Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Three Most Common Needs in a WoW Expansion

It’s almost December and that means World of Warcraft Cataclysm is right around the corner. If you’re like most players, you’re interested in preparing for the game the best way you know how – with lots of message board surfing and video watching. But, keep in mind that there are quite a few things you’ll need before you step foot in the remade Azeroth for the first time. Know your needs and you’ll be much better prepared when it comes time to play the new content.

1.Gold – Step one, get some gold because expansions are very pricey. You need to have a good gold stash on hand from the start because the inflation rate for all new items will be ridiculous. If you plan on upgrading your professions, buying dungeon gear, or loading up on new items for any of your common activities, you need to have a lot of gold on standby. So, sit down and map out your specific plans (see step 3) and then assign a generous gold amount for each so you know how much you’ll need.

2.Gear – Leveling is easy, but what about when you reach level 85 and want to go into a dungeon, or what about when you hit level 30, 40, and 50 in the old world with your new Worgen? What do you do when you need to upgrade your gear to keep your levelling speed up? Do you have the items on hand you need or do you need to pick it up? If you stock up on the gear now, you’ll save a LOT of gold for later because the prices are going to spike very high when there are a million players all in need of level 40 mail or plate.

3.A Plan – Finally, make a plan. Sit down and map out everything you want to do when you get into the expansion and your plan for how to do it. This includes all the new places you want to visit, the alts you plan on rolling, the mounts you want to buy and so on. The sooner you can determine what you need to accomplish your goals, the sooner you can set about getting those things BEFORE the expansion hits.

Gaming in an expansion is tough. If you fall behind, the realms get crowded, slow and quests are nearly impossible to finish. If you get too far ahead, it’s empty and a little lonely. So, make sure you know exactly what you need before you start the new segment of WoW and have the tools necessary to get those things on day one.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Dugis Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide

Dugies World of Warcarft guide has been created by Dave Farwell (Dugi), a WOW expert with over 7860 hours of play time to his credit. The guide includes information about different aspects of the game like leveling, professions, PVP, making gold, etc. Whats more, it’s regularly updated so as to be up-to-date with game patches and expansions.

The Guide has three general sections. Section one is from pages 1-80 and it’s a leveling guide covering all classes for the Alliance and the Horde. Like all good guides, it uses an in-game leveling add-on to make it as easy to use as possible. This in-game guide is great because you don’t have to switch back and forth between the game and the guide like in some other guides.


Your Guide to Wow

The setup process is easy and configures itself depending on your current character. You’ll learn exactly where to go, who to talk with and what to do. The guide keeps a marker on your map and shows a directional arrow on your screen after you accept a quest. The marker and arrow will lead you to the next step in the quest.

Something that you see in this guide and don’t find in other guides is that their talent guide is also in-game. You can just select the given templates which assign your talent points to the best spec for your character.

The second section of the guide is about making gold. Something to remember is that you won’t need to farm gold when you’re leveling to 80. The quests that you do in the first part will provide you with pretty much all the funding you need during that phase. It’s really only after you’ve leveled up that you’ll be able to really make bank anyway. Having said that , the gold making guide does teaches you how to make gold quickly for your mounts at levels 30 and 60 since having them makes leveling that much faster. The main focus of the gold guide is where to go to farm rare items, and how to win the auction house game. You can also learn leveling up every Profession with the gold guide.

The third and final section of the Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide teaches you how to be successful in player versus player combat (PVP). This is probably one of the best parts of the guide. Combat types are covered in detail, and it teaches you what you should do in order win from any class and race combination that you may face in WoW. You learn about which talents you should choose for every battle. There are even macros that you can copy.

Your Guide to WoW

The Ultimate WoW Guide has just about every aspect of World of Warcraft explained in detail. There’s a mount of information that you get from this unlike any other guide. Other guides normally cover one aspect of game play and the info you get from this guide is better than those individual guides.

Your Guide to WoW