It’s that time again boys and girls. Azerothian Warming has hit his peek and The Ice Stone has Melted. This had almost become a meme back in Feb 09 when a bug in a patch caused this phrase to be emoted out in world chat every 30 seconds or so. It later became hot (get it?) fixed and all was forgotten. The phrase is tied to the midsummer fire festival which started today. This will be going on till July 4th. Ultimately you’ll get the title of Flame Warden or Flame Keeper for finishing all of the achievements related to this quest line. The most difficult achievement will be the Burning Hot Pole Dance which is completed by wearing an entire Midsummer outfit. This will cost you 400 tokens. I would have had plenty left over but they started adding a timer to these tokens last year. I had about 150 left over from 2007. I didn’t have quite enough for my set so I thought I’d bank them again in 2008..then poof…they were gone…grrrrr.
The part that I’m not looking forward to is to travel all over the world to click on these fires. There is good reason why I don’t like to go back to these zones. I leveled several characters through them…I can’t simply fly over and zip around at 280% speed to get this task done. You have to jump rivers, go around hills and weave along roads and paths to get to where you are going. Blah! I would much rather do something more engaging then ride around. I love the torch tossing. Having a single quest line to kill a guy? That’s fine. Farm a easy boss to grab a pet? Sure….but running around on a mount to click on a fire…bah. I felt the same way about the lunar festival. At least you get to keep the Coin of Ancestry for the next year.
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This is gonna be my first title! *determined*
Already got my torch juggling done. Already Iced the Frost Lord. Already got my robe and shoulders. Already honored all the flames in Azeroth and Outland… Already desecrated the Hordie flames in Kalimdor and Outland… Just slippers, desecrating Eastern Kingdoms, and *gulp* fire-stealing to go.
Gonna do it, gonna do it…. SOO gonna do it.
I try my hand at something motivational. Gold. Over 6G for your faction's fires, over 13G for the opposing faction's fires. Steal 2 of the easy opposing faction's city flames. Win, if you're Alliance – Horde cities aren't built with security in mind, it seems.
Then get your pet or brazier.
Don't forget about the Northrend fires. Even though that won't get you a separate achievement, it's still G and flowers.
Lastly – wish I had known about that – get 400 flowers. Get the outfit. Dance. Trade the outfit back for the flowers (Remember? Recent patch lets you trade stuff back!), provided that you managed to finish the poledance in under 2 hours