The Midsummer Fire Festival is a seasonal event that celebrates the hottest season of the year. It starts on the (earthly) northern summer solstice, and lasts about two weeks (June 21 – July 5). It is similar to the Lunar Festival and other holidays, featuring some useful buffs, food, and toys to play with.
[Brazier of Dancing Flames] 350 - Creates a fiery, dancing female draenei who reacts to player emotes.
/kiss: The dancer does the flirt animation.
/dance: You get a "Fiery Seduction" buff that turns you into a full sized version of the dancing draenei woman.
/bow: and it will bow in response too
/wave: and it waves back.
/silly: makes the dancing flame laugh. :)
Starting with 2010's edition of the festival, Blizzard has changed the way seasonal bosses are accessed. In previous years, a quest (typically) would lead you to a dungeon where you would find that event's boss and were able to summon him a limited number of times via quests to farm rare, exotic items. Now, seasonal boss encounters will be accessed through the Dungeon Finder tool, with any related quests now being found inside of the dungeon. Players will instantly be teleported to the associated dungeon, which means no more long treks to out-of-the-way dungeons like Scarlet Monastery or Blackrock Depths!
Any special items that dropped off a seasonal boss in addition to his normal drop table (such as mounts from Apothecary Hummel or Headless Horseman) will now only have a chance to drop from a loot bag which is awarded upon killing the boss for the first time per day (basically, the same way a Random Heroic Dungeon only awards Emblem of Frost. Players can only receive a single loot bag per day, but will be able to re-queue for the boss in order to farm the more 'domestic' drops. It is unknown what sort of drop rates these bags will have, or if you will still earn reward gold for each subsequent kill (my guess is no, seems rather exploitable). This means no more hours upon hours of farming for the most rare of items - every player in the party will have a chance to get a rare item out of the loot bag only once per day!
Lord Ahune can be queued by selecting "The Frost Lord Ahune" in the Dungeon Finder tool, and upon his defeat you will receive Satchel of Chilled Goods and 1986 (at level 80), as well as 2 Emblem of Frost for your first kill of the day.
Finding a bonfire of your own faction and speaking to the appropriate NPC will reward you with 5 Burning Blossom and 6 63 at level 80.
Finding a bonfire of the opposite faction and using (stamping upon) it will reward 10 Burning Blossom and 13 23 at level 80. All opposing faction bonfires may be doused without pulling guards, providing you are sufficiently high level, making this a fast and easy way to generate Midsummer Festival currency. Dousing another faction's bonfire will flag you for PVP combat.
The bonfires of Capital cities have separate quests and you cannot 'Honor the Flame' of your own faction's Capitals.
As there are 32 Alliance Fires and 30 Horde Fires, you can get as Alliance 608 86 and 460 Blossoms, and as Horde 622 26 and 470 Blossoms, not counting quests or capital bonfires.
Ribbon Pole
At each bonfire you will find a ribbon pole, which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly (such as the effect of Whirlwind). In addition to being rather hilarious, you will gain the Ribbon Dance buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the ribbon pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration (after 1 minute of twirling) and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a Burning Blossom into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the Fire Festival Fury buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level.
As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a Burning Blossom into it will grant a zone-wide buff Bonfire's Blessing which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.
Torch Tossing or Torch Tossing Start & End:Master Flame Eater or Master Fire Eater
You must aim and throw Practice Torches at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like a Hunter's Mark; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with Burning Blossom x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 80).
Torch Catching or Torch Catching Start & End:Master Flame Eater or Master Fire Eater
You must light the Unlit Torches at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with Juggling Torch x5 and Burning Blossom x5.
Dance at the ribbon pole for 60 seconds while wearing completed Midsummer set. You will need to purchase all the Midsummer Reveler set first. It will cost you a total of 400
Complete the quest, "A Thief's Reward", by stealing the flames from your enemy's capital cities. Try to do this quest during off-peak hours, you can complete it solo just by doing suicide runs and run back as a ghost.
Juggle 40 torches in 15 seconds in Dalaran - Go to Dalaran, and keybind your torch then keep clicking on the ground below your character as fast as you can. This will require a low latency to complete.
Starting with 2010's edition of the festival, Blizzard has changed the way seasonal bosses are accessed. In previous years, a quest (typically) would lead you to a dungeon where you would find that event's boss and were able to summon him a limited number of times via quests to farm rare, exotic items. Now, seasonal boss encounters will be accessed through the Dungeon Finder tool, with any related quests now being found inside of the dungeon. Players will instantly be teleported to the associated dungeon, which means no more long treks to out-of-the-way dungeons like Scarlet Monastery or Blackrock Depths!
at level 80. 
