Friday, February 2, 2018

[WoW] Love Is In The Air '18

Love Is In The Air is a Holiday that has been with us for a long time and has had smaller updates and then was given a Holiday boss. It's also one of the first Holidays to have a mount drop included in the events, with some of the lowest drop rates around. Love Is In The Air is a two week-long in-game representation of Valentine's Day, running from February 2nd through February 16th.

Side-Note: Still looking for some new customized Holiday artwork if any artists are interested. Credit and links to current works/portfolios would be included.

Love Is In The Air has always been primarily about collecting Lovely Charms, but there is a nefarious plot underfoot that you can uncover if you decide to follow the clues. Be a detective, confront the patsies, locate the real deal, and take out the trash! And with that little intro, we're going to start right off with the traditional bread-crumb quests that being every Holiday!

While you were off being a detective, you might have noticed that there were some daily quests available that you could also take part in during this Holiday event. Aside from straight up farming, these daily quests are your main source of the Holiday currency Love Token. If you're looking to get your hands on anything you might have missed in previous years, and get anything new that's been added, you're going to need more than just a handful.

Look for your friendly neighborhood Public Relations Agent and be prepared to feel like one of those perfume ladies at the mall. While performing the three following dailies, if at any point you attempt to use one of the items on a target that already has the debuff Sample Satisfaction, you will not receive credit for the item use. Each of these dailies rewards 5 Love Token.
The typical Crushing the Crown daily quest from years past has been replaced as of 2017. So instead of speaking with Inspector Snip Snagglebolt/Detective Snap Snagglebolt and receiving a quest to go to a random location and beat up a bunch of patsies, you're just going to go back to Silverpine Forest to the area just outside of Shadowfang Keep to complete a pair of daily quests there instead. These two dailies do not unlock unless you've completed the main Holiday questline.
There is still one more set of dailies that we need to talk about before we delve into the strategy behind the Apothecary Trio fight or even touch upon what the Holiday vendors even have available for sale. Before we talk about the quests though, we do need to go back over the farming aspect of this Holiday. First off, you're going to need to speak with Kwee Q. Peddlefeet. There is a clone of this NPC floating at various locations in each capital city.
  1. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Outside of the Trade District Bank in Stormwind City.
  2. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Marble Island South of the Bank in Darnassus.
  3. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Commons Area near the Bank in Ironforge.
  4. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Outside the Eastern Exit in the Exodar.
  5. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Between the Auction House and Inn in Valley of Strength in Orgrimmar.
  6. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Near the Auction House in the Bazaar of Silvermoon City.
  7. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Center Totem Pole o the Lower Rise of Thunder Bluff.
  8. Kwee Q. Peddlefeet : Throne Room of the Ruins of Lordaeron in the 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 Charm. Once you've collected enough Lovely Charm, all of ten, you can convert them in to a Lovely Charm Bracelet. As you create one Lovely Charm Bracelet after another, you have two options. You can turn a single Lovely Charm Bracelet into the Kwee Q. Peddlefeet a each respective city for the dailies (and buff card reward) for 20 Love Token per day, or you can save the Lovely Charm Bracelet to sell them on the Auction House, or you can trade them in at the Holiday vendor Love Token at a 1:1 ratio. You also have the opportunity to wear them on lower level twinks or bank toons.

Now that we've finally gotten past all of the quests and daily quests, we can finally get to finishing off the diabolical plot that Snagglebolt was having you investigate. The men behind hiring Snivel Rustrocket and having him pump his rockets full of a not-so-innocent "love potion"? The Apothecary Trio in charge of the Crown Chemical Co. Apothecary Hummel, Apothecary Baxter, and Apothecary Frye are located inside a special instanced version of the Shadowfang Keep. You can queue through the LFD UI by selecting the Crown Chemical Co. in the drop-down menu, or you can speak with any Steamwheedle Shyster to be queued up as well. Unlike previous years, you will now spawn directly on the stairs leading down into the courtyard. All three of the Apothecaries must be defeated before you will be able to get any loot.
  1. The Monologue: After Apothecary Hummel's little monologue, the fight will start. For the first eight second of the encounter, you will only be dealing with Hummel by himself.
      • Alluring Perfume : This is a constant aura around Hummel for anyone in melee range. This can be easily negated by using the Perfume Neutralizer available on the table next to where the fight takes place.
      • Alluring Perfume Spray : This is Hummel's main attack and it is a melee-range frontal-cone attack that is aimed at the highest threat target, try to aim it away from the group. Or anyone that isn't wearing the correct neutralizer.
      • Chain Reaction : Hummel will spawn a small alchemy table and after 3 seconds, it will explode and damage anyone near it.
  2. The Next Eight Seconds: After eight seconds of dealing with only Hummel, he demands that Baxter assist him in trying to kill you. He will, of course, listen.
      • Irresistible Cologne : Much like Hummel's Perfume aura, Baxter has a constant melee range aura as well. Also like Hummel's aura, this can be easily negated by utilizing the Cologne Neutralizer on the same table. Only one can be active at a time.
      • Irresistible Cologne Spray : This is Baxter's main attack and it is a melee-range frontal-cone attack that is aimed at his highest threat target, try to aim this away from the group. Or just anyone that isn't wearing the correct neutralizer.
      • Chain Reaction : Just like Hummel, he will spawn an alchemy table that will explode after 3 seconds, damaging everyone in the immediate vicinity.
  3. Again With the Eight Seconds?: After dealing with those two for eight more seconds, Hummel yells at Apothecary Frye to quit dilly-dallying and get to work on killing us. I'm not entirely sure if he actually listens or not. 
      • Lingering Fumes : The most annoying part of this entire fight is Frye's inability to be controlled. He has no aggro table and he is constantly throwing out either vials of perfume or cologne that burst into damaging clouds that linger. The neutralizers only work on one or the other type, so you're going to be constantly taking damage once Frye enters the fight. The only good part? He can be stunned. Rotate them.
      • Throw Perfume : Frye will throw out a vial of perfume that will burst into a cloud on the ground. Try not to stand in it if you don't have the Perfume Neutralizer.
      • Throw Cologne : Frye will throw out a vial of cologne that will burst into a cloud on the ground. Try not to stand in it if you don't have the Cologne Neutralizer.
  4. More Apothecaries?!
    • Crazed Apothecary : These adds will be spawning consistently throughout the entire fight. Due to how short the fight can be though, there have been reports of not a single one of these adds spawning at all. Count your blessings, I suppose.
      • Unstable Reaction : If one does happen to spawn during your encounter, it is going to run around aimlessly for a bit and then explode, dealing quite a bit of damage to anyone in the immediate area. They take after Frye in that they have no aggro table. Avoid at all costs to limit damage taken.
  5. Heart-Shaped Box - Only available on your first kill per day per toon.
    • 5-10 Love Token
    • Forever Lovely Rose: A very simple headpiece involving a rose. For all female toons, the rose is tucked behind the ear. For all male toons, it's placed within the teeth like a tango dancer.
    • Vile Fumigator's Mask: A cloth gas-mask headpiece with an attached fumigation backpack. The on-use effect is still comically useless.
    • Toxic Wasteling: Teaches the Toxic Wasteling battle pet. It still consumes critters and grows larger as it does so.
    • The Heartbreaker: An interesting item originally built to explode chest cavities. Instead, you just burst in to tears. This item was turned into a Toy with the release of the Toy Box.
    • Big Love Rocket: Big Love Rocket. Do I really need to say anything?
  6. Heart-Shaped Carton - Replacement Heart-Shaped Box for toons under level 98.
  7. Hummel's Corpse (Loot Phase)
      • These necklaces come with an on-use effect that unleash the Love Rocket, acquiring a single necklace from the event is on your to-do list, you'll find out why in the achievement section at the end of the guide.
After all of that questing, farming, and boss-killing is finally over, you're probably wondering what to do with all of those (or lack-there-of) Love Token.

Lovely Merchant - Available in a local capital city near you!
And with that we bring this Holiday event to its closing. You captured Snivel, you beat up the Apothecary Trio, crushed their crowns in Silverpine, it's time to take a moment and make sure that you've finished all of your Holiday achievements.

Completing all of the necessary achievements below will bestow upon you the title of 'the Love Fool' and grant you the meta achievement: Fool For Love!

And those are all of the achievements that are important if you're looking to get yourself that title. If you want more to do, there are a few more you could focus on if you have any free time left after farming up those Lovely Charm Bracelet.

And now to look at the battle pets that come with this Holiday.
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 comment:

  1. ParagonFebruary 2, 2018 at 10:57 AM

    02/02/18
    -Added new loot to vendor.
    -Added information about the new sub-level 98 loot box from Holiday boss.
    -Still trying to find information about the new uncommon quality dresses/pant suits that are in the appearance tab, will update with that information later.

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