Warcraft Leveling eBooks

Following on from the roundup of free WoW lvling guides in the last post, here is a list of the paid ebook guides. Why pay for a guide? I guess it comes down to getting what you pay for. The free guides mentioned in the previous post aren't bad, but they do lack some detail, and you will find yourself struggling for enough information to finish the quests. The paid guides are very comprehensive and up-to-date. It's hard, for example, to find a decent free guide for lvls 60 to 70. The paid guides cover these hard leveles comprehensively.

The old standards are Joana's Guide for Horde and Brian Kopp's Guide for Alliance and it is inevitable that any new Warcraft guide will be judged by their standards. Both very similar in detail and outlook, but totally different zones and quests obviously. They take the form of a PDF ebook file with a detailed list of steps to take at every level and for every quest. Joana's Guide includes fast-motion video guides for most of the levels and quests. To be honest these don't add that much, there's ample information in the ebook, but they are fun to watch for a while and can help you if you are stuck. Both excellent guides IMO.

New to the scene is the iDemise Alliance Guide. They claim the record for the fastest to level 70. An incredible 6 days and 5 hours played. This guide takes the form of an addon to the game itself. Quite legal according to Blizzard and it comes with detailed and easy-to-follow instructions. This is an idea so simple that it makes you wonder why nobody though to do this before. Instead of having to Alt-Tab between the ebook and the game, all the information you need is right there in-game.

One of the biggest problems with any written PDF guide is that they can't show you exactly where to go. An in-game addon can. This brilliant program puts a dot on your map that will show you exactly where you have to go to complete your quests.

Simply for ease of use (and their record leveling time) I'm going to say that the iDemise guide gets my vote for the best Alliance Guide while Joana's Guide is the best for Horde.

If you have a need to level up characters on both sides, it's worth considering Zygor's Horde and Alliance Guides. These are two seperate guides but very similar in function and use. They are a sort of hybrid between a printed guide and a game addon. By purchasing both guides at the same time you will save a ton of money.

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Free World of Warcraft Leveling Guides

There's a wide range of free and paid guides to help with WoW leveling. Some of them are downright useless or even misleading. Other free WoW guides are every bit as good as some of the paid Warcraft guides. I've spent some time going through both the free and the paid guides to try and sort out the best. I'll cover the free World of Warcraft guides in this post and the paid guides at a later time.

I'll split these into Alliance and Horde guides.

Firstly, the best of the Alliance leveling guides:

First up is FinaL.FreeDoM's 1-60 Grinding Guide - this is a little different from most guides in that it completely ignores quests and focuses on grinding out the levels. It's not for me but if you like the boring repetition, without having to think, then go for it.

Jame's Alliance Leveling Guide has long been the recognized free Alliance leveling guide. Unfortunately this only covers 30 to 70. Plenty of detail in this guide that comes close to the paid guide from Bill Kopp. It would be great if Jame could find the time to detail levels 10 to 30. In the meantime use Boston's 12 to 30 guides. This is in two sections, covering 12 to 20 and 20 to 30. If you can't get to level 12 without help, you should probably be playing a different game :)

For the Horde, Jame did it once again with his Horde 21 to 65 guide. I have to say it isn't quite up to Joanna's Guide but still a great leveling guide if you need a freebie. For levels 12 to 20 all you need is a Barrens Guide. Where else would a Horde level? Almost worth being there just for the infamous Barrens chat. If you are into grinding there's also a Basic Horde Ginding Guide

As I said there's a bunch of other guides out there but these are my personal favorites.