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2.0 out of 5 stars
VERY DISAPPOINTED!, November 19, 2005
This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot: Epic Edition (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
Pros: Instead of having numerous stradegy guides (as Prima has released one for each individual DAOC update)...this Epic book will allow you to have it all in one spot.
Book contains many MANY charts filled with plenty of infomation to keep number crunchers happy.
Book also contains lots of lists and explinations of Epics and Chamption Quests and Trials and what you get from them. Also mentions in detail about Artifacts.
Cons: The book is really not complete. Off the top of my head... I see nothing mentioned about kill tasks or trophy hunting. Prima got chart happy, but they forgot about a few charts that would have been incredibly useful. So I'm still stuck jumping back and forth between the game and some web sites out there that DO have such charts. Oh well.
If your a beginner, this book doesn't give you a lot of nity grity BASICS. Like....ooooh, I dunno...how to use the quick bars and how to change your chat menus and what all of the buttons do on your in-game windows. This may sound nity-picky, but if a beginner buys this book expecting it to tell them everything they need to know.... they will be soarly diappointed.
I've found errors. I'm somewhat new to DAoC, incomparion to those players that have been with the game for years.... and even I found errors in some of the character builds they put in here. They try to give you a general run down of how you should build your toon (how many points to train up into your specs), but reading some online message boards on the game would probably give you a more accurate starting point. Example at hand: i don't know anyone who would put less than 50 into the flex spec of a heretic. This book tells you to go with 25... and doesn't even give you an example build of someone who went with crush instead! (major DAoC players will be laughing right now...trust me.)
This book completely lacks a guide to crafting. It mentions what each race can choose as their craft...but thats about it.
Nothing really mentioned about housing.
Maps are kind of scattered about the book. Some are very vague and general pictures of areas.
Newspaper-type quality paper used.
No extra pages in back to write your own notes.
Slash command lists are useful.... but INCOMPLETE.
Really does not give you an overview of what each toon-types roll in the game or in a group is. Previous prima guides I have bought for RPG games have done a much better job.
QUESTION TO PRIMA: You just released 3-hole binder edition books for COH AND COV (city of heroes/villians)....this inables you to update the books easily by releasing addition pages to fit in the binder as opposed to creating entirely new books. For forever-updating online RPG games this has been your best idea yet. Absolutley great idea... BUT....why on earth wouldn't you do that for DAoC as well?!!?? DAoC is a content-heavy online RPG game, as well. Many of the above problems are things that were probably just overlooked or forgotten. They could have been fixed with re-released of pages or additional sections. But now, you cannot do that since this books is a bound edition.
Disappointed. Very disappointed.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DO NOT BUY THIS GUIDE !, November 17, 2005
This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot: Epic Edition (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
What a mess this guide is! Text is muddy and on newsprint style paper. Where previous guides had Color Maps, all these are poor black & white copies. Maps of old regions are one-sixth page and totally useless. Old region maps are all mislabled! This guide is total junk. Find and buy the original guides if you must have guides. For sure, you will be sending this one back as soon as you get a look at it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An okay reference, January 15, 2007
This review is from: Dark Age of Camelot: Epic Edition (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
This book did not include the detail that I would have liked. The newer information was fairly detailed.
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