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Its Summer, why are you reading this?

So your server is a little less populated right? The auction house brokers aren’t as slam packed at the moment? Are the prices on the AH just a little deflated? Welcome to the Summer season in gaming, specifically in the World of Warcraft.

There won’t be another in-game holiday for a long while and there probably won’t be new raiding content until the Fall starts up anyways, so what’s a player to do? Log off. That’s right, log off. Now’s the time when everything sort of calms down a bit for the World of Warcraft. Recruitment gets a little harder because all raiding guilds are trying to keep doing runs but are forced to cope with the seasonal drop in most available recruits.

Its time to go check out the summer block-busters at the theaters. Family vacations, summer jobs, sports, beaches, babes, and all night parties take first priority in the lives of a lot of gamers; especially since the gaming industry typically poops out during the summer only to annihilate in the Fall.

We’ve got the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 coming out. Left 4 Dead 2 as well. Blizzcon is going to announce more titles to whet the appetite towards the end of August. Aion is a new(ish) MMO coming to the western world in September; and I won’t even begin to lament on how awesome Starcraft 2 (and the ensuing beta) is going to be any day now.

For me, dailies have already stagnated to the point where I won’t bother doing them, maybe the crusader ones for another 10 days and the jewelcrafting for a few more tokens. Family issues dealt with, I’m making a return to raiding but I expect that to be my only real motivation for logging on and even then its mainly because of the people I raid with and not so much the content. I’m pretty much waiting with bated breath for 3.2 to drop so I can bitch slap that raid content and then dive 100% into Starcraft 2’s beta. It would be nice though to take the 30 minute flight over to the Bahamas and soak up a little bit of paradise.

So if you’re still plugging through as hard and deep as possible through Azeroth, how are you passing the time?

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Midsummer Starts tomorrow Sunday the 21st

You don’t really need a guide for this people, it’s common sense. You have to go to the Slave Pens after doing some pretty obvious bread crumb quests and take down the seasonal boss Ahune. So there’s that; you also have to visit just about every zone in the game where you can find a horde or alliance quest hub and either put out or touch a fire. Honestly people just look at the actual achievement, shift click the damn thing to track it. It tells you what zones you have to visit.

As for stealing the fire from the enemy faction capital cities, that’s simple enough as well. If you ride around for a bit. The hard part is typically getting out of the city in one piece, make a raid of it, hey do For the Horde (or Alliance) while you’re at it!

What I will advise is after you’re done with your achievements, get on that alt and start leveling! The exp buffs you get from flames during this holiday are insane.

Each summer, the arrival of the Midsummer Fire Festival (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/midsummer/) signals a time of merriment and a chance to revel in the hottest season of the year by lighting celebratory bonfires across the land and sharing in what the elemental spirits have to offer. This year (beginning Sunday, June 21st and continuing until July 5), the festival features achievements. Learn more about the Midsummer Fire Festival content in our recently updated page, (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/events/midsummer/) which also includes a screenshot gallery. (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/submission/screenshot-form.html) Once the event begins, submit your screenshots of Festival fun here. (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/community/submission/screenshot-form.html)

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