For those curious, I did not receive anything special for using the bonfire in Exodar. There doesn't appear to be any new reward for trying to turn in the flame of Exodar or Silvermoon (since you don't even get one) if you'd done the Thief's Reward quest previously.

I suppose it is obvious if you do a bit of creative searching (there is no listing for the spells Create Flame of Exodar or Silvermoon, nor items Flame of Exodar/Silvermoon), but perhaps not everyone would think of it.

Jumping on your mount and pushing straight in for as long as possible works best. The hardest part is running back from the graveyard.

I completed this quest last year. Curiously, this year I was able to do the quest again to receive a second crown, but I didn't do any of the gathering quests beforehand this time.

I went near the Festival Talespinner guy at UC , and he didnt give me this quest.Any ideas if there's a pre-q or something.Im level 78 btw.

Taking the fires is hard when a ton of enemies plus NPCs are by the fire. Thankfully, I'm a mage and used Mirror Image to deflect all of them for the short time to get the flame.

I've stolen all four Ally flames, took these qs, delivered to the guy in UC...and crap! No further q -> no crown -> no achievement... any idea, why?

I stole all the flames and turned their quests in, the quest did not appear for me. Any ideas?

I also re-stole a couple flames, but it said I had already completed the quest.
I also made a ticket, hopefully it will be fixed in today's maintenance. I don't mind restarting Kalimdor, completed the other areas, but I really don't want to have to re-steal all the capital flames.

Ticketing a GM helped. I had to re-do the SW and IF flame stealing. All fine now.

if you havent gotten completely bored or reading by this point....

After i got the flame in SW, i ran into the instance which is located right next to it called the Stockade, and then hearthed back to Dal.

Hope this helps, and saves you some running/ deing time =)

2 days ago, i did all the firestealing quests on my then level 51 shaman and reviced https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=23323#reward-from The Crown of the Fire Festival.
Today when i logged in, blizzard had reseted all the bonfirequests due to people doing these quests last year couldn't recive flowers for the achivements, and the same with the https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=9365 A Thief's Reward quest, so now i got https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=23323#reward-from The Crown of the Fire Festival x2 :O
So if you did this quest before the bonfire resets, you can recive 2 Crowns, for no use ofc, but anyway :)

Stormwind was the toughest. Thanks for the tip on swimming thru the canal after leaving the tram. I was able to mount and get to a canal easily with no opposition (must admit I used my little Gnome Alli Spy to scout things first, heh heh).

I equipped my Kalu'Ak Fishing Pole so I could breathe underwater, swam to the point nearest the flame (near the Stockades). The wall was very low and you can jump out of the canal easily here. Stay close to the right wall as you approach the flame (don't be on the side near the boats as this will alert an NPC or guard). Do not try to jump out of the water if mounted, that won't work.

I was able to do a quick check on the campers near the flame. Some of them started duelling (out of boredom, no doubt...what kind of loser camps the flames anyway) and I saw my chance. Jumped out of the water, ran a short distance to the flame (stay away from the guards on right!), grabbed the flame and hearthed before anyone even knew I was there.

Minimum required level for the quest- I do not believe it still has a level requirement.

Vaguely, I can recall, that last year it was level 50 (and I have completed the quest last year as well, but at level 70).
However, I have obtained today both the crown and the achievement on my level 44 priest alt.

If I had way too much time and nothing else to do, it would be a good idea to get the crown for the bank character.
I don't have to tell you the ""coolness"" effect of the thief's crown on the bank toon, don't I? ;)

i did 2 flames one day and then i think 2 days later did the other 2 flames and this didnt open up for me... someone in trade chat said i need to get all of them in one day... so im going back to do them again and ill see if that works

edit: i only had to do one of them again... odd

This was a breeze as level 68 frost dk. Just mounted my wolf and charged into SW, went into Stocks to lose chasers, ran out for flame (died once cause of guards) and then ran to tram where an 80 almsot got me but the tram left soon enough. The IF Fire is like 10 steps from tram, no one even shot me. I'm going to Darn and Exo now, but I know those'll be easier than SW and IF lol.

Even if you have the achievement from a prior year, you can do the 4 leadin quests again.

In fact, the NPC remembers that you turned in all 4 fires, and will let you complete this quest again.

Where do you get the quest? I have visited all the Festival Talespinners but he doesnt have the quest for me... do i need to extinguish the fires first?

Where do you get the quest? I have visited all the Festival Talespinners but he doesnt have the quest for me... do i need to extinguish the fires first?Yes

It does not appear that you have to do all four cities on the same day now. Was able to do Exodar and Darnassus on Monday and Ironforge and Stormwind on Wednesday and still got the quest and thus the achievement.

Just finished this year's Midsummer achievements.

Here's how I went about the King of the Fire Festival achievement.

NOTE: On all the capital flames, you will right click them and have a little fire animation put on you. The flame will be put directly into your bag. There is no dialogue that occurs like with the other flames.

TIP: Start this process at an off time. Anytime between 5-7 AM Server should be good.

1. Fly from Org to Zoram'Gar Outpost, then ran to Auberdine.
2. Take the boat from the right branch of the pier to Darnassus. Mount up.
3. The flame is to the right of the path in Rutheran Village on the way to the portal.
(I then had to run through Darn to get the flame at Dolanaar but if you're just doing the capitals, you don't even have to enter Darn. If you do enter Darn, keep an eye out for the few 80 elites that pat.)
4. Run back to the boat. Mount up. Once you hit the pier, guards will stop hitting you. Take the boat back to Auberdine.
5. Take the boat at the end of the pier (will be to your right as you exit the boat to Darnassus) to Exodar. Mount up.
6. Run into Exodar. As soon as you reach the bottom of the ramp youre running down, hop over the side of the stairs directly in front of you and into the Crystal Hall. The flame will be through the first set of buildings and to the right.
7. Run back out the way you came and take the boat back to Auberdine. I was in combat once I set foot into Exodar, so I couldn't mount up and just had to run out. By the time I was out of Exodar and out of combat, I had about half health.
8. Take the last boat at the pier (will be on your right as you exit the boat from Exodar) to Stormwind. It looks like a human ship instead of all purply so you'll know you've got the right one. Mount up.
9. Arriving at Stormwind Harbor, run up the series of ramps to the top level and run right into the city. The couple of guards I aggro'd ran off once I ran into the actual city. Harbor guards are level 65, while city guards are level 75.
10. Jump into the canal. As a warlock, I have underwater breathing so I could swim at the bottom the whole time. If you don't have access to a way to have underwater breathing, just come up for air when you need to. Take the right fork of the canal when you reach it and come up at the boat at the end. Mount up. Run across the bridge to your right, turn left, and take the flame just outside of Stockades. (During this step, I did not ever enter combat.)
11. Jump back into the canals. Swim past Cathedral Square (it's light brown on your minimap) and turn left into canal between Cathedral Square and the Dwarven District. (dark brown on your minimap) Jump out at the boat, mount up, and turn right. Cross the bridge on your right, then enter the Dwarven District on your left. Turn left and run to the back where the Deeprun Tram is.
12. Enter the tram and ride to Ironforge. Mount up.
13. Enter Ironforge from the tram and turn right, staying close to the right wall. You don't want to aggro the gnomes in the center of the room. Run into the Hall of Explorers. The flame will be in the center of the hall.
14. Run back to the tram. By this time, I had a lot of guards hitting me. (I don't know if it's because I dropped an AoE Fear in the Hall or if I got too close to the gnomes, but the gnome king, a level ? elite, aggro'd and killed me right by the entrance of the tram. If this happens to you, rez as close to the tram entrance as possible.)
15. Hearth inside the tram. In your bag, you should have four flames from the cities. Right click each to start their quests and turn them into a Festival Talespinner in Org or UC. After you turn them all in, you'll have a quest from the Talespinner that will give you the achievement.

And yes, you'll want to turn them all in at once.

Hope this helps! Happy Fire Festival!

Valfreya
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Lvl 80 Warlock
Thunderhorn

You definately don't have to hand all the flames in on the same day. It looks like Blizz reset the event last year after it had started so people lost existing flame achievments making some people believe that it was a daily quest. It is not.

Just did this on my hpally. It's much easier with flying.

There is no boat to the Nelf place that I could find, but you don't die from fatigue flying straight. I don't even remember Darnassus, I mounted, flew in, mounted again and flew out.

The one in Exodar is in the first cubby to your right and you can use the mines on the left-side of that room to shake the guards and mount up again.

Stormwind in is in the mage quarter, you can fly in, grab it, jump into the canal to shake the guards.

Best I could come up with in Ironforge was to fly in, grab it and dash for the lava in the middle. Some swimming should shake the guards, but the damage from the lava (about 600 a tick on int plate at 85) makes mounting up hard. Maybe one of the cubbies would shake threat too?

Ive now done this for two classes, so here is my view on the difficulty from perspective of:

Horde Lv85 Protection Paladin (dungeon blues with a few purples)
Horde Lv85 Elemental Shaman (newbie 85, mostly green quest gear)

Darnassus
Getting there: With Master Riding you can fly directly across the sea from Auberdine.
Paladin: Fly down and click, no guards nearby, NPCs dont attack, generally few players here (easy)
Shaman: Same as Paladin

Exodar
Getting there: I tried flying directly across from Teldrassil, but kept running in to an invisible wall or got too much fatigue. Instead took the Alliance boat from Ruttheran Village. If you land on the back of the boat near the captain the guards patrolling the boat wont bother you.

When you reach Azuremyst isle you will find that flying mounts dont work, so its ground mounts only here.

There are two entrances to the city Exodar:
The entrance nearer the boat is unguarded but you enter the city a long way from the flame.
The second entrance is guarded by a couple of lv85 (non-elite). I found that if you just ride past and ignore them about half way down the tunnel you loose agro, so you can ignore the fact that it is guarded as it shouldnt cause you much concern.

Paladin: I took the guarded entrance and rode straight down to the fire. I had 2 or 3 guards chasing me. I bubbled and clicked the fire and then ran back up the ramp on foot. Lost agro about half way up the tunnel again and was able to remount (or you could hearthstone out).

Shaman: Also took the guarded entrance, but I found it much harder. I think my shield counted as an attack and so soon I had a lot of guards after me. I managed to click the flame even under attack, but died soon after trying to run out. I reincarnated, healed up and made a run for it but got slowed by guards and killed again. Resed at the spirit healer and hearthstoned
Thoughts: Attacking or using any ability which affects the guards seems to make things much worse (more guards come). If you have any kind of on-hit effect it will probably make it easier if you just turn it off.

Stormwind
Getting there: You can fly directly over the fire (watch out for the flying patrols) and wait for your moment to go down. Stormwind is busy so you might have to wait a while.

Paladin: I got attacked by a guard immediately I hit the ground (didnt see where he came from) so had to bubble and click. I then ran north, jumped in the canal and swam to the west a bit and guard lost agro. I was then able to mount and fly off.

Shaman: Landed and got attacked by the festival NPCs Tried to kill them and this brought many guards Managed to click the fire (took a few tries) and then ran north for the canal.
Made it in with low life remaining, but unlike with my Paly two guards followed me in to the canal and I was forced to kill them (lv85 non-elite). Healed up, mounted and flew off.

Ironforge
Getting there: You can go via the tramway in Stormwind or fly in to Ironforge via the tunnels the Alliance flightpath uses.

Paladin: I choose to go via the tramway from Stormwind. On reaching Ironforge you can use flying mounts. Easy I thought, but I had forgotten the flying patrols and one knocked me off mount taking about half my health and dropping me in some guards. A total mess up, but I just ignored the guards and ran to the fire, bubbled, clicked then ran back to the tram and heartstoned.

Shaman: Flew in to the Ironforge via the flightpath tunnels. Got all the way to the fire without any agro (still flying). Landed and again had trouble as I was immediatly attacked by guards and NPCs Managed to click the flame and then ran for the tram. Once inside, I hearthstoned out.
Thoughts: Cant explain why Shaman and Paladin seem to have differing experiences with the amount of Guards/NPCs attacking them, but they did...
Of the two routes, flying in via the flightpath tunnels was easiest.

NB: Edits were to add Shaman experiences (Originally only contained Paladin)

For Horde:

I'm seeing that a lot of people are having trouble with the Ironforge flame; here's an easy way to do it WITHOUT resorting to the tram:

If you're familiar with the Alliance flight path leading into Ironforge, you'll notice that there are several large openings/tunnels on TOP of the main entrance to the city. Use these aerial tunnels to scout out the flying patrols (they're very easy to spot from here), and you just have to make a beeline to the Hall of Explorers (which is where the flame is). You can very easily avoid the guards and land, pick up the flame, mount back up, and be on your merry way!

Alot of people are talking about not having access to 3 of the 4 quests to turn in the flame. You need to right click the flame icons of each city in your bags to access their respective quests. On the Exodar flame it has the exclamation point that suggests that this item starts a quest, but on the others it does not. So right click on the other flames as you would for the Exodar. Cheers!

This is a pretty easy achievement to do as a hunter as long as you have a flying mount. (I did it at 85)

For stormwind I simply flew up extremely high so not attract the guards on gryphons until I saw the flame. I flew down, grabbed the flame and let myself die. It also helps to have your pet out to take aggro so taking the flame doesn't get interrupted.

Darnassus was probably the easiest. I took a flight path to Whisperwind grove in Felwood then flew through Darkshore and across the ocean until I got to Teldrassil. You should be able to get there before fatigue kills you on a regular flying mount. Once there I flew really high or Darnassus until I saw the flame, then dropped down and grabbed. I didn't get attacked by anything so I just got back on my flying mount.

While still in Teldrassil, go back to the boats and take the west boat dock to get to the Exodar (As 85, I didn't get attacked by the guards on the boat). The only major disadvantage to this area is you can't fly. I simply rode my ground mount until I got to the front entrance. Then I simply camouflaged passed the peacekeepers and into the first main hall until I got to the first 4 guards. I set out three traps near where they were then pulled and killed. After that I went back into camo and took a right and followed my map until I got to the flame. I stayed as far away from peacekeepers as possible and didn't get attacked again. Then I got the flame and hearthed home.
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Ironforge was probably the hardest but if you have a flying mount you can go through and not get killed until maybe at the flame. Fly in the front entrance and the get as high in the air as possible. Keep flying straight and you will see these holes in the wall at the top that get you farther in the building without anyone seeing you. There are two sets of them and just go through until you get to the flame. Once I got to the Hall of Explorers I got targeted by a flying guard. I dropped down to the flame and instantly got attacked but as soon as my pet came out he took all the aggro. I was able to take the flame and hearth home without dying once.

This achievment is also probably the easiest early in the morning when most servers are dead. I got all the flames between 7-10 am and the only place I saw players was stormwind. The other areas I only had to worry about guards.

Yes, it is possible to get this quest and the crown on a low level character. I just completed this on a level 20 Orc Hunter. There appears to be no level requirement for this quest. Good luck!

For easy peasy Ironforge, this is what I dwowhead:1,id:

• Use the Twilight Highlands portal then go to Stormwind
• Once you have ember from Stormwind, go to the Dwarven District and take the Deeprun Tram (go ahead and take the tram, there are literally no guards so you'll be fine)
• Once you've successfully zoned out of the tram area and into Ironforge, immediately mount up on your flying mount and fly to the right, out of Tinkertown and should be immediately in front of you :)

Hope this helps!

I've tried to finish this on a level 75 character but i keep dying for the Stormwind Flame. The lvl 90 guards always show up and 1 shot me. The other players aren't the problem, but it's the npcs that call the guards. Anyone know a trick to get this?

Edit: I just finished it. If you have a level 90, then use it to kill Cooking Trainer Robby Flay and the other NPCs around that might call guards. Bario Matelli didn't call guards and he is not able to be attacked, so ignore him. Then log into your low level character to get it. Good luck.