There are a lot of WoW gold guides out there, and they all have something to offer. I have found through my experience that each WoW gold guide is a reflection of the style of the player who authored the guide. I can go through a ton of different reasons why but the main point is that as WoW gamers, we all have different styles and the guides simply reflect that style. And though there is always some crossover material between guides, for the most part each guide is unique just because each gamer is unique. So what does Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook bring to the table. Let’s review it.
The Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook is written by Steven Rice. It comprises of one primary guide and three supplemental guides:
– Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook; 154 pages
– Warcraft Tycoon’s Auction House Secrets; 18 pages
– Warcraft Tycoon’s Fishin & Cooking Profit Guide; 11 pages
– Warcraft Tycoon’s Guide to Northrend Rare Mob Hunting; 19 pages
As you can see they are not very big guides. At the end of the review I’ll give another guides size for comparison so you have a better idea of why I’m critical about the size. But size isn’t everything, we have to take quality into account as well. Let’s get deeper into the main guide to see if the quality stands up.
Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook has 14 chapters (15 actually but the last is just a summary chapter with no real new information). The overall approach of this guide is more generalized information and less step by step walkthroughs. It is focused on high end items with not much specific strategy for long term profits. It’s much closer to a list of where the most valuable items are located than a gold strategy implementation guide, though there is a little of that. Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook is much more geared towards the intermediate player that just wants to know where to find the most valuable items so he/she can stock up on gold. This is fine and dandy, but if your an inexperienced player I would probably look to another guide for help. I think the real value in the primary guide is in the Auction House section. Here’s why.
Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook best chapter is the Auction Buy wow gold House chapter and it’s sub-chapters, it is one of the rare parts of the primary guide that gives you a step-by-step method for long term profits. This approach to dominating the Auction House was new information for me. For all my other criticisms of this guide, this section of the guide makes up a lot of ground in terms of quality and strategy. By far, this section is the best and most valuable information you will get out of Warcraft Tycoon’s Handbook. Some might say this method alone is worth the price of the guide. This method of Auction House monopolization is the best explained I’ve ever seen, and the most practical and realistic.