Love is in the Air - Achievement GuideLove is in the Air! Be careful because it seems that love isn't around for long in World of Warcraft: this event will start on February 11 at 06:00AM and end on February 16 at 06:00AM. (Server time)
The
Fool for Love meta-achievement is obviously a part of the
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been achievement to get the
Violet Proto-Drake (310% Speed Flying Mount).
Most of these achievements are easily completed because they rely heavily on items found in
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledge of Adoration. You can easily get them and you can also buy them from other players at the Auction House if you're running short on time.
HeartmenderUse the
Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets on 20 players affected by the
Heartbroken debuff. You can find the bracelets inside the
Gift of Adorations you get when you offer a
Love Token to a guard in capital cities.
Nation of Adoration / 
Nation of AdorationGet a
Gift of Adorations from each capital city.
Tokens are bought from Innkeepers during the event. Giving a token to a guard will affect you with the
Adored debuff and will reward you with a
Gift of Adorations. This won't work all the time, you can also get the
Heartbroken debuff and in this case you just won't get anything. You can cancel the Heartbroken debuff with a
Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets ... Which is the whole point of the achievement! Just make other players happy!
Flirt with DisasterDrink enough alcohol to be completely smashed, buy a
Perfume Bottle from the closest Innkeeper selling it, and use your
Bouquet of Red Roses or
Bouquet of Ebon Roses on either
Sraaz or
Jeremiah Payson depending on your faction.
Nearest and DearestBuy some
Perfume or
Cologne along with a few
Love Tokens and complete the
Dangerous Love or
Dangerous Love questline depending on your faction. They're simple delivery quests and you shouldn't have any problem with that.
Sweet ToothEat a
Buttermilk Delight,
Dark Desire,
Sweet Surprise and a
Very Berry Cream. All these items are found in the
Box of Chocolate contained in
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledge of Adoration. If you plan to do the other achievements this one won't be a problem as you'll have plenty of them available.
My Love is Like a Red, Red RoseObtain a
Bouquet of Red Roses or
Bouquet of Ebon Roses.
Shafted!Use
Silver Shafted Arrow on 10 players, once again you can find this item in the
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledge of Adoration and it should be pretty easy to have enough of them to complete the achievement. If you really need more arrows you can also complete the
Alliance Gift Collection/
Horde Gift Collection and complete the
quest to get 5 extra arrows but it's going to waste a LOT of your time.
Lonely?Join someone for a picnic in Dalaran! This will require a
Romantic Picnic Basket, this is a rare drop from
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledges of Adoration. If you're not lucky with droprates, you can still find someone with the basket and share a picnic with him/her to complete your achievement.
The Rocket's Pink GlareShoot off 10
Love Rockets in 20 seconds or less. This is another easy achievement, you can find the rockets in
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledges of Adoration.
Fistful of LoveUse a
Handful of Rose Petals or your
Bouquet of Red Roses /
Bouquet of Ebon Roses on each of the race/class combination.
Handful of Petals are found in
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledges of Adoration.
Be Mine!Use the
Bag of Candies found in
Gifts of Adorations and
Pledges of Adoration to create each of the hearts listed.
I Pitied the FoolObtain a
Love Fool from a
Gifts of Adorations or
Pledges of Adoration and use it in the specified locations. Once the Love Fool is on the ground just target it and do a /pity emote.
2009 WoW Arena Tournament AnnouncedWe’re pleased to announce that the 2009 World of Warcraft Arena Tournament is nearly here. Starting next week (February 17, 2009), players will be able to sign up to compete in this year’s exciting competition. The tournament will feature an online qualifier played on our special tournament realms. Top teams will proceed to their respective regional finals and compete for a chance to reach the global world championship – with cash prizes totaling over $200,000.
These realms have been outfitted with level 80 character templates and the latest epic gear from Wrath of the Lich King. As an added bonus, we have included exclusive rewards that players can earn by participating in the tournament, including an Armored Murloc in-game pet. Top teams will also contend for a chance to achieve the “Vanquisher” title for their live characters.
If you would like to demonstrate your arena prowess, or simply want a chance to earn the exclusive loot, please check back next week for more details and register!
In our 3.1.0 class updates post, we had announced plans to remove consumable ammunition from the game upon the release of the next major content patch. Our original plans were to change ammunition so that hunters would no longer need to utilize bag space, while adding some new functionality that would continue to make ammunition a compelling element of gameplay. Unfortunately, this intended change will not be completely ready in time for patch 3.1.0.
We still fully intend to move forward with this change when the additional functionality becomes available, and for 3.1.0 we still intend to remove the need for pouches/quivers by greatly increasing the stack sizes on arrows and bullets, and the haste bonus from the bags will be preserved in another fashion. We’ll be sure to inform our players with further updates once they become available.
Unintentional instance savingWe did speak with some of the developers about this recently. While I'm unable to comment on your specific suggestions, I'll say we were all in agreement that something needs to change with raid IDs. On the one hand, we are happy that pick-up groups have a wider array of options at their disposal, whether it be 5, 10, or 25 man content. On the other hand though, it's currently too easy to end up saved to an instance that's been cleared, or close to it, without knowing ahead of time this will happen.
We've been looking at player feedback in this regard, and are working to develop a better interface to warn players that will be saved to an instance that's been partially, or completely cleared. This is something that might not happen in 3.1, but we'll be discussing this further internally in the near future. (
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Druid (
Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Savage DefenseIt isn't intended as a buff or nerf per se. As many players have surmised, we want to make gearing as a bear tank more interesting, yet we don't have a lot of room to expand on stamina, dodge or armor. In this case the specific numbers are not as important as the general idea, though we also think the specific numbers are a really good place to start. (
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Hunter (
Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Plans to changes hunter ammos in 3.1.0 cancelledOne of the things we have been trying to do more of is give players a sneak peak at what we are working on. The risk of course is that players become disappointed or even outraged when some of the changes don't come to pass. The traditional Blizzard tight-lipped responses and invocation of "soon" are partially for this reason. It used to be that everyone found out about class changes through patch notes.
Blizzard uses the development model of iterative design more than almost anyone else in the industry. We go through a ton of changes before you see a fraction of them. (
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Mage (
Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Arcane Barrage NerfedA last minute change was made to the mage Arcane Barrage spell which reduced its spell power coefficient. This change did not make it into the 3.0.9 patch notes. We will be carefully evaluating this change and its effects on game balance in both PvE and PvP. If you have constructive feedback to provide, please do so in this thread. (
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Priest (
Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
HymnsKeep in mind that the changes we listed as a possible for the future patch are just a short list. I believe Ghostcrawler did say that Hymns are something we'd like to look at, but I couldn't say specifically if anything is planned for them just yet. (
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Warlock (
Skills List / Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Warlock PetsWe're looking into making further improvements (though there is no current ETA) for these pets, however, specifics haven't been locked down. We'll let you know when more information becomes available on this subject. (
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