When you get started in Northrend, the breadth of content is pretty large. You have two starting zones to choose from with more than 130 quests each for each faction and a whole lot of different reputation factions, tons of new instances, and a whole lot of new professions, gold grinding spots, and even an option to go back north to the classic continents of WoW and start a Death Knight. If you haven’t played yet, trust me when I say that you will be overwhelmed when you first set foot into the new content.

So, what does my tool have to do with all that? Well, what I’m talking about is WotLK Secrets. You may have heard about it already – a lot of people are talking about it because it’s been incredibly helpful to a lot of players. Basically, it’s a complete starters guide to Northrend and all things WotLK with in depth strategies, secrets about the game and everything you need to know about every ounce of new content.

Trust me when I say I’m not overstating anything here – this guide truly does cover every bit of the new expansion with more than 240 pages of detail on what you’re going to see and do. And when I was just getting started, it helped me not only figure out where I was going and what I was doing – it showed me what I needed to go back and redo and what I was skimping on. If you’re just getting started in WotLK, check out WotLK Secrets and if you’re already a ways in, give it a look anyways – it can’t hurt to check out what you could be missing out on.

Check it out now: WotLK Guide

Joana (or Mancow, the male character he uses) has gotten to level 80 in under five days played time and has been the first to level a character to 80 on six different servers now. Because of this, he was invited to play in the Burning Crusade beta. This means his new guide will be out soon after the expansion is released! What’s even better is that you get the expansion guide for free when you purchase the his leveling guide, as well as any updates to the guides.

This WoW Horde leveling guide shows you exactly where to go and what to do. Using this guide you will be doing about 90% questing and 10% grinding, which is excellent since you don’t have to mindlessly kill monsters all day long. Questing is also a lot faster than grinding alone. Joana captured on video the whole leveling experience from 1 to 80, which took him a little under five days playing time.

The actual video run time is 115 hours but even when sped up, the combined time of these videos is 35 hours! This amazing feat caught the attention of The Escapist Magazine, which wrote about it in their speedrunning article. Fortunately, these videos are divided nicely into levels and zones and are integrated into the guide.

You also get pictures and maps showing you exactly where to find the quests that are listed in the guide. The guide lists the UI mods he uses and also tricks for playing a hunter and the order in which he uses his talent points. No exploits were used to get to 80 in this World of Warcraft Horde leveling guide and everything is completely legitimate.

The Horde side has more quests to do so you won’t even need to bother with instances unless you want to grab the occasional piece of armor. This guide is designed around soloing so time won’t be wasted finding a good group, which is nice since you’ll probably be leveling up faster than your friends anyway.

World of Warcraft takes you to a 3D environment in the World of Azeroth. The World is the largest virtual environment ever created. You can explor through deserts, forests, mountains and more.  It may take months before you can finish traveling through all of Azeroth. There are of course mounts such as horses, gryphons and other animals that can help you travel through Azeroth.

Along with the great 3D environment you can able to customize your characters looks in the highest of detail ever possibly invented. There are next to an infinite combination of faces, eyes, texture, size, weight, coloring to choose from. Unlike many other MMORPGs, you’re bound to find a twin here and there but the possibilities has gone unlimited with Blizzards character creation.

World of Warcraft consists of 2 fueding realms, the Alliance and the Horde. Each realm may choose from 4 different races. Alliance members may choose Human, Dwarf, Night Elf, and Gnomes while Horde members may choose Orc, Tauren, Troll and Undead. Along with the 8 races there are also 9 classes that you may choose from which are the Druid, Hunter, Mage, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock and Warrior. Each player also has the ability to choose a profession for their character.  A profession is very helpful to the players as it may help them create great armors, weapons, items and other equipments. A player may choose 2 primary professions and as many secondary professions as they like.

Blizzard has been updating World of Warcraft much more than their previous games that required connection to Battle.net. Quests, items, fixes and other great enhances are being added or changed to improve gameplay. Unlike other MMORPGs, the quests of WoW are made to help leveling and is much pleasurable. It is not as repetitive as you are required to kill the same monsters and the constant travelling back and forth to speak to a dozen NPCs.

Like most and all MMORPGs, WoW has their own game economy and ingame shop/auction house. Their currency is based on copper, silver and gold. World of Warcraft gold is most commonly used to purchase weapons, armors, items, skills, spells and travelling. While selling back items to a NPC shop is easy, the returns are unfavorable. Majority of the players would sell off their unwanted items to other players at a highest rate than what the NPCs will offer.

PvP has been by far the most thrilling theme of most MMORPGs. World of Warcraft includes PvP servers and non PvP servers. As Blizzard continues to update the game, their most recent patch included the battle grounds. A zone where the Horde and Alliance comes together and competes. The winner will receive special rewards and methods of increasing their overall character status.

Blizzard has taken ideas from many different games and combined it all into 1. It has yet been by far the most successful MMORPG to this day and still growing rapidly. With a subscriber base of 4.5 million players world wide, I’m sure the game will continue to be popular for over a decade.