Here’s a quick run down of the differences between each guide for those on the fence…

Guide format: In-game or .pdf?

WINNER: Ashling’s Speed Leveling Guide.

Ashling’s Guide has an automated speed leveling guide that takes you exactly where you need to go in order to complete quests in the most efficient manner possible. Some quests quite frankly give more experience than others, and take you further off the beaten track to do them. Ashling only gives you the best quests, which yield the highest experience.

Guide Experience - Newb or Pro?

WINNER: Ashling’s Speed leveling guide.

Ashling has been playing AOC since beta, and as such has amassed a huge wealth of information about the game, which directly benefits YOU with faster leveling speeds.

Leveling Time to 80: Any proof? What time?

WINNER: Ashling’s Speed Leveling Guide. A screenshot of proof is provided (see below) saying Ashling has reached level 80 in 5 days  7 hours 4 minutes and 52 seconds. No proof is provided by Ashling’s main competitor, and no specific claim is made of a speed leveling time.

Support: Non existant? Or full service?

WINNER: Tie?

Both candidates display amazing support promises. Fast AOC Leveling will personally help with questing information, advice and problems 24/7, but Ashling promises the same and suggests most problems are replied to within 1 hour of submission. I call it a tie.

Free Guide Updates: For life, or never?

WINNER: Tie!

Both guides provide 100% free updates for LIFE.

Map Information: Detailed & exact, or absent?

WINNER: Ashling!

Ashlings Speed Leveling Guide dishes out another big hit with his awesome in game map dots which provide extra detail about where to find quests, where to complete, and where to turn in. All with the most efficient path laid out for you, so you know you’re at your most efficient.

OVERALL WINNER — Ashling!

I’ve long been a fan of in-game leveling guides, and to be frank, I can’t do without them. Ashlings in-game leveling mod, waypoint arrow, and in-game map dots all make for an insurmountable lead over AOC Fast leveling in my eyes.

Unless you like the idea of using printed guides, or alt tabbing to check a .pdf file while you play, I strongly suggest Ashling’s guide.

Now that I’ve given a brief idea of what to expect from an AOC guide in terms of gold making and leveling, I’d like to throw down a difficult choice for you…

Shower yourself in riches… or increase your character’s level fast? Read on to make your choice! Read the rest of this entry

I covered AOC leveling guides in my last post, so today its time to shed a little light on AOC gold guides and how they work to get your bank account swelling with hundreds of gold.

Firstly, like a lot of massively multiplayer games, Age of Conan has a player determined economy. Prices rise and prices fall depending on how many people need or want a certain product or item. And so it is in Age of Conan.

The key behind most gold guides is dominating this player run economy.

They’ll show you exactly how the economy works, what people want the most of, and how to buy and sell items using only a few minutes a day to make mountains of gold.

This information can be very hard to come by unless you’re a professional gold farmer, and truth be told I believe that the good AOC gold guides would be getting bought up by gold farmers all over the world to accelerate their accumulation of gold.

Did you know 100 gold in Age of Conan can cost you upwards of $200 US dollars? Its true, and people are paying those prices every day because they don’t know about how easy it can be to do yourself!

For a tiny fraction of that price, you can make hundreds and hundreds of gold pieces in AOC without having to keep rebuying whenever you get low.

I’ll have full reviews of the web’s best gold guides soon, but for now if you’d like to learn more, check out:

AOC Fortune or AOC Riches.

When we talk about leveling guides here at AOCGuide.com, we’re talking about unofficial guides, made by professional power levelers which show you exactly how to level faster in Age of Conan.

These guides can take the form of html based websites, or they can be in-game leveling guides which you can follow without ever leaving the game. 

But essentially, no matter the form a leveling guide comes in, you’ll be taken by the hand and shown exactly when, where and in what order you should be completing each and every quest on your journey from level 1 to 80. 

You may even find leveling guide authors will tell you to avoid certain quests, because the time taken to complete them is not worth the experience, or simply because the quest is too far away from others, which delay the completion of other more experience heavy quests.

The greatest benefit to these guides are that:

1. You don’t need to hunt around online for information on the quest you’re trying to complete
2. You can find and go to the exact location of the quest, without running around the game world for hours just trying to figure things out
3. You can take advantage of the knowledge of a professional who knows exactly how best to complete quests, and how to do them in the fastest order possible.

Are you in need of a fast leveling guide for Age of Conan? Check out my two recommended leveling guides, and don’t miss my recommended gold guides, which will help you complete those quests faster than ever (good gear helps!).