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By: Mania’s Arcania » Midsummer Fire Festival Round-Up

Mania’s Arcania » Midsummer Fire Festival Round-Up — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:01:47 +0000

[...] Midsummer Fire Festival is officially over, and despite the fact that I wasn’t much looking forward to it, I still [...]

By: Mania

Mania — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:38:55 +0000

Thanks for the extensive comments, Scott! I’ll also direct people to the post you wrote up on your own blog about this, since you were too polite to include a link yourself. *grin*

Scott’s Thoughts: World of Warcraft – Midsummer Fire Festival

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:06:31 +0000

This year I bucked my natural laziness and made myself do the events asap, before too many bored pvpers took notice of all the flagged targets running around their pve zones; it took some endurance but I was finally able to get a brazier for my orc and a bottled flame for my nelf…

I pretty much had the same reaction to the torch tossing; easy enough once you figure out that it is basically a game of whackamole played via hotkey… torch catching I did become reasonably good at once I figured out the basics – but even then it was way too much work for just 5 more blossoms so I only did it a few more times, preferring to focus on the honor/desecration events which netted me the vast bulk of my blossoms.

Did the “striking back” daily once and was like “is this supposed to be a joke? just walk over and kill a normal L63 mob for 10 blossoms?”, that part just seemed like a pointless giveaway; I was expecting the mob to be at least elite – there were probably many chuckles when I asked on /general “how many ppl are needed for [Striking Back]” while heading over to the glacial stones for the first time…

The only parts I haven’t done yet are the enemy capital bonfires (probably won’t bother as I have no high level stealth chars) and the ahune event (doing that this weekend hopefully).

On the whole so far I’ve found this year’s event to be better than last year’s, but it’s still not great IMO; it seems to lack the cohesive feel of events like Brewfest, Winterfest and the Halloween one – the bonfires just seem kind of formulaic, with nothing that makes you go “Woah!! That’s COOL!” besides perhaps the rewards themselves. I’m expecting Ahune to raise my opinion somewhat but not a ton; one limited time boss can only boost the whole event by so much. Still, a step in the right direction at least, and some nifty rewards…

By: Dvalin

Dvalin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:04:10 +0000

I too noticed problems with my Ravager when attacking Ahune, he just stood still while the gore animation played, looked wierd but didnt seem to affect his performance. I got very lucky and on the second time we downed him in normal mode he dropped the scorched stone which I won the roll for so tbh I don’t think I’ll bother with Ahune again although it was a rather hectic and fun fight. I just find it frustrating that the juggling torches which you can buy are classed as conjured items and so disappear when you log out :(

By: Mania

Mania — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:28:02 +0000

Thanks for all the great advice, everyone! I did eventually manage to catch 4 torches in a row (in Silvermoon, late late at night, after 45 minutes of practice). Since that was all I needed to unlock the Torch Tossing daily, that is the last torch catching I plan to do. I also toured the Eastern Kingdoms and obtained my Captured Flame. But I think that’s it for me this event, unless I get a sudden urge to tour the rest of Kalimdor as well.

By: Kriyet

Kriyet — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:21:03 +0000

re: the Torch Catching

I read a comment on Wowhead.com – you don’t need to turn up all your graphic settings, just the one on Spell Detail. I tried it and worked like a charm. I went from frustratedly watching torches disappear into the air, to following a nice dark circle on the floor. Combine that with choosing the emptier capital, and it should make it easier.

Re: the Torch Tossing

That just sux. Similar wowhead.com comments suggested waiting for every second one – so you’re ready to throw as soon as it lights up. It still took me about 10 tries, but did make it possible.

Hope those help you.

By: Deathbang

Deathbang — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:29:03 +0000

Well I got a Brazier of Dancing Flames, Vestment of Summer, and Crown of the Fire Festival. The brazier is just awesome. Thats all I have to say.

By: PepsiJedi

PepsiJedi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:06:55 +0000

Tried Silvermoon today. Easier to do, but the torches flew alot farther than TB so the “oh crap am I gonna catch it????” feeling seems to last longer. But much easier over all. The throwing is easier there too.

By: Chaix

Chaix — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:09:42 +0000

when trying to catch the torch, I found it helpful to head to thunderbluff and stay a little in front of the shadow of the torch, that way the little bit it moves at the end won’t cause you to get torched. if you go for the city flames, remember to remove the armor and you may want to bring along some way to bubble so you don’t get killed while you try to loot the quest item

By: Deidare

Deidare — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:17:49 +0000

Actually i’m a hunter and a big non combat pet hunter as well i have everyone of em’ no joke so now i have a new one to go after. hmmmm