Over the next fewweeks,Ten TonHammer will be taking a look atseveral leveling guides. We'll be covering in-game paid levelingguides, as well as some free guides available for use on the internet.Every guide claims to be the fastest and the best, but which one reallyIS the best, and which ones are just cheap scams? We intend to findout. After we've reviewed them all, we'll
have a comparison to seeexactly which leveling guide reigns supreme.
Today David Piner takesa look at the Joana's paid leveling guide.
Guide:Joana's Leveling Guide
Website:www.joanasworld.com
Type: Onetime charge
Price: $77 USD
Reviewed By: XerinJoana’s Leveling Guide is one of the oldest and well knownleveling guides out there and it shows. If you look
for the term“leveling guide” you’ll find hundreds of“reviews” on sites trying to earn money throughJoana’s affiliate program. Most of it is boilerplate nonsensewith alternating caps lock screaming how QUICKLY you can LEVEL toeighty. I assure you that this isn’t like that, but a fairand honest look at Joana’s guide. Is it worth the money?We’ll see.
To start with let’s look at the facts. Joana’sguide is for the Horde only meaning that it’s useless for theAlliance. I should say “guides” becausethere are two. One spanning the first 70 levels and the second coveringNorthrend (levels 70-80). The price is rather high with 1-70 costing 45dollars (in USD) and the second guide coming in at 47 dollars. If youbuy together as a bundle you’ll need to cough up 77 dollars.Once you make your purchase you’ll get access into thespecial member’s area where all the content is located.
You do get a lot of content for your money. There is the HTML (online)version of the guide that has links to popular WoW databases, videos,and pictures for a lot of the quests. There is also an in-game
addonthat we’re about to take an in-depth look at. You also getfree updates in the future, but the update frequency isn’ttoo high to make that a major selling point. It’s alsoexploit free and ToS friendly so you don’t have to worryabout Blizzard’s banhammer coming after you.
Even if there is a lot of content the big question remains, is it worthit?
Information Collectionand Regurgitation
We’ll look at the addon aspect along with the “doesit work” aspect in a little bit, but right nowlet’s focus on the guide. Joana lists every quest that hebelieves you need to do to speed yourself to level 70 or 80 (dependingon which guide you purchase). The entire guide is color coded so youcan see that blue means “pick up a quest” and thiscolor means watch a video and you get the drift. However, there is alot of key details missing.
It’s true that Joana tells you which quests to do and evengives you the coordinates. What’s not true is that itisn’t “detailed”. A good example would be“Do X quest (32,18).” Or “Do X quest(read the
quest description or watch this video to see how I didit).” Well, I’m not going to be speed leveling if Iget to those coordinates and don’t know what to do. Should Iloot something, kill something, or what? Some quests do give the fulldetails, but Joana gets lazy at some points making you have to rely onquesthelper or a WoW database or
slogging through the WoW text to readabout the quest.
The videos are also unnecessary and the pictures obtrusive towards yourgoal. If I wanted to look at pictures of how to do each quest I couldeasily look at many of the free resources available online and videosare overkill for 9/10’s of the ones he does. Not to mentionif you’re using the addon
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