Warcraft Bible

Azeroth Advisor is a new service, just launched. It’s mostly useful for new and intermediate players. You sign up for an account (currently on a 15-day free trial), load up an add-on in WoW, and log in on any (or all) of your characters. Then you upload the SavedVariables .lua file created for each character to the Azeroth Advisor server.

You can also do this process by running a desktop application that automates things, but I couldn’t get it to work on my Mac. The application crashed and burned every time I ran it. The add-on worked fine, although you have to poke around in your WoW installation directory a fair bit to find the right files to upload. The site provides clear instructions to walk you through the upload steps.

Anyway, once you get the job done, Azeroth Advisor generates a custom newsletter that gives you loads of information specific to each character. This includes stuff like:

• notes on talents you are about to train on your next level up
• your character’s current stats, including precise combat skill ratings
• a detailed custom map of your current location, with NPC’s and locations of specific interest marked (like your toon’s particular professon trainers)
• one or two articles specific to your class and current level, such as an Instance guide, a PvP technique, or some sweet gear you should quest or farm
• current game notes… right now, for example, a very nice summary of changes to your character’s class that took effect in the recent 2.1 patch

This is all presented with attractive graphics and a style that suits each race, character class and gender. You can view each newsletter/report online at the Azeroth Advisor site, and you also get a copy via e-mail.

It looks like there is no limit to the number of characters you can process in one account. If you’ve got 40 characters across multiple servers, you can have reports for every single one, as long as you log in on them.

You get a fresh report whenever each character levels up, or weekly for each character if you aren’t leveling. You also get a special supplementary map report whenever a character discovers a new zone.

All the content is attractive and well written. For newbies, it’s a gold mine of info. For experienced players, it’s a useful reminder of where each character is at, and a real help for those of you who are running several alts of varying classes and levels. Unless you are playing full time, it’s hard to remember what’s going on with all your characters, and these customized reports do a great job of providing reminders.

The maps are especially noteworthy. The graphics are custom drawn, and show the whole zone more clearly than the in-game WoW maps. They show the whole zone revealed, which will help many players find their way to quest spots more easily. And the custom labeling of locations and NPC’s, specific to the needs of each character, is a great feature.

This service won’t do a lot for you if you are focused on a single main character that’s already at level 80. But just about anyone else will find it useful.

Give it a try while it’s free!

http://www.azerothadvisor.com/

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