Ahune & His Ice Stone (It Has Melted)
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iTZKooPA on Monday, June 22, 2009 - 20 Comments Tags: Vanity pets, ahune, bueller?, captured flame, critters, did you see that one episode of sliders?, does anyone read tags?, midsummer fire festival, non-combat pets, psa, public service announcement, scorched stone, seasonal encounters, seasonal events, summonable bosses
iTZKooPA on Monday, June 22, 2009 - 20 Comments Tags: Vanity pets, ahune, bueller?, captured flame, critters, did you see that one episode of sliders?, does anyone read tags?, midsummer fire festival, non-combat pets, psa, public service announcement, scorched stone, seasonal encounters, seasonal events, summonable bosses 
If you are a regular to the Project Lore Blog then you probably already know my in-game addiction, non-combat pets. The cute designs and animations of most of the vanity pets have allowed my love of animals IRL (I've owned or own ferrets, various aquatic beings, cats, dogs, turtles, and so on) to easily segway into the digital realm. I was so bad in the early days of WoW that I had two bags dedicated to the useless little critters. Image explaining my lack of fire pots to my hardcore raiding buddies because I grabbed my bag of cockroaches, cats and parrots (my first in-game pet) instead. Woops.
With the Midsummer Fire Festival back in action I've once again trudged off to Slave Pens to melt Ahune. All in an attempt to score a Scorched Stone, that, according to WoWHead, has <2% chance of dropping. I began my audacious task this morning with a bunch of guildies, and if the pet dropped our first round of attempts you better believe this post would have a much different tone. Obviously, the mini MC mob continues to elude me. And my attempts are already done for the day on Solidsamm.
Here's the issue with Ahune, and the only piece of loot that keeps him interesting, people lie to get to him. Don't believe me? Just spam "LFG Ahune Must Have Summon" and see how many people will @ you who either A) have used their daily summon or B) haven't done the quick quests to get the summon yet. The rule that I have always gone by, and been asked to comply with, is that if you don't have the summon (or can't provide one on an alt) then you aren't allowed in the group. The last thing pet collectors would want is to lose the Scorched Stone roll, probably the only one they will see in the short time span, to a random unappreciative player who didn't even contribute an attempt. But it's difficult to tell who actually has a summon left and who doesn't. The only trick I've seen is to make sure that your quest log says everyone else in the party is on the same quest. Not a flawless system, as they may not have picked it up yet. Anyone have any other ideas?
The moral of the story is that if you can't contribute a summon, then DO NOT GO TO AHUNE. I am even referring to guildies. If you aren't absolutely 100% positive that you can pass such a sought after item, then don't go under any circumstance. At level 80, with a crappy non-80 healer, the encounter is ezmode (Ahune didn't scale up for Wrath), so they don't need your "help." Outside of the pet and the achievement, there is no reason to go to the Ice Lord. Save yourself the drama and just sit it out.
This has been a Public Service Announcement by Pet Lovers Everywhere (TM).
Titles (Alliance/Horde) are not for me, but I am sure there are many of you out there already hard at work on your respected recognition. Outside of Ahune's sacred gift I am working on a Captured Flame for the priest and enjoying the fire works, juggling and general summery fun that the Festival brings to Azeroth. Perhaps I should work on my thievery...What are you goals?
The Midsummer Fire Festival ends July 5.
Reader Comments (20)
yeah i always enjoy the fire festival its pretty fun
i want PL to down Ahune :P
already got my title
On the first time i did the quest for the achievments, got te flame kepper title in one day, i went to Ahune for the very first time and guess what.... i got the pet...... and the greedy achievement at the same time LOL
Oh that is lucky Niko. Link your armory pl0x
I will be getting my Flame Keeper title today, only have outland and Ahune left to go.
@DeJayDieSeL:
They tried man, they tried. (Go to their first Slave Pens Vid xD)
Damn you Niko, leave now before we chase you down with jealousy >D
I prefer to collect mounts, as you can't ride the pets, but as a segue to getting a segway mount, I thought you were talking about ridable things, until I realized that the gnome to common translator was probably sabotaged by those pesky goblin engineers.
Haha, you caught my lame joke and RPed it. Props to you VanFlicke!
1st time ever doing this boss and i won the pet :)
I have been more interested in the frostscythe personally. As a lock i have always wanted to have a cool grim reaper look and all the scythe's bar 2 in game are polearms. Anyway 3 runs later, (couple of dodgy wipes thanks to a) someone starting it before half the people were in and b) no-one having a clue what to do, thank god for the PL video that i knew what to do and could save attempt 3) and bingo staff drops and i am one happy lock.
oh so ahune cant be soloed?
@cocopuff
Nope. Though the level cap is now 80 (with some killer gear to boot), Ahune still has his elite and non-elite groups of adds . Even a former guildie of mine, with his pretty good plate armor, couldn't solo it.
I want the fricking enchant. Unless they pulled it off his loot table.
i have been downing ahune for only 2 days now and i have seen the pet 4 times. The first time i saw it was the first time we killed him, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th times were all in a row on the 2nd day, out of 8 kills i have seen the pet 4 times.
There were lots of bugs getting the title. Especially the A Theif's Reward quest. I had to get the darnassus and iron forge flames twice. Also, I managed to do the bonfires twice over and managed to get enough blossoms to obtain the midsummer garments and both the brazier and pet. All in one year too ^^.
that makes me happy jing that you went though so much torouble to dishonnor the alliance if i cant stop you ill make it very hard for you
Heh, here's an interesting little trick I just discovered last night, that will help you have more Burning Blossoms to get the dancing achivement as well as another item.
So, to get the dancing achievement you need to wear all 3 of the Midsummer items and dance for 1 minute.. What I noticed is that after "dancing" and getting the achievement one of the items was able to be returned for full price.
So, if your just after items and achievements, I'd recommend buying the 200 blossom item last of the set of 3 (I think it's the shoes) and put them on, do the dance and get the achievement and sell the 200 Blossom item back for a full refund, giving you 200 more blossoms to purchase other items.
I'm not quite sure how the refund works, but it looks like it's only available for the last item purchased.
@Jing*
My GM had the same problem as yours, only instead of having to do Darnassus twice, it was Stormwind. (Poor guy...)
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