Top speed, world class leveling domination on your mind? Want to obliterate all standing times, tearing through those speeds like a wrecking ball, and show your guild mates what it means to truly level a character? You’d better get an in-game leveling guide then, because true speed is all about efficiency – knocking your times down without stopping.
If any of you can remember back far enough to the times when there were World of Warcraft Leveling guides not presented in-game, you can appreciate just how good Zygor’s Leveling Guides looked when they first appeared. The first set of full World of Warcraft leveling guides – for both Horde and Alliance – to provide in-game leveling help, Zygor’s Guides have been at the tip of most players’ tongues for the last couple of years.

 Today, the best World of Warcraft guides have come a long way, presenting complete, detailed information for your route between Level 1 and 80. The key, it turned out, was for Zygor to include specific information for each quest instead of generalizing everything or telling you to use WoWHead. Rather than throwing countless bits of information your way that are littered with ambiguous directions (Go to Chillmere Coast and complete Quests A, B, and C), Zygor started detailing exactly what you’re supposed to when you reach Chillmere Coast – in this case, kill scourge and loot a Scourge Device.

The Zygor Leveling Experience

As you can probably tell from my review thus far, I like Zygor’s Warcraft Leveling guides quite a bit. They were my first in-game mods and I feel that they capture all of the detail you need to truly pull off getting through to Level 80 without any snags. The experience itself is relatively simple as well.

After signing up for your account and downloading your mods, you simply need to copy and paste the files into your World of Warcraft Add-on folder. Start up your WoW client and the mod should be installed, and will attempt to tell you where you need to be. Upon getting started, it is not always 100% accurate, sometimes choosing areas you’ve already completed or if it is completely unsure of what you are, starting you at the beginning. However, it takes only a moment to calibrate the guide and get it set to where you need to be.

Each section of the game is split up by zone and by levels. For example, as you can see below, the Northrend sections are broken down by levels, with Level 70-72 for Borean Tundra and then 72-74 for Howling Fjord.

Each quest step is laid out with careful detail as well. Instead of throwing you into quest after quest, Zygor’s Warcraft leveling guide just tells you what to do. The quest names are provided, but his philosophy seems to be that you’d rather know what tasks to perform, not what quest you’re on (I tend to agree).

With your mod setup and your character ready to go, all you need to do is follow the directions. They are very specific and the only time I’ve ever found myself skipping a quest is when an area is over populated – something that isn’t very common until you reach Northrend. An arrow will point you to the next quest objective with the distance between you and the objective and coordinates. Follow your arrows, stay clear of high level mobs and cliffs (like any GPS, it’s easy to stop actually looking at where you’re going), and kill whatever you need to move forward.

All the Cool Stuff You Get

The best World of Warcraft Guides aren’t worth their weight in code if they doesn’t come with a few bonus guides and Zygor’s Warcraft Leveling guides tow the line here as well. Along with your purchase of the Warcraft Horde guide or the Warcraft Alliance guide, you get a slew of extras including:

• Talent Guides – A guide for every class to show how to spend your talent points up to 80.
• Nether Drake Mount Guide – Shows you how to get your free Nether Drake Mount
• Death Knight Class Guide – In Depth details on the Death Knight class.
• Inscription Guide – A profession guide for anyone leveling inscription with info on how to make gold as well.
• Free Updates – Zygor’s Warcraft Leveling Guides update as fast and as often as anyone out there, providing regular bouts of new content whenever a change occurs in game.
• Forums – Zygor is the only one I’ve seen provide a full featured forum for customers. Not only that, but the forum is filled with content and discussions about everything from simple questions or leveling content to bragging about top times.

My only main complaint with Zygor’s bonuses is that a couple of them only help a small handful of people. If you’re a Death Knight Inscriptionist, awesome – if you’re not, those bonuses don’t help much. A profession guide or a Level 80 guide of some sort (Ulduar, anyone?) would have been a nice touch.

Zygor’s Guide Review – The Bottom Line

But, who can nitpick about things as silly as bonuses when you have one of the best World of Warcraft guides out there. Zygor’s Warcraft Leveling guides was one of the first to make it work and he’s managed to stay ahead of the curve ever since, showing the world why his Warcraft leveling guides are among the best selling around. Anyone looking for a guide that is updated religiously, has top level content and won’t get you lost, Zygor’s is one of the best places to start.