Swift Lovebird
Family: Tallstrider
Type: Vendor
Zone: Durotar/Elwynn Forest
Faction: Both
Sold By: Lythianne Morningspear/Kiera Torres
Recommended Level: Level 60
Skill Level: 2/10
Guide
The Swift Lovebird mount can be purchased from Lythianne Morningspear (Horde) or Kiera Torres (Alliance) in Durotar/Elwynn Forest for 270 Love Tokens. It is only available for 2 weeks in February during the Love is in the Air world event. Alternatively, it can be bought on the auction house at any time.
Vendor Locations
Lythianne Morningspear and the Horde vendors are located in Durotar along the left pathway that leads from the gates of Orgrimmar.
Kiera Torres and the other Alliance NPCs related to the event are located right outside of the gates of Stormwind in the Elwynn Forest.
How to earn Love Tokens
Love Tokens can be earned in three basic ways– one-time quests, daily Crown Chemical Co. queue and daily quests. You can only earn a limited amount per character per day so it is worth to have multiple alts if you want to buy different items. Let’s start with the major one time quest that will award a total of 140 Love Tokens.
If you’re Alliance, head over to Inspector Snip Snagglebolt to begin. If you’re Horde, he will instead be called Detective Snap Snagglebolt. He should look the same regardless of faction. I will refer to him simply as Snagglebolt to avoid any confusion.
Snagglebolt should offer you the quest I Smell Trouble. You will need to use his robot dog O.D.I.E via the quest item you’ll be given to find three clues around Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Once you’ve done that, he will ask you to root out 8 hidden Crown Chemical Co. spies in your main city. A trick to finding them is that the spies will have the buff Strongly Scented on them.
Next, you’ll have to meet Snagglebolt at Shadowfang Keep in the Silverpine Forest. For Horde, this is as simple as entering the Undercity portal located on the zeppelin tower for Stranglethorn Vale and then flying south.
For Alliance, this is a bit more complicated. Druids can use Dreamwalk to get to the Hinterlands and then fly the rest of the way. Mages can use Ancient Teleport: Dalaran if they have learned it to get close.
If you’re neither of those classes, the fastest way is to go to Boralus from the Stormwind portal room. You can then get to Ironforge quickly by using the portal in the Boralus portal room. After that, you’ll have to fly the rest of the way but you do get a dragonriding buff for this quest that will make it faster!
Once there, Snagglebolt will give you the quest Crushing the Crown where you have to pick up some bombs next to him. Use these to kill Crown Chemical Co. members in the Pyrewood Village as well as destroy their supplies. Lastly, you will need to complete the quest Stench of Revenge which requires you to queue for the Crown Chemical Co. instance. I will go over this in the next section.
Daily Crown Chemical Co. Queue
Every day you will be able to queue for The Crown Chemical Co. instance via the dungeon finder section of group finder. This will give you a Heart-Shaped Box which will contain 5-11 Love Tokens inside. You can only receive this box once daily per character.
Although it can be completed at lower levels, I would recommend only queueing if you’re at least level 60. This is because you have to be level 60 or above to receive the best quality Heart-Shaped Box, which can contain the coveted X-45 Heartbreaker mount among other rewards.
Once you’ve entered the instance, you will fight a trio of undead apothecaries. Hummel will become active first, then Baxter a few seconds later, and then Frye. As of Dragonflight, the fight has not been properly scaled so it is fairly simple. The only thing you really need to care about is not standing in the puddles on the floor– your healer will thank you!
Daily Quests
There are two quests you can do daily to receive Love Tokens. To unlock them, you will first need to pick up the quest Take a Look Around from Luciana Delgado (A) or Mahaja Cloudsong (H).
This quest requires you to greet the vendors and NPCs as to familiarize yourself with the area. It is actually the other aforementioned one time quest and it will reward 10 Love Tokens.
Once you’ve done that, you will have access to the daily quests. One is focused on selfcare while the other is about taking a getaway trip to a scenic location. These quests change every day so there are a couple different scenarios. The selfcare related quest is given by a panda named Ning (H) or Ying (A).
The getaway one is always picked up from the NPC by the associated portal, either Aurora Vabsley (H) or Gabbo Blinkwink (A).
Lastly, you can earn either 3 Love Tokens by donating 500 gold or 10 Love Tokens by donating 10,000 gold to the Gala daily. This is done via dialogue with the NPC Galvus Ironhammer (A) or Torgando Featherhoof (H). After donating, it should take 5-10 minutes for your Love Tokens to arrive in your mailbox in the form of Bundle of Love Tokens. Donating a total of 50,000 will reward you with the Support Your Local Artisans achievement!