Midsummer Fire Festival is upon us once again! So what's in it for bears?

I don't know about anyone else, but this is one of my favorite holidays in WoW, second only to Brewfest.  Not only is there a ton of gold to easily be made by simply going around to all the zones and honoring your factions fires and desicrating the oposing factions fires, but there is Lord Ahune!  Lord Ahune has been a giant loot pinata for several years now.  Although we now get the extra fun stuff form a scatchel once a day, we can still grind out this boss fight for a shiny new cloak.

This is a good holiday for an easy upgrade for tanks.  If you are a feral tank, you will want to keep you eye out for:


The Frost Lord's War Cloak
Binds when picked up
Back
604 Armor
+180 Agility
+270 Stamina
Requires Level 85
Item Level 353
Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 137 (0.76% @ L85).
Equip: Increases your haste rating by 91 (0.71% @ L85).




Although it does not have the perfect stats, a nice back up to grab if you have not seen the War Cloak drop would be:



Icebound Cloak
Binds when picked up
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981 Armor
+180 Strength
+269 Stamina
Requires Level 85
Item Level 353
Equip: Increases your dodge rating by 143 (0.81% @ L85).


Although it does have strength on it, which will no longer be a desired stat for bears after 4.2 hit, it does still have nice stam and dodge stats on it. So if you see this drop, grab it if you can and just keep grinding for the War Cloak.  This way, if it doesn't drop, atleast you still got a rather nice tank cloak upgrade.



Lord Ahune also drops some items that would make a nice offspec addition. The Shroud of Winter's Chill:


Shroud of Winter's Chill
Binds when picked up
Back
604 Armor
+256 Stamina
+180 Intellect
Requires Level 85
Item Level 353
Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 120 (0.67% @ L85).
Equip: Increases your haste rating by 120 (0.94% @ L85).


would make a great Moonkin cloak and the Cloak of the Frigid Winds would make an excellent resto cloak.


Cloak of the Frigid Winds
Binds when picked up
Back
604 Armor
+256 Stamina
+180 Intellect
+120 Spirit
Requires Level 85
Item Level 353
Equip: Increases your haste rating by 120 (0.94% @ L85).




The oddest weapon though is the Frostscythe of Lord Ahune.  Although  it does give spell power, it also comes with a ton of haste, critical strike and a whopping 700 stamina!  That's almost double what good tank staves have. This begins to make me think that if your stats are high enough, you could probably play around with this as a fun tank weapon, although I'd probably avoid using it in your next raid, lol.


Frostscythe of Lord Ahune
Binds when picked up
Unique
Two-Hand Staff
559 - 840 Damage Speed 3.20
(218.6 damage per second)
+700 Stamina
Durability 120 / 120
Requires Level 85
Item Level 353
Equip: Increases your critical strike rating by 207 (1.15% @ L85).
Equip: Increases your haste rating by 207 (1.62% @ L85).
Equip: Increases spell power by 1849.
Use: Let the Frostscythe's chill flow through you. (1 Min Cooldown)


So take your time, have some fun and enjoy the next two weeks of Midsummer Fire Festival.  You can make easy gold and get some nice and fun upgrade here.  Maybe ever get taht elusive pet Frigid Frostling.