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Kommentar von 356775

Tactics:

Start with your tank ready to taunt Hummel (purple). As soon as he's been taunted, activate your purple potion and kite him over to Baxter, the second mob who you will need to taunt immediately.

When both Baxter and Hummel are taunted, the DPS need to get each of them down as soon as possible. The potions given wont hold out with both mobs proccing debuffs roughly every 5-8 seconds. When you've killed Hummel, it's plain sailing. Just make sure you keep consistent with the use of the yellow potion, but dont count your blessings. By hummel's 50% mark Frye, the final mob of the encounter comes out. When Baxter has been downed, the healer needs to be on tip-toes to avoid AoE debuffs, which can also be cured through the potions. You'll see the green/purple puddles on the ground. Frye is very much an "ants in your pants" mob, so aggro is vital.

If the tank dies during the encounter, you can certainly count on a melee dps surviving, dependant on the healer. The bosses, side the debuffs have quite a shallow damage pool, so be sure to continue the encounter if this happens - Dont give up just yet!

Notes: Make sure that if you die, and the encounter is still in the bag, DO NOT RUN IN! The mobs will despawn, and the summoner's turn will be lost until the next daily is acquired.

So far the possible drops from this special world event boss include:

The Heartbreaker - Makes you sad
Toxic Oozling - Vanity Pet
EoC Necklaces
Forever-Lovely Rose - Misc. headpiece for roleplaying and style.
Big Love Rocket - Extremely rare flying/ground mount (310%)

Ingame referrence to good old Papa Hummel. Now we can have a rough guess of what was in those biscuits..

Kommentar von Arlor

Also drops another RP hat: Vile Fumigator's Mask (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50741).

Tip: rather than not standing in stuff at all, stand in the color that you match. The green and purple pools never overlap, and last a while...so move to one that matches you and you don't have to worry about the floor for a while.

Kommentar von Baraz

General Hummel: I miss you so much.

General Hummel: There's something I've gotta do, Barb. Something I couldn't do while you were here. I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking. But whatever happens...

General Hummel: ...please don't think less of me.

Epic line (used by NPC Hummel during the fight). "The Rock" quotes...
See 2:15 of this vid @ youtube

Kommentar von Giulls

Could this be the same Hummel of Papa Hummel's Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits? It certainly makes one wonder what exactly we are feeding our poor little loyal companions!

Kommentar von Kalx

have a dps take a purple potion and tank hummel, he won't even get hurt a lot (just from exploding adds)

same thing works for baxter, with the green potion.

Kommentar von Kalx

The Big Love Rocket isn't exactly 310%. It scales with the highest mount speed you have, so if you have a 310% flyer, it will fly at 310%.

Kommentar von 541992

Some fun info.........all characters involved make reference to the movie "The Rock" with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage. Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, Major Baxter and Sergeant Frye.

Kommentar von Undeadlord

a note to the amazing players... this boss is nothing like the Headless Horseman or Coren Direbrew. It is NOT easily soloed, with the massive amount of AoE going around. Self healing yourself will not be able to cover it. Save your attempt and don't waste it trying to solo this encounter!

Kommentar von 266444

I've tanked and dps this and you can tank it standing where Hummel is the whole time unless you need to move from a damage pool under you.

Apothecary Hummel and Baxter do their spray which can easily kill someone if they are not healed or if they do not have immunity from the cologne or perfume immunity pot the goblin gives you. Just have the tank face them away from the group and you wont have to worry. If you are all green or all purple immune you could very well just ignore that color guy because he wont be hurting anyone.

Apothecary Frye just runs around and throws cologne and perfume clouds all around. It can be hard to get aggro on him as a tank because he does not hit people and just runs around throwing clouds out. These can be difficult to heal through and it is recommended that your group not be stupid and get out of the ones that can damage them. Apothecary Frye should be burned either second or last depending on how together your group is.

Kommentar von 350550

I've actually come up with my own tactic that has seen the best results so far of any that I've tried.

The fight starts just as it does normally: everyone puts on the purple neutralizer and the tank picks up Hummel. However, when Baxter comes alive, a DPS (I suggest plate DPS, meaning DK, paladin, or a warrior, but a rogue, or even a Hunter works) switches to the green neutralizer and picks him up. This OT of sorts should keep Baxter over by the table where he activates until Hummel is down. After Hummel is dead, the rest of the group can switch to green and kill Baxter. Finish up by taking down Frye, and you have a nice, clean kill and some new loot.

The advantage to this tactic is that it keeps the majority of the group out of Baxter's spray while they are still vulnerable to it (greatly easing up on the healer and putting melee DPS at less risk), and it is easier for a less geared, new, or low DPSing group to accomplish.

Kommentar von KinetiK

What is the minimum level to be able to summon? I've successfully summoned with 76 but a 72 is too low for the daily quest. Perhaps they can do the chain but the bald-assed daily is out.

Kommentar von Eseira

Just because it needs saying: Why the hell would you need a tank? He hits for at least no more than 300-400, ALL damage in this encounter is from their abilities, clouds, sprays, whatever. I've healed it two days in a row now, and I just leave the dps to dps as they wish, I never bring a tank. There's no problem at all healing this unless people start standing in the wrong colour clouds.

Kommentar von drphillgood

I don't know what all the fuss is about with OT and "bad" groups. Hunters can trap Baxter. He can also be feared, hexed, and I assume sheeped(havn't had many mages) you just have to watch out for the stupid clouds on the ground. No OT needed...use CC if you remember what it is.

Kommentar von Synariel

I don't think this has been said, but it is interesting to note that this boss is the first <anything> in the game that can KILL companion pets! (Aside from Zergling-Grunty fights). Standing in the slime puddles with a non-flying pet will result in its death. I baaawed when my Spectral Tiger Cub got killed before I knew it would happen, but I have to admit it was kind of funny when I pulled out Lil' K.T. It also kills the Toxic Wasteling: he must've been standing in the wrong color!

Edit: Well they sure hotfixed that quick! As of today (I think) the puddles no longer kill pets.

Kommentar von 409044

Wrong! If you click on the mount within the loot table here and read the comments you will clearly see that it was confirmed that the mount is 310% speed even WITHOUT previously having a 310% flyer

Kommentar von Seilgrank

Some interesting things my group found on our attempts tonight:
Baxter is able to be sheeped. Unknown if the other two are.
Frye cannot be mind controlled by a priest, he is immune. Unknown if the other two are.
Hummel can be mind controlled with an Engineer's Mind Amplification Dish, but after fighting with Baxter for about 10 seconds all three of them despawned and we lost that summon. Unknown if the other two are affected by the cap, and I'm not eager to lose more summons trying it again.

Kommentar von Trippid

I'm not sure about most of you, but I know when a seasonal boss comes out I find it much more interesting/enjoyable to try and make a challenge out of it. In this case, it meant trying to solo as an enhancement shaman.

After 6 days of failed attempts I finally got him down this morning, so suffice to say if anyone with some heals or CDs is bored enough, they could probably do it. In my case I tanked Hummel half way up the ramp leading the to next area, and as soon as Baxter came out I sent my wolves on him and had them taunt. That kept him busy for quite a long time, and when I got frighteningly low due to the apothecaries exploding, I popped my earth elemental. After you down Hummel it's not nearly as hard to kill the other two, just make sure you switch to cologne, kill off Baxter as fast as you can and take your time with Frye.

This post wasn't meant to brag, and I know a lot of you probably think it a stupid waste of time to try and solo something like this. But honestly it was quite a lot of fun :)

Kommentar von Alma

MoP update: This isn't "easy" anymore. It's actually closer to near-impossible, because even the meaty voidwalker will get gibbed pretty quickly. Oh well, kudos to anyone who can actually pull it off still. ;)

Warlocks! Your day has come at last, for you are the only class that can easily solo this set of bosses. Things to make this as smooth as possible, have ready the following:

- Voidwalker (dur)
- Fel Concentration (this encounter is going to be easiest as Affliction)
- PvP gear (for the extra health, although you should be fine in decent pve gear too)

Send the void on Hummel (so he sprays away from the central area is a good idea) then ignore him for now. Instead, use your cologne neutralizer and wait for Baxter to attack; wear him down using drain life as your filler spell, (drain life will help trivialize damage from the only real threats--exploding apothecaries and surprise pink clouds) and make sure to move away when he starts casting chain reaction. All you really have to do is play it smart--keep the big blue's hp above 1/2, tap/drain as necessary, keep dots/haunt up, and Baxter will drop no problem. Next, kill Frye and the fight is basically over. Hummel will be a joke, as the void will have so much threat by now, it'll feel like a real tank is on him.

You shouldn't even need to use a healthstone or potion, but it never hurts to have them handy.

Kommentar von 309391

I'm thinking the trio must me soloable by Retri Paladins using Repentance on Baxter while burning Hummel. and making sure to step away from cologne puddles on the ground.

I'll update if this works

Kommentar von 70814

lol I did this on my BM hunter.

Pet used: Worm (will need the Glyph of Mending, too)
Have him tank Hummel while you DPS him.
Tank Baxx with hunter until Hum is dead
After Hum is dead, have pet tank Bax and Frye
Kill them

Tadaa.

Not exactly for the MEH geared, but it is really easy. Pet gets over 2k health per 3 seconds with glyph, and pets don't need the neutralizers to not take heavy damage. And Improved Mend Pet cures all the poisons from your pet. Tanking w/ under is pretty easy with Scorpid Sting + Aspect of the Dragon Hawk, just because he does not do much damage in the first place and those two alone give you a 21% chance to not be hit (i think, either way i did not notice it).

http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc#mVzGhrzzb0oM those are the points I use for my worm/solo spec, if interested.

Kommentar von sneaky7

Soloed as 80 level solo-BM hunter. Pet: turtle, used tier5(2). At first I tried a tact similar to what Surloin sayed here, but very soon I found out that the pet can easily tank both Hummel and Baxter without dying. Actually it would be very easy if not the adds that blow up. It is possible to kill them ofc (they have just around 500 hp), but there can be a lot of them at a time and 1 little mistake might cost you BIG. So through entire fight i was up the stairs, by the door from wich you enter that area (don't ever go back through the door during the fight, they'll despawn). It is possible to jump from that spot to the scourge wagon that is nearby. When you are on the wagon, the mobs can still attack you from the ground beneath it, but if you jump between the stairs and the wagon, they ll have to run a long way around to get melee range with you again. With this tactic it was also necessary to switch perfume and cologne pretty often, as the poison puddle would appear pretty much at the wagon or stairs (since i stood there most of the time). I also tried to keep the frost trap downstairs most of the time, using snakes and explosive trap on occasion, to get rid of some extra mobs.
FD+bandages when you get hurt (poison puddles don't break bandaging when you have the proper antidote on you). A thing to remember, however, is that FDing while you have aggro from Baxter or Hummel will lead to boss reset - so watch out. Also, a possible trick is to run into a puddle and FD there, while having the proper antidote on. This can buy some time to wait for cooldowns (as long as the pet can handle the mobs). I didn't have to use this one, though - it went quite clear and I only had to bandage a few times and drink a health pot.
Ah, 1 more thing: If you get to a spot, wich is unreachable by the mobs, as soon as you gain aggro from one of them they will just port you to themselves (instead of going evade mode).

Kommentar von Toldry

You do not need a tank for this encounter,
I did this once with a group of 4 shadow priests and 1 holy priest,

Me, being a shadow priest, I used the purple potion and Shadow Word: Death to immediatly get aggro on the purple boss, I then just turned around in a way that he wont face the rest of the party.

The rest of the party used a green potion and finished off the other two bosses.

Kommentar von rippingCARTER

are he lvl 80 anytime. i guess i want that gas mask?

Kommentar von 338186

You can now only queue for this fight after finishing the quests that the inspector/detective gives to you. After you're done just talk to him again and you'll get a little option to prompt, opening the LFG window and enabling you to queue.

Drops 346 necks.

Choker of the Pure Heart (Str DPS
Winking Eye of Love (Healer)
Heartbreak Charm (Caster DPS)
Shard of Pirouetting Happiness (Tank)
Sweet Perfume Broach (Agi DPS)

All these necks are just "upgraded" versions of the wrath one, better stats.

There's also two flavour helmets

Kommentar von t2teddy

You know, while I've got max level toons that can complete every seasonal event's achievements, including the seasonal bosses, I have a ton that can't because they're 'too low level.'
I really resent the fact that Blizzard can't be bothered putting instance level seasonal bosses in the dungeons they spawn in.
IE
Hummel and friends in SFK -
Why can't the normal instance level players (18-21) also have a 'mini Hummel' encounter?
No flying mount drop but why not a special ground mount and level appropriate blue/epic gear drops? This would be especially interesting for level 18-21 players because they're about to get their first level of riding! Hey how about a pink/white striped horse!

The same with every other seasonal encounter.
WHY are the low level players ALWAYS left out in the cold and potentially start saying 'screw it. It's not worth participating.'
And, yes, I realize lowbies can participate in many of the quests/achievements attached to each holiday, but they're STILL left waiting another entire year to complete...

Lowbies deserve perks too, if only to keep them interested in the game and paying to play.

Kommentar von Loreya

I can't queue for Apothecary Hummel and the NPC has no quests for me :(

Kommentar von fatih

he drops very nice ilvl 346 necklaces which can be equipped at level 80. however you cant reach boss before you are 84:)

Kommentar von Vlad

You can queue up for the first SFK run during Love is in the Air by using this script to select the right event in the LFD frame:
/run LFDQueueFrame_SetType(288)
You can select your roles and join the queue without having to talk to the NPC at all, yay for saving travel time!

Kommentar von 346571

Blizzard did away with easy que for event instances (apparently). Currently you have to do the stupid quest chain that Snap Snagglebolt starts, (see how wonderously well designed this chain is in comments) THEN go to Snap, talk to him, and he brings up the que...yeah it's a pain :(

I have to say that since many ppl only care about the instance que, the wowhead guide is not very clear in this regard.

p.s. you don't have to do quests to que? could someone check? maybe you just have to talk to the little bugger in org..

Kommentar von Sennrab

can this boss, or the box drop the bloody mount?

Kommentar von magux

I just did it 6 times and 6 times drop ...

Kommentar von Gatekus

Sigh. I have been trying to queue for this on my three 83 toons without success. Broke through to 84 today and was able to queue on one toon, although the wait was LONG for DPS. Can anyone else confirm this dungeon is based on reaching level 84 and not the item level of your gear?

Kommentar von Lainea

If people are gonna do this event, they need to read up on it. If you choose not to read wtf you're supposed to do, then don't expect a healer to be able to heal 4 people who don't use the potions and have all three of the damage buffs on them.

Kommentar von 695338

As an Atonement/AA specced disc priest, this fight is laughable. I literally Smite-healed my party to victory.

Kommentar von Deepfire

It is recommended to start the fight nuking him (phase where the tank will use Perfume Potion) , then go to Baxter , and switch to Cologne and then Frye who has random aggro.

Kommentar von Zapph

Confirmed no updated trinkets drops this year (2012), just old blue 346 ones from last year.

Kommentar von 945330

does this guy drop the Toxic Wasteling?

Kommentar von 939978

This encounter qualifies for the guild dungeon challenges. On a Monday night with 0/7 dungeons done, I ran this repeatedly with two guildies. It took us 17 minutes to get to 7/7. (I'm a tank, so no waiting around in queue.)

Of course, you can only get the heart-shaped box once per day. I've never gotten anything but tokens from it, though…

Kommentar von Laced

Currently Hummel drops 480 necklaces. Not sure about anything else.

Kommentar von Niaymh

The following items are in the drop table for 2013, iLevel 480 necks:

Zwinkerndes Liebesauge
Halsreif des reinen Herzens
Herzeleidglücksbringer
Splitter des tänzelnden Glücks
Lieblich duftende Brosche

Kommentar von PheonixRising88

The Love is in the air boss battle drops 480 neckpieces for all classes and specs. Obviously only one, also the heart-shaped box has a chance this year of dropping a big love rocket mount

Kommentar von meerling

The new versions (Feb 2013) are now level 480.

Choker of the Pure Heart

Heartbreak Charm

Shard of Pirouetting Happiness

Sweet Perfume Broach

Winking Eye of Love

Kommentar von Marhault

Is this soloable at L90?

Kommentar von JohnKerr

Just had this fight glitch but luckily it reset within a few seconds. Four of us began the fight (our healer decided to afk after entering) and we were down to Frye. He ran around as usual but then disappeared after going behind the cages/crates along the wall near the bottom of the stairs. It's was like he ran through the wall there and was gone. We stood around wondering what happened for about 15 seconds when the trio reappeared in their starting positions. We began the fight again (the healer finally showed up for the second go around) and finished it like normal.

Kommentar von 1017531

As of 2013, the boss is entirely doable, but I reccomend using the cologne and perfume protection.

Hummel shoots perfume, so grab the anti-perfume for him.

One of the others attacks with cologne, and the third alternates throwing either one around and is immune to taunting.

If you have protection against whichever of the first two you're attacking, you're basically immune to their damage, and can tank them easily.

The third guy is a wild card, and runs around uncontrolled, but his DPS is low overal, so get in there and get your easy epic necklace!

Kommentar von Eido

The 2014 Loot Table for this NPC consists of:
NOTE: requires lvl 89 to queue for this fight. Credit to sTyLnK for this information.

5 neck peices - (ilvl 480)
Herzeleidglücksbringer (DPS - intellect).
Lieblich duftende Brosche (DPS - agility).
Halsreif des reinen Herzens (DPS - strength).
Zwinkerndes Liebesauge (HEAL).
Splitter des tänzelnden Glücks (TANK).
These neck pieces cannot be Disenchanted.
A Herzförmige Schachtel (NOTE: "You can only get one box per character per day.")
100% Containing:
• 5-10 Zeichen der Liebe (used as currency at any Reizende Verkäuferin. Can purchase two, notable items: Schneller Blumenstrauß and Picknickkorb für Verliebte).
• 25 Tapferkeitspunkte.
Possibly Containing:
Ewig wunderschöne Rose (currently cannot be used for Transmogrifying. Requires 'Show Helm'. Gender-based placement).
Maske des schändlichen Ausräucherers (currently cannot be used for Transmogrifying. Requires 'Show Helm').
Der Herzbrecher (Non-consumable. Can be use on a friendly player, including yourself).
Giftmüllschleimling (This pets' idle animation: consumes critters every 10 seconds. Grows larger after critter consumption.).
Herzbrecher X-45 (incredibly rare drop rate ~0.03; see this post by Thecanman).
NOTE: "You can get more than one of these items per box."
Vergilbte schöne Grußkarte - (Starts a quest which rewards 7 gold and 22,050 XP).

My source(wowhead) for the confirmed loot and quoted text.
I've also added minor details of each item from corresponding comment sections. This took forever, scrolling through all of the pages and comments, but I hope it is helpful! Good luck!

Kommentar von DreamMkr

Just for the record, if ya want a better necklace go to the shado pan assault quartermaster and get a 522 neck item for 825 valor just have to be neutral.

Kommentar von Rakenaid

But even if I were to win a Herzbrecher X-45...I would haz nobody to ridez with meh...

Thus, I will continue to be a Liebestoll and profess my love to Apotheker Hummel by wearing my Reizendes schwarzes Kleid with Parfümzerstäuber von Manufaktur Krone, setting out a Picknickkorb für Verliebte and enjoying a Schokoladenschachtel, then /kneeling before him with a Ewig wunderschöne Rose before proceeding to be Der Herzbrecher by Verstümmelning him for a Herzförmige Schachtel, which I am sure would ultimately leave me with a Vorladung bei Gericht...or possible a Herzbrecher X-45...or even a Hübscher Glücksbringer which would cut down on my time spent farming for a Schneller Blumenstrauß

Kommentar von CrayC

Those looking for WOD necks, hoping for upgrades:

They're itemlevel 635.

Kommentar von zetzek

Here is the lvl100 version of this boss event on video: http://youtu.be/2cpDXXAHfE4

Ridiculously easy as usual with these kinds of events..

Kommentar von wouren11

Unlike other expansions, in WoD you have to be max level (100) to queue for this event.

Kommentar von Eido

It has been confirmed by Blizzard that this year's event dungeon is and will remain max-level-only:

"Moving forward, we're tuning loot and difficulty for the holiday dungeons to max level, and LFG requirements reflect that." source

Kommentar von zetzek

Here is the year 2016 version of this boss event on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ynU_03GgN8

They are dropping ilvl 670 amulets now..

Kommentar von Aramorth

To check whether Hummel has been killed today, copy and paste this command into the chat window:

/run print(IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(25485))

If a "true" appears in the chat window, Hummel has been killed today; "false" indicates the opposite.

Kommentar von Dudash

I can't loot him on any toon :(

No mail from the Postmaster either.

Kommentar von Mondoblasto

Getting here, once you finish with Hummel and the rest of the party leaves, is a nice opportunity to get transmogs from normal mode SFK. To get to Lord Godfrey, you will have to keep going until you get to the top of the wall, then run onto the rooftops to drop down beside the dungeon entrance so you can kill the first boss, Baron Ashbury.

Once you're finished, just use the LFR teleport to get back out.

If you have a higher level mage that hasn't yet, you can also easily complete Beherrschung des Arkanen/Beherrschung des Arkanen for kicks or possible transmog.

Kommentar von Brandstone

Now(2017) appears to drop Bag of Heart Candies and Box of Chocolates. So you can save some tokens if you're going for all the achievements.

Kommentar von Camelman

Besides a low chance for a mount and a non-transmogable head item, he mostly drops neck items. So perfect for the BfA expansion

Kommentar von regulator33

is he a rare spawn or no, because i ran it a little bit ago and didnt see him at all

Kommentar von meercats

1st day of the dungeon in Shadowlands the neck ilvl at 60 is a mere ilvl 44 thought they may have updated and given it a higher ilvl, update:-now after hot fix lvl 60 its a 158 ilvl neck

Kommentar von Flindtberg

How many runs can one do before an instance lockout?

Kommentar von nihiru

If anyone is wondering what he says before you start the battle (because people tend to rush to him to start the battle, understandably):

Due to the, ah, "misunderstanding" in Dragonblight, we've had to relocate our facilities to this decrepit mess of a castle.

Still, we've now plenty of space and time to work on various new and lovely... products...

-Begin the battle.

Kommentar von Kilrathi3

he does NOT drop the , that's auto loot after a win.
in that is possibly the keys to your new, fully lubed, Luxuriously detailed X-45 mount.

Kommentar von octnoir

Apotheker Hummel drops 428 item level necklaces (DF S3 / 10.2 season) - this is Adventure track 1/8 upgradeable gear, that you can also spam the event dungeon each time to get. This gear is about 13 item levels under LFR level but for a fairly easy event dungeon that takes less than a minute to complete, and a fairly quick queue time, this is a pretty good way to grab a quick gear piece for any low geared very fresh alts.

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