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Dugi's Ultimate WoW Guide

Dugi’s Ultimate
WoW Guide

Highly Recommended

Guide last updated: Updated regularly
Review last updated: July 29, 2010
Guide suitable for: Beginner - Advanced players

Here's a quick video presentation of this guide:

 Dugi's Ultimate WoW Guide

Dugi’s Ultimate WoW Guide is a collection of guides to help you build your ultimate character. In no other place can you get so much valuable guidance in one place. To give you an idea, they offer:

  • 1-80 Horde & Alliance solo leveling guide addons
  • Dailies & Seasonal Events Guide for WotLK
  • Dungeon Leveling Guide
  • Guide to all classes: How to spend talents & find the best gear
  • Several bonuses like: Macro guide, PvP Guide, in-game talent guides for leveling / PvE / PvP, profession leveling & gold guide

There are 3 main guides: the solo leveling guides, the dungeon leveling guides and the dailies & events guide. You can get them separately or in various packages for big discounts.

Here's is a bit more on what you can expect from the guides:

1-80 Horde & Alliance Leveling Guides

Dugi's 1-80 Leveling GuidesThe Leveling guides of Dugi’s Ultimate WoW Guide contains detailed 1-80 leveling guides for horde and alliance. The new version4 is an in-game addon (complies with blizzard's addon policy), meaning you view the leveling instructions from inside the game. It tells you exactly what to do at any time: pick up a quest, turn in a quest, slay mobs, collect items etc.

It really takes the frustration out of leveling.

There's also a waypoint arrow showing you where you need to go to do each step. How convenient is that? Very! Some other features include:

  • Streamlined 1-80 leveling path
  • Very compact; doesn't clutter your screen
  • Seamless integretion of class quests. Based on your class the guide will tell you what you need to do
  • Displays quest items in a clickable icon when you need them, no more searching through your bags to find them! (Love it)
  • Starting zone guides for all races incl. death knights

The talent guides show you how to spend your talents while leveling, as well as for different purposes at level 80.

The leveling guides also have several features which make it easy to jump in at any level, as well as level with rested EXP, heirloom items, Blizzard's recruit-a-friend program etc. In other words, you don't have to be a slave to these guides. If you want to do something else, like instances or battlegrounds, it will be very easy to get back on track with the leveling guide.

Dailies & Events Guide

Dugi's Dailies & Events GuideAgain, this guide is viewable in-game. This helps speed up the routine tremendously, earning you that much more gold, reputation, epics and titles, and frees up time to do other fun things in WoW as well

It shows you how to power your way through most level 80 dailies faster than you thought possible, earning 375g in one hour from the rewards! Dailies are cool because you earn guaranteed gold (no AH selling), reputations, vanity items and so on. But if you haven't done them before, this guide will guide you through all the pre-requisites as well.

There's also an Argent Tournament guide, but the best part in my opinion is the Events guide. That one will walk you through the seasonal events in WoW -- you know like Children's Week, Feast of Winter Veil etc. -- earning you achievements, gold, reputation, pets and other goodies.

Included as a bonus is 20 instructional videos for even faster dailies. The faster you do them, the more gold per hour you get, so that's very useful as well.

Dungeon Leveling Guide

Dugi's Dungeon Leveling GuideDugi's Dungeon Leveling Guide is currently the only one of its kind on the market. It shows you how to level effectively with the random dungeon finder tool, by telling you the instance quests to pick up before you queue for the dungeon. It guides you through all the prerequisite quests, tells you when to join the queue and also how to complete the quests inside the instance. Dungeon quests are worth A LOT of EXP and by following this guide you can level up extremely fast and easy and have more fun. It also works great together with Dugi's Solo leveling guides.

I purchased this guide for my friend C, who has been playing WoW since day 1 and leveled several characters to 80. Here's what she had to say:

Over the last few months, I’ve been trying out this leveling guide. I was skeptical at first, as I’ve tried using free guides or questhelper with just about the same average results which didn’t seem to speed up the leveling process much to me, and I therefore stopped using them. Because “dungeon leveling” is something recently released with the random dungeon tool, and a fun way that removes the need for standing around in Stormwind/Orgrimmar shouting “LFM [insert instance]”, I decided to give it a try.   

Before the release of the guide, I tried leveling in dungeons myself. It got repetitive, long-drawn-out and boring to complete the same instances over and over again, some not yielding much EXP at all. With Dugi’s Dungeon Leveling Guide, this changes totally.  Before doing any instance, the guide takes you around to gather all the quests that later can be completed in the instances; it leads you the whole way from pre-quests to final turn-ins using easy-to-understand arrows and descriptions. Another great thing is that you can jump right into the guide on any character you currently are leveling up without problems. 

Myself, I jumped into the guide at around LVL 30 with my Affliction Warlock which I level alone, and at around LVL 40 with my Warrior which I level with a friend of mine (a shaman). The war/shaman setup has fully have been focused on grinding instances as tank/healer.  

The guide made the instances go fast, and doing an instance multiple times was no longer necessary and, I dare say, leveling from ~40 to ~60 has NEVER gone faster for me. 

I strongly recommend this guide to everyone who is sick of the same old leveling methods or even to new players who quickly wants to level their way to 80. With this guide, you won’t have to think about what to do next, and you can focus 100% on enjoying the content, and learning how to master your character. 

Updates

Dugi is also updating the guide all the time. Here's a recent post on his blog about Ultimate WoW Guide's Update policy.

Conclusion 

Dugi’s Ultimate WoW Guide is more and more becoming the premier all-in-one guide for world of warcraft players. Each guide stands well on its own, but together this package becomes that much more powerful. Additionally, there is a community forum and email support if you need it.

For more info on Dugi’s Ultimate WoW Guide, click here.