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Zuggy from ZugGaming.com asked me to review his Gold Mastery Guide, and kindly sent me a copy. Normally I don’t concern myself with guides but I thought that this was a good opportunity to have a look at one and actually see if they are worth the investment.

His Gold Mastery Guide contains gold making secrets that he has used throughout his years of WoW play. For those of you that are interested in checking out a free preview of his guide go to Zuggy’s site here. His preview guide contains 5 videos to get you started in increasing your gold balance. The videos include a look at utilizing the auction house and your professions, where to grind and what daily quests to do, and power farming including 30 minute farming routes.

I must say that just by checking out these free video guides has taught me how to think about the game in a new way. In other words it broadened my narrow view of how I can make a lot of gold fast. To be honest I really didn’t have that many ideas in the first place, and thought that farming and doing dailies was how most people made their gold. But I hate farming with a passion and only resort to doing it when I am really low on gold. Before checking out Zuggy’s Gold Mastery Guide I had no set strategy in making gold. My gold collecting would pretty much consist of mining saronite and titanium in Sholazar Basin once in a while and accumilating honor points in bgs and Wintergrasp to then buy epic gems and sell them on the auction house. I guess this is the reason why I never really had much gold on any of my characters. But most of the time I could get by, and instead of being bored out of my brain farming I could focus on the things that I enjoyed in the game, like PvP.

The one thing I can say that Zuggy’s guide has taught me is that farming makes up a small amount of what you need to do to make tons of gold. What Zuggy really focuses on is how you can make your gold through your professions and the auction house. His teaching method is very simple and comprehensive. He breaks down his strategies into easily understandable sections and provides real life examples of scenarios to reinforce his strategies. He doesn’t just provide you with a list of items to farm or a few farming techniques that you may have not been aware of, but explains how players can take his strategies and adapt them to their specific server’s economy.

I have to admit I was quite surprised to find out how simple it actually is to make large amounts of gold. The funny thing is that most people don’t realize that there is no gimmick or secret method to making gold. Its about developing a plan and focusing on speed and efficiency when implementing that plan. Zuggy stresses that the key to making gold is maximizing your time. We all want to do all the cool stuff when we play WoW, not spend time farming. So maximizing the time you dedicate to making gold is the key.

By stepping through Zuggy’s guide over the last few days, I was able to develop my first gold making strategy that centered around my character’s professions (enchanting and mining) and utilizing the auction house. I found the auctioneer information particularly useful as I was not familiar with all the features of the addon or how to best use it. I also changed my perception of enchanting from being one of the worst money making professions to one of the best. Zuggy’s tips and resources allowed me to map out my farming route (which is between 30-40mins and makes me about 180-250g) for part of my daily strategy. Pretty much everything from where to go, what route to take when I get there, and things I can multitask while I’m there. I then conclude my daily strategy with what I have learned in exploiting the potential that enchanting combined with auction house strategies allows you to do. My next step is to now analyze my current daily strategy and see how I can make it more efficient by improving my speed and hence total gold per hour. I also plan on creating strategies for my other characters centered around their professions.

For those of you out there that are interested in simplifing your gold making process while at the same time minimizing your time farming and grinding, I hope I have provided you with an unbiased view of what Zuggy’s guide can offer you. This guide is definitely not your standard 50 page e-book that offers you some tips and quick strategies, it is a comprehensive piece of work with over 1Gig of video tutorials and numerous pdf guides. In my opinion the personalized support and continous updates makes this a worthwhile investment. Zuggy offers one on one support to all his gold guide members via email. So if you have any questions, concerns, or need clarification on something in his guide he is more than happy to help out.