I'm going to have to agree with others. I've spent a lot on the guides already, but I just can't bring myself to spend $110 just to add the MoP content:
1. Leveling/Loremaster: The way Blizzard has reorganized the questing hubs, leveling has become a lot simpler than it was before. The guide saves a little bit of time, but I'm not sure if it's worth the upgrade price just to add 85-90. $60 for 1-90 or $30 for 85-90... If I do upgrade this would be the only guide I'll upgrade.
2. Dailies & Events: This really hasn't been as useful as I thought it would be. I hardly use it as the dailies are obvious and the events aren't that difficult to do without the guide.
3. Pets & Mounts: With pets and mounts being account wide now, this isn't worth $10, much less $20 just for an upgrade (of a $50 item). I haven't used it as much as I thought I would and now I would use it even less.
4. Professions & Achievements: I've found that online profession guides are better than the Zygor in-game guide because the in-game guide can't be flexible enough for all situations. I've often found that I've had to go to a website to get more information than the guide provided and once back in game, I wasn't following the guide anymore. It would be more useful if you were leveling a profession from 1 - 525 (now 600) in one shot, but I don't do that. Often times I just want to spent 5 minutes on a profession and use what I have in my bags/bank, but the guide assumes you are going to be spending time in bigger chunks. And the Achievements guide becomes less useful with account wide achievements. I'm certainly not going to pay $20 to upgrade this one.
5. Titles, Reputations, Macros: Titles is an extension of the achievements guide, reputations is an extension of the dailies guide, and I haven't even looked at the macros guide since I bought it, so clearly I don't need to pay $20 to upgrade it.
6. Dungeons & Gear: This one disappoints me. I really wanted this guide, but by the time it was released, quests had been moved into the dungeons. With the quests being in the dungeons the only thing the guide can offer is boss strategies. I've never needed the guide for that. Oddly enough, on the pricing page this one shows that I already have the "MoP version", so maybe they aren't charging to upgrade it, but if they were, I wouldn't upgrade.
So I still have to decide whether I will spend the money to upgrade the leveling guide, but I won't be spending $110 to upgrade everything.
I wish Zygor luck. It's a quality product and I've had a lot of benefit from the guides over the years, but the latest upgrade pricing has seriously blown past the price to value ratio for me.
1. Leveling/Loremaster: The way Blizzard has reorganized the questing hubs, leveling has become a lot simpler than it was before. The guide saves a little bit of time, but I'm not sure if it's worth the upgrade price just to add 85-90. $60 for 1-90 or $30 for 85-90... If I do upgrade this would be the only guide I'll upgrade.
2. Dailies & Events: This really hasn't been as useful as I thought it would be. I hardly use it as the dailies are obvious and the events aren't that difficult to do without the guide.
3. Pets & Mounts: With pets and mounts being account wide now, this isn't worth $10, much less $20 just for an upgrade (of a $50 item). I haven't used it as much as I thought I would and now I would use it even less.
4. Professions & Achievements: I've found that online profession guides are better than the Zygor in-game guide because the in-game guide can't be flexible enough for all situations. I've often found that I've had to go to a website to get more information than the guide provided and once back in game, I wasn't following the guide anymore. It would be more useful if you were leveling a profession from 1 - 525 (now 600) in one shot, but I don't do that. Often times I just want to spent 5 minutes on a profession and use what I have in my bags/bank, but the guide assumes you are going to be spending time in bigger chunks. And the Achievements guide becomes less useful with account wide achievements. I'm certainly not going to pay $20 to upgrade this one.
5. Titles, Reputations, Macros: Titles is an extension of the achievements guide, reputations is an extension of the dailies guide, and I haven't even looked at the macros guide since I bought it, so clearly I don't need to pay $20 to upgrade it.
6. Dungeons & Gear: This one disappoints me. I really wanted this guide, but by the time it was released, quests had been moved into the dungeons. With the quests being in the dungeons the only thing the guide can offer is boss strategies. I've never needed the guide for that. Oddly enough, on the pricing page this one shows that I already have the "MoP version", so maybe they aren't charging to upgrade it, but if they were, I wouldn't upgrade.
So I still have to decide whether I will spend the money to upgrade the leveling guide, but I won't be spending $110 to upgrade everything.
I wish Zygor luck. It's a quality product and I've had a lot of benefit from the guides over the years, but the latest upgrade pricing has seriously blown past the price to value ratio for me.
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