Love is in the Air and Big Love Rockets!

This is a little late but I hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s Day. In World of Warcraft there is a special event called Love is in the Air to celebrate V-Day. The event started on the 7th and ends on the 21st. These holiday events that Blizzard makes always have special and novelty items that you can only get during certain events.

One of these novelty items you can get is the Romantic Picnic Basket. When you use it your character drops down a picnic basket with a pink and white umbrella and people can come and join you for a lovely feast. The Romantic Picnic Basket can be purchased from any Lovely Merchant which are found in all major cities. The merchant also sells other items like: Roses, Chocolates, love dummy (called the Love fool).

This year’s Love is in the Air event introduces the Big Love Rocket. The
Big Love Rocket is a mount that can only be obtained during this event. Now this is nothing new because events such as Hallow’s End and Brewfest have rare mount drops ( The Horseman’s Reins, Great Brewfest Kodo and Swift Brewfest Ram) but the mount that drops in this year’s Valentine’s event is a special one.

The Big Love Rocket mount drops off Apothecary Hummel ( Love is in the Air holiday boss). It is a dark pinkish rocket that you can ride around and is very similar to the X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME mount which was first introduced in the first expansion of WoW: The Burning Crusade. Now the X-51 Nether-Rocket X-TREME was only obtainable by buying the WoW Trading Card Game and the chances of getting the rocket mount loot card was extremely low. With the addition of the Big Love Rocket it gives players who wanted a rocket mount another shot at getting one.

I am currently farming for this mount myself and here is some info and pointers that will helpfully maximize your chances at getting this mount. First the Big Love Rocket mount has a low low drop rate. An official comment from Blizzard acknowledges that the drop rate is lower than 1-2% which makes it one of the rarest mounts in the game. My first tip would be to group up with people that have multiple high level alts. When I say high level I mean level 75 and up because at 75 you can get the quest that summons Apothecary Hummel. Personally I run with guildies and we each have around three alts but some of the guys have five so we get a lot of attempts everyday (around 21). My second tip would be to have a warlock in group to drop a summoning stone inside the instance to minimize downtime. Doing this saves a lot of time because you don’t have to constantly run out of the instance to summon alts. My third and final tip would be to plan out who is getting on what alts. Set up a rotation for alt switching so you ensure that there is always at least one tank and one healer when you switch in alts and to make sure there’s no confusion when people are switching characters.

Enjoy the Love is in the Air event and good luck to those of you trying to get the Big Love Rocket!