Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook Review - We Review The WoW Tycoon's Guide

Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook throws it's hat into the ring of WoW gold guides. Since I love WoW and am constantly in search good gold guide I decided to get the WoW Tycoon Handbook and review it. Let's see what Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook is all about.

The Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook is written by Steven Rice. It comprises of one primary guide and three supplemental guides:

- Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook; 154 pages

- Warcraft Tycoon's Auction House Secrets; 18 pages

- Warcraft Tycoon's Fishin and Cooking Profit Guide; 11 pages

- Warcraft Tycoon's Guide to Northrend Rare Mob Hunting; 19 pages

As you can see they are not very big guides. Later I'll give you the page total of a competitors guide so you can see why I'm critical about the lack of volume of Warcraft Tycoon. Volume isn't always the key issue, quality is another good indicator we have to take into account. Let's delve a little deeper into the primary guide to see if the quality is up to snuff.

WoW Tycoon has 14 sections with usable info, the 15th section is just a recap with no usable info. The overall approach of this guide is more generalized information and less step by step walkthroughs. It is focused on high end items with not much specific strategy for long term profits. It's much closer to a list of where the most valuable items are located than a gold strategy implementation guide, though there is a little of that. The guide seems to have been written with the intermediate to advanced player in mind since it sometimes seems more like a list of valuable stuff to find and stock up on. This is fine and dandy, but if your an inexperienced player I would probably look to another guide for help. I think the real value in the primary guide is in the Auction House section. Here's why.

WoW Tycoon's best section is the Auction House section and it's numerous sub-sections, it's one of the few areas in the primary guide that gives step-by-step strategies for long term profits. This information was something I hadn't read or tried myself, it's a new way to dominate the Auction House. For all my other criticisms of this guide, this section of the guide makes up alot of ground in terms of quality and strategy. By far, this section is the best and most valuable information you will get out of Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook. Some might say this method alone is worth the price of the guide. The Tycoon's explanation of how to monopolize the Auction House is the best I've seen.

Now to explain why I think this guide is a short on information I'm going to compare the size of one of it's competitors, the Gold Secrets Guide. The Gold Secrets Guide main guide is 343 pages versus Warcraft Tycoon's 154. Yes, Gold Secrets Guide is over twice as big, and I can also say that each page of Gold Secrets has more information than each of Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook pages. So you should consider that.

To close, I think that the real value in this guide lies mostly in the one area I specified above - The Auction House section. There are other chapters that are good as well, but the AH chapter has the best long term approach to making tons of gold. I found the price a little high for this guide since there are other guides for less that have more and overall better information. Another thing I wasn't enthused about is the way the guide is organized. It doesn't feel fluid, it's somewhat mechanical. As for the supplemental guides they only bring moderate value, they are nothing special and again seem like lists of valuable items instead of strategy guides.

This Warcraft Tycoon's Handbook review was inspired because I saw some other reviews that didn't really give pertinent information about this guide. I hope this review helps you out a little in that department. Make sure you do some research on any guide you are considering purchasing. Don't make quick decisions because you might be getting a dud guide. Best of luck.