Midsummer Fire Festival
It’s the first time I’ve seen a holiday event in WoW, and I have to say it was much more of a big thing than I’d have expected.
The first I knew of it, we had been hit with a buff seemingly out of nowhere, and at first I was looking around for a random other player who might have done it.
So we began visiting bonfires – including the Alliance’s bonfires, which we of course chose to desecrate. This resulted in us being flagged for PvP, and in one instance, being chased by some guys who were a lot higher level. I managed to get away, but they killed poor Vorlak 😉
There are tokens to be won for completing various quests, some more involved, and some rather more ‘fun’ tasks, such as torch tossing and torch catching! I found throwing the torches onto the required targets fairly easy to do, but throwing and catching a torch was much more difficult, especially with other people’s thrown torches in the air too.
The tokens can be redeemed for various goodies, the most expensive of which is a small pet, the Captured Flame.
The festival is running for another two weeks, so I’m hoping I can get enough tokens together for this..
In the meantime, we’re on a mission to collect another pet, the Mechanical Chicken! We’ve rescued two OOX homing robots so far, and have one more to go!
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