World of warcraft leveling is all about efficiency and speed. As a hardcore world of warcraft player since it’s inception I have seen and tried just about every wow speed leveling known I think. Some have worked and some haven’t others used to work and no longer due to patch changes and the way players simply play the game and other wow speed leveling techniques have tanked. When I say tanked I’m talking about down the tubes and not your Tauren War Machine Instance Tank. Ok with all that said I wanted to share some of the secrets behind world of warcraft leveling that I think every player out there can gain from.

1. Quit Alt Tabbing. The practice of alt tabbing is inefficient and simply wastes your gaming time. The hardcore speed levelers all know this and since this game is all about getting your character to 70 level as fast as possible so you can enjoy more of the endgame content in the game, alt tabbing has proven to actually slow you down. Here’s how a typical gamer plays. He is trying to power level his way through a zone and either forgets where the quests starts, ends or where the NPC is found feels the need to Alt+Tab, why? Because he needs to either consult the popular world of warcraft online database for info or his favorite world of warcraft leveling guide. Sure it only takes a few moments but total the amount of time wasted over the course of say 20 levels and the inefficient use of this time quickly begins to add up. In fact those who are able to take advantage of in-game leveling aids far out level those players who alt-tab.

2. Use an In-Game Leveling Guide. With the changes to the game and thanks to the help of mod developers all the great information that is found in world of warcraft leveling guides can be had at your fingertips without having to leave the game. Imagine the boost to your gaming efficiency by having all the wow speed leveling information you want right within the game just like a map mod. Well you can, but I wanted to test this theory so I ran a side by side test just for fun against the popular alt+tab playing style and found that I hit level 70 up to 2 full days faster by using a built in-game map style mod leveling aid.

3. Quit using Old outdated World of Warcraft leveling guides. For the simple reason that they are no longer efficient. These popular playing guides waste gaming time from 2 perspectives. One. Most assume you play as a certain class and race, usually a hunter which is fine but what if you wanted to play the game as an Undead Mage. Ok well, here’s what would happen. Try it and you’ll see exactly what I am talking about. Get a friend to start a character at the same time as yourself, let him create the Orc or Troll Hunter and you create an Undead Mage. Now both of you for sake of this experiment use the popular Joanas Horde guide. Now I guarantee that by the time your little undead mage runs over to brills waits for the zeppelin to fly you over to Org, then run all the way south to where the Joana Horde Guide begins your Orc Troll Hunter friend will be level 5 or more. Talk about a waste of time. Sure you can mirror the quests by playing yours until the guide merges at crossroads quests, but that isn’t very efficient either. The same thing holds true for Brian Kopps Alliance guide.

In short basically this is the no holds barred truth that a lot of gamers don’t want to tell you because these guides sell very well but with recent changes to the game why play old school wow? Especially if old school world of warcraft leveling doesn’t work.

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Warcraft Millionaire by Brad Johnson is another well respected WoW gold guide that has been available for a few years. We got our hands on a copy to determine it’s value and what it brings to the table. Does it distinguish itself from the slew of WoW gold guides out there? For the most part, the answer is yes. Brad manages to put together a well organized and thought out set of guides that can help a WoW player of any level to make gold in large quantities. Let’s see what the package comes with:

Warcraft Basics

1-60 Gold Guide

60-70 Gold Guide

70-80 Gold Guide

Auction House

Domination Grinding Guide

Limited Items Report

Daily Quests Guide

As you can see, it’s a nice robust package. We were happy to see that each guide is not packed with filler material but with substantive information. The value it offers is very high and were were generally surprised by the amount of information each of the guides has. They are methodically ordered to maximize efficiency, of course, it’s hard to organize a game as big as WoW and tactics or places that involve gold profiting, it’s just too much information, but nonetheless, Warcraft Millionaire does a good job of presenting things in an orderly fashion.

The primary gold guides are ordered as you would expect, from release to most current expansion. We expect that a new addition will be available soon after the release of Cataclysm. The data is given in a step by step fashion, with locations, tables and grids, and maps where necessary. These are not skimped out pages.

The supplemental guides, Auction House Domination, Grinding Guide, Limited Items Report, and the Daily Quests Guide are also to be commended. They are actually beefy additions to an overall very nice package. For instance, the Daily Quests Guide is over 60 pages alone.

Truth be told, we were a little surprised that the package was as thorough as it is. Often we are left holding the bag with crap guides but Warcraft Millionaire is not one those guides. It’s surprisingly well done. Our only beef is that a couple of nice video guides would have been welcome. After Warcraft Wealth introduced a supplemental video guide of the Auction House, we realized how valuable it is have some video documentation to complete the package. Regardless, the package is recommended, but we leave you with our usual word of caution – Research all guides before deciding on which one you want. Enjoy.

Carlos is an avid WoW gamer.

WoW Leveling Guide

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