Paid levelling guides. Whats your opinion?

[Lorune]

I just this morning was browsing a bit, and got to a few sites which had reviews on them for paid levelling guides (Team iDemise and Zygors)

Both of them seem to feature a quite nifty ingame map system.

So here i am wondering, even tho i know every alliance quest ingame. Would this still be intresting for me and help me out. Also are there any people here that have experience with these guides/addons. I would love to hear your opinion.

ps. yes i know you can download them but please refrain from posting links as with most software i use, i dont mind paying for something good.

[Ken]

I use the free QuestHelper addon as a levelling guide. When you pick up quest, it will give you a GPS-like map assistance and will calculate the shortest routes to your quests constantly.
Aside from that, I just go to the place where I'm supposed to be, pick up all quests, follow the QuestHelper guidelines.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/9924/
Screenshot:
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[Carnage]

Ive tried a few, but i find them hard to follow as a multiboxer - I generally look at them to show me what zones to go to and when, then use questhelper to do all the quests i can find (except collections). The ingame leveling guides arent great, majority of them have alot of grinding, My favourite is Brian Kopp's guide - it comes in both PDF guide and ingame guide although i havent tried the ingame guide for it yet.

Jame's guide is also good, wow-pro.com and its free - Ive never bought a WoW guide i only download them from where i will not say Not going to spend my money on something i might not even find usefull.

[mickske]

Since I have levelled a couple of characters already I already know most of the alliance quests in game by now. But I still use Questhelper (if I had forgotten some objective) and Jamie's Alliance Levelling Guide (free, wow-pro.com, when I forgot where some questgiver was).

Works like a charm!

[mikekim]

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%

[shaeman]

I've bought both Joanas horde levelling guide and Brian kopps alliance levelling guide - and found that I really didn't use them after a while.

It kind of took all fun out of the game for me. Go here do this then go here do this then go here etc. I tended just to use them to find out where I should be at various levels (and that can be found without paying for it).

I did use the undead levelling guide a free guide at wowmb.net . Again I didn't follow it word for word but it works. (up to level 60)

Personally I like questhelper - grab up all the quests in an area then look on the map to see where to go (checking to see ones where multiple quests can be completed in the same area and off I go).

It's less intrusive than stopping to read a guide in another window.

[HPB]

Joanas Guide worked fantastic for my hunter. I'd already leveled my priest kinda randomly on my own. I got my hunter to 70 super fast. It is a very fast way to level. Basically he tells you the order to do quests in, where to set your hearthstone for strategic hearthing and efficient quest lines to do. If you want to level a single toon at a time, very fast, this is the way to go. (So if you're making your first level 70 pally/mage for boosting the rest of your toons, this might be a good idea).

If you're multi-boxing, many gathering quests will drive you nuts. Now that I am boosting and multi-boxing, I don't use the guide anymore.

[Elidure]

I used brian kopps guilde on my alliance toons and i have the Joana's horde guide. The alliance guide worked pretty good. i was usually half a level a head of it. I don't know that it has been reworked since the quest xp changes in the recent patch.

I also use the Carbonite Addon which i have found is really nice for questing.

Not sure how well these would work for multiboxers though as it includes collection quests.

[Naysayer]

Joanas is the best horde guide I've seen and even comes with a video of the entire leveling process from 1-70, but I wouldn't use it for multiboxing. Too many collection quests in those guides and collection quests take way to long for the experience given.

I'm working on a horde multiboxer quest guide that I plan to have finished when they release Deathknights so that I can quest level my multibox team to 70. I'll most likely share it with this community when I'm done and it will consist of mostly routes for kill quests, single item collection quests, instance quests and such. Generally quests that best benefit multiboxers.

[Sanctume]

I stopped doing quests until Outlands when I could p-level with my toons with a 70 pally.

But before that, I managed to get a lot of level 70, and I've used my own notes to quests.

I preferred my notes because it was more of a step by step of where to do such as:
1. Go to Place (xx, yy)
2. Get Quest (Min Level/Quest Level) "Quest Name" from NPC (xx, yy)
etc.
Do "Quest Name" - objective (xx, yy), other notes.
Turn in "Quest Name" NPC (xx, yy) -- get Quest Chain Name" 2 of 5

I also add specific loot I wanted for my character and research them ahead of time while bored @ work. Thottbot, Allakhazam, (before) and WoWhead now are great resource.