Zygor Guides is having a 50% off sale today – there really is no better addon for leveling alts quickly and efficiently from 1-90. You can buy just the leveling guide, or additional guides in various categories covering all aspects of the game, such as dailies, professions, pets and mounts, and reputation grinding.
From Zygor’s website, here’s some marketing copy that I think describes it pretty well:
Zygor Guides is an in-game software strategy guide for World of Warcraft. Every guide comes complete with the Guide Viewer, which displays step by step instructions of what quests to accept, how to complete objectives, when to use items, and more. Our gorgeous waypoint arrow will point you exactly where to go at all times and the model viewer will display fully rendered 3D models of NPCs and objects mentioned in the guide.
Zygor’s Leveling Guide includes the most optimized questing path for power leveling from 1-90 in lightning speed. The guide software is very dynamic, tracking your progress, detecting when you complete goals, and automating tedious tasks such as accepting and turning in quests. You will be amazed by the difference Zygor makes.
I can attest to the fact that the optimized quest paths are superior to the free ones like Jame’s leveling guide (which I used for my first main). I used Jame’s to get that toon to 85, and switched to Zygor when Pandaria came out to get to 90 and there was a huge difference. I’ve used Zygor since for all my Alliance toons. To be honest the guides are expensive, so I can’t recommend buying them at full price, but at 50% off they are definitely worth the investment in time saved.
Here’s a video that gives a preview of how it works:
I can’t recommend Zygor enough if you play WoW! There’s a free trial option so there’s no risk in giving it a whirl.
Hm. They seem to want to hide the prices; I don’t want to create an account just to find the price list. I didn’t do an exhaustive search, but I did find a gift card price which implies you can buy one guide for $35, except the leveling one, which is $40. The front page seems to say there are 6 different guides. Seems like a lot of money.
How does the leveling guide compare to something like WoW Pro? (I personally like WoW Pro’s zone guides just because they cut down on backtracking.)
The only guide I use is the leveling one, and I bought it at full price 🙁 But it has saved me a lot of time. I used to use WoW Pro heavily during WotLK but they STILL haven’t updated for Cata, let alone Panda. Their addon dates from 2010. They promised to update some of their 1-0 guides after Cata as well but last time I used them, they hadn’t, which makes them useless.
I find that Zygor is just as good at cutting down on backtracking. I don’t find myself doing the back and forth much at all with them. The bigger time-saver though is the wayfinding system, which is immensely useful. Also, the automatic vendoring of grays and quest auto-accept/turn-in make things more efficient as well (though not recommended if you are leveling your first toon, as you will miss all the lore. Enable those for alts only in the settings).
Thanks!