Ah, time fer the Fire Festival!  Lookin’ forward tae celebratin’ it this year as always.  But, ken, ah wis in oan the plans and ah wrote aboot them a while back.  Maybe go take a gander?

When the Midsummer Fire Festival was on the PTR I did a quick write up about the events.  I haven’t checked yet if they’re still identical but maybe my post will still have some relevance - you can find it here.  I should get a chance to check it out later this evening and will update with any changes I find.  Last tiny spam post for the moment, I promise.

Edit:  Ok, I was going to do an update but now I’ma be lazy and point you to the awesome writeup by one of my favourote bloggers.  Check out this guide over at A Dwarf Priest for all your festival needs!

Bloody hell it isn’t half busy at the upper-end o’ Azeroth. Seems everyone is keen on getting in on the action and helpin’ out wi’ the new offensive.

So, like just about everyone else on the wow-blogosphere, I have been participating in the shiny-newness that is patch 2.4. I know, I know, everyone’s already spoken about it and probably more eloquently than I’m about to but this is my little spot where I get to squee about the stuff I liked / disliked.

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So another festival is ‘roon the corner and this time I want tae make sure I’m in on the action frae the beginning!

I decided to drop by the PTR due to a few posts on the fact that some pets (vanity and otherwise) as well as some other mobs, npcs etc. had changed size. My favourite pet is my faerie dragon and I wanted to see if the tiny thing grew any. I wasn’t disappointed!

My little dragon is huge - shame it won’t stay that way!Anyway, fire festival! Anyone who has read anything on this blog might have noticed that I like my festivals. I enjoy taking part in these out-of-the-routine events and getting the small, if inventory space wasting, items. I decided, thus, to do a quick rundown on all of the quests I could do by myself on the PTR. Read more

So, as thon lassie pointed oot - the Lunar Festival ain’t all aboot dancin’ and getting yersel’ drunk. It’s aboot makin’ sure yer ancestors ken ye still remember them!

Or, in other words, rep grind!

The minute I knew there was a big cat mount in WoW I wanted it. Call me a boring sheep, whatever, I like big cats and I was for having one. I looked up how to get Darnassus rep at the time and decided the PvP route wasn’t likely (this was before the honour system changes) since I didnt pvp very much and sucked at it besides. I set out to do all of the quests I could that gave Darnassus rep but I’d gotten past the level where diminishing returns meant no rep for low level quests (again, this has since changed). I left WoW for a bit without, sadly, having ever reached that particular goal.

When I came back I had gained a bit more of an interest in PvP and quickly got myself one of the kitties-for-honour (welfare kitty?) - however I don’t like those nearly as much as the Darnassus ones (and, hey, it’s a matter of principle for me to finish now that I’ve started!). With the new diminishing returns meaning I could still get honour for the really low level quests I went back and did all of the starting ones; I put all of the runecloth I got from levelling through Hellfire / Zangarmarsh into Darnassus rep too and any morrowgrain I could make.

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Any excuse fer a party’s got tae be guid, right? But when ye add fancy new clothes, festival buns and a big monster tae kill that just makes it even more brilliant! Lunar festival’s a great time tae have fun wi’ yer friends but aw mine seem tae be a bit less in the partyin’ mood this year…

My first lunar festival happened to coincide with rolling Mharai. I’d missed it on Aurik due to playing during summer (when I didn’t have Uni work to complete) and I wanted in on it wholesale whilst I had the chance. Being on an RP realm meant that the outfit probably wouldn’t just lie gathering dust in the bank all year, too! Despite being level 15 I hauled my Tauren rear around the world (with help from a rather kind Paladin) and got myself some coins, bought a dress and a suit and paraded around quite happily in them whilst eating festival buns, having great fun as I did.

This year, though, I have Aurik, Avarix and Dryn. None of them need the professions items (rocket launchers, fireworks and festival suits / dress) and, being on a PvE server, they aren’t likely to see much use of any festival gear I get them. It kinda takes the fun out of the festival if you’ve ‘done it all before’ when there’s nothing much new to get.

Now you might say “Wheesht you, you’re getting something for nothing!” but I point here to the fact that Blizzard has updated most of the other yearly events so far.

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