The new Valentine's related holiday has come to Azeroth, and World of Warcraft is suddenly filled with love and romance.  As promised we have our guide to the lastest in-game holiday, but you're going to have to act fast and spend a lot of time running around giving out Love Tokens because this holiday ends February 16th.  Just like the previous holiday, you will have to have Cold Weather Flying and be level 80 in order to complete this achievement and receive the title of "the Love Fool."  But if you do, you will be one step closer to the ultimate prize: the Reins of the Violet Proto Drake.

First things first, get ready to log in with your characters every hour, because the items you will need to complete this quest only come in Pledges of Adoration, which you can only receive once an hour.  My second tip is one I learned quickly yesterday: use your alts to your advantage.  While a couple of the items are soulbound, most of them can be traded, which means that you can stockpile Love Fools and Handfuls of Petals and hand them off to a party member to be given to the character you most want to work on this achievement.  Just make sure you trust that party member, or things could get ugly and no one likes an ugly romance. 

Hit the jump for our quick and dirty guide to this short and sweet holiday.

 Before you start with the Love is in the Air festivities, make sure you have plenty of bag space.  There is nothing worse that handing someone a Love Token, seeing the Adored buff hit you, and realize that your bags were full.  Save yourself the hastle and put any extraneous items in your bank at the outset.

In order to complete the achievements you're going to need the following items:

 The following items are also required but are Bind on Pickup so you will need to get them from Gifts of Adoration:

Step One: Be Adored, Mend Hearts, Shaft the Rest

Every hour go and hand out a Love Token to someone in one of the three major cities for your faction.  The gifts you receive in return will contain the items you need to complete the achievement.  Make sure you hit each of the three major cities of your faction as you're doing this to complete the Nation of Adoration achievement. Also, there are some rare goodies you might be able to pick up, including:

  • Lovely Black Dress: Super rare, this is the was the most coveted item the last two years this holiday ran.
  • Romantic Picnic Basket: A lovely little item that drops a picnic setup for anyone to come and enjoy.  This item is connected to the Lonely? achievement, but you do not have to have one yourself.
  • Truesilver Shafted Arrow: This is a companion pet item, which will allow you to have a permanent Peddlefoot pet.

As you collect your items you will occassionally have your heart broken.  It happens, I'm sad to say, with all romances.  The easiest thing to do is head to the busiest part of town and ask that someone mend your heart.  Use your Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets while you're here on 20 of your lovesick neighbors to complete the Heartmender achievement.  

Also while you're gallavanting about, keep an eye out for anyone not toting around a Peddlefeet pet.  Hit them with a Silver Shafted Arrow to complete the Shafted! achievement.

Step Two: Solve the Mystery, Get some Candy, Toss Yer Rockets

In the major cities for both the Alliance and the Horde there will be a lovesick fellow looking for someone to deliver a love letter.  Start this quest in Stormwind and Undercity to save yourself the travel  time. After playing cupid the Dangerous Love quest chain starts that searches out the real reason everyone is in such a romantical mood. This quest chain is fairly simple, and leads you ultimately up to a little crevass behind Ravenholdt Manor, where an Apothecary is brewing up some bad intentions.  Completing this quest chain will give you the Nearest and Dearest achievement.

Along the way, use your Bag of Candies every minute or so, and if you are lucky, you will easily complete the Be Mine! achievement.  This is very luck-based and bag-space intensive, so consider mailing these to your Azerothian loved ones, and be ready to get lots of repeats.

Also, now is a good time to toss your Love Rockets.  You need to have at least 10 on hand (I recomment 20 just in case) and when you toss 10 in 20 seconds you will receive the Rocket's Pink Glare achievement.

Step Three: Have a Picnic, Toss Some Petals, Pity some Fools

When you have enough Handful of Rose Petals, head to Dalaran, and seek out someone who's dropped a Romantic Picnic Basket.  I suggest a nice picnic in front of the Walrus fountain, but that's just me.  Doing so will gain you the Lonely? achievement.  While you're there, keep an eye out for the particular race/class combos required for the Fistful of Love achievement.  While in Dalaran queue up for Arathi Basin.  When the battleground pops, head straight for the Blacksmith, drop a Love Fool, and /pity the little dude. This will be the first step toward your I Pitied the Fool achievement. As far as Wintergrasp goes, wait until your faction controls it, then use the portal in Dalaran to gain access, drop your Fool and /pity away.  Take the portal back to Dalaran when you're done.

Since you are in Northrend, grab a buddy, create a raid, and flap on over to Wintergarde Keep.  Naxxramas is there, so enter the instance, drop a Love Fool and /pity the poor guy.   Head back to Dalaran, and take the portal to the Caverns of Time.  Head into the Culling of Stratholme instance and drop another Love Fool to /pity.  

If you happen to be bound in Dalaran, hearth back, and take the portal to Orgimmar or Stormwind, and head down the Stranglethorn Vale via zeppelin or gryphon, whichever your faction prefers.  Your destination is the Gurubashi Arena, smack dab in the middle of the zone, where you will drop your last Love Fool who needs all the /pity you can get.  Beware though, this is a Free For All zone, meaning anyone can kick your ass should they choose to.  This will complete the I Pitied the Fool Achievement.

Step Four: Posies and The Pie Vendor's Romance

Now the tough part.  Up until now it's just been a case of time sinks, but now you have to get yourself some flowers, and not just any flowers, but a Bouquet of Ebon Roses, which drops from a couple bosses in Northrend instances.  Because it's the easiest one to deal with, I recommend grabbing a group and heading to Utgardt Keep, where you need to fight the first boss, Prince Keleseth, and get your bouquet. The easiest way to do this is to hit the instance on normal mode and farm the bouquets by resetting the instance. Not exciting by any means, but it will get you the My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose achievement.

To finish up the achievements you will next have to head to Ironforge or Undercity, get yourself incredibly intoxicated, and throw a Handful of Pedals at either Szaaz the Pie Vendor or Jeremiah Payson, then /kiss him.  Doing so will get your your Flirting with Disaster achievement and most likely get you your "The Love Fool" title.

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