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World of Warcraft® Guides
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The guides on this page are here because we've actually
read and used them. There are a lot of WoW guides out there,
many of which are very good, but we haven't seen them all. If
we haven't read (and used) it then you generally won't see the
link here.
So why not just browse the forums to get the info? Much, but
not all, of what's in the guides below is in the forums. All
you have to be willing to do is spend the hours digging it up
and wading through the usual forum nonsense. If you just need
one tip that might be a pretty good way to go.
We're willing to spend a few bucks for tried and true tips
in order to save hours browsing the forums of other sites,
looking for just the right tip. We'll save the forums for fun
time.
This page has the capsule reviews, click through to read the
full reviews, warts and all (and we do include the warts.)
WoW Leveling Guides
Our current favorite leveling guide is now
Zygor's Guide, available for both horde
and alliance. The huge feature that this guide has is
that it's entirely in-game and automated. It's very much
like having someone looking over your shoulder, giving
you tips. It might not be the perfect path to 70, but
it'll get you there faster than the others simply
because you never have to look anything up.
Our second favorite is the
Team iDemise Guide, though it certainly
has some benefits of it's own. One of which is that the
levelig path these guys pick might be a bit better than
Zygor's, at least according to one of our boys. It's not as
well done as Zygor's though, and will require looking stuff
up from time to time.
There's a reason that Joana's
Horde and Brian's
Alliance guides are as popular as they are.
They get the job done, and they do it very
well. The big hit, if you can call it that is that
they're PDF guides (ebooks) so that youi do have to
switch back and forth from guide to game with them. All
quests are linked to Thottbot and other WoW databases,
but that slows down your leveling speed. Sometimes
though, it's nice to be able to print something out, put
it on a clipboard, and refer back and forth.
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Joana's Horde 1-70
Horde Leveling Guide
review - For the Horde
only. I took a Rogue from 1 to 70 with
this guide. I didn't break any speed
records, but I was a newb at the time.
Read the review for more.
Get the Gold
I've always thought that getting gold in WoW,
or any other MMO, was fairly easy. Get a few good tips
and the cash starts flowing. Some people find it a
little more difficult and there are a few traps to fall
into. For example - you start a brand new character on a
new server and try to level Blacksmithing... You'll stay
dirt poor.
So why not just buy some gold? In any capital
city you'll see gold sellers bouncing around spamming
the chat channel with their deals. There's just one
issue...
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Blizzard bans gold buyers (and
sellers) when it catches them. It's a
violation of the Blizzard Terms of
Service that we all agreee to when we
enter the game so Bliz can feel free to ban
gold buyers and sellers at its whim.
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Besides, with a little work you can make a lot
of gold, making buyingthat gold
unnecessry.
Our favorite gold
guide, by far, is the Massive WoW Gold
Blueprint. In a nutshell - everything, the
entire guide, is done with videos. In addition you
don't need to have high level characters to rake in a ton
of gold. I have over 4k gold on my alliance character, and
no one over level 31 (as of this writing) on that server.
Highly recommended.
- Massive WoW Gold
Blueprint review
Next favorite
is Warcraft Millionaire.
This guy has hit the gold cap (over 200,000 gold) on four
separate characters. How's that for a resume? His guide is
actually several guides, all PDFs, and covers characters of
all levels (with an emphasis on higher levels.) and it also
has an Auction House guide, Daily Quests guide, and
more.
- Warcraft Millionaire
Review
Valkor's Gold Guide
is the one we used before we got the Massive
Blueprint. Very similar to Warcraft Millionaire, but
with different tips and a little out of date in spots.
Still, a solid guide at a good price. Valkor's
Review
Gold Secrets
- While we have not used this guide, it's been a top seller
for a long time and that tells me that it's a pretty good
guide. Check out the video on the home page. No review
since we don't have a copy, so here's the direct link.
Warcraft
Wealth - This short guide has very litte for low
level characters and some good tips for the higher levels.
It also has a very nice video on using the Auction house.
The problem is that all of the above guides have far more
content and the Blueprint has better videos. So while this
isn't a bad guide, it's too high in price for what you get.
Here's a link if you want to check it out anyway.
Here's the Warcraft
Wealth Review
Class Guides
There are a couple of things
that make writing a class guide a little more interesting
than other guides. One of these is the "What do you want to
do" question. Level? Raids? PvP?
The talent tree complicates
things a bit, as well as making it less likely that one
character will be a close of another. There are several
perfectly viable talent builds for each class, no matter
what you want to do with the character.
The value in a guide is in
sorting out the confusion and providing a solid path to
follow. Once you have a solid understanding of how your
chosen class works then experimenting becomes a lot more
interesting.
While there are a number of
articles out there covering various aspects of any given
class, there are several full blown guides that cover all
aspects of the classes. The ones we've been using are from
Killer Guides.
Links to all the Guide Reviews:
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