Paid levelling guides. Whats your opinion?

[Zaelar]

Zygor's isn't worth the $50 price. It's just marks on cartographer and the list of what to do in what order in the game. The guide itself is about the same as the free ones, but less detailed. I had to look up information a few times while using it. It also has a few mistakes and doesn't always update properly.

If it was free I'd say it's not bad but needs to be polished.

[Tdog]

I think paying for the guides is a waste of money. I've glanced through the paid guides while at a friend's place who swears by them, and the steps they give are virtually the same as the guides on wow-pro.com. Sometimes the paid guides have better maps or videos, but I don't think they're needed at all if you know what you're doing. I prefer to look at the quest rewards I want, and make sure those quests are in the guides.. then I like to skip collection quests in the guide unless I need the rep - like Stormwind so I can have my horses with draenei/night elves.

I bought Brian Kopps guide which yes will get you to level 70 in roughly the same fashion as Jame's guide. HOWEVER the important difference is that Brian's guide was realized prior to TBC even coming out while Jame's was just barely finished a few months ago.

Now not knocking on Jame's guide as I've used his for horde leveling and it is also awesome nearly to the extent that Brian's is but what was worth the $30 is the fact that it came out when I actually really needed it for my very first journey to 70.

For now just use Jame's guide off wow-pro.com. No need to spend money for a guide that is nearly the same as a free guide. However if Brian Kopp puts out a Horde guide for WOTLK, yes I will be buying it.

Side note, Joana's guide was a major disappointment to me and not even close to the horde counterpart (as is clamied) to Brian's guide.

[gankzer]

Yep - both Joannas and kopps guides are awesome. I think joanna's for horde is the best. Even has videos to show how to accomplish some tasks when solo. A little different than the above poster but regardless both guides make quest execution faster and more effecient. Especially with the quest exp boost from 20-60.

[Dooz]

I used to use Joanna's guide until I started using carbonite and lightheaded. I finish quests much faster because both are in game. Carbonite is a for pay addon (for the full version, the lite (really lite) version is free). The full version of Carbonite is not just a quest mod, its much more and without bugs. It's $11 dollars per person, not per account. So you can have it on multiple toons accross multiple accounts. I don't see myself using anymore guides unless the addon goes unsupported.

[Fuzzyboy]

I bought brian kopps guide a while back and liked it a lot, but it's not great for multiboxing.

TourGuide is really good (sort of an in-game version of the levelling guides - lets you skip collection quests easily though), combined with doublewide, tomtom and lightheaded. Questhelper isn't really a replacement for the levelling guides since it doesn't tell you anything about the quests you don't have or what order to complete them in (it will always assume the closest target, indifferent to questchains, unlike the levellingguides/tourguide).

[Icetech]

I have used kopp's guide and joana's guide.. kopps is amazing... especially the map mod, but with questhelper now.. the map mod isnt' needed...

I had 3 lvl 70's before trying kopps and i leveled alot faster using it, just more efficient questing

Joana's is ok..

I would pay for kopps, not joana's... didnt pay for either though Thanks emule!

[lamrith]

Has oanyone tried the elite-wow guides.com? they have a package one. Just wondering if it was a "grinding Guide", Collection guide etc..



I plan to try tourguide, sounds really good.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

i've found that if i use Jame's Leveling Guides (the old ones - before the revamp) at www.wow-pro.com they work quite well - as for collection quests I only tend to do them if the drop rate is above 33%

Ditto. With triple xp, I don't even bother with collection quests unless they open up great loot or a bunch of follow-on quest chains.

[Icetech]

I'm soooo jealous of you guys with RAF... i can't bring myself to buy 4 new accounts

[Katharsis]

I don't like being told what to do. I'm here for the fun, not a big rush to 70. I've removed all leveling guides but continue to use Carbonite and Jason's Quest for general info.