| World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official Strategy Guide (Bradygames Official Stragey Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bradygames
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 256
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0744010217
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780744010213
ASIN: 0744010217
Publication Date: November 13, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
BradyGames’ World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official Strategy Guide includes the following: -
Complete coverage of each race, with strengths, weaknesses, and more. -
WEAPONS: Discover the awesome battery of weapons and armor, with detailed equipment lists -
NORTHREND EXPLORED: In-depth information on quests, bosses, and treasures -
NEW DUNGEONS: Instances and Raid roles explained plus locations and strategy -
COMPLETE CRAFTING COVERAGE: Every recipe for every crafting profession Platform: PC Genre: Role-Playing Game
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 Meh... November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book looks ok but leaves much to be desired. I bought it specifically for the info on dungeons. It has a very basic walkthrough of a few of the 5-mans but is missing tons of information. The TBC guide had much more useful info in it. When looking up Blood Furnace or Shadow Lab(whatever) you could see what each Boss's health was, their spells, hp, loot lists etc. It was a great 'book' style preview for those about to go in there the firs time. This leaves all that out and just gives you written walk through of the fight with no numbers and no loot lists. Much better to just go to wowwikki, wowhead or any of the many sites giving this info for free. Visually appealing but ultimately disappointing.
 Information about Dungeons? November 21, 2008
I bought this book primarily to learn about the new dungeons/raids I would be faced with in WotLK. The book is extremely nice to look at..nice pictures and glossy pages but unless I'm missing something I believe I only saw information about 3 of the new/updated dungeons. As the other reviewers said, the information they have in this book is a lot of fluff and not much in the way of strategy as the title suggests. I'd say wait until enough people have played this expansion and the internet will be booming with sites and blogs galore of all the information you'll ever need to know.
Fairly Useless November 21, 2008
This guide is quite large, but it's filled with an enormous amount of unnecessary/easily found information. For instance, it gives gigantic lists of the spells and talents of each class. This is very unnecessary, as it is just a waste of space on information that can be found in the game or online. This portion of the guide occupies pages 33-129 out of a total of 345. While this can be useful *OCCASIONALLY*, this is hardly the case. The rest of the guide is almost as disappointing. The crafting section is poorly put together and also cumbersome, and the maps aren't all that helpful. It does, however, give a very detailed description of the Death Knight starting zone and the quests there. This isn't as useful as it sounds, because the starting zone, as indicated by the name, is easily navigable and not all that confusing. The pictures and illustrations, where there are any, are clear and highly detailed. The dungeon guide is also very nice, but there aren't any for raids yet, which is expected, I guess. I would have to say the biggest disappointment for me was that there is really no guide for the questing and leveling content of the game. The majority of the information is side information (spells, talents, professions) that isn't all that crucial to strategy. There is a gigantic list of all the quests in Northrend, but this is of minuscule importance in helpfulness. I suppose it's a bit much to ask the guide to have a detailed walkthrough of every quest, like they did for the Death Knight starting area, but they could at least give a general guide to a good place to start, which quests to do first, and some strategies to doing them. But that isn't here. Overall, if you have the money to waste, go ahead. Or if you really like guides, you might like it. Otherwise, it's a waste.
 Incredibly bad November 20, 2008
This guide fails at almost every level. It's incomplete (missing many instances, and no information on raids or heroic settings), it's horribly laid out and in some cases it's just wrong.
90% of the book really just feels like a file dump of a game manual. Lists of every skill (old and new) with nothing more then their icon and description for example. Thanks! I certainly can't get that in game by say... talking to any class trainer. Professions are even worse with the name, level and mats listed but not what the skill creates. Trying to decide which profession to level first? Hope you can figure it out based on names of the items alone.
The layout makes the book almost unreadable. The lisst of much of the loot tells you the stats and type, but not where it's worn. Some you can figure it out from the name ("Spaulders of..."), but come on. Beyond that the stats of an item are laid you as a sentence. Like this, "Leather. +40 AGI, +33 Critical, +32 Hit, +44 STAM" Just like that, line after line. Even incomplete the lists might have been useful if they were better laid out. As is, they are unreadable and useless.
I've only read parts, but even skimming I came across a blatant error. They seem to have confused the introductory quest lines for the Sholazar factions with the actual method for changing allegiance. Since this is like to be asked endlessly in chat you'd think they'd get that right at least.
The Dungeon Guides Brady did for WoW and TBC were very good. They suffered from a little of the bad loot layout, but they were accurate and readable. This guide is simply a rip off. It tells you almost nothing, is incomplete, hard to read, and simply wrong. Go to wowwiki or anywhere and print the pages out. You'll end up with a 100x better guide.
 Seize him! November 14, 2008
2 out of 31 found this review helpful
I bet this is a really good book, but I'm too busy playing "World of Warcraft" to check it out.
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