they hit 70?

[Malekyth]

Malekyth, do you have any ally toons?

Nice idea, but no, best I can do is a level 1. And I'm *not leveling up a night elf just to seem credible to the Bad People.

[Drew]

So is Ahune harder this year? Or can my hunters+priest handle him when they hit 70?

I tried him last night with my 70 feral druid and a friend on his 80 warrior. We got toasted both tries, even with me wearing my resto set and healing him. We're getting more high level guildies for the next attempts.

Malekyth, do you have any ally toons?

Nice idea, but no, best I can do is a level 1. And I'm *not leveling up a night elf just to seem credible to the Bad People.

I don't care for most ally players on my server (Saurfang - US Oceanic), but there are a few good ones. I like the lore that comes with the Draenei zones, and the tigers are the coolest stock mounts in the game - so now I have a 3 Draenei (57, 56, 60) and 3 Night Elves (59, 31, 31). My Draenei hunter has the Ambassador title and rides a tiger. Once I get the second mage to 60, they'll both start grinding Darnassus rep and getting tigers of their own.

(Sorry for the sidetrack there. Back to getting more fires!)

[mikekim]

mm wonder what kind of xp they give for a lvl 73/75 char, anybody found out? does it give full lvl at that lvl range?

10k for your own faction fires and 20k for opposition (between 2-5 gold per fire)

[Multibocks]

What day did they do the reset? Im wondering if I had any fires reset as I havent seen any yet and I did finish all of vanilla WoW fires.

[Drew]

What day did they do the reset? Im wondering if I had any fires reset as I havent seen any yet and I did finish all of vanilla WoW fires.

I've had mixed results with the reset. Near as I can tell, they just made all of the fires "hittable" again. My hunter/mage who had done all of Kalimdor and EK didn't lose any of their achievements, and their lists for both continents stayed green. However, they're both able to go back and hit every single fire again!

My Druid, who'd gotten all of the capital city fires prior to the reset (and turned them in and gotten the achievement/xp/crown), was able to "turn in" the quest again and get a second crown, but not any more xp, blossoms or gold. Odd.