i delivered the letter and she said she wouldn't talk to me until i smelled better...suggested cologne.&nbsp i bought some and put it on, now she won't talk to me at all?

shes at 54,65 in stormwind...says i completed but when i try to talk to her she recomends cologna? maybe ill try to see if anything else happens

im a lvl 40 NE and cant grab this q from any of the 3 guys. i completed the apothecary and the bundle of gifts quests but they still dont give me a q (i tried talkin to them before doing any qs too). any ideas?

What to do? This holiday is a little frivolous, but there are some things to be had. This quest will ultimately reward you with a suit or dress of three colors each and it fairly simple. The key lies in the gifts though, that is where most of the "real" loot is.

Firstly, you need to buy a perfume bottle and a cologne bottle as well as love tokens. You give the tokens to NPCs in exchange for Pledges/Gifts of Adoration and gives you a 60-minute Adored debuff for 60 minutes. Which NPCs you can give tokens to depend on what you are wearing. Cologne will allow you to give to female NPCs, and perfume for male NPCs. Your own character gender doesn't matter. The pledge/gift is a box that contains many things and if you get pledges/gifts while you have a debuff then you only get the gift collection items. You should a guaranteed pledge/gift if you aren't Adored, but that can change.

The pledge/gift will contain any one of three types of gift collection items and some other random items. Most of silly but what you want to pay attention to is Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets. You may continue to give tokens to NPCs, but doing so means your pledges will only have gift collection items or one of the rarities and you run the risk of being heartbroken. That debuff will not allow you to give love tokens for 60 minutes, unless someone is able to use one of their unbestowed friendship rings on you. This will rid the Heartbroken but not the Adored.

To acquire the collections you need 15 items, each city has 3 items and you need to bundle 5 of each of the 3 item types into gift collections. Then you bundle each of the 3 city collections into a faction collection. And those are pledges of loyalty, cards, and a gift. While it may seem random there is some method to the madness. Depending on who you get your pledges from increases the chances you will get certain items. I think they chance the chances every year but you should pay attention to the three pledgees.

1. Female Guards
2. Male Guards
3. Non-Guards

Non-guards will always yield gift items and give gifts of adorations, the guards will give pledges of adoration and swap between pledges of loyalty and cards but they will have a preference. It is tricky in Darnassus and Undercity, where all the guards are all female or all male respectively. But as I have seen there is an equal chance to get cards or pledges of loyalty. And in addition there is always a chance you will get one of following rarities. It should be assumed all pledges/gifts will average around 1% - 3% to receive one of these in addition to its usual contents.

Lovely Black Dress
Truesilver Shafted Arrow
Romantic Picnic Basket

NOTE : Pledges/Gifts of Adoration are UNBOUND so you can be free to sell/trade them with other toons or fellow players and maintain the rarities. Once you take stuff out of them they are BoP, with the exception of the black dress.

Had no trouble finding her and completing the quest. 0 XP. Yup nada, zilch and zero. Also, she told me that she would prefer cologne to my perfume. OK, but in Azeroth I thought boys wore cologne and girls wore perfume, unless I'm in the East Village section of Stormwind by mistake.

Interesting to learn that there are gender-challenged NPCs. Makes the game a little more complex. What's next? Gender-challenged mobs?

No Colara in front of the bank in StormWind.....
no question mark.....

n-o-t-h-i-n-g!

Help.... I don't want to break anyones heart!

Wondering myself it is bugged at the moment (2/11/2006) no reward given.

Ha, very cute. If you look up Dearest Colara on Anonymous you'll see 3 quests which turn out to be three different guys in IF, SW and Dar all sending love letters to Colara! This is Blizzard's way of "pointing" you to the next quest which is given by the guard standing near Colara in SW. That's why there's no reward, your reward is you get to find the next quest!

I did this - all you do is go on the train from IF to SW. Colara will be easy to find in front of the bank - she's by the mailbox surrounded by 20-30 players, which of course causes your framerate to drop to, say, 0.4 fps.

Colara had a yellow question mark, so I was definitely "on the quest" per the game. When I right-clicked, she took the note. I saw nothing additional. No item. No next-step of the quest. No experience points. Just "Completed Dearest Colara" in my General Chat window.

Perhaps I missed something - she's drawing a crowd. If you know how this works, please post.

Ive even since gone to IF and taken the bloody train to SW..... STILL no Colara?

Colara where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?