WoW Gold Generating Systems. A 5 Point Guide to the 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.

Let's face it; the game opens up with more gold. Your character can look and play just how you want. You are happy to strut around in your faction's capital knowing you are one of the best equipped, and most likely to get the invites to those lovely loot-laden instances.

Maybe, like me, you have had a look through the web at the number of gold guides for WoW that are currently available. And maybe, like me, the advertising and websites for these guides leaves you a little confused.

So I've compiled a list of 5 do's and don'ts when looking for the right Warcraft gold guide for you;

1 - Make sure the guide is up to date. Simply mentioning Wrath of the Lich King does not mean the guide is current. The 3.0 expansion is well over a year old, and the changes that have taken place in game in that time would make any guide that had not been updated pretty useless. Make sure the guide is right up to date. Wrath of the Lich King is not good enough as an indicator any more.

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 - Do be wary of excessive claims to in game wealth. Firstly, most are untrue. Blizzard have stated quite clearly in interview on the 19th December 2009 that on no account anywhere in the world (E.U, USA, Asia, wherever) has any account ever had more than one character at gold cap

Have you seen anyone make claims like this? Bear this in mind when considering buying from them. Also consider why anyone would even bother to do it. With one character at 'cap, you run out of things to buy. Unless you were planning to use the gold to do things outside the ToS, what would the point be? Hundreds of hours of extra grinding, Auction house manipulation for what? Take these unrealistic (and Blizzard denounced) claims with a massive pinch of salt, and treat anyone making them with utmost suspicion.

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.

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 - 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 - See if the huge list of bonus items being offered is really worth it. Many of the extras are described as things that you could probably get from Thottbot or WoWWiki anyway, (for free). The best guides offer you some extra's you couldn't just google and find for free yourself in five minutes.

Good luck and happy gold hunting.

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