Gold Secret Guide World of Warcraft - A WoW Gamers Review
Posted: Monday, February 02, 2009
by Carlos Castro
Gold Secrets Guide by Luke Brown is one of the better known gold guides available for the game World of Warcraft. I was curious about its contents but I couldn't find a review that outlined and detailed the whole course. Because of that I decided to do one myself, I got my hands on the Gold Secrets Gold Guide and proceeded to dissect the course.
The Auctioneer's Resource
Fishing Facts Manual
The Profit Chart
Twinkling Profits
Newsletter with more bonuses
All in all it's a robust package with a hefty amount of material to consider. There are class or faction specific methods so it will take you a while to get through it. It definitely lot but it's nice to know that it's there when you finally need it.
Here's a brief description of each guide and manual:
Gold Secrets - At 325 pages this is the heart of the package. It's quite the comprehensive guide and has a substantial amount of methods. It is organized in the order of each game release; World of Warcraft -> Burning Crusade -> Lich King. The Daily Quests chapters are great and are done explained in detail. As of this writing the chapter count is at 211, but each chapter provides several ways of making gold within each of these tasks. For instance, the Fiery Enchant/Quest Rewards chapter not only shows you what to do, but also provides multiple ways of getting the pearls as well as how to profit off the extra pearls if you decide to get them. It's actually 2 ways of earning gold in one chapter. Most of the chapters are like this, it certainly adds value. My only gripe is that this guide should have a beginners section instead of having to page around for the beginners methods.
The Profit Chart - This chart basically tells you where to find mobs and what they drop. This addition will really help to save time. I really like the fact that it shows the level range you need to get it done. Something similar should have been included in the main Gold Secrets guide.
The Auctioneer's Resource - Pretty much a must know method if you plan on making serious gold. It's the old 'buy low sell high' principle in the Auction House. There are important points made about what makes an item valuable at any given time, and it's detailed here. It's a good addition but frankly I've seen better auction guides out there.
Fishing Facts Manual - Now this is what you call a fishing guide. This is comprehensive stuff. It provides a clear explanation of what special number number of skill points you need above your base skill points to really make things happen with fishing. It provides great lists and tables with a lot of important information that will drastically cut your learning curve. It's also broken down by each faction; Horde and Alliance. In my opinion the best organized and detailed manual in the package.
Twinking Profits - Nice little guide, only 6 pages but covers pretty much what you need to know to profit from twinks. A thorough explanation of how the market works with twinks and lists the most in demand twink stuff. Short but sweet. Full of very valuable info.
All in all this is quite a nice package of gold making material. I hope this enlightens you a bit on what Luke Brown's Gold Secrets Guide is all about. As I said, my primary gripe is with the Gold Secrets main guide, although very comprehensive and full of valuable information, I would have preferred that it was better organized, more along the fashion of the Fishing Manual.
There are other quality gold guides out there, Valkor's Gold Guide and WoW Tycoon come immediately to mind and are worthy of your research. With that said, Gold Secrets Guide is a quality guide and I give it a thumbs up. As with anything, make sure you do your own independent research.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Good review. I love this guide as well.
Eh, I'm not into World of Warcract. Isn't this somewhat spammy as your advertising a guide?Spammy? It's review Gregory. I've seen this guide "reviewed" tons by others but they give no information other than a thumbs up and a "buy it now its the greatest guide in the history of the world" review. I've actually done a video review as well that I'll be putting up on one of my WoW sites. I would direct you there but I'm sure you would find that "spammy" as well. Gregory, with all due respect, you have the option not to read any of my articles.My mistake, I apologize. Is there a way I can redo the ratings I submitted?
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