For the last few weeks, we at World of Warcraft Armory have been seeing a lot of buzz about the new gold guide on the market from Jonathan. It’s called Cataclysm Scalper and it’s been built around a few very simple ideas that we’ve seen many times before – most of them dealing with the Auction House.

By now, you should know that the only real way to make gold in World of Warcraft is to use the Auction House to trade goods based on economic conditions. This isn’t new and a lot of good guides have been written showing players how to take advantage of the tools and add-ons out there that analyze the auction house.

But with the Undermine Journal now defunct and with other guides failing to update or adapt to post-cataclysm changes, we at the World of Warcraft Armory were looking for something new to take on the mantle of “ultimate auction house guide.” Cataclysm Scalper hoped to do that and has mostly succeeded.

What Cataclysm Scalper Does Right

The reason I can so highly recommend Cataclysm Scalper is that it actually SHOWS you almost everything you need to know to be effective in the game making gold. You get the text descriptions and walkthroughs, but you also get a series of images and videos, plus a slew of tools that show you how to develop your own spreadsheets, charts and diagrams to track prices and choose the right items to buy.

I’ve never seen it done before and probably for good reason – it looks like a lot of work. But, it’s absolutely successful in that you now have every tool you need to be effective making gold. If you’re like me and are tired of old, unupdated guides trying to tell you what to do, get over to Cataclysm Scalper. The World of Warcraft Armory feel that successful players of the game will find this guide invaluable.

For a long time, whenever there was a new gold guide on the market, we’d all get very excited and run out to see what it had to offer. Then, we started to see that most of the guides were just rewrites of each other. No one was coming up with anything original. So, now when we at World of Warcraft Armory see a new one hit the market, let’s just say we’re a little sceptical. How many ways can you tell people to use Auctioneer?

As it turns out, at least one more. The newest gold guide to hit the market, courtesy of Jonathan is called Cataclysm Scalper and is already driving a LOT of buzz due to its original, intricate approach to gold farming and auction house control – the kind of things that we’ve read a hundred times but never seen done this well.

What makes this guide so different than EVERY other guide on the market? To start with, it actually provides tools to help you in your endeavour. World of Warcraft Armory has found that most gold guides tell you what to do with vague descriptions, but Jonathan has gone out of his way to provide a step by step walkthrough of everything he does in the game to make gold.

He’s taken it another step further and provided templates for spreadsheets, lists, charts and diagrams, the kind of stuff that even the gold gurus tend to hold on to rather than give away to anyone that asks.

So, does Cataclysm Scalper deserve to join the ranks of gold guides that are actually valuable? In my opinion it does. It’s polished, it’s accurate, and above all else, it works. If you’re looking for the next big gold guru to show you how to get things done in this game, this is your opportunity. We at World of Warcraft Armory think this guide deserves a second and closer look.

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Author: Cam Donaldson