Midsummer Fire Festival

The Midsummer Fire Festival is a seasonal event that celebrates the hottest season of the year. It starts on the (earthly) northern summer and lasts about two weeks (June 21 - July 4). It is similar to the Lunar Festival and other holidays, featuring some useful buffs, food, and toys to play with.
:Across Azeroth and Outland, brilliant bonfires have been lit to rekindle peoples’ spirits and ward off ancient evils. Each year, new guardians are chosen to watch over the sacred flames and ensure that they are never extinguished.http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/6473744/Midsummer_Fire_Festival-6_19_2012#blog
The ending of the Festival seems to have been merged with the Engineers' Explosive Extravaganza holiday:
:The lengthy Midsummer Fire Festival traditionally ends with the sky itself being set alight. The goblins of Undermine have lent their considerable skill (and copious amounts of gunpowder) to the task, resulting in a tremendous fireworks show! Take up a festival mug and raise a toast to the season as the multicolored explosions dance across the sky above you!
It is an important tradition in Kalimdor a beyond, dating back centuries. Guardians of the bonfires are chosen each year to watch over the sacred flames and ensure they never go out.World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth: Kalimdor, pg. 55
==New in 2023==
*Lord Ahune loot is ilvl 385.
*Flame Keeper of the Dragon Isles and Flame Warden of the Dragon Isles achievements.
*Flamin' Ring of Flashiness can be purchased for .
==Buffs==
* Using Ribbon Poles causes a colorful streamer of energy to go to your hand and causes you to dance. This gives a 3-minute Ribbon Dance buff increasing earned experience by 10%. This buff stacks up to 20 times (60 minutes), increasing its duration by 3 minutes for every 3 seconds you keep dancing around the pole.
* When thrown into a festival fire, Burning Blossoms give you a buff Fire Festival Fury, 3% critical strike and spell critical strike rating for sixty minutes as well as causing fire damage to attackers.
* If a bonfire has gone out, tossing a Burning Blossom in it will provide a zone-wide buff, Bonfire's Blessing, that gives you a 30% chance to inflict (<your level> x 10) Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack. Bonfire's Blessing is capable of delivering a critical hit with 100% additional damage and is affected by bonus spell damage. This buff goes away if the opposite faction desecrates the bonfire.
* Special flame samples can be collected from the bonfires in each of the four main cities of the opposing faction. Each sample will begin a quest called "Stealing the [City]'s Flame." Upon completing each quest, everyone in the capital city will receive Fire Festival Fortitude, a +30 stamina buff. Once all 4 have been collected and returned to a Festival representative, you receive the quest A Thief's Reward and are rewarded with the Crown of the Fire Festival.
==Items and redemption==
28 items can be purchased in exchange for at Midsummer Suppliers and Midsummer Merchants in capital cities. Daily quests award 20, and individual bonfires out in the world can be interacted once per holiday for 5-15 each. Furthermore, kill Ahune once-daily in the special "The Frost Lord Ahune" dungeon finder instance to pick up another 5-15 from the Satchel of Chilled Goods. 
To purchase all cosmetics, toys and pets from the vendor would cost .
Additional items are available:
*Tabard of Summer Skies or Tabard of Summer Flames are a choice reward from the Shards of Ahune (quest) quest.
*Crown of the Fire Festival is a reward from A Thief's Reward.
Killing Ahune rewards the Satchel of Chilled Goods which has a chance to drop any of the following items:
*Ice Chip (pet)
*Illusion: Deathfrost
*Formula: Enchant Weapon - Deathfrost
*Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
*The Frost Lord's War Cloak
*The Frost Lord's Battle Shroud
*Shroud of Winter's Chill
*Icebound Cloak
*Cloak of the Frigid Winds
==Quests==
Burning Blossom can be earned through a variety of quests. The blossoms can be consumed for a small buff or used as currency for a variety of items including the Brazier of Dancing Flames or the Captured Flame.
* Desecrate this Fire!
* Honor the Flame
* The Master of Summer Lore / The Spinner of Summer Tales
* Incense for the Summer Scorchlings / Incense for the Festival Scorchlings
* A Thief's Reward
Daily quests:
===Lord Ahune===
To gain access to the holiday boss, Lord Ahune, you must first complete a chain of quests beginning at an Earthen Ring Elder near the flame in a friendly capital city.
# Unusual Activity
# An Innocent Disguise
# Inform the Elder
Players are then given access to Ahune if level 89 or higher, and a daily quest is made available based on their level:
* Striking Back (Ashenvale)
* Striking Back (Desolace)
* Striking Back (Northern Stranglethorn)
* Striking Back (Searing Gorge)
* Striking Back (Silithus)
* Striking Back (Hellfire Peninsula)
==Bonfires==
The s and s at each of your own faction's bonfires offers you Honor the Flame.
Right-clicking a bonfire of the opposite faction offers Desecrate this Fire!. The act of dousing a bonfire does not pull guards (though they will aggro as normal based on range and level - Wildhammer Stronghold in Shadowmoon Valley requires a flying mount or stealth to avoid aggro), making this a fast and easy way to generate money and Burning Blossoms. Be warned that dousing the opposite faction's bonfire will flag you for PvP combat, even with War Mode off.
The bonfires of capital cities have separate quests and you cannot Honor the Flame of your own faction's Capitals.
There are a grand total of 128 bonfires across Azeroth, Outland, and : 16 Neutral, 51 Horde, 52 Alliance, and a total of 8 cities (4 for each faction).
*Alliance: 52 \times 10+51 \times 5+4 \times 25+16 \times15=1,115 total Burning Blossoms available without dailies
*Horde: 51 \times 10+52 \times 5+4 \times 25+16 \times15=1,110 total Burning Blossoms available without dailies
File:Msfeasternkingdom.jpg|Bonfires in Eastern Kingdoms
File:Msfkalimdor.jpg|Bonfires in Kalimdor
File:Msfoutlands.jpg|Bonfires in Outland
File:Msfnorthrend.jpg|Bonfires in Northrend
===Stealing the Cities' Flames===
Each faction can loot the Flames of the opposing faction's cities, each of which starts a quest. Stealing all four cities' flames will offer the quest A Thief's Reward. 
Horde
*Orgrimmar - Next to Mannoroth's armor in the Valley of Wisdom 
*Thunder Bluff - On the Spirit Rise 
*Undercity - In the courtyard, just inside 
*Silvermoon City - Court of the Sun, inside, in the back 
*Flame of Darnassus -> Stealing Darnassus's Flame
*Flame of Ironforge -> Stealing Ironforge's Flame
*Flame of Stormwind -> Stealing Stormwind's Flame
*Flame of the Exodar -> Stealing the Exodar's Flame
Alliance
*Stormwind - Outside Stormwind Stockades, North of Mage Quarter
*Ironforge - Hall of Explorers 
*Darnassus - Warrior's Terrace 
*The Exodar - The Crystal Hall 
*Flame of Orgrimmar -> Stealing Orgrimmar's Flame
*Flame of Thunder Bluff -> Stealing Thunder Bluff's Flame
*Flame of the Undercity -> Stealing the Undercity's Flame
*Flame of Silvermoon -> Stealing Silvermoon's Flame
Reward: Crown of the Fire Festival (no bonuses).
==Sortable list of bonfires==
	Continent 	Zone 	Region 	Coords
	Eastern Kingdoms	Arathi Highlands 	Hammerfall 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Arathi Highlands 	Refuge Pointe 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Badlands 	New Kargath 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Badlands 	Dragon's Mouth 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Blasted Lands 	Nethergarde Keep 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Blasted Lands 	Dreadmaul Hold 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Burning Steppes 	Flame Crest 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Burning Steppes 	Morgan's Vigil 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Dun Morogh 	Kharanos 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Ironforge 	Hall of Explorers 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Duskwood 	Darkshire 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Elwynn Forest 	Goldshire 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Stormwind 	The Canals 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Eversong Woods 	North Sanctum 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Silvermoon City 	Court of the Sun 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Ghostlands 	Tranquillien 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hillsbrad Foothills 	Tarren Mill 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hinterlands 	Aerie Peak 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Hinterlands 	Revantusk Village 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Loch Modan 	Thelsamar 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Northern Stranglethorn 	Grom'gol Base Camp 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Northern Stranglethorn 	Fort Livingston 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Redridge Mountains 	Lakeshire 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Silverpine Forest 	The Sepulcher 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Cape of Stranglethorn 	East of Booty Bay 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Cape of Stranglethorn 	East of Booty Bay 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Swamp of Sorrows 	Bogpaddle 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Swamp of Sorrows 	Bogpaddle 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Tirisfal Glades 	Brill 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Twilight Highlands 	Bloodgulch 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Twilight Highlands 	Thundermar 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Undercity 	Ruins of Lordaeron 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Western Plaguelands 	Chillwind Camp 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Western Plaguelands 	The Bulwark 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Westfall 	Moonbrook 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Wetlands 	Menethil Harbor 	
	Eastern Kingdoms	Vashj'ir 	Silver Tide Hollow 	
	Maelstrom 	Deepholm 	Temple of Earth 	
	Kalimdor 	Ashenvale 	Forest Song 	
	Kalimdor 	Ashenvale 	Silverwind Refuge 	
	Kalimdor 	Azshara 	Bilgewater Harbor 	
	Kalimdor 	Azuremyst Isle 	Azure Watch 	
	Kalimdor 	Exodar, The 	The Crystal Hall 	
	Kalimdor 	Northern Barrens 	Crossroads 	
	Kalimdor 	Southern Barrens 	Desolation Hold 	
	Kalimdor 	Southern Barrens 	Fort Triumph 	
	Kalimdor 	Bloodmyst Isle 	Blood Watch 	
	Kalimdor 	Darkshore 	Lor'danel 	
	Kalimdor 	Desolace 	Nijel's Point 	
	Kalimdor 	Desolace 	Shadowprey Village 	
	Kalimdor 	Durotar 	Razor Hill 	
	Kalimdor 	Orgrimmar 	Valley of Wisdom 	
	Kalimdor 	Dustwallow Marsh 	Theramore Isle 	
	Kalimdor 	Dustwallow Marsh 	Brackenwall Village 	
	Kalimdor 	Feralas 	Feathermoon Stronghold	
	Kalimdor 	Feralas 	Camp Mojache 	
	Kalimdor 	Mulgore 	Bloodhoof Village 	
	Kalimdor 	Mount Hyjal 	Nordrassil 	
	Kalimdor 	Thunder Bluff 	Spirit Rise 	
	Kalimdor 	Silithus 	Cenarion Hold 	
	Kalimdor 	Silithus 	Cenarion Hold 	
	Kalimdor 	Stonetalon Mountains 	Sun Rock Retreat 	
	Kalimdor 	Stonetalon Mountains 	Mirkfallon Post 	
	Kalimdor 	Tanaris 	Gadgetzan 	
	Kalimdor 	Tanaris 	Gadgetzan 	
	Kalimdor 	Teldrassil 	Darnassus 	
	Kalimdor 	Teldrassil 	Dolanaar 	
	Kalimdor 	Uldum 	Ramkahen 	
	Kalimdor 	Uldum 	Ramkahen 	
	Kalimdor 	Un'Goro Crater 	Marshal's Stand 	
	Kalimdor 	Un'Goro Crater 	Marshal's Stand 	
	Kalimdor 	Winterspring 	Everlook 	
	Kalimdor 	Winterspring 	Everlook 	
	Outland 	Blade's Edge Mountains 	Sylvanaar 	
	Outland 	Blade's Edge Mountains 	Thunderlord Stronghold	
	Outland 	Hellfire Peninsula 	Honor Hold 	
	Outland 	Hellfire Peninsula 	Thrallmar 	
	Outland 	Nagrand 	Telaar 	
	Outland 	Nagrand 	Garadar 	
	Outland 	Netherstorm 	Area 52 	
	Outland 	Netherstorm 	Area 52 	
	Outland 	Shadowmoon Valley 	Wildhammer Stronghold 	
	Outland 	Shadowmoon Valley 	Shadowmoon Village 	
	Outland 	Terokkar Forest 	Allerian Stronghold 	
	Outland 	Terokkar Forest 	Stonebreaker Hold 	
	Outland 	Zangarmarsh 	Telredor 	
	Outland 	Zangarmarsh 	Zabra'Jin 	
	Northrend 	Borean Tundra 	Fizzcrank Airstrip 	
	Northrend 	Borean Tundra 	Bor'gorok Outpost 	
	Northrend 	Crystalsong Forest 	Windrunner's Overlook 	
	Northrend 	Crystalsong Forest 	Sunreaver's Command 	
	Northrend 	Dragonblight 	Wintergarde Keep 	
	Northrend 	Dragonblight 	Agmar's Hammer 	
	Northrend 	Howling Fjord 	Fort Wildervar 	
	Northrend 	Howling Fjord 	Camp Winterhoof 	
	Northrend 	Grizzly Hills 	Amberpine Lodge 	
	Northrend 	Grizzly Hills 	Conquest Hold 	
	Northrend 	Sholazar Basin 	River's Heart 	
	Northrend 	Sholazar Basin 	River's Heart 	
	Northrend 	Storm Peaks 	K3 	
	Northrend 	Storm Peaks 	K3 	
	Northrend 	Zul'Drak 	The Argent Stand 	
	Northrend 	Zul'Drak 	The Argent Stand 	
	Pandaria 	Jade Forest 	Dawn's Blossom 	
	Pandaria 	Valley of the Four Winds	Halfhill Market 	
	Pandaria 	Krasarang Wilds 	Zhu's Watch 	
	Pandaria 	Kun-Lai Summit 	Binan Village 	
	Pandaria 	Townlong Steppes 	Longying Outpost 	
	Pandaria 	Dread Wastes 	Soggy's Gamble 	
	Pandaria 	Vale of Eternal Blossoms	Mogu'shan Palace 	
	Pandaria 	Vale of Eternal Blossoms	Mogu'shan Palace 	
	Draenor 	Shadowmoon Valley 	Embaari Village 	
	Draenor 	Frostfire Ridge 	Grom'gar 	
	Draenor 	Gorgrond 	Bastion Rise 	
	Draenor 	Talador 	Retribution Point 	
	Draenor 	Spires of Arak 	Veil Terokk 	
	Draenor 	Nagrand 	Ring of Trials 	
	Broken Isles 	Azsuna 	Azurewing Repose 	
	Broken Isles 	Val'sharah 	Howling Dale 	
	Broken Isles 	Highmountain 	Ironhorn Enclave 	
	Broken Isles 	Stormheim 	Road to Highmountain 	
	Broken Isles 	Suramar 	Bridge by Azsuna 	
	Broken Isles 	Suramar 	Path by Meredil 	
	Kul Tiras 	Tiragarde Sound 	Bridgeport 	
	Kul Tiras 	Stormsong Valley 	Fort Daelin 	
	Kul Tiras 	Drustvar 	Arom's Stand 	
	Zandalar 	Zuldazar 	Village in the Vines 	
	Zandalar 	Nazmir 	Zul'jan Ruins 	
	Zandalar 	Vol'dun 	Vulpera Hideaway 	
==Achievements==
==Trivia==
When the Midsummer event started in year 2009, flags for completion of the quests in 2008 had not been reset, preventing those who had completed one-time quests in 2008 from getting those quests and gathering Burning Blossoms. Further, characters above level 70 did not have a version of the quest Striking Back.
This fix allowed anyone who had already completed any bonfire quests in 2009 before the fix was applied to gather more Blossoms that year than are usually available. Completed achievements were not revoked, but partially completed ones lost all progress. The Striking Back (Hellfire Peninsula) quest for 67-70 characters was extended to 67-80, once again allowing 20 Blossoms per day from daily quests.
While the initial patch was to have reset all event quests, it proved incomplete in many cases. Many reported being unable to complete the "city flames" quests for Exodar and Silvermoon despite being able to repeat those for other cities. At least one realm was not reset properly the first time, and further issues were found. A number of players have continued to have problems with the Exodar and Silvermoon city flame quests.
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