World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Series: Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames) | Publication Date: November 13, 2008

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES (November 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744010217
• ISBN-13: 978-0744010213
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #302,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly bad, November 19, 2008

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B. Chugg (Palo Alto, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

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.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Define "Strategy Guide", November 22, 2008

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Rich Kosiba - See all my reviews
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This review is from: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

I got the book but I can't find the strategy guide.

I was expecting maybe a list of new talents and items (and quests that reward them) that would be helpful for a fury warrior, for example. You know, things that would GUIDE me in developing a good STRATEGY.

All I can find is a sort of table of contents for the game. A list of zones, a list of quests, a list of talents, etc. It tells me what's there but not how to use it. It doesn't categorize it in a way that would be useful in developing a good strategy.

This book is absolutely useless. I can't think of any reason why I will ever pick it up again after having reviewed it.

Wait! I just found it! On the cover it says: TAKE YOUR GAME FURTHER. Those are the only strategy-related words I've found. Unfortunately I was already doing that so the book is still useless to me.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Meh..., November 21, 2008

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Duniness (North Las vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Official StrategyGuide (Official Strategy Guides (Bradygames)) (Paperback)

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.