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Festival Lantern
Festival Lantern
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
Binds when used
Use: Teaches you how to summon this companion.
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Uncommon
Yes
Horde
Air (flies alongside flying mount)
Hovers about.
Vocalizations (on-click)
None
3 allowed
Cataclysm
Patch 4.3.0 | Posted: January 22, 2012
The Alliance version of this pet is the Lunar Lantern.
Because this pet is Bind on Use, it is possible to learn both versions of the Lunar Festival companions on a single character.
Vs. 
Flying
Vs. 
Mechanical
Critter
50% from Dragonkin abilities
33% from Aquatic abilities
The light from each lantern honors the soul of an ancestor spirit. During the Lunar Festival, these ghostly elders pass along their wisdom to the current generation.
Soul Ward and Flash are good for damage control, enabling you to use Burn or Beam repeatedly.
Maybe not so nice than alliance version, but still a lantern :P
Middleground stats. Flash and Light is a nice combination, especially when the opposing pet can't switch. Burn hits pretty hard, especially nice vs mechanicals, else use Beam and birds will truly fear you even with your non impressive stats. If you chose to use Illuminate be sure to have some other pet that benefits from it since the Lantern itself does not make much use of it.
Identical to Enchanted Lantern and Lunar Lantern, battle wise.
It's very easy to get both lanterns (H&A) w/o farming coins on 2 opposing characters or heading for the AH. (This is assuming you already have one faction's lantern for yourself.) Obtain 50 coins and buy a second lantern (Save extra coins in your bank from year to year). Add it to your journal. Log on to a character of the opposing faction (lvl 1 will do) and cage one of the lanterns. Stand in Org or SW and offer to trade with someone who has an extra of the lantern you seek. Even swap.
Somewhat disappointed to discover that the Festival Lantern had magically transformed from the rare (that was indicated by the font color) to an uncommon when I summoned it for the first time. Glad to have it but, not sure it was worth the time and effort for an uncommon.
I leveled one up, gave it a magic stone, and it's a pretty decent counter to the supercharge 1-shot mechanical pets added in patch 5.1.
Can't be 1-shotted, due to the magic passive.
Flash is fairly reliable at making the enemy pet miss, and its basic elemental attack hits mechanicals for about 450 damage.
You have to die a lot. Escpecially if there are high level guards which kill you instantly after respawning. You can go to Northend, too for some left over.
1. Have the elder in the target (/tar elder xyz)
2. Use the "Interact with Target" keybind
3. Use following macro
/script SelectGossipAvailableQuest(1)
/script CompleteQuest()
/script GetQuestReward()
I sometimes had a problem that the quest was not completed, so I had to click fast on the complet
#1 Install TomTom addon
#2 Copy and paste the macro formulas from the link (up to 255 characters per macro; you will wind up with several macros)
#3 Click all of your macros on your toon. This feeds the waypoints into TomTom
#4 Type "/cway" and TomTom will show the nearest waypoint you have not yet visited.
Loading problems? Make sure TomTom configuration is set to allow waypoints in different continents.