Warcraft Gold Guides – 5 Tips to Choosing the Right One
Most people need more gold in WoW. The normal methods of obtaining it are pretty simple. You kill mobs, loot them, sell the loot, and hope that one of them drops something valuable that will either improve your own mob killing speed, or sell for a decent amount at auction. And on it goes.
The game is quicker, easier and more fun if you have a lot of gold. Showing off your skills and “bling” is certainly intended to be part of the fun.
Perhaps you have had a look through the web at some of the many gold making systems that are available for Warcraft. There are a few to choose from. Some offering great systems, others probably a waste of your cash.
Let’s take a look at the factors you should consider when looking for a WoW gold generating system.
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.
There should be some screenshots or even better a video of a few pages of the guide. Ask yourself this. Would you normally buy anything without at least seeing an idea of what it looked like and contained first? I know I wouldn’t.
3 – Be wary of massive claims of in game wealth. In December 2009 Blizzard stated in an interview published both on their own forum’s and at wow.com that no-where on any realm or on any server has any anyone got two players to gold cap on a single account.
It has never happened, and given the fact that you would run out of things to use the gold for (at least things that are within the ToS of the game), why would anyone bother anyway?
If any guide advertising claims to have several characters at gold cap then take a look at Blizzards official comment from December 19th 2009. It has never happened, anywhere, ever.
Also understand how easy it would be to make it look like you had done this by logging onto a private server and just editing your character with whatever you wanted. Heck, you can even set up a server on your own PC.
A tell tale sign is the lag that most private servers suffer from. They run on a shoestring budget, are laggy as hell, and often have 75% downtime. Have you seen any videos for gold guides where the promo has been shot when the server is laggy? Surely if it was genuine, they producer of the guide would have waited ten minutes before making a promo vid that would be the centrepiece of his marketing? Hmm, of course, if it was shot on a private server, he probably had 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 – To protect yourself, make sure whatever product you choose comes with a full 60 day guarantee. If it doesn’t state that there is a full money back guarantee, then there almost definitely isn’t one. Ensure that the payment is processed by a reputable company like Paypal or Clickbank
5 – Finally, check out the bonuses. Are they things that really add value and would be useful to you? Many seem to be the sort of mini-books that contain information that a five minute browse through Google would get you for nothing. Check out WoWWoki or Thottbot before you let the free bonus items sway you. Do they add real value? Or are they just filler?
Good luck and happy gold hunting.
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