by Jame
All the guides on wow-pro are FREE, there is no trick, they are just free and will remain free. Enjoy and please contribute!
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Tips
Here’s how to enjoy the guides as much as possible, even if you don’t have a 2nd monitor, you can either:
1. Print the guides. There is a “Printer Friendly Version” link at the bottom of every guide, you just have to click on it. However, that might be expansive (and probably expensive), because the guides are big, very big. Another downside is that my guides are updated very frequently, so if you print it you’ll miss the latest updates.
2. Playing WOW in Windowed Mode feels very comfortable while following along with this guide.
- Keep the guide opened in an internet window
- Log in to World of Warcraft, press Escape and go to Video Options, tick the following boxes:
Click on “Apply“.
Your screen will look exactly as if you were playing wow in full screen mode, besides you will be able to ALT-TAB to the guide INSTANTLY.
This is how I play wow while following my guide, when I don’t feel like booting up my 2nd computer 🙂
3. If you don’t like any of those options, then you should definitely try our in-game addon version of our leveling guides. Simply click the link below:
80-85 Cataclysm Leveling Guides
Alliance
- Arixan’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Vashj’ir (80-82)
- Arixan’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Mt. Hyjal (80-82)
- Arixan’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Deepholm (82-83)
- Arixan’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Uldum (83-84) – Coming Soon
- Arixan’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Twilight Highlands (84-85) – Coming Soon
Horde
- Arixan’s Horde Leveling Guide – Vashj’ir (80-82)
- Arixan’s Horde Leveling Guide – Mt Hyjal (80-82)
- Arixan’s Horde Leveling Guide – Deepholm (82-83)
- Arixan’s Horde Leveling Guide – Uldum (83-84) – Coming Soon
- Jame’s Alliance Leveling Guide – Twilight Highlands (84-85) – Coming Soon
1-80 Leveling Guides
For guides covering levels from 1-80, please check this link:
Release dates – FAQ
Question– When are the Uldum and Twilight Highlands guides be released?
Answer– A few days after the release of Cataclysm. A few days for Uldum, about a week for Twilight Highlands.
Question– When are the 1-60 guides going to be revamped?
Answer– A lot of them already are finished, and many are currently being revamped. All zones should be covered within a few weeks after the release.
Question– When you release new guides, I’d like to know ASAP. Is there a place where you post those news?
Answer – You can find the latest news about our guides on our home page, but there are even easier ways to follow our progress:
Don’t miss out on updates!
Becoming a part of WoW-Pro
Question– Your guides really helped me out and I want to return the favor, what can I do to help?
Answer– Here’s how you can contribute:
1. Most important and easiest way to help: Spread the word. Tell people about our guides. Your friends, guildmates, boards you visit. Tell them that they are FREE and that they make you level much faster than other guides or questhelper.
2. When you try our guides, if you find any mistakes, leave a comment.
3. Post useful comments here. When people ask for advices and you know the answer, go for it and help them out. The goal of this community is to make this website the best place to find information and help about wow.
4. And then of course, you can write a guide about an area of the game where you’re good. Check my Guide writing guide before you start, it should cover most points 🙂
5. You can also translate guides into other languages, if you are fluent in another laguage. Check our Guides in Other Languages section to see what has already been translated.
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We have leveling guides,We have leveling guides, profession guides, achievement guides, and now even a ‘what to do when you go afk’ guide 😛
-Skum
Makes sense if you make itMakes sense if you make it dependant on the main addon, as that would contain the core features, then the modules would just depend on that and have everything else as a part of themselves.
I’m making a new UF addon atm so I’ll just give my insight into it…
I have the main addon with it’s core structure and functions, the modules are then able to be enabled or disabled independantly. They all depend on the main addon to work as that provides the entire core codebase and functions of the addon while the modules contain only what they need extra to work. Basically, anything that 2 or modules can call a use for, goes into the core addon. If it’s something only needed by 1 module, then that goes in there.
This enables all the modules to have their independant uses and functions activated and deactivated in whatever order, and they are all able to interact with each other without crashing anything. I’m probably just talking nonsense here and if you’ve already done this for the addon then tell me to shut up 😛
-Skum
Works nowI got it to work after doing what you mentioned, I’ll try to go through the low level zones as quickly as possible to put some guides up.
Sorry Malorajan, it’s my badSorry Malorajan, it’s my bad on the documentation fail. Make sure that when you hit “register guide”, your guide window changes and shows a mostly empty guide with one note type step called “First Step”.
Because of how Ace3’s library works, you have to hit enter for every field in the new guide creation panel, even those that automatically generated (your name and the zone you are in). I’m betting this was your issue.
Let me know if that works, I’ll be putting up some documentation ASAP!
I answered above – you needI answered above – you need our main addon and the leveling module, which should be linked from the front page and are also available on Curse or WoW Interface.
Based on your other post, itBased on your other post, it looks like you were able to find it. I’ll be posting more documentation so people can actually USE it, probably tonight or tomorrow.
It’s not super user friendly at the moment, and still pretty buggy.
Yeah, it definitely needsYeah, it definitely needs some work to make it module-independent. Honestly at the moment I think I would need to change some things about both the WoW-Pro main addon and the Leveling module to make a new module work without having both of those enabled.
I noticed WoWPro_RecorderI noticed WoWPro_Recorder also depends on WoWPro_Leveling module, not just the base WoWPro. Which makes sense now, but something to keep in mind if future addon guide modules wants to use the Recorder as well.
Much more in depthMuch more in depth documentation for the recorder is on the way, probably will be up tomorrow (really busy today still, sorry!)
To the person who has a missing dependency – unlike the Tour Guide recorder, ours sadly does require the WoW-Pro addon to also be enabled in order to function. I might change that in the future, but for now I really like the functionality it provides (you get to see your guide as you record it).
Also wkjezz, you might be silly. Just maybe.
Recorder: missing dependencyOkay, I found the recorder via the link in one of the comments, and I downloaded it and installed it in my beta install. When I run the beta, WoW sees it but says it’s missing a dependency.
When I get into the character, I don’t see a button anywhere to save the recording.
Help!
Alisonnic
PS. The only other add-ons that I have installed are Bartender and AddOn Control Panel.
Where’s the Recorder?I am in the beta and I’d like to help. Where do I download the guide recorder?
I’m relatively new to WoW; I just started playing this past May. Just discovered the WoW-Pro guides and add-on less than two weeks ago. What a difference they make in playing the game!
I love love love these guides and the add-on, and am really looking forward to Cata and the Cata versions.
I left the recorder running too long!Start off in the [color=#800080]Kitchen[/color] and make your way to the [color=#9932cc]Kettle[/color]. Use the [color=#ff0000]switch[/color] on the kettle and wait [color=#ffa500]3-5 minutes[/color]. Upon completion of the heated water rotation pour the water from the [color=#9932cc]Kettle[/color] in to your [color=#2e8b57]Cup[/color] (check inventory). When you have full health and mana add the [color=#9932cc]Teabag[/color] and [color=#9932cc]Milk[/color] and stir with your [color=#800080]teaspoon[/color] (this skill is learnt at level 7.)
Just kidding 😀
I love this tool and look forward to using it in the Beta/Expansion, whichever comes first!
Troubles with recorderI’m not sure on how to make it record, it doesn’t seem to be recording anything after I bring up the “Create New Guide” menu and fill in info and click register guide. Can you help me with this a little bit? I’d love to make guides but can’t at the moment because I’m not clear on how to do this.
Recorder infoIs there a certain place that you’d like us to post our Recorder results? Should we PM them? If so, to whom?
Have everything downloaded, now just hafta find some time to play! lol. Helping my daughter with their high school play. Anyone know how to apply Crepe Beards? 😕
Anyway, I’ll be recording ASAP. Can’t wait to see the results of everyone’s hard work! Have a great day!
😉
Things I never thought I’d say…
“Don’t stretch your brother’s face like that!”
“Pointed sticks are NOT toys, regular sticks are fine.”
Guide Recorder is here![i][b]The WoW-Pro Guide Recorder has arrived![/b][/i] You can download it [url=http://github.com/downloads/Jiyambi/WoW-Pro-Guides/WoWPro%20Recorder%20v1.0.0.zip]here[/url] or from your addon website of choice. It’s still a bit buggy and the scroll feature doesn’t seem to be fully functional with it yet, but it definitely works!
ANYONE IN THE BETA – it would be a HUGE help if you wanted to run the recorder while you play, pretty much in any zone. If it’s a zone which already has a “paper” guide, it would be best if you followed the guide – but even if it doesn’t have one or you don’t follow it, it’s still a really big help to get those guide files started.
When you are ready to quit or reload your UI, make sure you hit the save icon. This will pop up a window with an edit box. Select all, copy, and post the result here on the website. It will then also save the guide in your WTF folder, so you can open it up and work on it again. If copy/pasting the stuff from the edit box doesn’t work for you, you can also send the WTF file in.
Thanks in advance, it would be awesome to have an army of WoW-Pro folks recording guides for pretty much every zone in the beta. Looking forward to it!
Excellent! The best thing toExcellent! The best thing to do right now would be to actually download the guide recorder, record while you quest in the beta, and submit your recorded guides. It’s pretty easy to do, and is a huge help!
I’ll be putting up some documentation for this today if all goes according to plan.
addon testeri would like to sign up to test the addon
have a beta key
Tester for the leveling guide.Hello,
I got the beta access and would love to run from 80 to 85 as many times as I can with the guide to make it smooth and flawless for the release.
Guide RecorderLooking forward to it, I’ll definitely use it.
Awesome!That sounds fantastic! I’ll try it out asap. 🙂
Things I never thought I’d say…
“Don’t stretch your brother’s face like that!”
“Pointed sticks are NOT toys, regular sticks are fine.”
I’ll have a guide recorderI’ll have a guide recorder addon ready tomorrow. Once that’s up (and it will be on curse etc so you can get it easily) all you need to do is set it to record, save when you are done, and send me the result – it will actually be a huge help, no matter what section you are actually doing. I’ll provide more detailed instructions with the actual recorder addon when I post it.
TestingHi Jiya!
I have no experience with git, so will continue with the paper guides I guess. 🙂
Have been through the Worgen starter area a few times and will probably try out the Goblin area next. Is there anything specific I should be doing as I test, or just bugs/mistakes in the guides? Let me know! Having a ball so far. Love the guides (as always).
Things I never thought I’d say…
“Don’t stretch your brother’s face like that!”
“Pointed sticks are NOT toys, regular sticks are fine.”
The guides are alreadyThe guides are already available on the site (check the Cataclysm section of the leveling guides category).
The cataclysm version of the addon will be available shortly.
Guide TesterHey 🙂
Would love to sign up as a guide tester. I have beta and have done 80-85 before so if you could give me a copy of the guide I will be happy to test it and get back to you!
Thanks!
up for testingi’m up for testing, horde side:) (metattork eu)
Guide TesterI’d like to get in on the beta guide. I can spend quite a bit of time on it. Thank you.
Depends what you needI can do either guide testing, addon writing or addon testing, if you need me just let me know
Hah, I really do need toHah, I really do need to have a nice place to give credit to the developers – you guys don’t really fall under the category of “writer”.
I’ll see what I can do, this page really needs to be combined with a few of our other pages anyways.
Where do I sign up as anWhere do I sign up as an addon developer? :p
Testing is always welcome!Testing is always welcome! There aren’t too many guides coded yet for Cataclysm in addon form, I’ll hopefully get some more of them going shortly, and get a download package available. What we currently have is available on our [url=http://github.com/Jiyambi/WoW-Pro-Guides]github site[/url], but it’s pretty hard to get to for those unfamiliar with git.
Basically, unless you are familiar with git, you’ll have to wait until I get a download package ready to test any Cataclysm-specific guides. Until then, you are welcome to use the “paper” cataclysm guides (they are in the leveling guides section here on the site) and report any mistakes!
Thanks a ton for the help!
Addon TesterHi Guys
I’m a huge fan of your Guides and would love to assist you. I just got accepted to the Beta and would love to help you out by being an addon tester if there’s still spots available.
I think you might haveI think you might have already found this, but there is a Cataclysm branch on the WoW-Pro git repository. That’s how we’re handling it, currently.
Hope that helps, and thanks a ton for all the coding you’ve done so far!
Testing anything andTesting anything and everything to do with the addon is a great place to start. Any guides you might be interested in writing would also be highly sought after 🙂
Prymal – thanks for thePrymal – thanks for the wonderful comment! It’s always nice to hear from users such as yourself 🙂
As far as what you can do – just using our addon or “paper” guides and letting us know of any mistakes or bugs is always a great help. You’re already doing us a great service by spreading the word about our site and addon as much as you can 🙂
Thanks again and keep it up!
I just got my cataclysmI just got my cataclysm invite. If you need any help woth the guides 80 – 85. Let me know.
Would love to help where I can.
Thraul @ Dath’Remar
How can I help?Hey guys,
Been a fan/user for years. You guys never cease to amaze me.
I had expected to get into the beta–I’ve beta’d everything Blizzard has released in the last decade–and jump in and contribute to this massive undertaking you guys are working on. Unfortunately, I have not been selected for beta. I think I could help out a bunch as a tester–I’m a bit of an efficiency nerd in WoW–but without having beta access, that’s not an option.
So I have to ask: What can I do to help?
I send every friend/guildmate/random whisper question to Wow-pro and champion your efforts any chance I get. But I would still like to do more. You guys have saved me hours of headaches as an alt-o-holic. Just my way of saying thanks.
Keep it up. I’ll keep referring everybody I know to Wow-pro.
**EDIT** Any word of an open beta? Maybe those of us who missed beta proper can still jump in at the end and help test/fine-tune the guides?
OMG yes. Some of those areOMG yes. Some of those are just hilarious. The Battle for Booty Bay had a great one.
Poor Bessie.
Cool Thanks!I checked your git and there didn’t seem to be any Cataclysm stuff but the sign-up page says that someone has definitely started on some of the coding already.
I’ll browse through that page and try and cherry pick something that hasn’t been started.
I’d also love to help Pretzel test his stuff since he seems to be doing Horde stuff and I haven’t played Alliance since early-BC. 🙂
Yeah I don’t know why theyYeah I don’t know why they changed it all again from the King being there and basically you being recruited into service, I quite liked that little bit at the start.
I do though like the new feature of quest target portraits next to the npc quest giver window (meh that sounds awful!)
Holding offThere’s still a lot of changes going on, even in places you didn’t expect it. For instance, the first bunch of quests you get in Northshire Abbey (1-5 human area) have been completely switched to new stuff.
I haven’t spent much time with guides lately for that reason… in some cases, total re-writes may be needed, but we won’t know for sure till closer to launch.
Check out theCheck out the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guides/cataclysm_wip_guides]Cataclysm guide section[/url] to see what’s already done, then go to the [url=https://www.wow-pro.com/node/2937]Cataclysm sign-up page[/url] to see what’s in progress, and to sign up. Pretty much anything that’s not already spoken for on those two pages is both available and needed in terms of writing.
In terms of testing, any completed guide in the Cataclysm guide section can use testing. Addon guides are being coded and I’ll get a Cataclysm version of the addon package ready shortly. If you’d like to work on coding the current “paper” guides into addon format, that’s also a good use of your time 🙂
Thanks and let me know if you have more questions!
Sadly…Sadly I did not get a beta status on my WoW account for Cataclysm (Sadface) So, I am unable to really provide much help on the guide writing that I had signed up for. However, I am always happy and keen to help out where I can 🙂
Good luck Team Cataclysm!
Wkjezz
Addon Testing and Bug FixingI just got my beta invite and I figure that helping make sure the Cataclysm leveling guides would be a nice and selfish use of my beta time. 😉
I’ll keep searching around the site, but if someone can point out how I can help I’d love to do what I can.
We have a few cataclysmWe have a few cataclysm guides coded already, but none of the level 80-85 guides by Arixan have been coded yet. I’ll be providing some information for guide coders shortly, since I just finished added pretty much all the major features which effect guide coding to the addon.
Hopefully soon an in-game guide recorder will be available (I’m working on it but I’m also moving and getting ready to start school). Until then, Notepad++ is the way to go 🙂 You *can* code in plain ole notepad, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Notepad++ is completely free, and has some really nice auto-formatting for lua, as well as many other nice features.
hell…:Djust got my beta invite! i’ll go check the 80-85 leveling experience right after the client is finished downloading. would be my pleasure to help! any cata guide coded for the addon yet? if not maybe i can help code one (is it old school notepad coding like:p?) anyway contact me!!!
Addon testerI would like to join as addon tester. I have a beta key, and I have allready level 2 chars to 85 without any guides.
I am a frequent user of the wow-pro guides, and I have run 2 chars to 80 with the addon on live servers.
Cathina
Would like to help outI’ve used your guides since Burning Crusade when they were still web only and it was so different compared to leveling my first two characters in the “normal” way and I’ve used them for every character I’ve leveled since. I’d be interested in helping out with both testing and writing the web guides. Still waiting for a beta key of my own although I’ve opted-in and try to participate in as many beta key contests as I come across so even if I can’t get in, I still hope I can contribute in writing/editing the web guides.
Probably best if you justProbably best if you just help testing, sharing account info is both dangerous and against the EULA, and can result in a ban.
Excellent, good to hear!Excellent, good to hear!
I did itI’ve entered all the contest I could but nothing.