Monday, February 11, 2013

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.
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.

  • 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.
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
  2. A Gift for the Warchief
  3. A Gift for the High Priestess of Elune
  4. A Gift for the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas
  5. A Gift for a Lord of Ironforge
  6. A Gift for the High Chieftain
  7. A Gift for the Prophet
  8. A Gift for the Banshee Queen
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.
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!
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!
See you all at the end of the Love is in the Air event with my post-holiday completion post.
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  1. ParagonMay 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM

    Edited the Peddlefeet section to include a small description of where he's located. The blog was originally set up to reflect those locations, but with the addition to the tooltips, it wasn't reflecting correctly.

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