Where to go

Warning - 2008 festival has location of fires changed, so do not look for old locations anymore.

Instance placed fires

• Dire Maul (DM North, ramp from Slip'kik)
• Stratholme (Human side, by Timmy the Cruel)
• Scholomance (viewing room)
• Blackrock Spire (LBR by Omokk's head event)

What to do

• Visit Alliance/Horde cities listed, do quest, have fun in events
• Ribbon Poles cause you to dance and get +10% xp bonus for 3 mins, stackbale up to 60 mins (before 2008 - 30 Fire Resist buff (60 min) if there are more ppl dancing)
• Burning Blossoms can be thrown into festival fire - 42 critical strike and spell critical strike rating (60min). More than one thrown in succession will cause nearby players get buff too. They are also used to reignite fire.
• Burning Blossoms can be used for purchasing festival items
• Taking [Summer Incense] to Summer Scorchling involves finding any festival place outside city/seettlement (not straight outside, sometimes it's bit far
• Touching bonfire cures ailments (diseases, etc) and removes some buffs
• Visit opposite faction fires in cities and steal their fires - finishing quest will grant +30 stamina buff to whole city/zone? (possibly Bonfire's Blessing, 30% chance to inflict 690 fire damage). All 4 collected will reward you with a [Crown of the Fire Festival] (level 50+ quests)
• Stealing other fires - quest [Desecrate this Fire!] gives nice XP (12300 at lvl 69) (you will get PVP active of course, so enjoy)
• Visit all your faction fires and finish Q there (6150XP at lvl 69,650XP at lvl 18)
• [Unusual Activity] quest starts chain (Blackfathom Deeps entrance is next step after acquiring it) which leads into killing of Lord ahune - Daily summonable boss [Lord Ahune] in Coilfang Reservoir: The Slave Pens.
• Complete list of quests here

Daily Quests

• Torch Tossing
• Torch Catching
• More Torch Tossing
• More Torch Catching
• Striking Daily
• Ahune, the Frost Lord -> Ahune is Here -> Summon Ahune

Lord Ahune tactics (Source: WOWhead.com)

This boss consists of two phases. You should clear most of the area around him so you don't aggro Nagas. You can do this on non-heroic. The NPCs that start the quest are right after zone in, then in the cavern area before the double Defender pull.

During both phases, he'll create a frost animation on the ground and after 3 a spike will be made, shooting the player into the air for a few seconds. Its important to move if this spawns. Also, the ice around him will cause people to slip and be stunned for 2-3.
Phase 1:

He will spawn an elite with an aura that does a debuff causing frost damage every 2-3s, I believe 500 damage, that stacks and can not be dispelled. This has to be tanked by the tank. He'll also spawn a lot of low health non-elites every few seconds (~2000 health) that shoots a frost spell at people. He'll spawn maybe 20-30 of these elites, and 2 of the large elites before he'll switch to phase two. This phase lasts around 1 minute. He'll also summon cyclones after the first phase 1 which has a pull ability, but are also weak.

Phase 2:

After all the adds are dead you can safely focus dps on the Frozen Core. According to my ui, this has about 125k health, and you have about 20s (rough estimate) to dps him. You should be able to get him to under 60%. With a full tier 6 group, we got him to 33% the first time.

Repeat phase 1 and 2 until he dies. Its very important to control all the adds and avoid the ice spikes.

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