Love is in the Air / Pledge Gift procedure Procedure . Aside from a few quests and a repeatable turn - in that culminates this process , the Love is in the Air gifts and pledges are all obtained in a similar fashion . You get , , , and from NPCs in the three participating cities of your faction ( the capital cities prior to The Burning Crusade ) . Guards give " Pledges of " and non - guards give " Gifts of " . If you do not have the Adored debuff , you get the " of Adoration " item and the adored debuff for one hour ( of real time , not game time ) , then for that hour you can only get the " of Friendship " item . Both gifts contain a pledge item ( see Creates section below ) , but the Gift of Adoration contains a functional gift as well . Think of the " of Friendship " item as a farmable consolation prize you can collect between the availability of the real gifts . All of the " of Adoration " gifts , from guards and non - guards , from any city , from either faction , contain the same random functional items , but the pledge items are unique , so each city ' s NPCs ( by race ) give a specific set of container items that contain the NPC type specific and city specific pledge item . An NPC of a race associated with another city gives the gifts of that other city . The NPC must have a heart floating over their head , and few of the non - guard NPCs have the heart . You will only be able to give the Love Tokens to NPCs if you are wearing for female NPCs or for male NPCs , and you will only be able to see the hearts if you are wearing either . The hearts have a 1 - 2 minute cooldown after anyone gives the NPC a Love Token and receives a gift . You will not always get a gift , sometimes you will receive a Heartbroken debuff instead . This debuff lasts an hour and prevents you from using Love Tokens , but can be removed by another player using an on you . You must have an open slot in your inventory or a stack of less than 100 in your inventory to have an Unbestowed Friendship Bracelet successfully used on you , creating a Friendship Bracelet and removing the Heartbroken debuff . As of Love is in the Air 2009 , there is an achievement to use Unbestowed Friendship Bracelets on players ( requires them to have the Heartbroken debuff ) , so if you get the debuff , it is not terribly difficult to find someone willing to remove it , even in the wee hours of the morning . Only the NPCs with the city ' s guard name count as guards . Vendor NPCs are non - guards , but also named NPCs with guard duties ; basically anyone who isn ' t a generic guard . The innkeeper s have the floating heart but do not count as non - guard NPCs for the event ; they do not give gifts , rather , they are the source for the items you need to farm the gifts , the cologne , perfume and Love Tokens , ( and their heart is always visible , not requiring that you be wearing cologne or perfume ) . You must have an open slot in your inventory to receive a Gift of Friendship . The item does not stack . If you attempt to obtain one without an empty slot , your Love Token is consumed , the NPC ' s floating heart goes on cooldown , you run the risk of the Heartbroken debuff ; you just don ' t get the item .