wow_ding60Alliance Power Leveling Guides are a dime a dozen as of late. All it takes is a quick search on any World of Warcraft fan site and you will see at least one advertisement for one of the major players. These guides offer step by step walk-throughs of the game to help you power level your Alliance character from level one to level eighty in the shortest amount of time possible. The problem is, all of the hardcore WoW elite frown upon the use of these guides, but why? Is it because they feel threatened by the idea of relative noobs joining their raids with little to no knowledge of how to actually play? Is it because they feel like having a step by step walk-through defeats the purpose of the game?

I think the answer is a combination of these ideas. Any guild that is looking start running 25 man raids is going to have a hard time finding a full roster unless they are well established. These budding guilds will look to the LFG channel for new members to join their raid. The problem is, if that player used an Alliance Power Leveling Guide, they more than likely haven’t spent much time actually playing in groups or understanding the vast dynamics involved in end game raiding. Due to this fact, when these guilds recruit a member from LFG and they get the raid completely wiped, the experienced players get very frustrated. They blame the leveling guides for the lack of skill and group ability of most of the pick up group type players in the game. I think this is one of the major reasons that many players hate leveling guides.

Others will complain that using an Alliance Power Leveling Guide basically defeats the purpose of playing. A large part of the enjoyment of playing World of Warcraft is the exploration and the feeling of accomplishment when you complete a several quest chain and unravel one of the mini stories within the game. Players who use leveling guides however, tend to blaze through the game as fast as they possibly can, use map mods to find out exactly where to go, eliminating the idea of exploration, and more often than not, simply click through or ignore all of the story bits to get to level eighty as fast as possible. To many, if the game is just going to be a checklist for you to complete, you might as well not even play. I somewhat agree with this stance.

There is however, one argument for the players who choose to use an Alliance Power Leveling Guide. New people are finding out about World of Warcraft every day. If you are entering the game 2 or 3 years too late, and your friends are already level eighty, why should you have to spend months, playing by yourself, just to get to the point where you actually play with the friends you joined the game to play with in the first place. For many, the leveling grind to get to eighty will cause you to quit before you even make it halfway, and you will never experience end game raiding with your friends. For these players, I think leveling guides are a necessity. In this case, I would never look down on someone for wanting to get to a point where they could enjoy the game with their friends. It’s also useful if you are leveling alts to eighty but that’s an entirely different topic.

If  you are looking for the best Alliance Power Leveling Guide, try Zygor’s Alliance Leveling Guide.

If you are looking for a guide that will teach you to be better at leveling, gold making, pvp, raids, all classes, and just about every aspect of your game, try Warcraft Formula.

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