Paid levelling guides. Whats your opinion?

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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.

[Talamarr]

Check out TourGuide addon

http://www.tekkub.net/addons/TourGuide

It is a free in-game leveling guide addon. It comes with guides for 1-70 but you can actually create your own or import ones others have made. It's really neat. I prefer it to QuestHelper as its less resource intensive and more efficient (I don't know all the quests by heart).

Using QuestHelper, TourGuide and Lightheaded would probably be a pretty powerful collection of resources.

[GizmoxLoW]

Questhelper only gives you the shortest route with the quests your currently have in your log. I use joannna's guide which will actually tell you which quests to get from what area and when to get them to minimize travel time between zones..

[BGuru]

I tried all the paid guides and like TourGuide best.

Here is a post I made in the macro forum.

Here are some addons I use to help with leveling.

Tour Guide
TourGuide is an ingame leveling guide I've used the paid guides and this free guide is better than all of them.

Doublewide
DoubleWide is a simple AddOn for a simple idea -- pull the quest log into side-by-side areas so it's double wide instead of cramping the size of the quest list.

Light Headed
LightHeaded is a very simple addon that displays quest information and comments from http://www.wowhead.com in game, eliminating the need to Alt-Tab when you get stuck on quest.

TomTom
TomTom is your personal navigation assistant in World of Warcraft.

Cartographer
Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map.
Get the latest Cartographer here.

QuestHelper
QuestHelper compiles a list of waypoints for the quests in your quest log, and sorts them so as to minimize the distance between them, and so that they happen in the correct order.
Make sure you enable the tracked filter or it will interfere with TourGuide.
Just a heads up QuestHelper has a known bug where it will lock WoW up when starting a timed quest.

There is a FAQ about installing addons.

Enjoy.

[Tree]

http://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guid...uide_chapter_i
http://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guid...de_-_chapter_i

^These are the best WoW guides I have ever seen. I leveled THREE 60's solo with them and they're fantastic. Efficient and fast.

[Lorune]

Tour Guide[/url]
TourGuide is an ingame leveling guide I've used the paid guides and this free guide is better than all of them.

Doublewide
DoubleWide is a simple AddOn for a simple idea -- pull the quest log into side-by-side areas so it's double wide instead of cramping the size of the quest list.

Light Headed
LightHeaded is a very simple addon that displays quest information and comments from http://www.wowhead.com in game, eliminating the need to Alt-Tab when you get stuck on quest.

TomTom
TomTom is your personal navigation assistant in World of Warcraft.

Cartographer
Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map.
Get the latest Cartographer here.

QuestHelper
QuestHelper compiles a list of waypoints for the quests in your quest log, and sorts them so as to minimize the distance between them, and so that they happen in the correct order.
Make sure you enable the tracked filter or it will interfere with TourGuide.
Just a heads up QuestHelper has a known bug where it will lock WoW up when starting a timed quest.

There is a FAQ about installing addons.

Enjoy.

Nice post !

Thank you, i'll try Tourguide out.

The reason i asked is actually not to level with, but to do all quests after i hit 70 in outlands to gather cash. so i hope thats possible :P

[pyrem]

I also use Jame's leveling guides with Carbonite, TomTom and Lightheaded. I don't follow Jame's guides step by step (there's plenty of collection quests I skipped) , but I found them to be excellent guides that pointed me to the right direction, especially regarding which zones I should be questing in at specific levels.

On another note, has anybody here tried both the Tour Guide Add-on and Jame's Leveling guides? Which one did you find to be a better guide in terms of xp gain efficiency? I've been interested in Tour Guide, but I'm not sure how the built-in guide stacks up to the others.

I know you can create your own guide in Tour Guide...now if someone can put Jame's guide in Tour Guide code, that would be awesome...

[Havelcek]

Jame's instance guides are also excellent.

[Stabface]

TourGuide is pretty good... just needs a no-collection-quest guide and it would be awesome for boxing.

[Kissell13]

I bought brian kopps levelling guide a long time ago and it was worht every penny. That being said now there is the quest helper addon and it pretty much eliminates the need for a guide