WoW secrets
Hi there, Herrflic here.
You’re reading my uncensored review of the WoW Secrets online guide for World of Warcraft.
Note: This is a review, click here if you want to visit the WoW Secrets website.
Why am I writing this? Well, when I was thinking about buying the WoW Secrets guide, there weren’t many reviews around so I thought I’d write one quickly to help any of those who were in the same position as I was. I generally don’t buy these types of guides, but when I stumbled onto this one, I was more than intrigued, I decided to give it a go.
But be warned, I’ll be going into both the good and the bad points of the guide, so if you’re looking for a nice, condescending review, then look elsewhere.
Like most gamers, I expect quality. Just browsing around the WoW forums you can easily see what I’m talking about. Under-deliver on a gamer, and you’ll hear about it! (Ask Bioware about the ending of their new game) On the flip side, I’m willing to pay for a good game, even if it has a subscription fee. I believe that is what makes World of Warcraft so successful; awesome quality at a great price. The subscription fee feeds the developers to make constant new content to keep all 10 million of us happy.
On to the guide:
First thing I noticed was the massive amount of information available immediately. This is not just a wow gold guide, or a leveling guide, this one has it all. PvP, PvE, the amount of topics is staggering. I went though some of the choice topics and found that the information is up-to-date to 4.3 and detailed. Class guides, Role guides, dungeons, this one’s got it all! The WoW gold and Auctions guide was particularly good. I’d love to give more detailed information of the guides, but out of respect for the author, I’ll just say that you will find out the quality once inside. (Actually, I’m running some of his gold making secrets 
and wouldn’t like everyone on Khadgar to know of it.)
But as we have discussed in earlier posts, WoW changes constantly, especially with a new expansion on the horizon. This is where the WoW Secret guide shines. The writer, an accomplished WoW player named Peng Joon, (why is it always the Asian guys that are the best at games?) knows that with a constantly changing game, you need a constantly updated guide for that game. So that’s what he did with WoW Secrets, every month, he sends you an updated guide. It makes sense, just I don’t know of anyone that has done that before.
The best part of this particular guide is that it updates monthly! It will never be out of date!
So a guide that has everything in one place, is detailed and does not go out-of-date must have some downsides, right? Well, there are some things that I’m not completely happy with. Firstly, the main website looked a bit under-refined, I guess that all the effort went into the guides. The biggest one though, I think you would agree is that in order to provide the monthly updates, this guide has a monthly fee. I was very sceptical about signing up for another subscription on top of my WoW account, but for me I was willing to take a risk on it because of the refund guarantee.
I’m very glad that I did.
The subscription fee has the same result as the WoW account fee, constant updates and constant quality.
Up until now I’ve mostly relied on free information on the internet on sites like MMO-Champion and Elitist Jerks for my character builds and WoW information. But when last did Elitest Jerks actually update their Class information? MMO-Champion is more of a news site than anything else and I still visit MMO-Champion daily, but I’ve found all my spec information as well as a great amount of other previously secret information in the WoW Secret guide.
Up until now I’d struggled to get enough gold to keep up with gear upgrades with epic gems, up until now I’d given up on leveling alts because of my limited time online. Thanks to WoW Secrets, I no longer grind as much to do the stuff I’d like to do when I’m online. The levelling guides, for both Alliance and horde, updated for Cataclysm 4.3, are detailed and brisk. I just keep them open on my second screen an run through the steps. If content changes, then be sure that there will be an update incoming at the end of the month.
For my main, the guide is particularly good. Want Ashes of Alar? The WoW Secrets guide reveals the best tactics to get Kael down for the drop chance. Want a Frostbrood Vanquisher? There’s quite a nice run through of ICC just for that. For those raiding, the DS guide is detailed and easy to use. The PvP section is especially well crafted and that were I’m personally going to spend most of my time with this guide.
This guide also comes with a large amount of video guides, which is very helpful for those who, like me, loves watching WoW videos.
All in all, the monthly fee is low enough not to worry me too much, and the guide is more than worth it. My time on WoW is a lot more structured now that I have the WoW Secrets team on my side.
