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A Light in Dark Places

Find and touch the bonfires located within Blackrock Spire, Dire Maul, Scholomance, and Stratholme, then return to the Festival Flamekeeper.

	Flame of Blackrock Spire
	Flame of Dire Maul
	Flame of the Scholomance
	Flame of the Scholomance

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We are not the only ones who celebrate this holiday, <name>. All creatures, all cultures, are touched by the flame. Even in the darkest places, the fires are being lit.

If you wish to see them for yourself, travel into the depths. Seek out the bonfires burning within Stratholme, Scholomance, among the ogres of Dire Maul, and the halls of Blackrock Spire itself; I will await your return.

Reward

You will receive:

	Captured Flame	10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10	Burning Blossom

Progress

Have you found your way through the dark?

Completion

You have proven that you are not entirely useless, mortal.

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:

495 experience (29 70 at max. level)

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By JizaWatson on 04/21/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

The Scholomance Flame is located in the Viewing Room
Stratholme: Crusader Square
LBRS: Urok Doomhowl's event site (5-man this, inaccessible from raiding.)
Dire Maul: In the room where you get the Ogre Tannin.

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By Lightophile on 06/20/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

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By Toridas on 06/20/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

This quest is picked up from the Festival Flamekeeper in your favorite capital city. The flamekeeper in Stormwind is in the canal district, between the two entrances to the mage quarter.

If you are level 70 you will not be able to see any exclamation point above the NPC's head because the quests are too far below your level.

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By Shalkis on 06/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

This is soloable by a mage at level 70.

Lower Blackrock Spire:
This is easy up to Mother Smolderweb. To get to her, run past the first few groups until you enter the main spire. Jump down from the right side of the first platform to reach a walkway that leads to the ""orc alley"". Run past them and blink past the last group before Mother Smolderweb. Here you should use one Invisibility to get past the first spider group, then wait 5 minutes at the upper walkway and use another Invisibility to get past the second group. Run past the ogres and polymorph the closest one to the flame if you have to. Jump down to the walkway you used earlier and teleport out.

Dire Maul North:
There are some packs of AoEable critters on the opposite side of the first room. Get rid of them and find the spot where the wall has collapsed and there's a big pile of dirt next to it. Pull Guard Mol'dar and run back to the collapsed wall. When he gets close, jump to the pile of dirt and he turns around and tries to find an alternate path to you. Jump back and hit him when he is in range. Jump back to the pile of dirt. Repeat until he's dead and loot the courtyard key from him. Continue to the courtyard, avoiding any patrols and groups. As a rule, caster ogres are easy since you resist most of their spells, so if you have to fight, polymorph a melee ogre and kill the casters first. Use the key and open the courtyard door. Kill the two ogre packs and the AoEable critters before the frost trap. Use Invisibility and run up to the platform where the tannin (and the flame) is. Teleport out.

Scarlet Stratholme:
Enter through the main entrance. AoE the first pack. Use Invisibility and avoid the ghouls, they can see you. You should barely have time to reach the trapped portcullis on the left. AoE the rats and wait for your Invisibility cooldown. Use an another Invisibility to reach the Crusaders' Square. Wait for your Invisibility cooldown or kill the first two Scarlets to reach the flame. Teleport out.

Scholomance:
Kill the first few skeletons and the patrols if you need to. Avoid the humanoids, they have a relatively small aggro radius. Keep opening the iron gates and head towards Rattlegore. Polymorph the whelp handlers and AoE the whelps. You should at most be fighting 3-5 whelps at a time. Clear the whole whelp room. Proceed to Rattlegore's room and kill the adds one by one. When both Rattlegore's room and the whelp room are empty, fire at Rattlegore and run up. Head to the furthest pit and keep casting Fireblasts / Ice Lances while Rattlegore tries to catch you. When he does, jump down. Now you have some time for a bandage or an Evocation. When Rattlegore runs back down, blink past him and run back up to the pit. Repeat until Rattlegore is dead. A Water Elemental is handy here, since it can keep firing while you are running. Loot the Viewing Room key from Rattlegore. Open the iron gate leading to the Viewing Room and go back to the entrance of Scholmance. Carefully manouver yourself to the edge of the bridge and fire at one of the magic-immune skeletons next to the door. Since you opened all of the iron gates, he should start running through Scholomance to reach you, along with his buddies. When he does, jump down, open the door with your Viewing Room key and use Invisibility. Touch the flame and teleport out.

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By Luciferhawke on 06/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

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By Izichial on 06/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

Stealth guide:

DM North:
From the entrance, walk across the courtyard, avoiding the dogs (which have stealth detection). Hug the wall and walk into the next courtyard, keeping to the right and avoiding patrols with dogs in them. Sneak past the ogre group around the corner, and continue forwards until you reach the plant mobs. Sneak up the ramp and to the middle of the area. Loot the chest for the key, and walk to and through the door at the far north end of the courtyard. Continue down the corridor, into the room beyond and take to the left. Up the ramp, and the flame is just to the left. Be careful of the patrolling Eye, since it will probably see you standing by the flame when it comes past.

+ All guards can be killed for loot (vendor or Large Brilliant Shards, plus DM books). Just be careful to pull them away from nearby mobs, since they call for help and enrage when reaching low hp. A tailorer or leatherworker may enjoy a Gordok Shackle Key which leads to https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=18250 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=18250.

Straholme (scarlet):
Use the main entrance. Stealth past the first group of mobs to be greeted by a wall of see-through-stealth zombies on an appropriate moment (the zombies move around, some patrol). Hug the left side, and jump over the stairs of the first building. Continue hugging the left wall until the corner, from here walk in the middle between the mob groups, watch out for patrolling Patchwork Horrors and zombies. Walk up the the gate. A druid can run in, pop barkskin and Hurricane the rats, a rogue could do it with a grenade. It's also possible simply to single kill every rat, or start in stealth, pop dash/spring and run through - you get out on the other side before it closes, after which the summoned rats will start patrolling in packs. After the gate, run between the packs up front to the other side (*), turn left and hug the wall. Stealth into the scarlet area and touch the flame.

+ Hearthsinger Forresten (https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=10558 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=10558) has one of his spawnpoints @ (*). Kill if there/you want.
+ After touching the fire you might want to massacre the area for possible Righteous Orb(s) or BoE dungeon set 1 pieces. This will also spawn Timmy(!).

Scholomance:
After entering, immediately jump down to the left, hugging the wall. Open the Iron Gate (kicks you out of stealth, make sure the patrols are heading away from you or are far away). Restealth, walk over to the doorway to the left and into The Great Ossuary. Jump down the first hole to the left, sneak across the room to somewhere near the door and wait until the mobs have moved aside enough for you to pull Rattlegore. Kill him, loot the Viewing Room key and sneak back up the stairs and back to the room you first jumped down into. Walk and jump into the corner by the Viewing Room door and open the door. It's possible without pulling the mobs, just stand as far into the corner you can while still reaching the door. Restealth, sneak into the viewing room and touch the flame.

+ The Scholomance key is probably the hardest (and rarest) of the old dungeon keys to get. It's a far run, but you you can take off your gear and kite a melee mob from Sorrow Hill to the entrance of Scholomance. Druids have the easiest time doing this, use r1 moonfire. Die, ghostrun through the door, ressurect. Or, get help from a keyholder.

Blackrock Spire:
After entering, sneak across the room to the right, jump down. Head into the corridor (watch out for the patrol) and immediately when you come out on the other side, take right and jump down. Jump down to the next out sticking ledge, and then down onto the floor. Sneak through the ""corridor"" of orcs, and then up the area with spiders. Be mindful of the patrols and Mother Smolderweb. When you reach Mother Smolderweb, jump up on the beam and sneak across past the spiders. After you've cleared them, head up to the ogres. Walk through the group, stand on the edge and touch the flame.

Enjoy.

Silverblood (druid)
<Misanthrope>
Kazzak-EU

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By Angra on 06/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

Just soloed it as a warrior (arms-fury with decent gear).

Scholo part is by far the easiest and fastest. I killed just like 20 monsters including Rattlegore. Most packs can be avoided, even in that room with little dragonkins where I killed just one pack. Skellies have stun => more life and rage from Second Wind talent. Actually their stun worked better than my bandages.

LBRS is easy too. Packs of orcs aren't that hard and some of them also can be avoided, and Mother Smolderweb has skill that activates Second Wind as well. Only problem is two packs with two elite spiders and few non-elites, but still manageable without too much problem.

Stratholme is hardest part I'd say. Packs aren't easy and it is impossible (or very difficult) to avoid them. I killed like 40+ mobs in there on my way to the flame. But real problem are Ghouls. They got debuff that slows your health regeneration by 100% for 10 minutes, plus you getting 150 damage every 10 seconds in the duration of debuff. This debuff means you won't get any benefits from eating, so you just have to wait these 10 minutes until it ends. There are few ghouls patrolling between regular packs of skellies and zombies, some of them can be avoided but not all.
Rats are annoying as well since warriors aren't really good in AoE. Whirlwind and thunderclap will help you, but prepare for quite long and boring fight. As soon as you skip skellies, it is done. You'll have to kill just two scarlet to get to flame.

Dire Maul isn't really difficult, just watch around for patrols. Packs in courtyard are quite strong but those are only you have to kill. I killed one of the Guards (one who need to be freezed) because he got aggroed when I was busy killing one of the packs. Spent recklessness on him and super healing potion (I was on 35% when he attacked me).

This quest seems like a challenge for a warrior. I've missed this event last year so I decided to spend few hours to do this quest. Really enjoyed doing it, was fun.

Good luck with the quest, hope this information will be useful for you *waves*

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By skyoverheaven on 06/22/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

I just finished retrieving the Flame of Dire Maul as a 70 warlock (30/10/21). Not raid-geared, but wearing a lot of high end crafted gear plus heroic items. Here's what I dwowhead:1,id:

-- Zone in, fought the Gordok Brute that pats from the right.

-- Went left, avoided the groups, came to the entrance of the second room. Pack of mobs in the doorway: two Mage-Lords/Brute. Waited for patrol coming from the right (Mage-Lord/Mastiff) and killed them.

-- Pulled group in the doorway, sending voidy to Brute while I dotted up the two casters, then focused on keeping my voidy's HP up while he tanked Brute. You will get aggro from your voidy, but casters will be almost dead by then. Once I got aggro from the Brute, I sacced my voidy and killed him.

-- Went into the Courtyard and waited for pats to clear. Ran up the ramp and got the Courtyard Key, unlocked the door. Kiilled the wandering Eye that pats in the hallway.

-- Group of three: Warlock/Doomguard/Reaver. Cast Shadow Ward before you pull and Banish Doomguard, send pet to Reaver. As pet tanks Reaver, dot up Warlock and kill him. You should be resisting/absorbing his shadowbolts, so he is cake. Dot up the Reaver, heal up your pet a bit, take the Reaver down. If you get aggro, use Death Coil/Fear to buy you some time. Using Fear with this group is risky; I feared the Reaver and he ran to the Courtyard and brought back some dogs. I AoE feared them, Healthstoned, re-banished Doomguard, feared Reaver, killed dogs, popped a HP pot, killed Reaver, and kept banishing the Doomguard until I could bandage/heal pet, then killed Doomguard. Really Low on HP/mana after this. :P

-- Did the same tactic as above with next group (minus bad fear :P)

-- After this, there'll be a group of bugs. I sent the voidy in and shot a couple of Seeds of Corruption took care of them.

-- Killed the patrolling Eye, then waited for Slip'kik to pat all the way to the right wall (in front of shackled goblin) and pulled. You have to kill him because Slip'kik patrols all the way to the other side, and he will add when you are clearing over there -- this was my first (embarrassing) death. Pull Slip'kik far back because he will call adds if he dies too close to other mobs. Dotted up Slip'kik and after a round or two I got aggro, then just mowed him down as fast as I could, Healthstoned/Death Coiled.

-- Around the bend, there are two Reavers. Pulled them back to the entrance of the room and had my voidy tank one while I feared the other, then killed the other one.

-- Packs of four: two Warlocks/Doomguards. You can't sneak up the ramp. I tried it and aggroed the group, haha. I thought I was okay, but I feared a Doomguard and he bugged, running into another group at the end of the room. :D Embarrassing death number two. Cast Shadow Ward, pulled by banishing Doomguard, sent my voidy to a Warlock/other Doomguard, feared/CoEx the other Warlock, and dotted up both Warlocks while keeping up the voidy's HP over half. The Warlocks will die in a round or two of dots. Doomguard came out of Banish just as the Warlocks were being finished off, so I re-banished him and dotted up the other Doomguard. Voidy and I were low on HP/mana now, so I kept the last Doomguard banished until I bandaged/healed pet. Flame of Dire Maul was right at the top of the ramp.

-- Last pull was a pack of three: Reaver/Warlock/Doomguard. Pulled the Reaver down the ramp, intending to Fear him and deal with the other two but the Eyes had respawned and I aggroed it! I panicked and thought I was screwed, so I dotted up the closest mob to me and decided to at least take him down before I died. But as I ran into the hallway, I saw that the Eye's spawns hadn't aggroed me, so I feared the Reaver killed the pack of three in the hallway. Cleared the two packs of Voidwalker Spawns, killed the leftover Warlock/Doomguard. I looted the Flame and did a victory dance!

Going to do the rest of this this weekend, looking forward to it! :D

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By Nechrom on 06/22/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

One-manned this with my lvl 70 hunter.

The only mobs I ever had to kill was some of Rattlegore's adds and ofc Rattlegore himself.

As a hunter, you would probably gain most from going through the alternative entrance to Strat (undead side) to avoid the rat-trap, most of the skeleton and ghoul packs have such a low aggro radius that you can sneak past them along the walls, and when you do pull them, go to your closest safe-spot and feign death.

In Dire Maul it's much harder to get past the mobs without aggroing them, so be ready to run and feign alot. But aside from that there's nothing fancy.

In LBRS you only need to run and feign at the last orcs before the spiders, at the first spider group (before Smolderweb) and at the last spider group. Everything else is possible to sneak past without aggroing, including Smolderweb.

Scholo is pretty straight forward. Jump down from the balcony before the first gate, run to the small stairs and feign. Avoid the patrols in the big room past the gate and hug the left wall in the whelp room and try to time the whelp and handler movements as you move forward. No killing or feigning needed. When you get to Rattlegore's room, pull his adds one by one and kill as many as you want to, so you feel comfortable pulling Rattlegore. The adds should be auto-shotted until they enrage in order for your pet to build aggro so you can nuke them when they enrage. As a BM hunter this should be alot easier than it was for me as MM, but just so you know you don't have to be BM.
Rattlegore is pretty easy, he does some low dps attacks and stuns your pet. Just manage your aggro and feign if he stuns your pet and ofc you should have mend pet ticking all the time (duh).
After you get the key from Rattlegore, head back to the stairs leading down to the room with the viewing room door. Wait for the ""spiders"" to pass and then run to the center of the room. Every mob in that room has very low aggro radius, including the spider patrols so you should be able to avoid them and make your way to the other side of the room. Hugging that wall and going to your right (towards the viewing room door) behind those big-ass candelabra in the corner, sneak close enough to the door so you can unlock it. The skeletons and ghouls shouldn't aggro and you can make it past them through the door without them noticing, but if they do you have lots of space to feign on inside the viewing room.

I never used anything that not all lvl 70 hunters have. You could probably make it through the rat trap with Improved Barrage and engineering grenades, but it's not needed if you have the Strat gate-key. But if you have neither I suggest stripping your gear before going into the rat trap to ""disarm"" it, then just release and run back.

Please reply if you have any questions regarding doing this as a lvl 70 hunter.

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By firekid on 06/22/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

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By skyoverheaven on 06/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

Finished the Scholomance Flame, 70 warlock (30/10/21). Not raid-geared, but wearing a lot of high end crafted gear plus heroic items. Here's what I dwowhead:1,id:

Note: I used my voidwalker for this part.

-- Zone in, clear bridge, kill patrolling Skeleton. Hang left, pull pack of four at bottom of stairs. Very simple, they're all casters and as a warlock, you'll either be resisting/absorbing a lot of their damage (Shadow Ward).

-- Head into the room with the Summoners (room adjoining Kirtonos' room), kill the patrolling Skeletons/Spiders. At 70, you can just walk right down the center of the room and not aggro anything.

-- Next room has a lot of groups, I recommend killing them all (except the mobs in the cubby holes) because you will need the space for kiting the Constructs/Rattlegore. Clearing will be easy, but beware runners, it's easy to have a mob run off and all of a sudden you've pulled half the room (this happened to me, haha). I got careless and lived through it (had to Healthstone due to multiple silences), but it was completely avoidable. :P

-- Clear the room of Whelps/Handlers, again need room for kiting later. Actually I left a pack in the far corner, but when I was kiting Rattlegore I accidentally aggroed a Whelp, so I recommend a full clear to be safe. Resist the urge to AoE the room. Do Line of Sight pulls and you will get them in groups of 3-4. DoT/drain tank.

-- The Constructs hit hard, you do NOT want to get this guy in your face. Cleared one side of Rattlegore's room (left side), plus a couple of mobs near Rattle himself (getting adds with Rattle = game over). Pulled Constructs one at a time, sending Voidy in to tank them. Quickly dotted Construct up (every dot I could use) and ran the hell away, through the Whelp/Handler room, through the big room. Got aggro when Construct was 50%-ish, waited until it was in range, reapplied some DoTs and Shadowbolted it to death. Curse of Exhaustion is a godsend here, using it will ensure that Constructs will never touch you. :D

-- Don't forget to check if patrols have respawned before you pull Constructs.

-- Rattlegore will tear your face off if he gets in range, so number one priority is STAY THE HELL AWAY. Pulled Rattle, send Voidy to tank, load up with DoTs, then ran! Rattle needs a couple of rounds of DoTs, so I ran up the stairs, waited in a clear corner of the Whelp room, beside a hole in the floor. Got aggro after first round of DoTs, Rattle ran for me, got in range, I reapplied DoTs, then jumped down the hole (this is why I cleared a side of Rattle's room. Don't jump down the wrong side!). Rattle ran back downstairs, and by the time he got back down, he was around 10k health so I sacced the Voidy and mowed him down. Looted Viewing Room Key.

-- Room of Ghouls/Aberrations: cleared patrolling Spiders, then pulled group (right of stairs) back into the big room. Had Voidy tag all the mobs, then DoT the Ghouls. Don't forget to stay out of the poison clouds when Ghoul dies. Aberrations are immune to magic damage, so I got a good laugh out of watching myself and Voidy duke it out with them. They only have 3k HP, but it still takes a minute. Pull group near Viewing Room door, same tactic.

-- Enter Viewing Room and get the Flame! Hoorah!

This was really fun (and easy), as locks were already soloing Scholo pre-expansion. :D

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By skyoverheaven on 06/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

Finished the Scarlet Stratholme Flame, 70 warlock (30/10/21). Not raid-geared, but wearing a lot of high end crafted gear plus heroic items. Here's what I dwowhead:1,id:

Note: I used my voidwalker. And FFS, save yourself some grief and bring Purification Potions (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=13492 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=13492)! The packs of Skeletons/Cadavers give you a disease called ""Cadaver Worms"" (https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=13492 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=13492) that prevents you from regening HP. I had to wait TEN MINUTES whenever I was infected. D:

-- Zone in, pulled first pack. Sent Voidy to tag all Cadavers, then dotted them. Shot two Seeds of Corruption to take care of other Skeletons. Drain Life/Shadowbolted as needed. Repeat with second pack. Watch out for patrolling Eye of Naxxramas.

-- Hug the right wall, at 70 you should be able to walk past the remaining packs safely. Stopped at the intersection to pull patrolling Ghouls (still hugging the right wall). Waited for a clear opening (beware patrolling Abominations/Eyes) and ran across, dodging packs and stopping at a clear spot across the intersection (hugging left wall). Waited, made a run between two packs, to the right, towards the gate.

-- This gate closes and springs the ""Rat Trap""; I forgot about this, ran in and actually died (I hate embarrassing deaths! :P). Sacced the Voidy and AoE.

-- Pulled the pack to the left of the gate, but you don't really need to. I just did it to be safe.

-- Ran across (dodging Abominations/Ghouls), killed Hearthsinger Forresten. Looted Rainbow Girdle. :P

-- There was now a pack ahead, blocking most of the path. You can walk past them, if you hug the right wall and wait for the right Skeleton to move. Proceed to gated entrance of Crusader Square.

-- Flame of Stratholme is to the right back corner of Crusader Square. Pull the group of two at the head of the alley (Conjurer/Gallant). Pulled back into alley, sent Voidy to Gallant, banished Conjurer's Elemental. Dotted/Shadowbolted to death. Beware runners!

-- Hug right wall, follow all the way to the Flame. You may run into a bad crate, just AoE the rats/critters down. Loot the Flame!

This was probably the most annoying one for me, due to Cadaver Worms and having to wait it out! :(

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By skyoverheaven on 06/24/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

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By gnuelxela on 06/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)

quest takable at lvl 50

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By Gikka on 04/06/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)

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By Breanni on 02/21/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

Unfortunately as of patch 2.4, this quest is no longer be accessible. However, if you have the quest in your quest log from last year, you will be able to return it and claim the minipet reward.

The http://www.warcraftpets.com/wow.pets/seasonal/midsummer.fire.festival/spirit_of_summer.asp Spirit of Summer minipet rewarded from this quest will now be purchasable during the event for 350 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=23247 Burning Blossoms. Players will be able to earn Burning Blossoms via special Midsummer Fire Festival quests.

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By armuri on 02/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)

Even though this quest will no longer be available to be picked up, it seems that if you still have the quest in your log from last year, you can still turn it in! I only completed half the quest last summer so I kept it. I have copied my character onto the PTR and I found an NPC in Ironforge named Earthen Ring Elder who you can turn the quest in to. Although I'm pretty sure I won't be able to complete it because I don't think the fires will be in the instances anymore.

But no need to worry if you haven't gotten the pet yet! You will be able to buy the Captured Flame for 350 Burning Blossoms, which are obtainable from various new quests during the event.

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By DanJack on 06/19/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)

Updated!!!!

This has changed again as of 2.4.3

You can now buy it for! 350 Burning Blossom during the Midsummer Fire Festival -

Quicklink to Burning Blossom: https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=23247 https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=23247

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