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Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar - World Companion: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (v. 2)

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This second volume from Prima starts out worthless and just gets worse.

The initial equipment listing is non-sensical and poorly sorted. Rather than sorting by SPECIFIC item type (for example, chest armor), they sort by alpha..which means you pretty much have to know exactly what you're looking for to find it in the book. And guess what: If you know the name, you probably already have the stats on the screen in front of you. It's completely worthless in planning out an upgrade path to current equipment OR in finding what better items drop where.

Then, we move on to the MOB listings...which contain cursory info but no real exact locations (for that hard to find spawn). In general, the info provided isnt' very helpful.

And finally, the quests. I realize, with an MMORPG, there's lots of ground to cover. But simply listing the quests, with little to no actual "spoiler" or "helper" information...no locations of quest items/mobs or detailed step by step....is non-sensical.

Vol 1 of the guide (Dubbed "The offical Game Guide, Vol 1") is much more useful, as it at leasts describes classes, crafting (and related quests) and provides very good maps.

Vol 2, "The World Companion", is completely worthless though. Prima should be ashamed of themselves. Hopefully, this review will save some people from making the mistake I did and buying this item. Stay away!

The book is filled with senseless tables. Why the hell should I want to know armour values of all leather shirts in game? I can always see the parameters of any particular shirt, and that's enough. If I have a shirt with Armour 16, I really don't want to know that a shirt with Armour 12 îr 18 ĺőists. And these tables fill near a half of the book!

Further ones are not better. Mindless tabs with levels of all monsters - why should i know that? And the main part of the book - quests - is ridiculous. Only the brief descriptions - no locations or something.

The SINGLE real usability of this book is searching for quest chains. Really poor for a full-size 400-pages book. A waste of time and money.

I purchased this guide because it advertised information on quests. In the game, the information on doing the quests, is sorely lacking. I was hoping for additional information other than what is provided in the game. Guess what, this guide just repeats the information the game gives you for each quest, with nothing additional. Worthless to the player seeking anything additional on quests.

The previous guide was very helpful. This one is a collection of lists and tables. None of these are all that helpful

Too bad there's no rating for zero. A great mass of info, designed to emulate an PRG players' guide, organized not by race, class, zone, or level, but alphabetically. Info in the book appears to come verbatim from the game itself, which is often, by the nature of the game, cryptic -- hence the need for a guide. This is a recap, not a guide. The book lacks the one thing that might have given it a redeeming value -- quest hints. There are none. I've done far better in the advice channel. I've considered asking for a refund based on uselessness.

i was in fact a little confused when i found out that this book served better purposes in the fire place than anywhere else... i wonder what in the world were the people at prima thinkin when they cuncocted this book..

"oh hey guys lets make a book that repeats everything that states word for word everything in the game and make all the other info in it completely useless to the point that we only make money off the pre-orders because the poor victims can't read the book for themselves at the time.".. maybe it went somethin like that i'm guessing?

sounds about right anyway.. anyone that wanted to make a couple hundred bucks could of done this by taking nearly thousands of screenshots and putting them in photo shop and they could of duplicated this book on their own at a cheaper cost for the exact same info.. i'm done ranting .. i feel as though i've wasted time and money...

This guide is a waste of time and paper. I looked at it a few times but have not actually USED it. I primarily got it for the quest guide, but all there is is a description for each quest--copied and pasted from the game to the guide. Wow, thanks a lot Prima. How can you put out such qualities guides as the one for Oblivion or Age of Conan and then have this?

This book could almost be rated 0 stars... HOWEVER, the only useful thing I found is the Quest Chains where it tells you what quests are available to you at what levels, and what is before or after each of those quests chains. It also tells you the difficulty of the quest. Also, one thing that is good is that it tells you the monster and enemy type and its location. That is only useful for hunting and doing deeds. However, everything else is horribly placed.

Why in the world would PRIMA, a well know company that does guides, do such a horrible thing. If I was to be the last one editing it, I'll be throwing it in the trash and tell them to redo it.

First off- anything dealing with items such as jewelry, armors, weapons are all listed in alphabetical order, which makes no sense at all. Why the heck would you mix staves and swords, to daggers and bows altogether? I had to go page by page just to look at the possible way to build my character only to get a migraine that it is annoying and undeveloped well. If I am to tell you, I'd say to buy the digital copy (if you are desperately in need or want this volume) that you can download, at least that way you can try to copy and paste the whole thing and short it in Excel yourself into categories. Again- why go through all that hassle when the guide is supposed to have it all done for you?

As for jewelry, how stupid is it to tell us the level and rarity of it, but not the bonuses and stats it gives like the armors and weapons do? The book is entitled on the back that "With this guide your knowledge will be complete" however it helps with little knowledge.

There are some sections such as quests that are not even completely written. It just gets cutoff. I don't know how they missed it, or if they just did not care thinking no one will notice it...

Overall for what this book is worth (and not worth), I highly recommend you not getting it. I give it 1 star, and to me, seriously I have had it for over a month and hardly ever use it since Vol. 1 is more useful in many, if not all, cases.

This book has numerous lists about monsters, quest, feats, and etc. The tips for the quests are quick one liners, if you need more than that you should look elsewhere for the FAQs and etc.

The book is cool for experience rewards, traits, deeds, quick info on monsters. However this book contains no maps to go along with these quests, areas or hints. This is a giant LOTRO index and nothing more.