Personally, I’m not a fan of game guides. I don’t think they do much other than ruin the content for you before you get there. So, I was surprised when I discovered that WotLK Secrets was anything but a big spoiler filled, fluff ridden guide that didn’t do much other than make the game less fun. Think of it more like a GPS device on a road trip. It gives you directions and guidance when you ask it to without telling you everything you’re about to see.

To start with, the guide covers all the basic aspects of the game’s new content. You will learn how to start a Death Knight, how to master Inscription, what you will face in all the new raids, all the new glyphs you have access to, ins and outs of the new achievement system, the changes to your classes, and whole lot more really nifty, really useful new details.

If you need things like raid specific strategies such as how to take on Malygos in his second or third form, the info is here for you. If you need to know what the best level 40 Glyph is for your Druid, you can look it up right here. It’s really been an invaluable resource for me as I’ve leveled and that’s saying a lot from someone who doesn’t usually like guides very much.

Learn more here: WotLK Guide

With the updates released for World of Warcraft in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and its updates, the dynamics of player vs player combat have changed once again. With the new rules, its becoming increasingly popular to create highly specialized protection Paladins. If you want to avoid being another speed bump on the battlefield of your PVP server should you too invest the talent points required for deep specialization in the protection tree? Well, that depends on your playing style, but some of the new builds circulating seem to make this a choice worth making.

Obviously these builds are designed to rely heavily on the Protection tree of Paladin specialization. While the preferred PVP set up for paladins in the past relied on Holy and Retribution, this is an all new set up that when used correctly can let the Paladin absorb massive amounts of damage while still hammering away on his enemy. If you can’t absorb the high damage hits that are so common in PVP conflicts, you’ll be regretting lost time spent lying on your toon’s dead back. The whole point in wearing plate armor is to take punishment – and the protection tree when fully developed can give a paladin a host of abilities that let you take tons of damage and still not fall.

This set up works because you wind up using abilities like Guarded by the Light and Touched by the Light to generate large amounts of mana and critical heals. It also opens up the possibility of such buffs and defensive techniques as Divine Sacrifice, Sacred Shield. Combine that with abilities like Hammer of Justice for quick mob stuns, and Avenger’s Shield leaving multiple mobs dazed at range and it’s easy to see how developing the protection specialization tree can unlock some real potential for the paladin class.

If you’re tired of being slaughtered on the fields of Azeroth by the opposing faction, you should seriously consider developing a PVP Protection Paladin. For more advice on doing this, or anything else in World of Warcraft, go see Paladin leveling guide. They’ve got comprehensive guides to help any gamer pick themselves up off the ground. For a review of some of the best WoW guides and addons available online be sure to check out the website.

Leveling in Northrend will be the next hurdle every World of Warcraft player will have to get over. With a whole new world available it will be interesting to see just how effective we’ll all be at it. While many of our community have already had a first crack at Northrend because of the beta server many of us have not. That being said it’s safe to expect a few people to catapult themselves to 80, having had some exposure to WOTLK, knowing the lay of Northrend and yes even the quests. Those who manage to level from 70-80 quickly will find themselves alone in the end game type raids and instance reaping all the rewards and leaving many behind in the dust, while those who are going to be experiencing leveling from 70-80 for the first time will most likely have to grind there way to level 80. The question on many peoples’ minds is, “How can I level from 70-80 the fastest?”

The answer is actually quite simple. Get yourself a Warcraft Leveling Guide or Guides.
There were those people in the beta release who were there to have fun and scope out the new toys and gear. Then there were those people who, for the good of us all, mapped out the new quests, battled through the 10 levels from 70-80 to discover what to do and to help others on quests in teh new WOTLK expansion.

Four groups in particular have poised themselves as the leaders in the field of leveling guides and specifically in the field of WOTLK leveling guides. Zygor Guides, iDemise, Joana’s World and Dugi’s leveling guides are all slated to come out with releases/updated for the expansion pack the day it hits the shelves.

What does this mean for your leveling from 70-80?

This means that not only do you have someone on the inside who’s gone through and provided notes on quests and the fastest ways to level from 70-80, you actually have several teams that have incorporated them into already successful leveling guides.
All four guides are well established in the World of Warcraft community and have only solidified their places with the near instant updates for WOTLK.

Leveling in WOTLK will now be a breeze for two groups of people:
1. Those that had exposure to the beta servers and know the new Northrend area as well as the quests; and,
2. Those that get their own WOTLK leveling guide to level the playing field.

Alas, those who do not will eventually level from 70-80, but perhaps weeks after the first surge of people have already hit the magical level 80.
Those are the groups you can fall into, I know which one I’m in (2).

We’ll have to see just how long the next 10 levels take to achieve, but if the old 60-70 leveling is any indication; we’re talking weeks if not months.

Best of luck to you, see you in Northrend.

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