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WoW: Love is in the Air Guide
Buffs can be dispelled, but sockets are forever. That was the line from the Valentine’s Day World of Warcraft commercial that aired during the days of WoW: The Burning Crusade. Now the holiday has come back around but this time with a vengeance. No longer do you pick up chocolates from the guards or find out who’s spiked the perfume. A mysterious group of Goblins called the Crown Company has taken over the holiday and the Steemwheedle Cartel is none too pleased.
Love is in the Air runs from February 7th, 2010 to February 20th, 2010.
What’s New
A lot has changed and the holiday has been revamped to remove all of the frustrating bits out of it. No longer do you have to hope you get the right item from a guard or sit AFK for hours at a time while a debuff wears off.
- Guards no longer give out gifts and “Heartbroken” no longer exists.
- Innkeepers have no role at all in the new Love is in the Air holiday.
- You can now do four daily quests for your capital cities in addition to other daily quests once you’ve unlocked them.
- Love Tokens are now used to purchase all of the goods that used to come from Pledges. You can get these from daily quests or by farming any mob for XP to make bracelets.
- Many of the achievements have changed, but they’re rewarded retroactively (so you won’t lose any achievements).
Love Tokens and Charm Bracelets
How to get stuff to buy some stuff.
Love Tokens are the currency used during the holiday and are obtained through daily quests or farming enemies for Lovely Charms. They can be traded into the Lovely Merchant for holiday themed loot.
Lovely Charms
Travel to Stormwind or Orgrimmar and locate the Crown Company. They’re outside of the auction house and are usually surrounded by people. Start by talking to the flying goblin and picking up a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit. This will allow you to pickup “Lovely Charms” from any enemy that would give you XP (so green or higher). It’s got a random chance and the items automatically go into your inventory. Just keep it there. Once you have 10 you can turn them into a Lovely Charm Bracelet. This is the objective of the four “A Gift for the …” daily quests and can be turned directly into Love Tokens.
Daily Quests
There are a total of six daily quests (five to start, 1 you can unlock) and an additional daily quest to do the new boss fight. Not counting bracelets and awards from the dungeon daily, you can have a total of 30 tokens a day. That means you’ll only need about 8 days of farming just the daily quests to get everything you’ll need.
“A Gift for the …”
This quest is available in every city. It’s easy as pie, make a bracelet (see the “Lovely Charms” section above) and take it to that faction leader for the city you picked the quest up in. It’s probably best to take up daily quests in Northrend while you farm for the bracelets for some more cash.
“A Cloudlet of Classy Cologne”
Spray 10 people with the Crown Cologne Sprayer. Anyone without a heart above their head can be sprayed.
“ Crushing the Crown”
Available once you do the quest line (see below), this quest has you go out into Crystalsong Forest and look for 5 Crown Hoodlums and blow up a Chemical Wagon with the given item. The bomb is a onetime use item, so be sure you’re not in a raid while you do otherwise you’ll have to go back to Stormwind/Org and pick the quest up again. If you ARE NOT level 80, the quest will change:
Lovely Merchant’s Available Items
| NAME | LOVE TOKENS | DESCRIPTION |
| Love Token | 1 Bracelets | Used to buy items from the Lovely Merchant |
| Lovely Rose | 5 | Places a rose in the mouth of a male or behind the ear of a female player |
| Bravado Cologne | 1 | +75 Attack Power buff |
| Stalwart Cologne | 1 | +20 Defense Rating |
| Wizardry Cologne | 1 | +45 Spellpower |
| Victory Perfume | 1 | +75 Attack Power |
| Forever Perfume | 1 | +20 Defense Rating |
| Enchantress Cologne | 1 | +45 Spellpower |
| Bag of Candies | 2 | Has 10 charges, gives a random candy. |
| 5 Box of Chocolates | 10 | Contains chocolates. |
| 5 Handful of Rose Petals | 2 | Throws roses on a player. |
| 5 Love Rockets | 5 | Shoots off a rocket that makes a heart shape. |
| 5 Silver Shafted Arrows | 5 | Shoots a random player with a temporary pet. |
| Lovely Dress Box | 20 | A box that will give you a random lovely dress. |
| Dinner Suit Box | 20 | A box that will give you a random dinner suit. |
| Romantic Picnic Basket | 10 | Makes a picnic basket that other players can sit at. |
| Love Fool | 10 | Distracts enemies, can be /pity 'd for an achievement. See below. |
Total Tokens Needed
Assuming you DO NOT use other player's items you will need about 100 tokens total, give or take a few. For everything for the holiday you'll need about 150 and that includes Perma-Peddle.
Questline Walkthrough
Head to Orgrimmar or Stormwind and look for the Steemwheelde. The first quest you will get is called “Something Stinks” which will ask you to scan 5 guards with the given item. Look for guards with a purple hue and use the item on them. When you return you’ll get the quest “Pilfering Perfume.” You’ll then be turned into a goblin who CAN NOT STOP. Head out of the gates in either Org or Stormwind and go to the left (for both cities). There will be some weighted companion cube looking boxes and some Forsaken standing around them. Just keep moving, walk near them and get the item, then run back to the detective.
Once that is done you’ll be given quests to find “Snivel Rustrocket.” Alright, for Horde you’re going to want to pick-up the quest “Snivel’s Sweetheart” and go to Roka at Gotri’s Travelling Goods in the Drag. There turn it in to her and visit the bank, the barber shop (it’s in the cleft of shadow), and the auction house for “Hot On The Trail.” Roka will be furious and send you to find Snivel at the zeppelin tower (the old world one, not the one to Northrend). Travel there, speak with him, and it’s done.
Alliance players will want to seek out Marion Sutton in the Gilded Rose (Trade District) and then visit the bank, barber shop, and the auction house for “Hot On the Trail.” Again, like the Horde you’ll need to go the Alliance Harbor and speak with Snivel in order to finish this questline. Return to the detective to unlock the instance daily breadcrumb and the Crushing the Crown daily.
That is it for quests for this holiday.
You’ve Been Served – Apothecary Hummel and the Seasonal Bosses
Apothecary Hummel, Baxter, and Frye reside within Shadowfang Keep and are awaiting your challenge. You do not need to do the questline before you can pick up this daily quest. The bosses have a very simple mechanic. Apothecary Hummel uses Alluring Perfume and does a standard melee attack (that doesn’t hit for a lot). Apothecary Baxter uses Irresistible Cologne and does a standard melee attack. Apothecary Frye does nothing but throwing bottles around on the ground and hitting random people (green for Cologne, purple for Perfume).
You’ll be given Perfume and Cologne Neutralizer (multi use items). Wear one of them during the fight, it’ll neutralize the aura of one of the two bosses depending on which they use (Hummel/Perfume Baxter/Cologne). A tank doesn’t need to be a spec’d tank, just someone who can take some hits from the bosses.
Random Crazed Apothecaries will spawn and explode doing about 3k damage to whoever is nearby, so split up.
Most of this fight is avoiding the stuff on the ground and nuking the bosses down as fast as possible. You can two man it as long as you’re smart about moving and one tank keeps both bosses on them. For bigger groups, you can have one strong melee DPS like a Warrior or a Paladin hold aggro on one boss while the tank picks up the other boss. If you have a decent tank then he can use one of the neutralizers and just hold both bosses.
Make sure not to stand in clouds on the ground that you’re not neutralized for.
DO NOT pull the bosses up the stairs. They will reset.
Your quest item is CONSUMED whenever you start the quest. So if you wipe or reset it then you’ll lose your chance to do it that day.
