If you use a Mists of Pandaria game guide to get yourself situated well within the game, you are not cheating. Some of the more serious players will tell you that you are, but this is not the case.

Guides will teach you as the player how to level up fast to get to the faster-paced part of the game where all the major action happens, as well as ways to earn gold or money fast to upgrade weapons and buy other things required in your online quest.

Think about this online game in terms of a board game. A board game comes with a set of detailed instructions, telling you how to play and giving you rules to play by. Some board game instructions even give you tips on how to get ahead during game play.

It is not cheating in a board game when you check the rules, so how is it cheating to look at instructions for an online game?