WoW Leveling Guides

The front cover of Valkor’s Gold-Making Guide says it all with a warrior sitting inside a vault on a mountain of gold coins. Coming in at a hefty 145 pages of information, the guide at first makes a reader wonder if they got their money’s worth. The text and layout is very amateur level in appearance. But looks are deceiving. The real value of the guide is the information it contains.

Valkor’s Guide is organized in sections starting auctions, then going through professions, merchant locations, quick instance runs, gold-making spots, back to auctions with regards to different markets, and low-level gold making tips for starters.

Once you have digested all of this information, Valkor moves on to higher level material that you find only in the Outland areas with the Burning Crusade Expansion. This covers element loot and build-ups (motes and primals etc.), reputation items, rares, and Outland grind spots or locations.

The beauty of this guide is its organization. It is put together in a much more user-friendly approach, and laid out so that as a reference material you can find what you are looking for faster than other guides. In addition, all highlighted or color-coded terms link back to related references on Thottbot.com.

Once you get into the depths of each chapter as a reader, you realize Valkor has written the guide to give you the maximum benefit of how to make gold. The author doesn’t get lost in the descriptive details.

Instead, Valkor approaches the material with a goal to give the reader the specific information necessary to reach huge amounts of gold, and if you want more background information, he links you electronically to sources for further reading. So the manual is really designed to function best as an electronic book supported by an internet connection for further reference.

Valkor also links you to various modification and add-on third party software that enhances the WoW experience, depending on your character choice and profession.

Another big benefit of Valkor’s manual is that he points out where to go to find specific elements you need for skills or abilities to produce valuable items. With extensive detail down to which vendor to find the item on, Valkor lists out tables for various patterns and recipes, including the relative price the item is probably going for, which helps immensely with planning and travel around the game.

The author also commits to free updates once you have purchased the guide, which is not always offered with competitive products. Finally, what the author gives up in a polished layout, he makes up for with various maps pointing out exactly where to find various gold-grinding resources and targets.

This is a huge aid because many of us players just want to get the location and get to business. With possibly limited time during the day to get online and play WoW, having a map and the basic direction is more than enough for the player in a hurry and limited time to read.

So is Valkor’s guide worth buying?

I would absolutely recommend this guide to anyone who wants to make lots of gold in WoW.

It’s designed in a useful and practical way, it’s easily referenced, and it works best utilizing internet resources that you can tab to, and then get back in the game quickly. This is a guide you simply can’t do without.

Rogue’s verdict: 5/5

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