Midsummer Festival Gold Bonanza

The Midsummer Festival is underway folks and that means there is some serious gold to be made. Oh what, you want exact numbers? OK, how about an extra 550 gold for level 70 Alliance players and 562 gold for the Horde level 70 players. And that is just counting the Festival Bonfire quests. But hurry, the festival only lasts until July 4!

Alas, this isn’t the easiest gold: in order to earn your 550+ gold you must visit each of the 62 bonfires located throughout Azeroth and Outland. I take that back, it is extremely easy, just time-consuming; and visiting the opposing faction’s bonfire can be tricky as well. But I don’t call that a problem, I call it FUN! (And it’s also one of those times I am thankful for playing a rogue as my main.)

Each turn in at a bonfire you do will also earn you five Burning Blossoms which can be used as currency to buy the Brazier of Dancing Flames and Captured Flame novelty items among other things.

The two quests you will be completing (62 times) are:

• Honor the Flame – Completed by speaking to the nearby Flame Keeper.
• Desecrate this Fire! – Completed by clicking the bonfire.
  

As you might have already guessed, if you under level 70 completing these quests won’t get you quite as much gold, but even better they will earn you some serious xp both from quest completion as well as the the (stackable with rested bonus) xp boost from the Ribbon Poles. Blizz also took out previous years’ group requirements to get the pole xp buff, so just click the pole, stand around for a while and profit. Because the buff duration increases by three minutes every five seconds you are dancing around the pole, you can acheive a 60 minute duration in less than a minute and a half.

Finding 62 bonfires, at least half of which are deep in enemy territory may seem like a daunting task, so in order to make it easy on you, gentle reader, I have organized the following list of Wowhead map locs for the bonfires according to faction and continent (Alliance locs follow the Horde list). You should be able to tab out to the list for a loc when you hop on the bird to travel to each zone.

Eastern Kingdoms

• Arathi Highlands: Refuge Pointe [50,44] (A), Hammerfall [74,41] (H)
• Badlands: Kargath [4,49] (H)
• Blasted Lands: Nethergarde Keep [58,17] (A)
• Burning Steppes: Morgan’s Vigil [80,62] (A), Flame Crest [62,29] (H)
• Dun Morogh: Kharanos [46,46] (A)
• Duskwood: Darkshire [74,51] (A)
• Elwynn Forest: Goldshire [43,65] (A)
• Eversong Woods: North Sanctum [46,50] (H)
• Ghostlands: Tranquillien [46,26] (H)
• Hillsbrad Foothills: Southshore [50,46] (A), Tarren Mill [58,25] (H)
• Loch Modan: Thelsamar [32,40] (A)
• Redridge Mountains: Lakeshire [24,59] (A)
• Silverpine Forest: The Sepulcher [49,38] (H)
• Stranglethorn Vale: Booty Bay [34,73] (A), Booty Bay [33,75] (H)
• Swamp of Sorrows: Stonard [47,47] (H)
• The Hinterlands: Aerie Peak [14,50] (A), Revantusk Village [76,74] (H)
• Tirisfal Glades: Brill [57,52] (H)
• Western Plaguelands: Chillwind Camp [43,82] (A)
• Westfall: Sentinel Hill [56,64] (A)
• Wetlands: Menethil Harbor [13,47] (A)

Kalimdor

• Ashenvale: Astranaar [37,54] (A), Splintertree Post [70,69] (H)
• Azuremyst Isle: Azure Watch [44,53] (A)
• Bloodmyst Isle: Blood Watch [55,69] (A)
• Darkshore: Auberdine [37,46] (A)
• Desolace: Nijel’s Point [65,17] (A), Shadowprey Village [26,76] (H)
• Durotar: Razor Hill [52,47] (H)
• Dustwallow Marsh: Theramore Isle [62,40] (A), Brackenwall Village [33,30] (H)
• Feralas: Feathermoon Stronghold [28,43] (A), Camp Mojache [72,47] (H)
• Mulgore: Bloodhoof Village [51,60] (H)
• Silithus: Cenarion Hold [57,34] (A), Cenarion Hold [46,44] (H)
• Stonetalon Mountains: Sun Rock Retreat [50,60] (H)
• Tanaris: Gadgetzan [52,29] (A), Gadgetzan [49,27] (H)
• Teldrassil: Dolanaar [55,60] (A)
• The Barrens: Crossroads [52,28] (H)
• Thousand Needles: Freewind Post [42,53] (H)
• Winterspring: Everlook [62,35] (A), Everlook [59,35] (H)

Outland

• Blade’s Edge Mountains: Sylvanaar [42,66] (A), Thunderlord Stronghold [50,59] (H)
• Hellfire Peninsula: Honor Hold [62,58] (A), Thrallmar [55,40] (H)
• Nagrand: Telaar [50,70] (A), Garadar [51,34] (H)
• Netherstorm: Area 52 [31,63] (A), Area 52 [32,68] (H)
• Shadowmoon Valley: Wildhammer Stronghold [40,55] (A), Shadowmoon Village [33,30] (H)
• Terokkar Forest: Allerian Stronghold [55,55] (A), Stonebreaker Hold [52,43] (H)
• Zangarmarsh: Telredor [69,52] (A), Zabra’Jin [36,52] (H)

I recommend reading Valkor’s Gold-Making Guide. It has comprehensive information about where to farm gold, how to own the auction house and everything in-between. At more than 100 pages with free lifetime updates, it is the most comprehensive WoW gold guide you can get!