Love is in the Air 2021 Guide (Shadowlands 9.0.2)
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Love is in the Air is the World of Warcraft counterpart of Valentine's Day. As such, you will find yourself tasting chocolates or crafting bracelets during the event.
Most characters will be able to participate, as the daily quests have no level requirement. However, full completion requires Level 30.
The event itself takes place mostly in or around capital cities of both factions. Many rewards can be earned: mounts, blue quality gear, pets, achievements, a title, and vanity items.
This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to complete the event.
In 2021, Level 50 is required to get the 
X-45 Heartbreaker mount. The
loot (amulets) obtained from the Crown Chemical Co. scales up to Item Level 158
at Level 60 this year.
Overview
During the Love is in the Air event, you will mostly be doing daily quests and fighting the boss of the event. Doing so will earn you coins that you will use to buy rewards. There is also a short introductory quest line that you will want to do.
Eligibility
All the parts of the event are open to players above level 5 (some parts are
even available to level 1 characters). Players below Level 50 cannot
obtain the X-45 Heartbreaker mount from the daily dungeon.
Date and Timeline
Love is in the Air is a 2-week event. This year, it will start on February the 2nd and finish on February the 16th.
While it is possible to earn all the rewards by diligently doing the daily quests every day, you can also farm the coins needed to buy the rewards, greatly speeding up the completion of the event.
Currency
The currency of the event is 
Love Token. You will earn these coins
by doing daily quests, killing the boss of the event, and farming for
Lovely Charms.
Rewards
The Love is in the Air event offers a variety of rewards, including two mounts, two pets, and many achievements.
Lovely Merchants can be found in all major cities and sell rewards
for Love Tokens.
Buffs
Lovely Merchants sell perfumes and colognes for 1 . Using
these items will give you a temporary buff that stacks with flasks and
does not drop when you enter a dungeon or raid.
| Item | Buff |
|---|---|
 "Bravado" Cologne |
+31 Agility/Strength |
 "VICTORY" Perfume |
+31 Agility/Strength |
 "Wizardry" Cologne |
+31 Intellect |
 "Enchantress" Perfume |
+31 Intellect |
 "STALWART" Cologne |
+31 Versatility |
 "Forever" Perfume |
+31 Versatility |
In addition, the daily quests of your faction will reward you with Lovely Cards that will buff one of your statistics when you use them. These buffs stack with flasks and persist when you enter a dungeon or a raid.
| Alliance Card | Horde Card | Statistic Increased |
|---|---|---|
  Lovely Darnassus Card |
 Lovely Orgrimmar Card |
Agility |
| Lovely Stormwind Card |
Lovely Undercity Card |
Intellect |
| Lovely Exodar Card |
Lovely Silvermoon City Card |
Spirit |
| Lovely Ironforge Card |
Lovely Thunder Bluff Card |
Stamina |
Candies
Love is in the Air candies can only be obtained from Lovely Merchants:
Bag of Heart Candies costs 2 
and can contain:
Box of Chocolates costs 10 and can contain:
Vanity Items
Vanity or Collector items either drop from the boss of the event or are bought from Lovely Merchants.
| Item | Source |
|---|---|
 Forever-Lovely Rose |
Event boss drop |
 Vile Fumigator's Mask |
Event boss drop |
 The Heartbreaker |
Event boss drop |
 Handful of Rose Petals |
2 |
| Lovely Rose |
5 |
| Love Rocket |
5 |
 Silver Shafted Arrow |
5 |
 Love Fool |
10 |
Role Play Clothes
A number of role play clothes are available from the Lovely Merchants. They can be used for transmogrification purposes during the event.
Lovely Dress Box costs 20 and has a chance to contain:
Dinner Suit Box costs 20 and has a chance to contain:
Gear
Defeating the boss of the event can yield one of the following items:
Winking Eye of Love;
Heartbreak Charm;
Shard of Pirouetting Happiness;
Sweet Perfume Broach;
Choker of the Pure Heart.
Heirloom Upgrades
Heirloom upgrades are sold by the event vendors: 
Ancient Heirloom Scabbard
for 200 and 
Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard,
Weathered Heirloom Scabbard, and 
Battle-Hardened Heirloom Scabbard for
450 .
Toys
| Item | Source |
|---|---|
 True Love Prism |
They Really Love Me! |
 Romantic Picnic Basket |
10 |
 Peddlefeet's Lovely Hearthstone |
150 |
 Sturdy Love Fool |
200 |
| Love Fool |
270 |
Pets
Truesilver Shafted Arrow and 
Lovebird Hatchling
can be bought from Lovely Merchants for
40 .
Toxic Wasteling has a chance to drop once a day from the boss of
the event.
Mounts
Swift Lovebird can be bought from Lovely Merchants for
270 .
X-45 Heartbreaker has an extremely low chance to drop once a day
from the boss of the event, if you are Level 50 or more.
Achievements and Title
The meta-achievement of the event is 
Fool for Love. It rewards
the the Love Fool title, counts towards 
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been, and
requires you to complete most of the achievements related to the event:
Charming;
Flirt With Disaster (Alliance / Horde);
Dangerous Love;
Nation of Adoration (Alliance / Horde);
Sweet Tooth;
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose;
Shafted!;
Lonely?;
The Rocket's Pink Glare;
Fistful of Love;
Be Mine!;
I Pitied The Fool.
Lovely Luck Is On Your Side, Perma-Peddle, and 
Tough Love are also
achievements from Love is in the Air, but they do not count towards the meta-achievement.
Quests
The Love is in the Air event features a short quest line where you have to counter the plans of the Crown Chemical Company.
The event also gives you a number of daily quests that you can use
to earn Love Tokens.
Quest Line
The quest line is straightforward and involves no complicated tasks, so
we will only give the names of the quests and indicate where they start and
where they end. Completing the quest line will grant you the
Dangerous Love achievement and will unlock one of the daily quests.
For Alliance players, note that some characters related to the event may not be visible if you are on Call of Duty, the introductory quest for Vashj'ir.
Alliance Quests
The Alliance quest line will make you interact with 3 NPCs: Junior Inspector, located next to the bank in Ironforge, Inspector Snip Snagglebolt and Marion Sutton, both located in the Trade District of Stormwind City.
Note that the first quest is optional.
Horde Quests
The Horde quest line will make you interact with 3 NPCs: Junior Detective, located near the Flight Master in Thunder Bluff, Detective Snap Snagglebolt, located near Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar, and Roka, located next to the Bag Vendor in Orgrimmar.
Note that the first quest is optional.
Daily Quests
Every day, you will be able to do 6 daily quests: four that require you to
bring 
Lovely Charm Bracelets to your faction leaders, one given by agents of the
Crown Chemical Co., where you will have to test their products, and one
given by envoys of the Steamwheedle Cartel, where you will have to fight against
Crown Chemical Co..
Faction Quests
In every capital city, Kwee Q. Peddlefeet will give you a daily quest that
will require you to bring a Lovely Charm Bracelet to the leader of the city.
After accepting such a quest for the first time, you will be given a
Lovely Charm Collector's Kit. This item enables you to collect
Lovely Charms, which can be combined into Lovely Charm Bracelets
(see dedicated section below).
Each daily quest rewards 5 Love Tokens and a specific Lovely
Card, which you can use to buff your statistics.
Completing all the daily quests of your faction will grant you the
Nation of Adoration (Alliance / Horde) achievement.
| Daily Quest | Kwee Q. Peddlefeet's Location | Lovely Card |
|---|---|---|
| A Gift for a Lord of Ironforge |
Ironforge, Bank | Lovely Ironforge Card |
| A Gift for the High Priestess of Elune |
Darnassus, near Temple of the Moon | Lovely Darnassus Card |
| A Gift for the King of Stormwind |
Stormwind City, Trade District | Lovely Stormwind Card |
| A Gift for the Prophet |
Exodar, outside main entrance | Lovely Exodar Card |
| A Gift for the Banshee Queen |
Ruins of Lordaeron, Throne Room | Lovely Undercity Card |
| A Gift for the High Chieftain |
Thunder Bluff, near Flight Master | Lovely Thunder Bluff Card |
| A Gift for the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas |
Silvermoon City, Auction House | Lovely Silvermoon City Card |
| A Gift for the Warchief |
Orgrimmar, Valley of Strength | Lovely Orgrimmar Card |
Crown Chemical Co. Daily Quest
Crown Chemical Co. Public Relations Agents, NPCs found in all major cities, will give you one daily quest chosen from the following list:
- A Perfect Puff of Perfume (rewards 5 );
- A Cloudlet of Classy Cologne (rewards 5 );
- Bonbon Blitz (rewards 5 ).
These quests are easy and only require you to use the quest item you are given on 10 other players.
Steamwheedle Cartel Daily Quest
After completing the quest line, Inspector Snip Snagglebolt (Alliance) and Detective Snap Snagglebolt (Horde) will give you a simple daily quest that depends on your faction and your level.
| Quest | Level Range | Quest Area | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crushing the Crown |
5-13 | Elwynn Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
14-22 | Darkshore | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
23-31 | Duskwood | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
32-41 | Dustwallow Marsh | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
41-50 | The Hinterlands | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
51-60 | Winterspring | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
61-70 | Terokkar Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
71-80 | Crystalsong Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
81-90 | Uldum | 5 |
| 91+ | Silverpine Forest | 5 |
|
| Crushing the Crown |
5-13 | Durotar | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
14-22 | Silverpine Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
23-31 | Hillsbrad Foothills | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
32-41 | Dustwallow Marsh | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
41-50 | The Hinterlands | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
51-60 | Winterspring | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
61-70 | Terokkar Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
71-80 | Crystalsong Forest | 5 |
| Crushing the Crown |
81-90 | Uldum | 5 |
| 91+ | Silverpine Forest | 5 |
Event Boss: Crown Chemical Co. Trio
The boss encounter of the event (located in Shadowfang Keep) can be accessed by queuing for it in the Dungeon Finder or by speaking to Steamwheedle Shyster, located in the Trade District of Stormwind City or near Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar.
The boss encounter consists in defeating Apothecary Hummel, Apothecary Baxter, and Apothecary Frye, whom your party will all face simultaneously. The fight itself is fairly simple, especially for well geared level 60 players
Rewards
The first time that you defeat the boss encounter, you will be granted
the Tough Love achievement and you will be able to loot a
Faded Lovely Greeting Card from Hummel. This starts the
Something is in the Air (and it Ain't Love) (Alliance / Horde) quest, which rewards some
gold.
The first time that you defeat the boss encounter in a given day, you will be
given a 
Heart-Shaped Box, which has a chance to contain:
- 10 Love Tokens;
Forever-Lovely Rose;
Vile Fumigator's Mask;
Toxic Wasteling;- The Heartbreaker;
X-45 Heartbreaker.
Every time you defeat the boss encounter, Apothecary Hummel will drop one of the following Neck items:
- Winking Eye of Love;
- Heartbreak Charm;
- Shard of Pirouetting Happiness;
- Sweet Perfume Broach;
- Choker of the Pure Heart.
Tactics
The enemies have damaging spells that fit in one of two categories: Perfume (purple) or Cologne (green):
- Apothecary Hummel only has Perfume abilities;
- Apothecary Baxter only has Cologne abilities;
- Apothecary Frye has both Perfume and Cologne abilities.
Inside the area where you will be fighting, there are two cauldrons:
Perfume Neutralizer makes you immune to Perfume attacks while
Cologne Neutralizer makes you immune to Cologne attacks. Clicking
a cauldron will create an item in your bags after a short cast time. Using this
item is what gives you the immunity buff (which lasts 5 minutes).
With that in mind, the encounter is rather easy. Have one player take the Perfume Neutralizer and keep aggro on Hummel. Have another player take the Cologne Neutralizer and keep aggro on Baxter. The rest of the group can take either of the Neutralizers. By doing so, your group will only have to worry about moving out of the Perfume or Cologne void zones that Frye (who cannot be tanked) regularly puts down.
Ideally, you will want to kill Hummel and Baxter first and finish with Frye.
Farming Love Tokens
In addition to being rewarded by the daily quests, Love Tokens can
be bought with Lovely Charm Bracelets, at a rate of 1 Lovely Charm
Bracelet for 1 Love Token, from Lovely Merchants in capital cities.
To craft a Lovely Charm Bracelet, you need to collect 10
Lovely Charms, which you will combine by right-clicking one of them.
Lovely Charms drop from creatures that reward experience or honor, if you
have a Lovely Charm Collector's Kit, given to you when doing the first of
your faction's daily quests.
Players can efficiently farm these items in the following ways:
- by killing trash mobs in level 25-30 dungeons (Halls of Reflection) or in Northrend heroic dungeons;
- by killing level 25-30 mobs in Icecrown;
- by killing mobs on the Molten Front (you will never run out of targets).
Note that it is no longer possible to farm these items by killing mobs while inside a vehicle, like in the Ulduar gauntlet event.
Trading Lovely Charm Bracelets
Note that, if you can afford it, you can buy Lovely Charm Bracelets from
other players. However, as is the case with items that have a limited duration,
you cannot trade them through the auction house.
Remaining Achievements
If you have followed this guide so far, you will have already obtained
the following achievements: Dangerous Love, Nation of Adoration (Alliance / Horde),
and Tough Love.
In this section, we will run you through the many remaining achievements.
Be Mine!
To complete the 
Be Mine! achievement, you need to eat each of the
8 following candies:
- Heart Candy - Be mine!
- Heart Candy - I LOVE YOU
- Heart Candy - I'll follow you all around Azeroth.
- Heart Candy - All yours.
- Heart Candy - You're the best!
- Heart Candy - I'm all yours!
- Heart Candy - You're mine!
- Heart Candy - Hot lips.
These candies can be found in 
Bags of Heart Candies, which you can buy
for 2 from a Lovely Merchant in any major city. You might need
to buy several bags before you obtain all the cookies.
Charming
Either by doing your faction's daily quests or by farming for
Lovely Charms, you will eventually make 12 Lovely Charm Bracelets
and trigger the Charming achievement.
Fistful of Love
To obtain the Fistful of Love achievement, you need to buy 15
Handful of Rose Petals (you only need 11, but you can only buy these
items 5 by 5). This will cost you 6 tokens. Then, use the items on the
various combinations of class and race that the achievement demands.
Flirt With Disaster
Flirt With Disaster (Alliance / Horde) requires you to first buy:
- a few bottles of an alcoholic beverage (enough to get you smashed);
- a bottle of perfume, for 1 , from a Lovely Merchant (either
"Enchantress" Perfume, 
"Forever" Perfume, or 
"VICTORY" Perfume); - a Handful of Rose Petals (unless you have some
left from Fistful of Love).
Then, head to Ironforge, if you play Alliance, or Undercity, if you play Horde. Finally, follow these steps:
- Find Sraaz, if you play Alliance, or Jeremiah Payson, if you play Horde;
- Get smashed (by drinking enough of the alcoholic beverage you brought);
- Put on the perfume that you bought;
- Use a Handful of Rose Petals on the NPC;
- /kiss the NPC.
I Pitied The Fool
For completing I Pitied The Fool, you first need to buy 5 Love Fools.
Each Love Fool costs 10 , so it is a good idea to go with a group of
friends to do the achievement, each friend bringing one or two Love Fools.
Then, simply go to each of the locations mentioned in the achievement text, put down a Love Fool, target it, and /pity it.
Lonely?
For completing Lonely?, you first need to obtain a
Buttermilk Delight, which you can find in a Box of Chocolates.
This box can be bought from a Lovely Merchant for 10 . You might
also need to buy a Romantic Picnic Basket, which costs 10 and
can be refunded if you manage not to use it.
Then, you need to go to Dalaran with a friend, or find one there. Sit
at one of the Romantic Picnic sets or create one using your
Romantic Picnic Basket. Wait for your character and that of your
friend to be buffed with Romantic Picnic before eating your piece
of Buttermilk Delight. Note that your friend only needs to sit down with
you for you to get the achievement, they do not need to also eat a Buttermilk
Delight, unless they want to get the achievement.
Sweet Tooth
Completing 
Sweet Tooth requires you to eat each of the following
candies: Buttermilk Delight, 
Sweet Surprise, 
Dark Desire,
Very Berry Cream. Each of them has an 80% chance to be contained
in a Box of Chocolates, which can be bought from a Lovely Merchant
for 10 .
Note that from having done the Lonely?, you must already have
completed the Buttermilk Delight objective and you probably also have obtained
some of the other candies (if not all of them).
Lovely Luck Is In Your Side
For Lovely Luck Is On Your Side, simply buy 
Lovely Dress Boxes from a
Lovely Merchant until one of them contains a Lovely Black Dress.
Each box costs 20 and has a 25% chance of containing a Lovely
Black Dress.
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose requires you to obtain a
Bouquet of Red Roses or a Bouquet of Ebon Roses. These
drop from bosses in heroic WOTLK dungeons and from bosses
in normal and heroic Cataclysm dungeons.
Perma-Peddle
The Perma-Peddle is obtained by buying a Truesilver Shafted Arrow
(costs 40 at a Lovely Merchant) and using it to learn how to summon the
Peddlefeet pet.
Shafted!
To complete the Shafted! achievement, spend 10 to buy 10 Silver Shafted Arrows
from a Lovely Merchant. Then, use the arrows on 10 players that do not currently have a non-combat
pet out.
The Rocket's Pink Glare
To complete the 
The Rocket's Pink Glare achievement, you need to buy 10
Love Rockets from a Lovely Merchant, something that will cost you 10 .
Then, fire them off as fast as you can (by right-clicking them in your bags).
There appear to be issues in crowded areas and with certain addons that prevent all the rockets from being counted towards the achievement. To avoid this, you can attempt to obtain the achievement in a deserted place, with your addons disabled.
Love Magnet, Beacon of Love, and They Really Love Me!
You can buy a 
Manufactured Love Prism from Lovely Merchants
for 40 . Using this item on someone gives them a
stack of 
Love Ray. Love Magnet requires 10 stacks of
Love Ray, Beacon of Love 25 stacks, and They Really Love Me!
50 stacks.
Manufactured Love Prism has a 30-second cooldown and the
buff it gives, Love Ray lasts 5 minutes, so you need to find
someone else to keep casting the buff on you and make it stack to 50.
Obviously, if you find more people, it will go faster.
They Really Love Me! rewards you with a toy: True Love Prism.
It Might Just Save Your Life
It Might Just Save Your Life is a reward for using one of the
Neck items that drop from Apothecary Hummel:
- Winking Eye of Love;
- Heartbreak Charm;
- Shard of Pirouetting Happiness;
- Sweet Perfume Broach;
- Choker of the Pure Heart.
Conclusion
We hope that this guide will have answered every question you had about Love is in the Air. If not, we encourage you to leave a comment or contact us by e-mail, we will be happy to address the issue you encountered.
Translations
Changelog
- 17 Feb. 2021: Fixed wrong requirements for the meta-achievement.
- 15 Feb. 2021: Updated level requirements.
- 10 Feb. 2021: Added amulets Item Level for 2021.
- 09 Feb. 2021: Guide reviewed for 2021.
- 08 Feb. 2020: Guide reviewed for 2020.
- 12 Feb. 2019: 2019 update.
- 03 Feb. 2018: 2018 update.
- 07 Feb. 2017: 2017 update.
- 15 Feb. 2016: 2016 update.
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