Also, if you guys think of any achievements you’d like help with, via videos, articles, or other tutorials, leave me a comment, I’ll see what I can do for you!

Power Leveling

The term power leveling is when you have a higher level player running you through instances for experience. Power leveling is arguably the fastest way to level you character if you have friends that are willing to level you. Doing this is dramatically faster than soloing and questing.

On the other hand, there are a few downsides to power leveling. For instance, how quickly you level will be determined by how quickly your power leveler kills. In essence, you will be leveling depending on how efficient your power leveler is. Not to mention that most power levelers are not online 24/7.

Power leveling is an excellent option if it is available to you.

Soloing

Soloing is the only viable way of leveling for many new players. Primarily, soloing generally means questing to reach level 80. However, this means having to look up details about each and every quest online. For many soloing can become extremely boring and tedious. To assert this issue many resort to using leveling guides.

Leveling Guides

There are many different leveling guides ranging from videos to ebooks. The guides that work the best are the ones that stand out from the rest. One leveling guide I can assure will get you on your way to 80 is Zygor’s In game Guide. This guide is highly recommended and is widely used by many World of Warcraft players.

Complete with an in game add-on and step-by-step instructions, this guide will certainly provide you with everything you’ll need to ding 80.

Click here to find out more about the Team Idemise In-Game Leveling Guide, Questup.

World of Warcraft ui mods can be SUCH a pain. Don’t you just love it when you log into your WoW account and find that your beloved addons no longer work?

I think it was two or three patches ago that this happened to me.  Suddenly my map addons were gone, my trade addons wouldn’t work right, and everything went kablooie.  I was SO mad.  It takes a lot of work to find just the right tools for your ideal gaming experience, you know? Then you get to go through and either complain to the addon’s makers, (which I always feel guilty about because they’re usually GIVING this stuff away), or you can spend the tedious time it takes to find all new ones.  So you crawl all over Google, ask around on the trade chats, and whatever else you can think of to get things back to a SEMBLANCE of normalcy.  Then you wait for the next update to see if you have to do it all over again.

One of these days I’ll have to post a list of my favorite addons here as a resource for people looking.  Or maybe I’ll just start a support group for the “add-on abandoned anonymous” or AAA.   You know you’d join.

The only addon I had that survived was this one.

Okay, that felt good to get off my chest.

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Recent research has shown that a World of Warcraft player’s gaming experience is CLOSELY related to their overall gaming experience.  If you’re not having a good time with your guild, if you’re not in a group you like working with, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

You’re paying good money for this game, and you deserve a gaming experience you like, right?  Okay, so we’re agreed on this point.

Let’s look at some legitimate reasons for leaving a guild:

1.  Abusive Leadership – If your guild leaders are bullying, berating, or otherwise bothering you on a consistent basis, you should probably /gquit right away.  Let them nag people who DON’T have other options, because trust me, you do.

2.  Can’t commit to raid/instance times.  – If you can’t help the guild out, you probably shouldn’t be in the guild.  There’s no dishonor in bowing out in this case.  Just send a quick note to your guild masters to see if it’s a concern first.  A lot of gm’s are willing to work with you on this point, but if worse comes to worst, it’s all good.

3.  Leaving the game – It’s only courtesy to let your guildies know when you’re leaving the game for a long period of time.  We all go through times like this, and it’s usually not a problem.  It is, however, common courtesy to alert at least the leaders of the guild.

4.  Letting a character hybernate – If you’re going to be focusing on one of your alts for a while, without planning to use your main, let people know.  They may just say “whatever”, but it may come down to leaving the guild.

5.  You just know it’s time – Sometimes there just comes a time when you need to call it quits.  Maybe the guild has changed, maybe you’ve changed, but whatever it is, it may just be time to go.  Again, explain yourself to the bosses, and they’ll probably understand.

There are a lot of other good reasons to leave a guild, but this is just intended to help out if you’re considering the ol’ /gquit.  Bear in mind, sometimes it’s best to talk to the leaders, sometimes it’s best to just fade into the sunset.  Either way, remember your first responsibility is to yourself and having a good time online.  Happy Questing.

Let’s talk a little sales 101 here.  I know people hate salesmen, but it’s one of those things you just can’t avoid in WoW.  If you want to be an effective professional in ANY of the professions, you’re going to need some basic sales skills.  Here’s a quick tip to get people to respond to you.

Always pitch the benefit, and pitch it from the customer’s point of view:

Imagine for a minute two guys come up to you.  One can’t spell, he just tells you how bad he needs work and how hard it is for him.  The other says something like “Excuse me, but I noticed your cloak is bare.  If you’d like, I would love to enchant it for you.  I have the mats to give it ______________ (insert benefit).”

Notice how guy number two spells everything right, he uses good grammar, and he said “look what I can do for you” instead of “Help me”.  Whether we like it or not, we’re judged in game and out by the appearances we use.  Our appearance online, however, has a lot more to do with our spelling and grammar than our character appearance.  Bear in mind, keeping this in mind in your every day life will have a HUGE impact on you as well, but if nothing else, you’re making the game a better place.

So, if you use correct english, good grammar, and the right tools, you’re going to see a marked improvement in all areas of the game.  Best of luck.

World of Warcraft is one of the most elaborate games ever conceived, and offers a range of beautiful 3d environments for us to enjoy.  It’s hard to do that, however, when you’re constantly getting lost or stuck!  Sometimes navigating the world can be a terror in it’s own right.

But what do you do about it? How do you fix this?  How can you stop getting turned around with no way out?

Well, think of it this way.  If you were lost in the real world, what tools would you want to have with you?  Probably a map and compass at least.  You’d want a solid objective in mind to be working on, and preferably one that would get you where you wanted to be.

World of Warcraft is no different in this respect.  What you need is a reliable compass arrow and a detailed map that will guide you where you want to go. You also want it to be up-to-date to keep up with patches and updates.  It also shouldn’t violate Blizzards terms of service or End User License Agreement (no sense getting into more trouble than you have to, right?).

Questup Alliance or Questup Horde from Team Idemise has been tried and tested over and over again, and it has proven itself each time.  The current leveling record on the books is held by someone who used the 1-80 Leveling guide all the way through to the end, and they did it in a little under 7 days.

It does all of the things I’ve listed above and more.  It adds marks on the map for all of the steps to complete your quests, as well as where to turn them in.  There is a compass arrow that points you in the direction and tells you how far away your next quest objective will be.  A great deal of the time it saves you comes from keeping you on the right track and it DOESN’T let you get lost.  So give your hearthstone a break, get yourself the Team Idemise Questup 1-80 Leveling guide.  Click here to get more details on how to install and use the guides.

For a warrior guide, this is ideal.  There’s a lot of “go kill this” and “destroy that” as far as the eye can see.  I can see how it would work well as a priest guide, a warlock guide, or pretty much any other type of character you could want to play as well, especially when you consider that updates are included with the purchase of the software.
Still loving my choice on buying this addon.  My only concern is that my World of Warcraft addiction may be on the rise, never to be fully satisfied.  Ahh, sweet addictions.

I know I harp on this a lot, but it’s really worth your time.  If you want to check out the Team Idemis 1-80 Leveling guide, I want you to click here right now and get it at this site.