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I enjoyed this book, I play a hunter and I was amazed the book pointed out what animals were tamable in the outland. (lots of detailed information).
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If, like me, you are coming back to World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade after an extended break from the game, the first few chapters of this guide are very helpful by presenting the aggregate changes from the last several patches in order to quickly bring you up to speed on what's new and what to expect in the expansion. For me, I found that the book serves as an excellent jumping-off point for getting into the new content.
On the other hand, this book is not really a "strategy guide" per se. People who have been following the WoW forums closely for months or played TBC beta will find no new or useful information from this guide.
Finally, as others have said, a lot of the information in this guide is redundant given the proliferation and prevalence of online databases such as Thottbot and Allakhazam. For this, the book serves mainly as an off-line reference for the same information.
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I wish I had thrown them money away rather then buy this book. No usable maps. No useful quest info. Just pages of garbage... Stick with thottbot (if it ever updates).
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Print is too small, information too generalized, maps too small. None of the information you need to play.
This is as bad as the original Brady Games Guide. So if you liked it. You will like this. If you have actually played WoW for more than a couple weeks, dont waste your money.
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I ventured into reading this book with an open-mind, as I do not know much about Burning Crusade. However, I was rather disappointed. About more than 80% of the book is just tables of quests and items. ( They should have put charts in searchable tables online, but fortunately many free sites do this anyhow ). And looking through the tables, I notice that the items documented are pre-BC 1-60 material.
Another portion of the book covers Blood Elves and Draenei, so if people struggled with level 1-10 content, then there's a lot of material here. Also covered are all of the revised and new talents. Most of this was known for a long time and discussed, but nevertheless, I did find some minimal value in discussion of that for material that I neglected to read in WoW forums.
Some qualities that I liked from the book:
- Overview on Dungeons and Levels, New Battlegrounds (around page 22)
- List of Rewards from Faction Reputation (very excellent material)
- List of Alliance/Horde Grand Masters to learn new crafts (page 10)
- Map Guides with Key (useful when quest says goes to unknown place)
Things absent from the guide:
- Details on new Hunter Pets and trainable abilities, locations, etc.
- Details on strategic quest chains needed for reputation
- Details on anything relating to Caverns of Time and Mount Hyjal
- Details on speciality Leatherworking bind-on-pickup patterns (dragonscale, tribal, elemental)
- Details on Smithing Specialties (Armorsmith vs Weaponsmith (axesmith, hammersmith, swordsmith)) bind-on-pickup
- Details on new crafting patterns and where to get/farm resources to make them
- Detailed Reputation Guides for factions, e.g. important to farm HH rep in instances as it stops at honored, and quest afterwards for quest hand-in reputation.
- Documenting race-specific Priest powers for Blood Elf and Draenei.
- Listing Quest Chains, and one liners of what to do or something similar.
- Listing Quests related to instances
- Explanation to locations in map guide, more detail on the regions.
- Details are where to get rare patterns from venders, or drop tables on bosses.
I think basically in conclusion, this book completely misses the boat. It doesn't have essential information on key quests chains for reputation, crafted goods (especially the specialized ones) and what is needed for the ultimate end-game material: attunement for Mount Hyjal and Caverns of Time. If you need general precursory information, then this guide is not bad.
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