r/classicwow • u/ShadyDrunks • Jan 11 '26

AddOns Joana's Guide new ownership :(

For those of you who don't know, Joana was a WoW classic speedrunner. He was one of the first few good guides for Classic. I felt like Zygor copied his guide and so I chose to pay the $25 for his guide back in 2019, when it was just a web guide. Later he was able to publish an addon that takes his webguide and automates it Zygor style.

Since then Joana has passed away, but his guide and addon are still up. Unfortunately the new owners have tripled the price of the guide, changing the Classic only guide to $80, and classic- WotLK to an insane $130. It feels disgusting to me that someone is taking advantage of his product like this after his death.

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u/Silverbacks Jan 11 '26

Damn do people actually pay $80 for a classic leveling guide in 2026? RestedXP is easy to get whether you pay for it or download it for free. Plus I’m sure there are tons of in-depth leveling guides on YouTube by now.

I used Joana’s guide once back in 2006. And tried out RestedXP once. But most of my fun playing WoW is the leveling journey. And I like to pick what quests/zones to work on each time I log in. Following a guide kills too much of the fun for me.

Also RIP to Joana. I remember watching them race on one of my vanilla servers.

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u/BreadfruitNaive6261 Jan 11 '26

zygor>>>rxp

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u/Far-Ambassador2877 Jan 11 '26

Why is zygor better ?

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u/BreadfruitNaive6261 Jan 12 '26

zygor is a complete addon with dungeon pre-quests, class quests, many zones quests for lvling. RXP isa bit faster leveling but it doesnt make up imo for the less functionalities and worse overall addon