Zygor Guides Review – Another SCAM Guide?
So your thinking about buying Zygor guides and your wondering if the guide is really what John Cook say’s it is. After all, most WoW guides are either outdated or just flat out suck.
So the question is…
Are Zygor guides another scam?
Well, after trying the guide myself I can tell you that it’s not a scam. But Zygor wasn’t the only leveling guide I tested, and it’s definitely not the best…
Zygor Guides are Not the Best
You know what, I don’t care what Zygor say’s on his sales page. I have tested his guide and a few others, and it is not the best.
Now before we go any further, I should give Zygor some credit…
It is an awesome leveling guide, I do highly recommend it, and you will get to level 85 in less than 7 days. The guide has also been kept up to date ever since its release, and there customer support is also very good. www.ZygorGuides.com
So whats the best leveling guide?
The best guide I have found so far is The Ultimate WoW Guide. It’s an incredible leveling guide, one guy was able get his troll Druid to level 85 in 5 days and 14 hours with this guide. Don’t believe me? Check out the video below…
www.UltimateWoWGuide.com
Why I think Dugi’s Guide Is better than Zygor
- Faster leveling. Many people (inculeding myself), have found the Ultimate WoW Guide to be faster than Zygor, but not by much.
- You make more gold with Dugi’s guide between level 70 to 85.
- Updated more offen than Zygor guides.
- In-game 1-450 Professions and Achievements guide.
- They also offer a Loremaster/Dungeon leveling guide. You level much faster with this guide, and you can play along side other players.
- The bonuses are way better. I’m not going to talk about them here, if you want to find out more about those go check out the site.
- It’s way more than just a leveling guide, they cover so much, and there bringing out new stuff all the time.
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Before you buy Zygors Guide, go and take a look at what The Ultimate WoW Guide has to offer. They also give away a free 1-20 leveling guide. If your past level 20, just test it out on a new toon.
Zygors Guide – The Bad
- Still finding bugs: Now this isn’t too much of a problem as you can simple head over to the forum and let Zygor know about it. Any bugs/glitches are usually fixed pretty fast.
- Some tough fights: Sometimes you end up fighting enemies a few levels above you. For most wow players this won’t be a problem, but can be challenging for some beginners.
- Some quest info not detailed enough: I have gotten a little confused on several occasions, not knowing exactly what to do, and I’ve even noticed a few spelling mistakes!
- Pushy sales page: To be honest I got sick of reading… “You need to buy now, you need to buy now”. And the so called “limited bonuses”, give me a break, they’ve been there for months!
Zygors Guide – The Good
- Optimized leveling path: Zygor guides focus on quests that bring the most experience to your character. Leaving out all those junk quests blizzard adds to keep you playing the game for as long as possible.
- Level 1 to 80 in 7 days: Although Zygor say 7 days I found it to be an hour or 2 shorter than that, which is still very impressive.
- Very flexible: With Zygors guide you have the ability to add and remove features, you can place to guide anywhere you like on screen or even minimize it leaving only the waypoint arrow.
- Auto quest tracking: Each time you complete a quest the guide automatically updates telling you exactly where to go and what to do next.
- All classes and starter areas supported: It doesn’t matter what class you are, Zygor have a custom leveling path for you. You can also level your existing character by setting the guide to start 2 levels below your existing level.
- Quest info and tips: Zygors guide also contains quest info and tips to help you complete each task. A nice feature, but some of the details are a bit confusing.
- Full map exposed: Once you’ve installed the guide and launched the game you’ll notice the entire map is revealed to you! It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been to an area, the map will show it as fully explored.
- Waypoint arrow: This arrow is one of the best features, not only does it point you in the right direction it also estimates and displays the distance and time it will take to get to a certain location.
- Easy to install: Zygor guides 3.0 comes with an easy installation wizard, with just a few clicks you’ll have the guide up and running in no time. They also have a walk though video if you ever get stuck.
- For PC and MAC: Zygors leveling guide is fully compatible with both pc and mac.
- Will NOT get you banned: Zygor and Dugi’s guides both comply with blizzards new add-on policy. So no need to worry about the dreaded ban hammer.
- Great support: I found the support for Zygors guides excellent, if you ever have any trouble head over to the forum and somebody will help you out, usually within minutes.
Final words on Zygor Guides
As I said before The Ultimate WoW Guide comes out on top. It’s faster, updated more offen, makes you more gold and overall is a more complete in-game guide for WoW. But I must give credit to Zygor, there guide from what I have seen really isn’t that much slower.
And if your still on the fence about which WoW guide to get, go and test out both guides with a new toon. They both offer a 1-20 trial guide, and I’m sure it will be much easier for you to make the decision that way.
Hope you found what you was looking for in this Zygor guides review.
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Hi tim, thaks for the awesome review! I got dugi’s leveling guide a few weeks ago and couldn’t be happier. My paladin is at level 76 now! Ive also made tons of gold!!!
I cetainly enjoyed your review. I also agree with you on many of the points you made. Both guides are the best in the business. Dugi’s is faster and straight forward. Zygor’s is very user/beginner friendly.
No problem guys, glad you enjoyed the review.
@ James Tyler: wanna give me some of that gold? lol.
I am a long time gamer and after reading your blog I finally tossed down some cash for Dugi’s guide. It was definitely worth the money!
Hey im thinking about getting this guide but im not 100% do i need to buy it or what cause most guides you have to buy and im wondering is this free or do i need to buy , or is the guide to level 1-40 free then you have to buy the guide to level 80??
Sounds good from what iv heard !!!
Hi Nathan. Dugi gives a free 1-40 guide away as a trial, zygor does 1-13 the last time I checked. You can download and try there guides for free, and if you like it you have the option to buy the rest of the guide. The rest of the guide being level 1-80. Downloading the free trial does not mean you have to pay for the rest of the guide, whether you buy it or not is completely up to you.
Hope that makes sense.
Hello its me again i am wondering if i can pay with GBP on PayPal??
Id like this question answered A.S.A.P. i figured out other comment but just want this one answered please
Thanks good job on levelling guide
You can. From what I remember paypal says $ but you’ll be charged the GBP equivalent.
zygor’s guide is by far the best guide out there i would recomend it to anybody beginner or expert.
I’m not sure I agree with you there pie. While zygor’s leveling guide is good, I and many others rate Dugi’s wow guide #1.
Hey, i just started to look into the guide. I’m still skeptical about buying as the last one i bought was a mass of 100s of pages in a word document giving me orders..i had to flick from screens and found it to be rather annoying and a waste of my time/money. Is this honestly good, i’d hate to be disapointed again. However people do agree that it’s great. How much is it by the way?
Hey Heweyyy,
Yes, the text guides really suck there a complete waste of money. Dugi’s and Zygor’s leveling guides are the only ones that I’ve found to be worth the $. You don’t have to buy there guides right away, you can try them out first for free. As for how much they cost…
Dugi’s leveling guide.
Alliance 1-80 Leveling Guide ($47)
Horde 1-80 Leveling Guide ($47)
Alliance Dailies & Events Guide ($37)
Horde Dailies & Events Guide ($37)
Alliance & Horde Dailies & Events Guides ($47)
Alliance & Horde 1-80 Leveling Guides ($67)
Alliance & Horde Leveling / Dailies & Event Guides ($87)
All guides come with bonuses, check out there site for those.
And for Zygor’s Guides.
Alliance 1-80 Leveling Guide ($40)
Horde 1-80 Leveling Guide ($40)
Alliance Dailies & Events Guide ($35)
Horde Dailies & Events Guide ($35)
Alliance & Horde Dailies & Events Guides ($50)
Alliance & Horde 1-80 Leveling Guides ($60)
Zygor also give bonuses away too.
Dugi’s guide give away waaaaay better bonuses that zygor… its actually awesome guides while zygor bonus to me is pretty much 1 page of junk
Awesome review! I have to agree with you, Dugi’s guide is the best. I’ve leveled 2 toons to levl 80 now. Zygors guide is ok but the bonuses suck.
I haven’t bought either guide so far, but it seems Zygor Guides 2.0 is better. I’ve looked at tons of reviews and it seems it gets better ones than Dugi’s. Plus I looked I looked at Dugi’s site and they are false advertising aswell. It shows that Zygor doesn’t have some of the features that it actually does have such as manual customization, and it also shows that Dugi’s guides are cheaper when they actually aren’t. Either Dave doesn’t update his site as much as John or he’s just a liar. I’m probally going with Zygor’s guide as it is cheaper plus it has better reviews.
@ Zack
No, Dugis guide is not cheaper, but a few weeks ago it was. For some reason Dave hasn’t updated his site. Also, I expect most of the people reviewing Zygors guide haven’t tried Dugi’s. I think Zygor gets better reviews simply because its more popular.
The more people that try it, the more likely it is someone will post a review on there blog.
I decided to get dugis guide over zygors because of all the extra stuff they do. I’ve been using the guide for over a month now and I’m amazed at how fast this guide leveled my paladin, 6 days 9 hours and 36 mins!!!
I got dugi’s guide last week after reading your review. I’ve only spent about 15 hours leveling my toon and WOW this guide is fast! I’m leveling about 5 times faster than what I would with quest helper! Awesome guide.
Thanks for the great review! I will definitely take a look at Dugis guide.
if you use the 1-40 trial and then you buy the full guide, is there any way you can just skip to level 40 where you were when you finished the trial? or do you have to start over? @Tim The Gamer
Hi John,
Yes, you can skip strieght to level 40 with Dugi’s full guide. This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx9u2o_nTMU shows you how to set up the guide properly and set it to start at what ever level your charactor is. Hope that helps.
I was thinking about trying out zygors guide (I already have Dugi’s). I just wanted to see if zygors was better, but after reading your review I don’t think I’ll bother trying it. Thanks for the heads up.
Hi, I’m new to this but see a lot on other guides like Jonah’s? Which do you think is better?
Thanks
Joseph
Hi Joseph,
I’ve never used Jonah’s leveling guide, and yes there are many leveling guides out there, but who uses them? Everyone I’ve met that uses leveling guides are either using Zygors or Dugis. There may be a better leveling guide out there somewhere but something tells me your not going to find it any time soon.
Hello.
The most recent WOW patch for the cataclysm has changed a lot of the in game schematics. I have tried looking at Zygors for any specific updates but have not found any. Do you think that Dugis will be up to date for the latest WOW patch ? Thnx. H
Hi H,
YES! If you go to Dugis site (the home page) it says this below the guide comparison chart:
“Cataclysm updates will be included to customers who purchase from July 24th 2010 onwards or have only owned our guides for less than 6 months prior to Blizzards release of Cataclysm.The updates will include Leveling / Dungeon / Dailies & Events Guide”
This basically means that all new customers will get the update for free. He has also talked alot about this update in the newletter thats sent out to his customers and everyone that signed up for the free 1-40 guide.
Hey Tim, i recently just baught WoW when it was on sale for black friday, and now i am level 21 . I am strongly thinking about getting Dugi’s guide . I have no idea, and is the trial/demo for dugi 1-20 or 1-40 ?
Hey sean, just checked dugi’s sales page and it seems the free trial is now 1-20, it was 1 to 40. As the guides only 1 to 20 to test it out you’ll have to create a new charactor as your already level 21.
Great review thanks
Great Zygor Guides Review.
Ok so i bought Zygors guides and it was amazing no scam u buy then u will log on in the site and go to members tab and download what u bouaght
Thanks for the review, I’ve been thinking about getting Zygor Guides until I saw the video above. Going to try the ultimate wow guide on one of my toons. Thanks again.
Is it true that Zygor tried to ruin Dugi by buying the rights to Tour Guide, which forced Dugi to rebuild his guide?
Hi Paul, yes, Zygor did try that. But it backfired on him big time, as Dugi just rebuilt his leveling guide even better than before.
Well after 1½ pause from wow i tried the zygor levelguide and did go from 1 to 85 in just 6 days. if you use it wisely you can skip several steps in the guide making it faster to level.
These guides are great for making sure that you know everything that you need to know about the characters and also about leveling up. You can easily read this while you are playing the game, and if you need side quest information then you really will love this guide.
Thanks Tim, i haven’t seen dugis guide before, it looks awesome! downloading the free trial now.
No problem, enjoy the guide!
Just got the ultimate wow guide a few weeks ago but i am having some problem. I have a friendly rep with the consortium but i cant seem to get the quest stealing from thieves. please help.
Hi Dave. You can only get that quest if your rep is neutral.
Hope that helps.
So i’m having this problem with Zygor guides updater. Every time i try to update it says my username and password is incorrect. What the hell is going on? I’m starting to think i’ve been ripped off.
Lukus,
Just checked Zygors forum and it seems others are having this problem as well. Zygor knows about this already and from reading the forum it looks like the problem has now been fixed. If your still having this problem contact Zygors support team.
Hey everyone I just wanted to say that I personally have been using zygor guides for almost 6 months now, and its just so much easier. I have five level 85s and I don’t even try. It made it so that I have some toons that PvP and some that PvE which is really nice. I highly recommend it.
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an very long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Regardless, just wanted to say great review!