Maylee’s Auction House Mastery

Great format and Excellent Advice Make This Our Top Pick

Mayle’s Auction House Mastery is an excellent Warcraft gold guide that skips all the other gold making methods and focuses on what, in my experience, is the most consistent source of high-volume gold: the auction house. While some gamers might feel like this is missing out on a lot of the game, I feel like Mayle’s focus in her guide allows her to cover this one topic EXTREMELY thoroughly. The end result is that once you’re finished with her guide, you’ll have the tools you need to make good, consistent money off the auction house. And all other guides’ “Auction House” sections will seem paltry in comparison.

The guide is presented in video format. There are three “Foundation” videos which get you up to speed on configuring Auctioneer correctly, finding items for sale, and strategies for pricing. These are excellent and truly do form the foundation for how you’ll be making money. There are then three “Advanced” videos, which cover refining and optimizing your auction selling strategies. These are definitely excellent and what really separate her guide from all the others out there. She then supplies four “Golden” videos which focus on some more obscure methods of money-making. These were hit-and-miss for me; while I see the value in them all, a couple are ones that I’m probably never going to use. One, however, is really simple and has made me a ton of gold. She also supplies five “Bonus” videos, which range from the very basic (such as how to install add-ons) to the suprisingly helpful (strategies for finding best-selling items). All in all, it’s a comprehensive group of videos which have a lot of meat and very little fluff.

I was surprised by how much I liked the video format of the guide. They did a great job with the music in the videos — so often, looping music can make you want to slash your wrists, but I actually found myself peacefully enjoying the music in these. Having the real-time visual reference is EXTREMELY helpful — particularly when you’re navigating around complicated interfaces, a picture truly is worth a thousand words. She doesn’t use any narration, instead narrating the videos through captions at the bottom of the video, which works very well — it’s easy to pause the video at any point if you need to keep some important info on the screen. It can get a little tedious alt-tabbing between the videos and WoW, but I usually end up doing that with other guides anyway.

Mayle’s Auction House Mastery is not without its problems. Auctioneer has been updated since these videos were made, so now some of the options are configured differently than in the videos. There are a couple videos which are very basic (as in, Have-you-ever-played-Warcraft-before? basic). Probably my biggest complaint is that there’s a lot of awesome material in here, but it’s hard to know what you’ll find in each video (or where you saw it). There’s no “table of contents” for the videos, so all that clues you in to what the content of a video will be is the title (which can only get you so far). Also, you’ll find a lot of “off-topic” gems scattered through these videos, which are great, but a couple times I found myself wanting to go back to something I saw earlier and not remembering which video it was in. It’s not that the videos are poorly organized, it’s just that there’s a lot in them.

The bottom line is that Maylee’s Auction House Mastery is truly an excellent guide. It’s full of useful information. I really like the video format — the visual reference is nice. There’s lots of good tidbits in it: you end up learning things that may be slightly “off-topic” for the video title but are really valuable. And at the end of the day, more than any other guide, this guide supplied the advice that I use most consistently in my gold-making endeavors.

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