Midsummer Madness II

It hasn't released it's grip on me yet this fire festival. The XP gain is great if you can handle the monotony of mostly travelling. It's like having 2 quest logs full of quests that have hand-ins dotted all over the place.

This can be boring, but if you're doing something else non-WoW based at the same time, then it's free levelling!!

I was working from home yesterday and whilst I was tap-tap-tapping away on my laptop I was putting PS the Rogue on gryphons to the next bonfire location. In 4-5 hours of inattentive playing he had done all 3 continents and all 4 Capital cities. And gone from somewhere late in level 59 to just dinging 61!

OK, for about 2% attention paid to him during these 5 hours that's not bad, over 1 level of XP. BUT, HotPants the Shammy went from mid level 53 to mid level 56 by doing all 3 continents and all 4 capitals.

I then got BitchSlapper the warrior finished on the home world continents and she went from 46 to 48 and that's without capital cities (apparently you need to be level 50 to get the capital city fires). I suspect if I dared take BS to Outlands then she would get at least a level out of all those fires, and a big repair bill to boot!

So in the mid 40s and the mid 50s you can get a level per continent but once you hit 60 it would appear that you can only get a level from all 3 continents. Maybe they have tapered the XP gain down at level 60 and beyond so that you don't miss out on all the questing and grinding fun in Outland.

Is this yet more evidence that Blizzard have given up on pre-TBC content so allowing you to skip a couple or three levels just with Midsummer Festival XP?

Oh, and before I forget, if you're not going to take you characters around all the zones of the world at least do the 2 dailies; Torch Tossing and Torch Catching and maybe even the third one: Striking Back.

At level 70 its lots of gold and blossoms for buying raid food THAT STACKS with normal food buffs.

At below level 70 it's a nice chunk of XP for 2 minutes throwing torches around.

Level 61 - 9,800XP per quest.

At level 56 it's 8,450XP per torch quest but Striking Back has now changed from Searing Gorge to the Silithus Frozen Lieutenant. Don't bother with him.

At level 48 it's 6,300XP per torch quest and Striking Back sees you in STV and an easy fight on the Water Elemental Island for 5050XP!!

At Level 49 it's 6,550XP for tossing and 6,300XP catching, but Striking Back is now Searing Gorge, so probably best to miss that!

44 it's 5,300XP per quest and the friendly fires give 2,600 and opposing fires 5,300.
43 it's 5x050XP

At level 35 it's 3,300XP per torch quest.

Get all your alts doing these quests every day, you only have till Friday!