Friday, April 02, 2010

Warcraft Gold Guides - Why You Don't Want To Buy One.

By Paul Rone-Clarke

Sometime soon we are going to see the end of Warcraft gold guides. The idea of looking at a book while playing to find out what to do to make WoW gold are coming to an end.

Let's face it, reading a PDF document while playing is not really state-of-the-art is it? One minute you are playing, the next clicking on a pile of text trying to work out where to go to grind or farm materials, or what items might be cheap at the Auction house that day.

If you think about it, even the name "guide" is not really what you are after. If you climb a mountain for example a guide is someone who tells you the route and walks with you. Maybe telling you where it's safe to camp and help carry the equipment.

Guides played a part once, but times change. The days of a text document, maybe with a couple of lines of LUA code you could cut and paste into the game ("whoopee doo" - yawn) has had it's day, time to buckle up, and move on.

There has been a trend in recent months for some guides to rebrand themselves as "systems". I've got to tell you, they fool no-one. A system is a set of steps or a method to achieve a result. I've seen these systems, they seem to go something like this...

1 - Please follow the guide provided.

2 - That's it, please go back to step one

If it's auction house domination you are after then the guys at Norganna.org have got that covered. Norganna has a complete run-down of the whole auctioneer system. He even has his own Wiki. I have every guide I could find on the net and none (and I mean absolutely none what-so-ever) have the amount of good auctioneer information that Norganna has. Period. That shouldn't suprise you. He wrote the application.

If it's macros you are after, may I direct your attention to Wowwiki. Every possible macro for just about every possible event you can think of in the game. The hard bit is accessing them. Now follow closely. Ready? First you select the macro and "copy" then you go into your Warcraft interface and press "paste" got that? So "copy" then "paste". Practice it a few times. Man If you bought a guide for auctioneer help and a few macros? You must feel a little sick now. You just paid for free inferior information. Ouch.

Macros? Ok go to Wowwiki. They have hundreds of cut and paste macros covering every aspect of play. You copy, then (guess what) you paste. And, well that's it. Job done. Auction house macros are all there, they are all free. You bought a guide for auction house domination? Man you must feel sick. That's all free information you just paid for.

Wouldn't it be better if you had a real system? One that did all the work for you? You press a couple of buttons and Wham! Your server's economy is exposed.

Legal, safe and totally conforming to Blizzards terms and conditions. So simple a child could do it.

Imagine, no more grinding, no more farming, no "messin' and guessin'" at the auction house' A quick install, then a real system that does everything for you.

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