5 Things to Look Out For With Warcraft Gold Guides
I never seem to have enough gold in Warcraft. Kill mob, loot mob. Then its hope that something valuable turns up that either improves my ability to kill mobs, or is worth a few more gold pieces at the auction house. But when you are saving for that next big purchase. An epic flying mount perhaps, then it seems as if you’ll never have enough gold.
But that can be a grind. Warcraft leveling is made a little quicker if you have the best equipment, and of course you want the bragging rights that go with looking and playing as well as you can.
So, perhaps you have been tempted to look at the array of Gold guides for Warcraft that are on the market. If you have, then maybe, like me, you are a little confused at the messages they seem to send out as part of their advertising.
So I’ve compiled a list of 5 do’s and don’ts when looking for the right Warcraft gold guide for you;
1 – Is the guide up to date? Simply mentioning “Wrath of the Lich King” does not make the guide up-to-date. WotLK is well over a year old. Patches 3.1 to 3.3 have changed the game massively. If the website of ad-copy mentions nothing past Wrath of the Lich King, then the guide is probably not up to date, and to be of any real use it does have to be up to date.
2 – See if you can get an idea of what the guide contains. This is a hard one. You might have noticed that most guides give you no real idea of what you are getting. The video and static sales page may show a screenshot of an in guide menu -if you are lucky. But not a glimpse of the content. There’s normally lot’s of waffle about being great, and better than all the other guides, but they don’t show you a glimpse of what you are thinking of buying.
Imagine going to buy a car and the salesman telling you how bad other cars are, and showing you what a nice showroom he had – but not showing you any of his own cars. I don’t know about you, but I would not even consider parting with my hard earned cash until I’d seen the product. In the case of a Warcraft gold guide, I want a video or at least a set of screenshots that give me an idea of what I am actually buying. Isn’t that just common sense?
3 – Have your BS filter fully switched on. The claims made by some guide producers are not just difficult to believe, they are against all logic and evidence. Here’s a fact. Blizzard themselves, in interview, as recently as December 19th 2009 have stated. Categorically, that on no single account anywhere, on any realm, or any server, has someone got two characters to gold cap. It has never happened. Period.
It has never happened, and would prove nothing about a guide written by someone who claims he did it. What would be the point? At gold cap you run out of things to spend it on (that are within the Blizzard ToS anyway) so why would anyone do it twice? Reins of the Borean Tundra and some crafted epics are the most valuable exchangeable items in the game. You could buy the lot several times over. Why spend hundreds of hours doing it again?
So if someone says they have several characters at gold cap, then take a look at Blizzards official comments posted 19th December 2009. It has never happened on any official Warcraft server anywhere. If someone says they have done it then bear what I have just said in mind.
You could, of course, mock up a few characters on a private server to make it look like they were at gold cap. That would be very simple. Private servers tend to be very laggy (as they are run on a shoestring budget) so that might be an aspect to look out for. If you were keen you could even set up a server client on yogurt own PC.
Ask yourself this. If someone is going to promote a product they have designed, that has taken them weeks to make, that they hope will be an important part of their income in the following months or even years…wouldn’t they wait to shoot the promotional video until a time when the real server wasn’t having massive lag? I mean if it’s that important, shouldn’t they wait and shoot your Youtube video a few minutes later? Of course, if they are on a private server that is always laggy, they would have no choice
If a sales ploy started with something I was suspicious about I almost definitely would not go on and buy that item. Inconsistencies such as claims that there was “Orange lag”, when the on screen monitor is clearly showing green, or introducing a level one alt who for some reason has talents not obtainable until level 40. These things should concern you.
4 – Make sure whatever guide you are considering comes with a full 60 day guarantee. If this is not explicitly stated before you buy it, then more than likely you do not have one. It helps if the shop front payment processor is a reputable one like Paypal or Clickbank
5 – Lastly, take a good look at the “bonuses” offered (they all have them). Is these any actual value to you? Are they simply things you could look up on Google in five minutes? A lot of the guides that offer loads of bonuses, but most a very light weight and better information would be available from Thottbot for free.
Good luck and happy gold hunting.
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