The 2010 Midsummer Fire Festival began earlier this morning, and this year
some of the holiday's mechanics have been changed to reflect the dungeon finder's impact on the game. With the
Crown Chemical Company apothecaries introduced to
Love Is In the Air, we saw the last gasp of extensive holiday boss-farming for special drops. These days,
you'll only get one crack a day per character at the mounts, pets, or unique drops off a boss (although you can continue to farm for the boss' normal drops). Truthfully, I'm happy about the change; spending ages waiting for alt after alt to make its way to an instance for another shot at a boss drop wasn't really anyone's idea of a good time.
Apart from that, what are your plans for the holiday? Does your toon still need the
Flame Keeper/
Flame Warden meta? Are you looking forward to Lord Ahune's updated loot table, or are you just hoping for a
Scorchling pet?
Tags: breakfast-topic, fire-festival, flame-keeper, flame-warden, holiday, lord-ahune, midsummer, midsummer-fire-festival, scorchling, scorchling-pet, wow-holiday, wow-holiday-midsummer-fire-festival
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Jamie Jun 21st 2010 8:03AM
My plans for the festival are naught, currently on a WoW break.
But this festival has some of the best novelty equips & items of any festival out there, a must for anyone who hasn't done it before!
Orrdeath Jun 21st 2010 8:39AM
Same here, taking time off, as i loot a house irl. Great event for the extra exp for lvling too.
jordie Jun 21st 2010 9:36AM
@ Orrdeath ...loot a house irl...are you robbing someone? This is MY last holiday for my violet drake so ill be doing all the quests obsessively
ToxDrawace Jun 21st 2010 12:40PM
@jordie I just got my violet last night! Good luck getting yours!
lalalahi Jun 21st 2010 8:15AM
im planning on hitting all the alliance cities and trying to steal the fires without dying once. also, im trying to get the title since im titless
Renir Jun 21st 2010 8:58AM
You know there's surgeries that can fix that, right?
Keveline Jun 21st 2010 9:03AM
Holy crap, that might be the funniest typo ever!
christopherhechter Jun 21st 2010 9:23AM
Epic Typo
/facepalm
Rylka Jun 21st 2010 9:57AM
Titleless = without title
Titless = without small African songbird (what else were you all thinking?) ;)
Zuckerdachs Jun 21st 2010 10:42AM
This is amazing.
Banndit Jun 21st 2010 4:00PM
You must be the only WoW Player who is titless.
Gamer am I Jun 21st 2010 8:10AM
The obsessive pet collector in my wants the scorchling (I already have everything you can buy with blossoms, as well as the meta), but the rational think in me knows I'll just end up letting it rot in my pet tab like my Brewfest kodo mount, so I'm understandably torn.
Sleutel Jun 21st 2010 8:53AM
Yup, the drop pet's the only thing I'm missing here, too. Nothing I can use off the boss, I don't think (since I picked up my Frost-badge cloak for my DPS set and they haven't given him neck drops this year). All the blossom-y things I've long since purchased.
I might use all the extra XP from pole dances and bonfires as an opportunity to spend some time on some alts I've been neglecting, though.
Ooh, I just noticed something--the pet drop out of the extra loot appears to be an entirely new pet (Frigid Frostling vs. Scorchling). So those of us who've missed it in the past are just SOL on the old one, I guess? Or is it still dropping?
Gren Jun 21st 2010 9:40AM
Seems like BOTH the scrochling and the new pet can be found inside the satchel.... And i want both of them - so I am not happy about Blizzards new system....
Dreslav Jun 21st 2010 10:34AM
Don't let your pets rot!! I am a bit of a pet afficianado myself and used to have a few hotbars full of pet icons... but then I noticed a guildie would always have a different pet out. He had a great add-on that I also recommend: Pet Leashes! You can download from all the notable and reliable addon sites like curse. It can randomly select a non-combat pet anytime you zone or dismount, and you can set it to favor certain pets over others and other customization.
Veras Gunn Jun 21st 2010 8:11AM
I've got all of the achievements so I'm just going to be doing the daily once a day, that's about it. Maybe take use of these quests on my alt, but nothing more really.
daniel.wiig Jun 21st 2010 8:15AM
- Get the cloaks for all my 80's difrent specs (Done)
- Get the title on all my level 80 chars (5/10 Done(3/10 from last year))
- Be lucky enought to get the pet on all my 80's (1/10 Done)
MusedMoose Jun 21st 2010 8:16AM
Gotta get 'em all, as the saying goes - I'm working on the meta-achievement so my mage can add another purple dragon to her collection. *grin* Also looking forward to the drops from Ahune, as both my mage and my DK could use a cloak upgrade, and the staff is awesome, even if my DK would only use it to try to dress up as Death. ^_^
flakshell Jun 21st 2010 9:34AM
Would be nice for roleplay, except for the fact that DKs cant wear staffs :-(
stieinberg Jun 21st 2010 8:20AM
With the support of my friends and family, I hav been able to admit to myself...I have an achievement addiction.
So I wil be doing all of them.