Midsummer Fire Festival

Tomorrow heralds the beginning of the Midsummer Fire Festival. This event is intended to celebrate the hottest month of the year (based on the northern hemisphere). There have been some great changes this year including new items to purchase with your burning blossoms and quests (including some daily ones) to get your hands on the blossoms. In addition there will be a summonable boss, similar to the Headless Horseman, who will drop epic loot. The level of difficulty has increased with Ahune, the Frost Lord residing in the Slave Pens as opposed to the somewhat easy Scarlet Monastery.

Blizzard have updated the info page for the festival so you can view more information about the quests there or you can check out the wow wiki page.

One particular item the Frost Lord drops, Frostscythe of Lord Ahune, is on Squiggle's must have list. Sure it’s not the greatest shadow priest weapon but it looks awesome. I shouldn't forget he also drops a non combat pet. The festival will run for about two weeks so we can expect a lot of people “LFG Heroic Slave Pens”. Also keep your eyes out for the Brazier of Dancing Flames, at a pricey 350 blossoms there wont be a lot of this unique and fun item.