by Allison Robert

The in-game holiday Love Is In the Air begins Sunday, running February 7th (3:00 am server time) through February 21st (3:00 am server time) this year. Doing most of the achievements related to the holiday will reward you with the meta Fool for Love, the title “the Love Fool,” and one more notch in the long trek toward What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been.

Love Is In the Air has been markedly changed for 2010; Blizzard’s eliminated much of the painful RNG that drove players up a wall in 2009, and right now you can expect a rather cool and fun little holiday that’s not entirely unlike Brewfest in its approach to achievements. You can do dailies and other quests for Love Tokens, and buy holiday items from vendors in addition to enjoying some stuff that’s just for fun.

But you’re here for the meta, right? We all know you want that drake.

Be Mine!

This achievement was the subject of much hue and cry last year, and for good reason — whether you got it or not was entirely up to the whims of the RNG gods. So many players were left out in the cold that Blizzard eventually implemented two hotfixes: an increase to the drop rate on the Bag of Candies (which were then contained within Gifts or Pledges of Adoration that city guards and NPCs gave you), and a change to the achievement that involved having to eat only 6 of the 8 candies rather than all of them.

This achievement’s now substantially simpler; the Bag of Heart Candies can be purchased for the low price of 2 Love Tokens at any Lovely Merchant (located in major cities). If you don’t get the specific candies that you need from one bag, just buy another, and keep doing so until you’ve nabbed them all. Alternatively, you can check the AH; because the heart candies aren’t BoP, they can be sold or traded between players.

Dangerous Love (Alliance) or Dangerous Love (Horde)

This section is still being updated, but our FAQ article has a snippet on how to get started.

Fistful of Love

What an…interesting title, Blizzard.

Getting a Handful of Rose Petals is easy enough; they’re sold in quantities of 5 for 2 Love Tokens at any Lovely Vendor, and you’ll need 11 Handfuls to nail all the race/class combinations listed for the achievement (so bank on spending 6 Love Tokens). The extras won’t go to waste; you’ll need one for Flirt With Disaster (see below), and you can always use the 3 extras to annoy your friends.

The real trouble is going to be finding the less common race/class combinations, and on most servers it’s the effort to find a troll rogue that’ll drive you up a wall. Happy hunting!

Flirt With Disaster (Alliance) or Flirt With Disaster (Horde)

You’ll need another Handful of Rose Petals for this one, in addition to some booze and perfume (the different varieties of which are sold by Love Vendors for 1 Token each).

• If you’re Alliance, toss on some Perfume, buy enough alcohol to get “completely smashed,” and stumble your way over to Sraaz, the gnomish pie vendor who paths around the Great Forge in Ironforge.
• If you’re Horde, toss on some Perfume, and BEFORE you go to Undercity for this achievement, make sure you stop and buy alcohol elsewhere. Curiously enough, there doesn’t seem to be any alcohol available in Undercity; you’ll have to bring some with you, or else fly to Tarren Mill. Jeremiah Payson, the cockroach vendor, is located under the bank steps.

Charming (Alliance) or Charming (Horde)

I’m pretty sure this used to be the achievement known as Heartmender that involved giving 20 Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets to players with broken hearts. I suspect Blizzard decided to overhaul Heartmender because your ability to do it depended entirely on how many players were participating in the holiday, got broken hearts, and were in a convenient place to be “cured.” This had the unfortunate effect of anyone with a broken heart getting chased down by a howling pack of players intent on getting their achievement, with only one among them able to get credit for the cure. Yes, it was fairly annoying.

Now it’s about creating Lovely Charm Bracelets, with the mats being 10 “charms” per bracelet. Once you speak to Kwee Q. Peddlefeet in any major city for the daily quest concerning a Lovely Charm Bracelet gift for various faction leaders, he’ll give you a Lovely Charm Collector’s Kit. This will enable you to collect Lovely Charms from any non-gray mob you kill, and you can make one Lovely Charm Bracelet for each 10 Lovely Charms you collect. Consequently, you’ll need 120 Lovely Charms total for this achievement, which — if you don’t go out farming for them on their own — amounts to 3 days’ worth of dailies giving bracelets to faction leaders.

I Pitied The Fool

Hurrah for another PvP-related achievement! Fortunately, doing this tends to be more travel-intensive than difficult. The Love Fool can be purchased from any Lovely Vendor for 10 Love Tokens, but the catch is that the item’s a one-use only deal. As a result, you’ll need to shell out 50 Love Tokens in order to get this done, but it’s as simple as dropping a Fool, targeting it, and typing /pity in your chat box (or, for convenience’s sake, creating a macro to do the same).

If you’re doing this achievement at the same time as a few buddies or guildies, multiple players can use the same Fool, so you don’t necessarily have to pay for all of them yourself. Have a friend drop a Fool, everyone around can /pity it, then you can move on to the next spot.

The locations are as follows:

• Arathi Basin blacksmith: Make sure you see the “Blacksmith” zone title flash on your screen before you drop this, but this is easy — you should be able to drop it just about anywhere on the central island in AB and get credit.
• Battle Ring of Gurubashi Arena: The Gurubashi Arena is located in Stranglethorn Vale north up the road from Booty Bay. You’ll need to enter and drop down from the spectator stands into the ring below in order to get credit for this. Bear in mind that the battle ring is a Free For All PvP area — you can be attacked and killed by any player in the game here, even those of your own faction.
• Culling of Stratholme: You do need to be inside the instance. Whether it’s normal or heroic doesn’t matter, but you have to be at least level 75 to enter the normal version (and 80, obviously, for heroic).
• Naxxramas: As with Culling of Stratholme, you need to be inside Naxx to get credit for this (where doesn’t matter). If you’re not planning on running Naxx, group up with a buddy or two, convert the group to a raid, zone in, drop the Love Fool, /pity it, and be on your merry way.
• Wintergrasp: Location doesn’t seem to matter here; as long as you’re in the WIntergrasp zone, you’ll get credit.

Lonely?

If you want to use your own basket for this (although you’ll still need to get someone to sit underneath it with you), the Romantic Picnic Basket can be purchased for 10 Love Tokens from any holiday vendor. Buttermilk Delights can be found within the Box of Chocolates buyable for another 10 Love Tokens.

If you don’t want to spend the Tokens, just sit down next to anyone who’s dropped a Romantic Picnic in Dalaran, right-click the picnic basket, and then eat your Buttermilk Delight. If you do have your own Picnic Basket, drop it anywhere in Dalaran, and odds are good that someone will happen along to join you over the course of the holiday. Failing that, asking a nearby player usually works.

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose

Robert Burns is probably rolling over in his grave at the standard English spelling, but eh. For this, you’ll need to nab a Bouquet of Red Roses or Bouquet of Ebon Roses drop from one among a series of 5-man bosses. The Red Roses once dropped off of bosses in Blackrock Depths, Dire Maul, and Stratholme, but Blizzard removed that last year in order to update the holiday for Wrath.

Nowadays, you’ll get a Bouquet of Ebon Roses (and the occasional Red Roses) off:

• Prince Keleseth in Utgarde Keep
• The Maiden of Grief in Halls of Stone
• Prince Taldaram in Ahn’kahet.

Because you can get the Roses off the normal version of all three dungeons, it’s usually easiest to do a normal Utgarde Keep up to Keleseth, then reset as needed for any other party member who needs a drop. The Bouquet is a 100% drop during the holiday, but it can only go to a single player per run, so just keep rerunning the dungeon til you and your friends are all set.

Nation of Adoration (Alliance) and Nation of Adoration (Horde)

In each major city, Kwee Q. Peddlefeet will offer you a daily quest to bring a Lovely Charm Bracelet to the city’s corresponding faction leader (e.g. Varian Wrynn in Stormwind, Thrall in Orgrimmar, etc.). The quests aren’t mutually exclusive — i.e. you can bring a Bracelet to Magni Bronzebeard and then head for Kalimdor to give one to Tyrande all in the same day — so the only limiting factor is how many Lovely Charms you’ve got on you. You’ll have to farm up 40 to make the necessary Bracelets.

Love Rockets are purchased for 5 Love Tokens in packs of 5. Once you’ve got 10, this achievement couldn’t be simpler; drag them to one of your hotkeys and spam it until you’ve got the achievement. You should be able to shoot 10 off within 20 seconds very easily.

Players have reported issues with lag affecting their ability to get this, so if you’re playing with high latency, you may want to get a few extra rockets just in case, go to an uncrowded area, and/or try this during one of your server’s slower periods.

Shafted!

Easy, easy, easy — as soon as you get the item you need. The Silver Shafted Arrow is buyable in packs of 5 for 5 Love Tokens (so 10 Tokens total). As soon as you’ve got them, shoot any player in sight who doesn’t already have a noncombat pet out. Once you’ve got 10, you’re all set.

To answer commenter questions below, the achievement doesn’t work on players who already have a pet out because the Arrow gives the targeted player a temporary noncombat pet. Because you can only have one out at a time, the Arrow won’t work on a player who already has one.

Sweet Tooth

All of the candies needed for this can be found in the Box of Chocolates you can buy for 10 Love Tokens. Stuff yourself with all four (you can combine the Buttermilk Delight pig-out with Lonely?, above) and you’re gold.

Not required for the meta:

There are some achievements related to the Love Is In the Air holiday that you can do just for fun, but aren’t required for the title.

Lovely Luck Is On Your Side

The Lovely Black Dress, rather than being a rare drop as it was last year, is now indirectly buyable for 20 Love Tokens. What you actually do is buy the Lovely Dress Box then right-click to open it. Please note that, even though the dress can be traded between characters, you will only get an achievement from looting it from the BoP Box that you’ll obviously have to buy yourself.

Perma-Peddle

Once upon a time, you needed to get very, very lucky with a Truesilver Shafted Arrow, which was a 1% drop from a Gift/Pledge from a city NPC or guard. Thankfully, in 2010 they’re buyable for 40 Love Tokens. After two years of trying, my main is finally going to have herself that manifestation of swooning romance, a leering goblin in a toga.

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