It came from the Blog: Midsummer Flamefest 2011 snapshots
by Robin Torres 
Jun 30th 2011 at 8:00PM
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There is no longer a flame to desecrate if you are Horde in Hillsbrad, so our first Alliance flame was Refuge Pointe in Arathi. We also got the ones in Menethil, Thelsamar and Khaz Modan. We didn't meet very much Alliance resistance until we got to Ironforge, but there, the Allies made up for it. A widdle gnome mage took me down several times, when the dwarven guards didn't get me themselves. Regardless, the event was tons of fun.
I didn't manage to get pictures of my many pathetic deaths, but they are all caught on video. You can see the gallery of flame below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
obeah Jun 30th 2011 8:19PM
It's been a quiet midsummer season in IF this year. Last year I could count on a few dozen incoming per hour from my stealthy position atop the stack o' crates. But this year I'm lucky not to have the poisons fall off my blades before some hapless DK comes lumbering in to try to desecrate the flame. Wish I was there on your server to great y'all. :)
obeah Jun 30th 2011 8:20PM
er... *greet. WTB edit button as usual yadda yadda....
SamLowry Jul 1st 2011 2:03AM
If not for all the NPC guards in Silvermoon I could have stolen all 4 flames without a single corpse run. No player resistance whatsoever.
Ahune, however, is highly problematic. Wait times have averaged 20 minutes and wipes are becoming all too common. Wait times last year were about 5 minutes and I never experienced a single wipe even though I ran 5 alts on Ahune every day for the entire holiday.
So has Ahune been significantly changed, or have Cataclysm's new combat mechanics made a boss that was once pretty easy suddenly raid-worthy?
Peebers Jul 1st 2011 5:13AM
Ahune has never been the same cake walk as other seasonal bosses. The mechanics aren't helping. Unlike other bosses, a tank actually HAS to be a tank and a healer actually HAS to be a healer. Combined with the crap stats on the staff I feel like people just don't want to work that hard for 23(?) JPs. New thrall chain 365 cloaks are the nails in ahune's coffin.
SamLowry Jul 1st 2011 11:30AM
Exactly. The healers seem to be sleepwalking through it, focusing all their attention on the tank while letting the dps die one by one. Tip for the stupid: Tank + Healer < Ahune.
And the only reason to go for the cape is if you need one for a secondary spec. Dumb design decision, Blizz.
Thrall's reward should've been a weapon. The JP vendor is still offering nothing but off-hand weapons, useless for some classes, and many of my alts are still walking around with i325 weapons. Yay.