Do you want to finish your Violet Proto-Drake and fly through the skies at 310 speed while everybody looks on with a combination of rage and envy? Or, maybe you want your “Flame Keeper” title in your scorching pet. But if none of that’s doing it for you, maybe a 232 cloak as a last-minute upgrade just in time for ToC is just what you need.
Here, I’ve got the quickest possible route to get every required achievement done.
Midsummer Fire Festival Overview
The Midsummer Fire Festival runs from June 21st to July 5th.
On top of the “Flame Keeper” achievement being the final required achievement for the Violet Proto-Drake. There are also several cosmetic rewards to set you on fire. There’s also 232 nearby cloaks. And, of course, the scorching pet. This is also a great event for all since you can run a 10% XP bonus for faster leveling.
In total, we’ll need to complete six achievements to get our Flame Keeper title. We’ll also need to get 400 Burning Blossoms to get all the items and all the achievements done.
The Fires Of Azeroth
Let’s start by getting our 400 required Burning Blossoms and by knocking out the first two achievements.
These two achievements will be to honor and extinguish different Flames across the game. You’ll have to honor the Flames of Kalimdor Eastern Kingdoms in Outlands.
There are three main options to make this easier. First, we have Questie, which will show you the locations of every flame on the map if you type slash Questie to map bonfire. That being said, they’re kind of hard to see.
Your second option is the included map. That requires you to tap out a lot. So, I’d use that as a backup option.
Eastern Kingdoms
- Arathi Highlands
- Blasted Lands
- Burning Steppes
- Dun Morogh
- Duskwood
- Elwynn Forest
- Hillsbrad Foothills
- Loch Modan
- Redridge Mountains
- Stranglethorn Vale
- The Hinterlands
- Western Plaguelands
- Westfall
- Wetlands
Kalimdor
- Ashenvale
- Azuremyst Isle
- Bloodmyst Isle
- Darkshore
- Desolace
- Durotar
- Dustwallow Marsh
- Feralas
- Silithus
- Tanaris
- Teldrassil
- The Barrens
- Winterspring
Outland
- Hellfire Peninsula
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Terokkar Forest
- Nagrand
- Zangarmarsh
- Blade’s Edge Mountains
- Netherstorm
The third and recommended option is to use the Bonfire WeakAuras in combination with TomTom. To get started, first you need to install WeakAuras and also TomTom as well. Then, import the WeakAuras. Then, you can type slash WeakAuras and go to the custom options. As you can see, you can select which region you want to work on under the show section. Then, you just have to travel to every bonfire location and interact with a Flame Warden.
As a personal preference, I like to start at the top of zones and works out. I’d also definitely recommend a mage friend to speed things up. While we honor all the Flames, we also need to extinguish all the enemy faction Flames for achievement number two.
To do that, we just go to the enemy flame faction locations just like we would for our own faction. Except the differences, here we’re going to right click and stomp them out. Instead, you will get 10 Burning Blossoms from every single enemy bonfire, which will be great progress towards the 400 we need.
King Of The Fire Festival
Once we’re done on our honoring and desecrating all the Flames, we should work on achievement number three of six. That achievement will be the King of the Fire Festival.
We just need to travel to the four enemy faction cities and steal their Flames. For Alliance, that’s Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, Silvermoon City and Undercity. Also, for Horde, that’s Ironforge, Stormwind, Darnassus and Exodar.
Once you finish the four cities and turned on the quest, you can talk to your factions’ Festival Lore Master or Talespinner again. That’ll give you a new quest called A Thief’s Reward. This quest will give you a Crown of the Fire Festival, as well as your third achievement.
Torch Juggler
So, we have three achievements done. It’s time to juggle our way to the top.
For Torch Juggler, we have to complete the torch intro quest from the Master Flame Eater. The first quest is Torch Tossing. You just stand near the bonfire and throw torches at the pillars with the red arrow. If you do fail the quest, you just drop it and pick it up again. Then you’ll have to juggle the torch next. So, stand near the bonfire and throw your torch into the air. You just have to follow the shadow and catch the torch four times.
Completing these quests will unlock two new daily quests to do the same thing again for WOTLK Classic Gold.
New Daily Quests:
- More Torch Tossing
- More Torch Catching
Now, we can also buy two stacks of torches from the vendor and head to Dalaran. I recommend first going to the sewers and then put your torches on your action bar. Then, just put your mouse there on the ground and spam as fast as you can. Also, these torches can be traded. So, if you want to get it all done, just mail them over to save blossoms.
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Ice The Frost Lord
For achievement number five, it’s time to kill Ahune. It’s very possible you’ve already completed this since it was already done for me.
Make a group of three to five people and head to Slave Pens. Historically, you could just click the ice shard in the second room of Slave Pens to summon Ahune.
Considering I just spent the last week leveling in Slave Pens by myself, I’m pretty sure you could trio this no problem.
Ahune can drop five different 232 item level cloaks (Clock of the Frigid Winds), which are good enough to use even in ToC. He also drops his Epic Frost set (Bind on Pickup), which is 232 item level and a pretty cool Flex. There’s also the Scorch Stone drop, which is extremely rare and allows you to summon the cute scorching pet.
Also, Ahune is guaranteed to drop the Shards of Ahune. This can be immediately turned in at the nearby Luma Skymother for a tabard of your choice.
Go To The Vendor
With the previous five achievements done, we should have over 400 Burning Blossoms. It’s time to head to the vendor in Orgrimmar and Ironforge.
You need to buy the Sandals of Summer as well as the Mantle of the Fire Festival. Then put them on and go to the burning pole nearby and click the pole and spin around it for 60 seconds for the achievement.
You’ll also get a 10% XP bonus for up to 60 minutes, depending on how long you spin at the pole. I highly recommend getting this buffer alts. Also, the Violet Proto-Drake is finally finished and it should arrive in your mail soon. If you missed an achievement, don’t worry. The whole cycle will start up really soon with Brewfest.
