World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide

This may be for a now old expansion, and I did not purchase it for the means of using it with the game I got it more as a companion to my every growing collection of other World of Warcraft books. It has been well used but otherwise in great condition. A must for any lover of the game who wants to collect the books.

The ideal accessory for the collector and player of World of Warcraft. Good value for money. It is recommended to indulge in such luxury.

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Some useful sections - the 1-20 guides for the new races is nicely put together. The new dungeon guides are also good.Way too much of it is just a list of equipment and crafting recipes. If these had contained some information other than the name, level and quality of these items they would have been semi-useful. As it stands they are a total waste of space - what good is any of this information without knowing what the item does?Mind you, the guide would have looked very skinny without these sections. I suspect they have been put in because they are:a) easy to produceb) make the guide look nice and big.The weakest WoW offering from Brady Games so far, by a long way.

The book is okay, as it is the first one available for The Burning Crusade, however there are some issues that a core player will notice immediately.1. it's based mostly on the beta of the game, so shadowmoon valley is not in the book as it was not accessible during beta2. flower maps for example are wrong as it has been changed. Terocone flowers, for example, in Nagrand are no more while the book reports them. And no map for Shadowmoon of course.3. Only 4 dungeons rated, the basic ones, all the others are missing of course; they were not in the beta or too hard to reach in a limited time4. It's good for the Reputation tables, but it does not tell you where to do the reputation quests or what to kill.It's good for the general snapshot of the games, the drops, the news in Burning Crusade, it's very well done graphically. But a core player will be unsatisfied and data is incomplete.

As with all WoW guides it is useful until the next patch comes out and things change. Does it offer any real insight/cheats for the game - no. Is it an interesting read - yes. If you play the game as much as most people who subscribe, you won't need this book at all and there are much more up to date forums/websites to find out real playing information online.

World of Warcraft:: The Burning Crusade Strategy Guide is the official 330-paged, Blizzard-licensed guide to World of Warcraft's first ever expansion set.A New Dawn: Changes to Interface, crafting, the world, introducing flying mounts and ways to obtain them, new factions and their vendor/quest rewards and how to gain reputation with them, introducing the new territory, outdoor PvP and the new battleground: Eye of The Storm. These are are explained.Classes: New talents, new spells for every class are described and explained completely in this section.Your First Day: This section is simply a 1-20 levelling guide for both of the new factions: Blood Elves (starting from Eversong Woods) and Draenei (starting from Azuremyst Isle) with maps, quest data and rewards etc.Outland: Map of every region in Outland, plus their respective Legend and mob/NPC/quest locations. Unfortunately the maps are not very large and seems Brady Games has been a little bit greedy in wasting a couple of pages for the sake of more readable maps here. The maps look very clear and well cartographed however.World Dungeons: Reviewing 4 new dungeons in Outland and strategies for all of them. The strategies are clearly explained. The guide tells you where to enter the instance, and guides you from what to do from the beginning until the last boss fight. Unfortunately boss drops aren't added to this section.Crafting: Contains all the recipes for all professions, their reagents, source and skill level. However it doesn't show you what the crafted item does or what a crafted item's stats is, which is a big problem.Quests: All quests, their rewards, prequisite, reputation gained, starter, finisher and their location, recommended group size (if any).Equipment: A list containing all of the armour and weapons and their stats, from Legendaries to Superior blue items.Bestiary: All the new foes, from Arakkoas to Warp Stalkers are listed here, stating whether they are tamable or not and the description/lore of each mob.