Recently I was curious on how long it took the average WoW player to level their alts. Me and my friends polled our servers (Gorefield, Lothar, Aerie Peak, and Ner’zhul) and found out from our average response that it took a person one month in game time to level their alts. ONE MONTH??!?!?! There is a lot better things I can think of doing with that in game time. Arena’s, raiding, hell, I’d rather afk in the auction house then waste my time farting around leveling. And now you realize why we need to optimize our time when leveling. Well thats unless you like wasting your money. In that case can I borrow 20$, you know I’m good for it.

I faced this same situation a while ago and decided to take a leap of faith and buy an alliance leveling guide. I was worried as you probably are about buying my alliance leveling guide online. Scams, poopy guides, etc. are just flooding the interweb now a days. Well after tanking some money I finally realized some guides lines before running for the credit card. The first would be that, when you search Google for guides on the top and right hand sides there are “ads” for such guides. These ads have to be legit or else they would violate Googles ToS on putting up such adds on their site. Next place I would search would be the forums. It was really surprising seeing how many other people were going threw the same thing I was, buying guides online, or writing reviews on these guides (kinda like how I am). The most important and last detail is to ONLY buy a guide that comes with updates. Anything else is unacceptable. You will thank yourself after a few patches come out. Well after learning my lesson, which alliance guide did I finally stick with?

Well since this is my article I would like to shamelessly plug that I purchased the Ultimate Wow Guide. To be honest, I avoided this guide(s) for the longest time due to the price, but after looking back at it i spend more then the price of this guide(s) in other guides just to throw my money into some piece-o-poop ebook. It has pretty much weekly updates, includes auction house guide, daily guide, gold guide, pvp, and pve. A complete package! Take my advice if you read this far, try the 1-20 alliance leveling guide free trial.

Wither you take my advice or not is up to you, but like I say. Your playing the game. Miswell do the best you can at the game. Who would want to pay money to just suck at the game? What are you waiting for its a free trial what’s to lose?

Immediately visit Ultimate WoW Guide to do the 1-20 alliance leveling guide

I started out as any other player would in Azeroth. All alone no friends nor contacts I ventured out into the world to learn of all the wonderful aspects it provides. It took me months to reach level 60 (at the time the leveling cap), never had gold, was dominated in PvP, and couldn’t get in a Onxyia raid to save my life. I sucked It was only through people who have already mastered the game did I truly learn how to play. So if you personally don’t like spending money. Your fate of the game may lie up to who you know and what they know. Its hard to do any of this by yourself.

I couldn’t wait for all this information to trickle in and having to refer to Google every two seconds for advice crashed my game play as well. So I searched for a online service to put me up to the top. Let me say this the only thing my money got me for these “services” was the knowledge that some Chinese gold farming slave got a little richer. I couldn’t even hit enter to confirm my purchase before they entered my account and started to strip it bare. Never ever use any of these services trust me I know they don’t work.

Finally my trusting little heart gave WoW guides a chance at my money How many times can I be tricked? I am usually considered an intelligent person, yet when it comes to money I am retarded. Guide after guide I threw money at the “experts” and “gurus” of WoW just to be disappointed. Things got so bad at one point I thought of the worst sin of any WoW player. I thought of quitting…

As you can tell I still play WoW, and I have achieved everything I dreamed of and more. I am finally leet status. ☺ It was a hard journey, but I just couldn’t give up the game I love. Not after how much time and money I threw into it. Reading the WoW forums I meet my friend Dave Farrell a fellow WoW addict. Every thing he posted on the forums was right on point and I was asking some questions trying to plug him for all his knowledge. He emailed me back stating that he was just using some excerpts from his WoW guides. Instantly I felt violated and I didn’t even hear the sales pitch, but oddly enough he didn’t give me a sales pitch. He gave me a challenge. He said if I bought his WoW guide that if I wasn’t satisfied with the results from it that he would hand over his account. I couldn’t buy his guides quick enough. I figured If I skimmed through them tried some of the techniques, addons, etc. wait a couple days and state the fact that his guide “doesn’t work” I would get a free account. My friend I may not own his account, but his challenge was the best choice I have ever made. Everything I could want from PvP, leveing, PvE, gold farming, even as specific as Midsummer Festival could be found on his online guide. Let me extend the same challenge offered to me to you. Buy his guides, try them, and if you truly do not like them I will give up my account to you. Level 80 hunter Don’t like hunters? Sell my account then, it will easily get $300-$400. Don’t know how to sell accounts, I will do it for you. If you have any questions email me at MyWoWChallenge@gmail.com, aim is zero0409, if your ambitious I will even let you call me on my cell phone.

That’s the most impressive guarantee if I do say so. Ultimate WoW Guide

The thing I like best about this route in the Storm Peaks is that I can kill two birds with one stone. I can camp for the Time-Lost-Protodrake and I can also mine at the same time so I don’t have any “time-lost” (aka the naming of the drake).

Sholazar Basin seems to be a surprising winner for saronite ore and especially the titansteel node, which spawns in place of saronite. I would suggest this as your first route in mining at 450 and even while leveling.

Ice Crown has so many advantages to it its ridiculous. Besides being heavily camped I would say that this is the best route for you to choose because dailies are here, argent tournament, and Lich King encounter will be here. You will never need to leave this zone!

Borean Tundra is one of two starting zones, which both contain cobalt in plenty of supply. This zone although not as plenty full as the rest of the routes is still a good start for mining while you quest.

Howling Fjord is the next starting zone and is a little easier to manage then Borean Tundra. If either is camped and you want to quest while you mine I suggest that you travel to the appropriate one.

Zul’Drak is where I always go to “power level” my miners I highly suggest a flying mount though. If you don’t you will have to run this route counter clockwise due the the drops in the zone.

Blade’s Edge is my favorite location if you have a flying mount. If not you can forget about trying to take this route because It would become to complex and some areas will be restricted to you. If you are “power leveling” I recommend using this route.

Nagrand is another location for mining adamantite, more so for leveling skinning, but hey! If you have both professions you will just love this zone.

Here is by far the most popular route for questing and mining adamantite. I still say having a flying mount helps out a great deal in here, but most of the areas that I cover in the route you are able to get to by mount.

Just incase the previous locations were camped we are heading back to Terokkar Forrest for adamantite. This route is really self explanatory again. The southern circle will provide the most nodes, next to the flying mount required ones.

The only thing wrong with this route in Shadowmoon Valley is that the mob levels are 70 and most people leave Outlands now at  68. If you are “power leveling” this could be an alternative route for you.

This route should be enough said. Really I haven’t been to a server yet that has this camped. Taking advantage of this amazing route could buy you a one way ticket to Northrend. Plus this is an amazing route for people questing also because it really doesn’t make you run out of the way to get to nodes. There are usually quest around each area.

Just incase if pigs start to fly and Hellfire is camped. Terokkar Forrest is your next bet for mining fel iron. The southern part of the route will provide the most nodes. Just saying just incase you can’t tell by the map…

And one last route just incase Hell freezes over… ( I think you can tell by now the odds of Hellfire being camped are fairly slim) Zangarmarsh is your last resort. The only highly loaded fel iron node area i could suggest is the north eastern corner and the southern boarder. But unless pigs are flying and hell freezes over you will probably be in hellfire.

Unless the popular routes are camped I would not suggest Azshara. If you are questing here however this is your secret thorium mining location. The best area to mine here is in the south.

Burning Steps ,however, is a popular location to mine thorium. Depending on your server probably to popular… The only downside to this route besides its over popularity is how far it is spaced out, but if you choose to mine here your best bet is going to be along the eastern segment.

This is one of two spots that are my personal secret locations for mining thorium. They are a secret because people pretty much forgot about them. No one really quest here because as soon as they hit 58 they skip out to Outlands. This makes it all the much easier to mine my thorium and I hope it helps you to (unless your on my server =D )!

Felwood isn’t the best spot for mining thorium, but I would have to say its the best questing/mining zone. Everything is relatively close and you don’t have to go out of your way to find nodes while you quest. How much better could it get?

This would be another popular route in thorium mining, Un’Goro Crater. This is definitely a “power leveling” route. I would shoot my self if I rode the boarder of this zone in a level 30 mount. Even with a 60 mount it was still annoying, but each time I got a new thorium node I remembered why I was mining here. The best location obviously is the center. Visit there ever rotation or so.

Eastern Plague Lands is really a last resort route for any and all factions alike. To be honest I have only did this on a Death Knight, like once because everywhere else was being camped. But hey its a route.

Winterspring is another alternative route for those of you needing more thorium routes. The best route unfortunately is down south in the raid zone. I would recommend waiting till you can defend yourself against them to mine there aka level 80.

This is my secret route of secret routes. The be all end all of thorium node glory. Silithus. Ever since the release of BC this has been a ghost zone getting very few visitors. Well thats besides me who raids all the thorium the land has to offer and a regular basis.

Even though the Burning Steps is a mainly thorium dominated zone it still has one single highly dominated location for mithril. So if you happen to be questing here this is a good zone to get your mitril out right before your ready to mine thorium.

The Hinterlands is one of the most popular zones to mine mithril along with Tanaris. I would suggest heading here first due to each server I played on this had a high amount of mithril nodes. Unlike each server two of them were heavily camped nearly 24/7. The other server Tanaris was camped. So its a win lose situation, but giving a round would never hurt.

The Searing Gorge is a good route with one acceptation. Its way to complicated when running in the gorge part. There are a whole bunch of different routes and its really confusing and you can’t ride a mount half the time. The gorge contains the most nodes to… did I mention the countless mobs that you will encounter on the way? I recommend this route if you are questing at the same time only due to its peevish ways.

Tanaris is the other popular route for mining mithril and each time I have it has been a dangerous one. It seems that there is always high levels camping these nodes. Which makes it frustrating for those of us that try to mine and quest. If you do choose this route I would suggest to wait till your 80. Its just to much riding on a level 30 mount to handle.

]]> http://wowcollege.com/mithril-mining-guide/feed/ 0 http://wowcollege.com/iron-mining-guide/ http://wowcollege.com/iron-mining-guide/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 04:15:39 +0000 admin http://wowcollege.com/?p=144 Next we will be looking at the best locations for your iron mining route. I believe in my personal opinion this is the last of the “easy” routes. The rest of the routes will either be camped, which in a pvp server can hurt, or hard to come by. Lets enjoy these iron mining routes while they last.

Thousand Needles is a predominantly horde zone. Sorry alliance, but there will be some zones for you later. This iron mining route is pretty self explanatory. You follow the edge and it will be easy to mine. Plus I like this route because you also get a “transition” from tin.

Stranglethorn Vale… I hate this place to death. I remember for most of my toons I had to suffer through this content without a mount. These new kids just don’t understand how hard it used to be in the old days. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the fact that this is the gank capital of Azeroth. Putting all that hate aside, this place does hold some potential for mining iron. Along the eastern ridge and south by Booty Bay you can find the most iron nodes.

Hillsbrad Foothills has some hidden potential for mining iron. Most people think its rather impossible to find iron here, but they didn’t do a concentrated search like I have. These three small routes are loaded with iron nodes. This is not worth “power leveling”, but if you are questing its a good investment to stop by to get a couple extra points into mining.

The Badlands is one baddddd place to level your mining. By bad I mean bad ass. Just look at the map. Of course this is gonna be loaded with nodes. Not to mention mithril can also be found here. Sticking to the point… this is probably your best choice for your iron node needs.

Arathi Highlands is my secret spot for iron. Not the best spot to do while questing, but when “power leveling” I will always go here first because it seems like it doesn’t have a lot of competition