The OverAchiever: Guide to Fool for Love achievements, Page 2
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.
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.
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.

The Rocket's Pink Glare
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Wyred Feb 5th 2010 1:08PM
I damn near killed myself trying to get Be Mine! last year, ended it with 6/8. Got the meta once the achievement got nerfed, but god that was horrible. All in the name of a purple proto
Jamesisgreat Feb 5th 2010 2:09PM
"Be Mine' is one of 4 achievements that I'm lacking for the proto at the moment. And as much as I would like that purple bugger, the thought of logging in every hour to try and get these bloody sweets just makes me die inside. Seriously, after trying to get achievements like this I have to take a break from WoW for a few weeks as I'm just so very pissed off with it! Here's hoping that getting this achievement this year won't be such an ordeal....
Ozmodius Feb 5th 2010 3:23PM
Lucky @#$%&@#!
I got stuck at 5/8 candies. The part that REALLY sucked was that despite grinding this holiday like crazy for the achievement I only got 2 bags of candy the whole time, BOTH of them were before Blizz claims they upped the drop rate for candy bags, and both bags hand the SAME five candies in them.
I've had every other achievement for the Long, Strange Trip meta-achievement done since Brewfest.
If Blizzard screws me out of that 6th candy again this year I may have to /ragequit.
Tamednan Feb 5th 2010 3:29PM
I'm missing Be Mine... stupid RNG. My guild was working on 25-man Naxx at the time and my raid leader wouldn't let me take a raid night off to go do some silly seasonal achievement that was going to be around for a few weeks. With my work schedule I was limited to only a couple hours a night of play time so by the time I was able to grind out the NPCs for the bag it was too late. I even stayed up as late as I could trying to get the bag on the very last day. No luck. It was really sad when Brewfest rolled around again and everyone I had been playing with got their protos. This Sunday I will have my ugly purple mount! My GF likes to link hers to me in tells... what a jerk.
I did get the non-combat pet though, so I guess I kinda won something. haha.
Skarlette Feb 5th 2010 6:26PM
Indeed! I have EVERYTHING ELSE need for Long, Strange Tip EXCEPT THOSE FREAKING CANDIES! I got every other achievement, drop, and quest done, but due to horrible luck I didn't get a single bag of candies to drop last year. /RAGE
This time I'll live at my computer if I have to, but soon that purple protodrake will be mine! Arg!
SamLowry Feb 6th 2010 12:07AM
After setting an alarm to wake me every hour on the last night of the holiday--and still getting only 5/8 candies when all was said and done--I sure as heck hope the bag is purchasable from the holiday vendor for the price of a gift package. I mean, all the rage that filled the forums last year over this they can't seriously expect us to do this all over again in the hopes of defeating a double RNG roll.
Once again, with feeling: How does beating a random roll qualify as an "achievement"?
Moonkinmaniac Feb 5th 2010 1:12PM
I can't wait to get that goblin pet on my goblin char lol
Prinnygod Feb 5th 2010 1:16PM
There's also the Big Love Rocket achievement.
Cephas Feb 5th 2010 6:02PM
It's a Feat of Strength.
Guyledouche Feb 5th 2010 1:20PM
Diamonds........She'll pretty much have to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ur2er-STls
placebo Feb 5th 2010 1:27PM
This is just speculation on my part, but I'm thinking that 'Nation of Adoration' is going to be very similar to Pilgrim's Progress.
Able to do all 4 dailies every day, and they will reward items towards the other holiday achievements.
Radioted Feb 5th 2010 1:28PM
So, why does it matter that the people you shoot with the silver arrows don't have non combat pets out?
Also, Dwarf Hunters are targets? Crap.
Riari Feb 5th 2010 1:40PM
Because the silver arrows give a player a non-combat pet Peddle and you can only have one non-combat pet out at a time. So you'll waste an arrow if you shoot it at a player who already has a non-combat pet out.
Binya Feb 5th 2010 1:43PM
Because shooting the arrows will grant a temporary pet to whoever gets shot. If they have one out already, they won't get the little temproary cupid pet, and you won't get credit for the shot.
Sinnh Feb 5th 2010 1:38PM
so let me get this straight: the talking to NPC thing will work like trick or treating during Hallow's End? You can only do it once per hour to get a shot at getting the items you need for the achievement? Will it still work like last year where you could hand out love tokens to anyone in exchange for items that let you put together the care package for a particular city?
Kragragh Feb 5th 2010 1:43PM
I'm so disappointed they haven't updated the Long, Strange Trip meta. I did it all the first round and now there's NOTHING for me to do over the holidays. I get that they wanted people to have another crack at it, but it's disappointing they didn't give us who completed it another step to work towards. Honestly, I am not raiding right now and I feel like they should have done something for the people who finished the whole thing on the first try, besides a pink dragon that everyone else will get anyway.
Tamednan Feb 5th 2010 3:22PM
"and now there's NOTHING for me to do over the holidays."
Go outside maybe? /s
I've been doing the holiday achievements on a couple alts this time around since I already have most of them on my main. But I also do spend some of my time raiding so finding something in the game to do isn't always an issue. If you're really that upset about having nothing to do in the game maybe it's time for a break? You can only run around Dalaran so many times, believe me, I've tried!
jealouspirate Feb 5th 2010 1:43PM
Is that giant pink love rocket mount going to be available this year? MMO Champ dug it up a while ago. Perhaps from the new SFK boss?
Unless this has already been covered and I missed it... if so, apologies!
Marshal Feb 5th 2010 1:45PM
I pray I get the Truesilver Shafted Arrow. Need to hear: "TIME IS MONEY, FRIEND!" all year round!
divinite Feb 5th 2010 1:48PM
I'm guessing the trio in SFK will be more like the Headless Horseman or Coren Direbrew where it requires level 75 to summon a level 80 elite.