Post-LIITA'13

Just like the Lunar Festival aftermath, I am still in the same boat I was in then. Considering it's only been two weeks, this shouldn't come as a surprise. I was able to log in long enough to down the boss a few times for necklaces, but not for much else. 800+ ms (and climbing) was not enjoyable.

No luck on the Big Love Rocket.

Paragon: Love Fool of '09. Received Toxic Wasteling with account-wide pets.

Railene: Love Fool of '10.

Xardion: Love Fool of '11.

Laviana: Love Fool of '11. Tackled the Apothecary Trio in '12.

Arcia: Love Fool of '11. Currently the only holder of The Heartbreaker.

Sollexi: Love Fool of '12.

Monk: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. No progress made on any achievements. 90-95% possibility of completion in '14.

Shaman: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

Hunter: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 25-50% possibility of completion in '14.

Warrior: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 85-90% possibility of completion in '14.

Warlock: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 15-25% possibility of completion in '14.

Warrior II: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 15-25% possibility of completion in '14.

Paladin: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 0% possibility of completion in '14.

Horde Paladin: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

Horde Warrior: Unofficial Love Fool of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

Due to internet restrictions, I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy on this information due to not being able to log in and check. I'm using the data collected from last year's festival to generate this new information.

Love Is In The Air '13

Like last time, due to the new posting model for these holiday guides, all information within is subject to change after the holiday event goes live on the servers. Any changes will be made and corrected shortly after their discovery and all changes will be notated in the comments below.

The Love is in the Air week-long holiday event is based on the real-life holiday of Valentine's Day. The first incarnation of Love is in the Air was more interesting than the current model, because the event was based around using the turn-ins as a way to show player "endorsement" of their favorite Alliance/Horde leader. You also had to give gifts to the guardsmen around the towns and received presents or the Heartbroken debuff in return that prevented you from amassing limitless amounts of presents.

The current model for this holiday involves farming mobs around the world within your level range to gather the materials needed to make the items required for the quest turn-ins. Rinse, repeat, etc. After the gathering process is over, you use the rewards from those quests to then purchase the achievement-related items, the pets, and other such awesome commodities from the holiday vendors. Oh, and you get to fight the boss trio for even more rewards.

Most of the holidays now use this model.

1. Uncommon Scents/Uncommon Scents: The Steamwheedle Cartel suspects foul play of the Crown Chemical Co. for their shady activities and a representative has been sent to Stormwind City and Orgrimmar to fill you in on the investigation. A Junior Detective is waiting near the initial Crown Chemical Co. camps to point you toward the Snagglebolt goblin.
2. Something Stinks/Something Stinks: Your respective Snagglebolt will hand you a Snagglebolt's Air Analyzer to run around town and use on six (6) guards that are covered in purple fumes.
3. Pilfering Perfume/Pilfering Perfume: Snagglebolt wants supplies. The Crown Chemical Co. stockpile for both factions are just outside the main gates of Stormwind and Orgrimmar and to the left. You will receive a goblin disguise (Snagglebolt's Cloaking Device) to cover your tracks so you can get Crown Chemical Co. Supplies before they notice you're not part of the company. While disguised, you will be unable to mount or transform, you are only able to run there in less than two (2)minutes. Return to your Snagglebolt to move on to the next step of the investigation.
4. Fireworks At The Gilded Rose/Snivel's Sweetheart: The Crown Chemical Co. Supplies contained chemical-filled rockets that Snagglebolt recognizes the design as being one created by Snivel Rustrocket. To locate his whereabouts, you're sent to his "girlfriend" for more information. Horde players are sent down into the Drag to talk to Roka at Gotri's Traveling Goods, Alliance players are sent to the Gilded Rose to speak with Marion Sutton.
5. Hot On The Trail/Hot On The Trail: Snivel is apparently a liar. The annoyed ladies send you on a chase around either city to try and locate Snivel. Stop in at the bank, the auction house, and the barber shop of Stormwind or Orgrimmar to catch him fleeing the scene at each turn. Return to the ladies to discover that they think Snivel is trying to run out on them to the South Seas!
6. A Friendly Chat.../A Friendly Chat...: Alliance players need to head straight to the docks and catch Snivel waiting for his boat. Horde players need to head to the eastern zeppelin tower in town. Once you've caught up to Snivel, he'll pass over Snivel's Ledger,which Snagglebolt wants to look at for his investigation. With the information within, he decides that it's time to take on the big boys.
• Man On The Inside/Man On The Inside: To perform this quest, you need to be level 89, as you'll need to have access to the holiday boss fight. If you're able to get this quest, you'll be directed by Snagglebolt to speak with Investigator Fezzen Brasstack inside of Shadowfang Keep.
• You've Been Served: After meeting up with Fezzen, he tasks you with serving the Apothecary Trio with a Court Subpoena from your Standard Apothecary Serving Kit. This leads you into the holiday boss fight that you should, for the best possible results, be tackling in a group.
• Something is in the Air (and it Ain't Love)/Something is in the Air (and it Ain't Love): Upon defeating the trio, with tactics that will be listed a little further down in the guide, you will receive a Faded Lovely Greeting Card/Faded Lovely Greeting Card to return to your specific Snagglebolt. With all that build-up, the questline ends rather unceremoniously with this final turn-in.

While you just completed the holiday questline, you probably also noticed during your time spent in your capital city of choice, that there were some daily quests that you could also be doing. Aside from the farming, these daily quests are the only other way of receiving the holiday currency of Love Tokens. You're going to need more than a few for your first rodeo.

Public Relations Agent

• While performing the three following dailies, if at any point you attempt to use one of the items on a target that has the debuff Sample Satisfaction, you will not receive credit for the item use. Each of these dailies also rewards 5 Love Tokens. 
• A Cloudlet of Classy Cologne: Douse ten (10) targets with the Crown Cologne Sprayer.
• A Perfect Puff of Perfume: Douse ten (10) targets with the Crown Perfume Sprayer.
• Bonbon Blitz: Force ten (10) targets to ingest chocolate with the Crown Chocolate Sampler.

Inspector Snip Snagglebolt/Detective Snap Snagglebolt

• The following quests are determined based upon your current level and the bracket that corresponds with that particular level. Each quest does require a bit of travel, so be prepared to go somewhere "exotic" to kill these Crown Chemical Co. employees and destroy their wagons with Snagglebolt's Khorium Bombs. As with the sampler dailies, you will be rewarded with 5 Love Tokens and a sum of gold.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 5 - 13. Alliance players head to Elwynn Forest near the Westbrook Garrison. Horde players head to Durotar to the west of Ogrimmar's main gates.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 14 - 22. Alliance players head to Darkshore at the Grove of the Ancients. Horde players head to Silverpine Forest, just outside of Ambermill.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 23 - 31. Alliance players head into Duskwood to the abandoned farm near Darkshire. Horde players head to Hillsbrad Foothills, just outside of Hillsbrad Village.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 32 - 40. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to Dustwallow Marsh just outside of what used to be Theramore.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 41 - 50. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to the Hinterlands to the east of Aerie Peak.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 51 - 60. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to Winterspring to the east of Everlook.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 61 - 70. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to Terokkar Forest in the Outlands, to the east of Shattrath City.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 71 - 80. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to Crystalsong Forest in Northrend, to the Forlord Woods beneath Dalaran.
• Crushing the Crown/Crushing the Crown: Levels 81 - 90. Both Alliance and Horde players need to head to Uldum on Kalimdor, to the east of the Tomb of Khartut.

There is one more set of dailies that we need to cover before we talk about the Apothecary Trio boss fight and the holiday goodies that you can purchase during this event. Before we get into those dailies though, we need to discuss the farming aspect of this event. First off, you're going to need to speak with Kwee Q. Peddlefeet. There is a clone of this NPC standing at various locations in each capital city. 

1. Peddlefeet. Outside of the Trade District Bank in Stormwind
2. Peddlefeet. Between Auction House and Inn in Valley of Strength in Orgrimmar.
3. Peddlefeet. Marble Island South of the Bank in Darnassus.
4. Peddlefeet. Near the Auction House in the Bazaar of Silvermoon City.
5. Peddlefeet. Commons Area near the Bank in Ironforge.
6. Peddlefeet. Center Totem Pole on Lower Rise in Thunder Bluff.
7. Peddlefeet. Outside Eastern Exit of Exodar.
8. Peddlefeet. Throne Room of the Ruins of Lordaeron in Undercity.

Kwee will give you a Lovely Charm Collector's Kit that needs to remain in your inventory for you to be able to collect Lovely Charms off of level appropriate mobs to create Lovely Charm Bracelets with every ten (10) Lovely Charms. If possible, find an instance with a never-ending flow of mobs for the quickest returns.

• Level 80-85: Halls of Lightning; farm the Slag.
• Level 85-90: Throne of the Tides; farm the Unstable Corruption. Possible to do at 90 if you run on Heroic.

As you create the Lovely Charm Bracelets, you have two options. You can turn a single Lovely Charm Bracelet into the Kwee at each respective city for the dailies below (and buff card reward!), or you can save the Lovely Charm Bracelets up to sell them on the Auction House, or a trade in at the holiday vendor for Love Tokens at a 1:1 rate. You also have the opportunity to wear them on lower level twinks or bank toons.

1. A Gift for the King of Stormwind
• Lovely Stormwind Card: Lovely Card Intellect.
2. A Gift for the Warchief
• Lovely Orgrimmar Card: Lovely Card Agility.
3. A Gift for the High Priestess of Elune
• Lovely Darnassus Card: Lovely Card Agility.
4. A Gift for the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas
• Lovely Silvermoon City Card: Lovely Card Spirit.
5. A Gift for a Lord of Ironforge
• Lovely Ironforge Card: Lovely Card Stamina.
6. A Gift for the High Chieftain
• Lovely Thunder Bluff Card: Lovely Card Stamina.
7. A Gift for the Prophet
• Lovely Exodar Card: Lovely Card Spirit.
8. A Gift for the Banshee Queen
• Lovely Undercity Card: Lovely Card Intellect.

The Apothecary Trio are located inside of Shadowfang Keep near the fountain and stables. You can see them from the entrance, but you still have to take the inside route to get to them. The door at the stairs is unlocked, so you don't have to wait to get in. There are three bosses; Apothecary Hummel, Apothecary Baxter, and Apothecary Frye, all three must be defeated before Hummel's corpse can be looted.

1. Apothecary Hummel: Hummel uses Alluring Perfume and has a melee-range aura Alluring Perfume Spray. His damage can be nullified by using the Perfume Neutralizer available on the table nearby. While wearing the Perfume Neutralizer, beware to not stand in the cologne clouds thrown by Apothecary Frye.
2. Apothecary Baxter: Baxter uses Irresistible Cologne and has a melee-range aura Irresistible Cologne Spray. His damage can be nullified by using the Cologne Neutralizer available on the table nearby. While wearing the Cologne Neutralizer, beware to not stand in the perfume clouds thrown by Apothecary Frye.
3. Apothecary Frye: Frye does not have an aggro table and will continuously run between the entire party, deal negligible melee damage, while throwing perfume and cologne bottles to create clouds upon the ground. If wearing the opposite neutralizer, watch your step.

This fight is incredibly simple, even since it's first inception. It can be completed with a party of two well-geared players. No main "tank" or "healer" is required for success, as long as all players are paying attention to their surroundings and the rest of the group. A single player wearing the Perfume Neutralizer needs to grab and sustain aggro on Hummel, another player wearing the Cologne Neutralizer needs to grab and sustain aggro on Baxter as soon as he activates (about 15 seconds after aggroing Hummel). Frye activates after Baxter, about 15 seconds as well, and since Frye has no aggro table, it is best to simple let him run wild, or roll your stuns over on him to keep him locked down. If at any point Hummel or Baxter spawn a small alchemy lab, your healer needs to prepare a heal as they are about to unleash a Chain Reaction, which has the potential to be devastating if you aren't utilizing a T-H-3D group. A relatively continuous stream of Crazed Apothecaries will also spawn throughout the duration of the fight. Much like Frye, they cannot be controlled and will die shortly after spawning in an Unstable Reaction, hurting any party members nearby.

• Shard of Pirouetting Happiness
• Choker of the Pure Heart
• Winking Eye of Love
• Sweet Perfume Broach
• Heartbreak Charm
• Heart-Shaped Box: Now with Love Tokens!
• Forever-Lovely Rose: A very simple headpiece involving a rose. For all female toons, it tucks the rose behind an ear. For all male toons, it's placed within the teeth, like a tango dancer.
• Vile Fumigator's Mask: A gas-mask headpiece with an attached fumigation backpack. Even when it was originally released, the on-use effect has very little mileage.
• Toxic Wasteling: This little bugger was the "cop-out" ooze pet for those that could never get the Disgusting Oozeling pet. It's nifty addition is that it eats its fellow critters and grows larger after each consumption.
• The Heartbreaker: An interesting item originally built to explode chest cavities. Instead, you simply burst into tears.
• Big Love Rocket: Big Love Rocket. Do I really need to say more?

After all that questing, farming, and boss-killing is finished, you're wondering what to do with all those (or lack there-of) Love Tokens.

Lovely Merchant: Available in a local capital city near you!

• Love Token: 1 Lovely Charm Bracelet
• 5x "Bravado" Cologne: 1 Love Token
• 5x "STALWART" Cologne: 1 Love Token
• 5x "Wizardry" Cologne: 1 Love Token
• 5x "Enchantress" Perfume: 1 Love Token
• 5x "Forever" Perfume: 1 Love Token
• 5x "VICTORY" Perfume: 1 Love Token
• Bag of Heart Candies: 2 Love Tokens
• 5x Handful of Rose Petals: 2 Love Tokens
• 5x Lovely Rose: 5 Love Tokens
• 5x Love Rocket: 5 Love Tokens
• 5x Silver Shafted Arrow: 5 Love Tokens
• Romantic Picnic Basket: 10 Love Tokens
• Box of Chocolates: 10 Love Tokens
• Love Fool: 10 Love Tokens
• Dinner Suit Box: 20 Love Tokens
• Lovely Dress Box: 20 Love Tokens
• Truesilver Shafted Arrow: 40 Love Tokens
• Swift Lovebird: 270 Love Tokens

And now that everything else has been settled, it's time to start making sure that all of the achievements are completed for the meta achievement: Fool For Love!

• Dangerous Love: Simply complete the holiday questline until the Crushing the Crown daily opens up for your level bracket. Upon completion, you will receive this achievement as part of your prize.
• Charming: If you're planning on farming up Lovely Charms to create Lovely Charm Bracelets, then you are guaranteed to get this achievement relatively early on. Remember: Have your Lovely Charm Collector's Kit.
• The Rocket's Pink Glare: Much like Lunar Festival achievement, this one requires you to purchase ten (10) Love Rockets and launch them off in less than twenty (20) seconds. Follow the same advice I gave last time and you won't be able to mess this achievement up. It's going to cost you ten (10) Love Tokens, so make sure to budget accordingly.
• Shafted!: As with the Love Rockets achievement above, you're going to need to pick up ten (10) Silver Shafted Arrows and use them on potential targets. In previous years, you would waste an arrow on someone who already had the pet out, this year, you receive the "Invalid target" error instead, so you won't be using more than ten (10)Love Tokens.
• Sweet Tooth: Box of Chocolates cost ten (10) Love Tokens alone, so purchase sparingly. You need to eat one of every single type of chocolate. Luckily, the chocolates are not soulbound, so you can trade or purchase them to save Love Tokens for other purchases. Be sure to save a Buttermilk Delight for later.
• Buttermilk Delight, Sweet Surprise, Dark Desire, Very Berry Cream.
• Be Mine!: While the Bag of Heart Candies are much cheaper than the Box of Chocolates  you are potentially going to have to either spend an unreasonable amount of Love Tokens on fighting the RNG on getting all of the Heart Candy phrases for this achievement. My recommendation is to get help from Trade, your guild, or friends, and trade out messages to each other instead of wasting your Love Tokens on buying multiple Bag of Heart Candies.
• Be mine!                                                              You're the best!
• All yours.                                                              I'll follow you all around Azeroth.
• Hot lips.                                                              I'm all yours!
• You're mine!                                                              I LOVE YOU
• Fistful of Love: You have eleven targets, but the Handful of Rose Petals come in sets of five (5), so you're going to have to purchase three (3) sets with a waste of three (3), my math isn't wrong, look at the next achievement. As with the Heart Candy, I would recommend getting help, or giving yours to others who might need help.
• Gnome Warlock, Orc Death Knight, Human Death Knight, Night Elf Priest, Orc Shaman, Tauren Druid, Undead Warrior, Troll Rogue, Blood Elf Mage, Draenei Paladin, Dwarf Hunter.
• Flirt With Disaster/Flirt With Disaster: You are going to have to pick up a few things to make sure this one goes off without a hitch. Keep one (1) of those leftover Handful of Rose Petals, pick up one of the three perfume choices from the holiday vendor, purchase the strongest alcohol you can find, get smashed, and then /kiss your respective targets. For Alliance, Sraaz is in Ironforge. For Horde, Jeremiah Payson is in the Undercity.
• My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose: Certain bosses have had the Bouquet of Red Roses and Bouquet of Ebon Roses added to their loot tables for the duration of the holiday. I recommend running it with a group, as you will have to roll against your party like a normal gear drop. Currently no new bosses were added from the Mists of Pandaria instances, so we are still working with the Cataclysm boss list;
• Drahga Shadowburner in Grim Batol. (Bouquet of Red Roses only, according to data.)
• Corla, Herald of Twilight in Blackrock Caverns. (Bouquet of Red Roses only, according to data.)
• High Priestess Azil in Stonecore. (Bouquet of Red Roses only, according to data.)
• Admiral Ripsnarl in Heroic Deadmines.
• Lord Godfrey in Heroic Shadowfang Keep.
• Asira Dawnslayer in Hour of Twilight. (Bouquet of Red Roses only, according to data.)
• Echo of Jaina in End Time. (Bouquet of Red Roses only, according to data.)
• Echo of Sylvanas in End Time. (Bouquet of Ebon Roses only, according to data.)
• Lonely?: Take that Buttermilk Delight I told you to keep a hold on for a later date, find someone you fancy, head to Dalaran, and enjoy a Romantic Picnic together. Either use your own Romantic Picnic Basket, or join someone else's picnic.
• Nation of Adoration/Nation of Adoration: This achievement requires you have using at least four (4) of your Lovely Charm Bracelets for each of the four faction leader turn-ins.
• I Pitied The Fool: This one requires the most work out of all of the other achievements (sans the Feat). Working alone, you will have to spend 50 Love Tokens alone on getting the five (5) necessary Love Fools for this achievement. As I've said before, I've find a group of people willing to cooperate and knock these out handily. All you have to do is head to the five locations, drop a Love Fool, and /pity it.
• Literally anywhere in Wintergrasp.
• The Battle Ring of Gurubashi Arena in the northern half of the Cape of Stranglethorn.
• The Arathi Basin Blacksmith.
• The Culling of Stratholme.
• Naxxramas.
• Lovely Luck Is On Your Side: The Lovely Black Dress has a 25% chance of appearing inside of one of the Lovely Dress Boxes. While this may not seem like a low percentage, there are quite a few people that end up going without one. The Lovely Black Dress is the only dress that comes from the Lovely Dress Box that is NOT BoP. So share it with your friends, or the Auction House, or your twinks or bank toons.
• Perma-Peddle: You're going to need 40 Love Tokens that you won't be needing for anything else, if you're working alone. Simply purchased the Truesilver Shafted Arrow and learn the pet companion: Peddlefeet. This achievement is NOT required for the meta achievement.
• Tough Love: Simply be of the correct level, queue into the holiday boss fight, and defeat the Apothecary Trio. For maximum efficiency, especially when not at level cap, use a group of friends to guarantee that you'll get the kill. This achievement is NOT required for the meta achievement.
• Big Love Rocket: The Feat of Strength for this holiday. The Big Love Rocket has been one of the most elusive mounts put into the game. Very few people have them, and those that do, flaunt it. On my primary server, I have seen less than five (5), -ever-. This achievement is NOT required for the meta achievement.

See you all at the end of the Love is in the Air event with my post-holiday completion post.

Post LF'13

And now that the holiday is officially over, I need to post my personal achievements for it.

Sadly, due to real life intervention, I was unable to play much during this holiday. In fact, I don't think I logged in more than a couple times during the entire duration. Love is in the Air might turn out the same way, but I'm hoping that I'll be able to get a little bit of game time in just to try and get the only holiday mount that I don't have..

Paragon: Elder of '09. Completed the Elders of Cataclysm in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Railene: Elder of '10. Completed the Elders of Cataclysm in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Xardion: Elder of '10. Completed the Elders of Cataclysm in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Laviana: Elder of '11. Completed the Elders of Cataclysm in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Arcia: Elder of '11. Completed the Elders of Cataclysm in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Sollexi: Elder of '12. Firecrackers and firework launching completed in '09, Alliance Elders in '11, and all other achievements completed in '12. Nothing new added for this year, nothing new gained.

Monk: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. No progress made on any achievements. 90-95% possibility of completion in '14.

Shaman: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 3 Coins and 2 Alliance Elders.   Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

Hunter: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 1 Coin. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 25-50% possibility of completion in '14.

Warrior: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 16 Coins, 1 Alliance Elder, 7 Kalimdor Elders, and 3 Eastern Kingdom Elders. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 85-90% possibility of completion in '14.

Warlock: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 2 Coins, 1 Alliance Elder, and 1 Eastern Kingdom Elder. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 15-25% possibility of completion in '14.

Warrior II: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 2 Coins, 1 Alliance Elder, and 1 Eastern Kingdom Elder. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 15-25% possibility of completion in '14.

Paladin: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. No progress made on any achievements. 0% possibility of completion in '14.

Horde Paladin: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 1 Coin. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

Horde Warrior: Unofficial Elder of '12 due to account-wide achievements. Collected 36 Coins, all Alliance, Horde, Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Cataclysm Elders. Current level restricting completion of all achievements, 75-80% possibility of completion in '14.

I was going to go further and branch out off of my main server, but I decided that would be pushing it.