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Brian Kopp's 1-70
Alliance Leveling Guide
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Review Updated on: 2/15/07
I wouldn't go on a road trip to the other end of the country without
buying a decent map first. I started out as Horde, and eventually got
myself the information I needed to play that side well. It was only
natural that when I decided to see how the other half lives, and roll
an Alliance character, I also wanted to shorten the learning curve, and
get the best leveling road map I could find, from the start.
Brian Kopp is a
professional gamer, and has been playing World of Warcraft since the
day it was released. The hard work he's put into this guide really
shows through, and the result is what I consider to be the
best guide around for leveling an Alliance character.
Below is a small excerpt from the guide. Click on the image for a
larger picture.
I just wanted to give you a sample of what the guide looks like to
better review it. You can
actually see a much longer excerpt of the guide on Brian's own page by clicking
here.
Brian Kopp's 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide is, for the Alliance, what
Joana's Horde Leveling Guide is for
the Horde. Much in the same fashion, it gives you an exact path to
follow from 1-70 and tells you when you should....
- Wait to do them because a quest you'll receive
later will take you into the same area.
- Turn quests in because you'll be running past
the quest giver.
- Make an inn your new home.
The Alliance guide's lack of detailed maps for each sequence of events
worried me at first. However, I was pleasantly surprised in that
following along wasn't a problem at all. Brian gives you
coordinates for absolutely everything, and the directions he gives are
very helpful as well. "Go across the road from the Inn. Go NE. Go to
the left house," all leading you directly to where you need to be.
Aside form the usual leveling route that you would expect from this
guide, Brian also includes notes
on some quests just to
make things more fun. On page 17 for "Deeprun Rat Roundup" he
advises that you
could just skip the quest and keep a flute you get as a quest item
because it can really piss people off if you play it non-stop around
Iron Forge Bank. On page 19 he tells you to stick
around
after
turning in "Ammo For Rumbleshot" because the scene that plays out is
a lot of fun to watch. I took his advice on that, and I can vouch for
the entertainment
factor of watching dwarves mock each other while having a shooting
competition. I haven't yet tried pissing people off at
the bank though.
Outland
The portion of Brian Kopp's 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide that takes you
beyond the Dark Portal is just as detailed and polished as the sections
before it.
You wouldn't know by reading it that The Buring Crusade had just
recently come out, and that this entire section of the guide was brand new. It hands you
the exact route to take
through the quests in Outland for fastest leveling, and all quests are
already linked to thottbot. This guide gets extra points from me because of
Brian's commitment to it. He seems to be constantly working to
update and improve whatever he can.
Conclusion
I found this guide to be very effective. It was easy to follow, and I
was usually right on track
with his estimates of how close you should be to the next level and how
much more XP it would take to get there. It
also accomplished something that very few guides manage to do, and even
fewer manage to do well-- Brian successfully kept things lighthearted,
created his guide to be fun to play along with, and made leveling less
of a chore.
Alliance has less quests than Horde does, so things do take a bit
longer.
You should be prepared in advance for a little bit of grinding along the way. This
guide is by necessity, 10-15% grinding. I hardly noticed the parts
I had to kill my way through, as they are spread out nicely,
with a healthy dose of questing in-between.
The average player should be able to get from 1 to 70 in just about 10
days /played time with this guide. I can highly recommend it as a good
investment for better gaming. As far as Alliance guides go, I haven't
found any that compare. If you'd like more information
about Brian Kopp's 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide, please click
here.
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