8 Dec 2010, Comments Off

Vivi’s Cataclysm Guide Review

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With so many World of World Cataclysm guides being offered by various publishers, it’s difficult to decide which guide to get. Questions that can render most gamers indecisive are those like, ‘Am I going to get scammed?’, ‘Can the guide really help me?’ or ‘Would this be really worth the money?’. Having gotten the priviledge by several guide publishers to peek into their guides, there are 3 that I would mark ‘highly recommended’. First would be the Killer Guides World of Warcraft Cataclysm guide. Why? Like always, the strategies and content shared in the guide are unique and written by gamers like yourself, except that the guide writers tend to be highly experienced and successfull gamers who shares their findings, tips and strategies in Killer Guides manuals. The same goes for the Cataclysm guide.

Then there’s Uma’s Cataclysm guide, which shares quite a lot for the expansion, it’s offered as a single guide only but provides a good starting point for gamers planning on taking on the expansion. Finally, there’s Vivi’s Cataclysm guide which this review is basically going to cover most of. Reason being, the guide writer, Vivi is probably one of the latest guide publisher for WoW. Might be less well known in comparison to Killer Guides, Joana’s guide or so but after going throught the first few pages of Vivis’ Cataclysm guide, it was obvious that Vivi’s Guides are here to stay.

Vivi's World of Warcraft Cataclysm Guide

Killer Guides Cataclysm Guide

Uma's WoW Cataclysm Guide

Vivi’s Cataclysm Guide has it all. At Vivisguide.com, you are given a chance to purchase a top of the line guide for the newest World of Warcraft expansion: Cataclysm. Regardless of your playing strategy, Vivi’s Guide will help you along your journey to the revered level 85. I would highly recommend it to both new and experienced gamers. This guide has everything anyone could ever ask for of a guide. The high level of detail makes questing and leveling a breeze, and will put you ahead of the competition right from the start. Once you visit Vivisguide.com, you will notice listings of all of the features that this guide has to offer. Vivi Guides WoW helped me reach level 85 within a couple of weeks! If you like to do group raids and PVP, the strategies depicted in this guide will help you with both of those styles of play, and make you a highly sought-after player on the battlefield from my experiences!

Vivi's Cataclysm Guide

With comprehensive and easy to read sections on the different classes, races, zones, etc., there is more than enough information to help you climb your way to the top. Additionally, Vivisguide offers the best strategy at accumulating the maximum amount of gold possible while you level up. I didn’t even need to worry about wasting money on items I would soon replace. Vivi’s Guide has helped me a ton with leveling, and is 100% legit. Vivi’s Guide offers regular updates to keep up with the ever-evolving World of Warcraft, which was an important aspect that I was looking for. On top of the regular updates, the price you pay is a one-time price. All updates after that point are completely and utterly free of charge, which saved me quite a bit of money. The plethora of information all piled together at my fingertips saved me the time of trying to piece it all together. Advanced strategies are also offered, dealing with PVP, advanced leveling techniques, and top-grade money making advice. Not a pro yet? No problem whatsoever! Vivi’s Guide is completely newbie-friendly, and even helped me jump right into the game and become a top-notch competitor.

The ease of obtaining Vivi’s Guide is remarkable as well. All I had to do was go to Vivisguide.com, purchase the guide, and I then downloaded it directly to my computer. Getting a grade-A guide and optimum service couldn’t be easier. I am completely satisfied with this guide, and highly recommend it to casual and serious gamers alike!

7 Mar 2010, Comments Off

WoW Cataclysm Guide

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A dragon erupts from an underground prison, causing massive terrain shifts, both physically and politically. The breakup of the uneasy pseudo-truce between Alliance and Horde, shaken in Wrath of the Lich King, has finally broken completely, due to Warchief Thrall’s bloodthirsty replacement.

Jay Brack lampshaded (At least I HOPE that was tongue-in-cheek lampshading?) his own Executive Meddling by saying he had expected this expansion to be a few more Levels, a couple new Races, business as usual, but the Developers finally stood up and overrode him, realizing that the old 1-60 experience needed remodeling.

They were GOING to have everything look like it went through an earthquake, but the planned cracks and jagged landscape caused characters to get stuck, so they nixed it and fixed it. LOTS of things have changed, mostly for the better. Every Zone in the game has been changed and upgraded, and supposedly, the Cataclysm Quests will be changed to show more creativity. WoW was the first to have “directed killing” Quests, the much-maligned “Kill Ten Rats” (Which is also the title of a fansite), the design philosophy has come full circle and realized that just asking people to kill bigger and bigger versions of the same thing—and/or more of them—was part of the repetition that burned out players on MMO games!

One example that I HOPE makes it into the game is a Mammoth Meat Quest. Rather than just kill 10 Mammoths, feed one a bomb, then pick up the pieces! This outside-the-box thinking will REALLY help Quests, or at least make them less grind-ish!

Looking for more information about the expansion? Then don’t forget to check out this WoW Cataclysm Guide which is prepared specifically for the expansion and covers details about Cataclysm in assiduous detail. For German players, don’t forget to check out the blog Cataclysm Guide.

On a Wing and a Prayer

More New Flight Paths were added, AND players will now get WoW Goblin/Gnomish jetpacks—and even flying mounts—so they can fly around PERSONALLY! Although this was obviously inspired by AION, it’s a welcome change. More importantly, a lot of impassable terrain and invisible walls are being removed. The original reason for the impassable terrains, visible or otherwise, is that they literally didn’t finish the areas players couldn’t go to, to save time/effort, and by constraining players to only the finished areas, they made the world SEEM more complete than it was! (Early players with teleport or climbing utilities found out the Masquerade, but were banned for it) To coin a meme, WOW didn’t USED to stand for Wide Open World, but now it just might!

Re-Zoning

They were serious about improving Zones. They finally eased up on the cliffs near Orgrimmar that were the bane of so many low-Level Horde players. Apparently, the Goblins carved a path up the cliff and set up a camp there. Oddly they also turned an island into a Horde symbol, and carved a Goblin “Mount Rushmore” into a mountain!

More serious changes include splitting the Barrens into North and South Barrens Zones, so that players of Cataclysm PvP and Questers won’t interfere with each other—not as much anyways—added new Quest Hubs on StoneTalon Mountain, and a plucky Druid who is terraforming Desolace into a place people might like to live. An oasis of civilization in the desert. (Make your own Vegas jokes).

DarkShore was destroyed utterly, removing the largely redundant Quests of Auberdine, but two smaller Quest Hubs have sprung up, supposedly alleviating a lot of running around.

Uldum is finally being opened to players, and Ashenvale has gained a lot more forts. Also, an underwater Zone—which players have requested for a long time, inspired by the Tram’s Aquarium stretch.

Oh, and Gnomeregan might finally be sufficiently recovered for the Gnomes to head back to—until they mess it up again!

28 Feb 2010, Comments Off

Cataclysm Leveling Guide

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Of the major complaints, one that Blizz has decided to address with this expansion is the issue of having to level and regear all of your characters for a full ten levels. While we may find it annoying, I have to admit that WoW Cataclysm Leveling is necessary to succeed and keep the game interesting. The primary purpose of an expansion is to essentially reset the game, putting old content to rest to make room for the new. This also removes the gear gap between players when they start the new content, and lets Blizz make drastic changes to class mechanics. Like replacing hunter mana with focus, replacing hunter AP with agility, and replacing the hunter class designer with someone who clearly isn’t insane. It isn’t practical to close down old instances and impossible to just delete people gear, so the only way Blizzard can get a game reset is to “discover” a new previously unknown continent and send everyone there to get stronger.

Blizzards decision this time around to only expand the game by five levels instead of ten is a very interesting one. They will still gain all the benefit of a game reset, but it won’t have as nearly a drastic effect on the player base. The major problem with leveling is that it is exciting in the beginning when everything is new and at the very end when you start preparing for the end game. But in the middle it’s just a grind. By reducing the level cap by five Blizz will compress the process and eliminate this middle ground. What I find most interesting though will be how it prevents expansion fatigue. If the expansion is only a few months away, why bother banging your head against Kel’thuzad or Kil’Jaden when any gear you may get will be replaced by a quest reward? We have no idea what kind of epics there will be in Cataclysm. But in the past epics that drop from the last raid in an expansion will be slightly inferior to the epics in the first raid, ten levels later. Since we are only going up five levels your Icecrown epics will probably be on par with the gear from the first Cataclysm raid. So even if the expansion is coming out next week, kicking Arthas off his frozen throne will be well worth it. Just don’t forget your mittens, it isn’t called Warmcrown after all.

25 Feb 2010, Comments Off

WoW Cataclysm Screenshots

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WoW Cataclysm Screenshots

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