World Designer Kisirani has just announced that the
Midsummer Fire Festival is now active on the PTR. While the
Lunar Festival and
Love is in the Air Events have mostly been about the same (aside from the occasional love rocket), it looks like the fire festival got some major additions this year, and they've activated the festival on the PTR a few months early so that they can be previewed and tested. New quests and a seasonal boss not unlike the
Headless Horseman in the Slave Pens of Coilfang Reservoir will be awaiting us this summer. There is also a new quest chain that in part has you disguising yourself as a crab in order to spy on Twilight Cultists for the Earthen Ring, which sounds like enough fun in and of itself. The all levels quests have gotten a slight revamp as well. The quests to visit various smaller fires are gone, replaced by a quest to visit just one of the smaller fires. As well, there's now some torch tossing and catching games to play.
In addition, the
Burning Blossoms that once mostly took up space in your inventory (since you could only use so many for that buff) will now be useful for buying things at various Midsummer Suppliers, including a rather intriguing looking dress and pair of boots that promise to "add fire to your dance moves" when used, a brazier that looks like it may create that
Firedancer Draenei we've seen from patch mining expeditions, some Midsummer Ground Flower fireworks, and a Bag of Smorc Supplies for making your own
Toasted Smorcs.
It sounds like this summer is going to be pretty hot indeed, and it's great to finally see some
long awaited world event changes showing up.
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2-21-2008 @ 8:26PM
Ves said...
I am failing miserably to acheive any sort of result in the torch tossing game. Please let this be a result of my own incompetance and not another massive screwup like the Barking for Brewfest.
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2-21-2008 @ 8:32PM
Daniel Whitcomb said...
Hi Ves,
Well, this is still the test server, so you might want to check out Kisirani's post at the "Read" link and give her some feedback. If it's a bug, I'm sure they'll try to fix it before it goes live.
2-21-2008 @ 9:25PM
meringue said...
I was able to complete both of them, though it did take me a few tries to figure out what was going on. Once you get the hang of it they're really fun. :D
2-22-2008 @ 8:17AM
Xerous said...
Known bug that Horde side cant complete the tossing event.
2-21-2008 @ 9:28PM
Retron said...
Burningorc Festival ftw!
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2-21-2008 @ 10:21PM
Shadowfury said...
I really hope this new boss is as fun as HH. I could do HH everyday, it was epic.
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2-22-2008 @ 1:43AM
Ben Allen said...
whats the deal with the holiday boss? are we gonna see worthwhile epics dropping? i am really disappointed that i missed the Horseman by like 2 weeks (wasn't 70 yet) i could really use one of his rings... any details anyone?
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2-22-2008 @ 6:49AM
hyos said...
You were able to go kill the horseman even without being 70... I have a mage alt that got the epic ring with level 42 so he can start using it when he dings 70... Four Guildies killed the Horseman for me with ease.
2-22-2008 @ 7:48AM
Chriasas said...
Should we consider that seeing the "Midsummer" festival in 2.4 PTR means that 2.4 won't be hitting until May at the earliest?
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2-22-2008 @ 12:01PM
Arabelli said...
My guess is they're doing it out of convienence. They've got major content testing going on, so they're slapping it all on the PTR for max testing before live. My guess is that we'll probably see it in Early April.
2-22-2008 @ 10:57AM
blackwolf675 said...
A new dress you say?
Hmmm.....
*makes note to follow patch notes closely for details*
I think that would put me officially over 80 dresses in my collection, =)
(well, 84 total outfits)
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