Cash Creating Guide for World of Warcraft Review
This weekend I broke down and bought the Cash Creating Guide for World of Warcraft in the hope of picking up some extra gold. I have read it through and here is my review.
Summary If you’re new to making gold in World of Warcraft and want your information in one place, this guide is pretty good. There are a number of tips for farming critters that you may not have considered. However, the guide really needs to be revised for the Burning Crusade expansion - particularly for post-Beta play. My recommendation is to go read various (free) forums and posts on making money in WoW. The slight edge this guide may give you is probably not worth the price of the guide.
Review
The PDF itself is 152 pages in length, including cover and copyright information. It was written by Luke Brown. The author has locked the PDF and appears to have used images instead of text, so you can’t copy and pate information from the guide. The text is black on a beige background, so printing it would probably take a LOT of ink. There are typos and other editing errors.
This is essentially a farming guide for players at level 60+. There are a few tips for making money with lower level characters, but not many. I would have liked to have seen a guide to making money for your first mount included. This often the first time in Warcraft where players are really looking to make some gold, so a guide for that would be very useful. The guide is quite comprehensive in its list of spots to farm and the extras that can be picked up at various farming spots.
Approximately half the guide is describes making gold in WoW prior to the Burning Crusade and the other half seems to based on his experience in making gold in the beta version of the Burning Crusade. A lot of the information in the first half will not be as useful as it was, due to the changes in what items are needed in the Burning Crusade. I suspect that at least some of it would still make you some pretty good money and it would be much easier to farm certain areas due to reduced population in Azeroth. The Burning Crusade portion is good, but could use an update to take the latest patches/post-beta changes into account.
If you’re using Auctioneer , aren’t interested in farming mobs, and are already making decent money in WoW, this guide may provide you with a few tips. However, you can easily get many of these tips just by browsing various WoW forums. The promised maps are few and far between. The black text on brown background makes it a little hard to read. There hasn’t been an update since around the time the Burning Crusade was released. At this time there are no forums for this guide.
My recommendation is to go read various (free) forums and posts on making money in WoW. The slight edge this guide may give you is probably not worth the price of the guide.
August 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
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