Product Description

BradyGames’ World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide includes the following:

• New Races: Complete coverage of the Blood Elves and Draenei. From their strengths to their starting zones, nothing is left in the dark.
• New Weapons: Discover the awesome battery of weapons and armor at your disposal, with detailed equipment lists of the Superior, Epic, and Legendary items found in the darkest reaches of this new world.
• Hellfire Explored: Let BradyGames guide you through the first Outland World Dungon: Hellfire. Know what quests lead there, what bosses reside there, and what treasures you will take from there.
• Outland Revealed: Every zone is laid open before you. From Netherstorm to Shadowmoon Valley, we take you through it all in quest-based easy-to-use modules.
• New PvP System: Learn what to expect from the new world PvP and Arena battle systems. Understand the unique goals and rewards of each new PvP zone.
• Complete Crafting Coverage: Every recipe for every crafting profession. From 1 to 400, we cover it all.
• Exclusive new World of Warcraft comics from Penny Arcade!

Platform: PC

Genre: Role-Playing Game

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97199 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-16
• Released on: 2007-01-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

WoW Online Databases are easier to use
I found I've used this strategy guide very little as it is much easier to find the information I seek in the various online databases like Thottbot, Allakhazam, WoWHead, etc.

Nothing here that is worth the price
This guide stinks, and I don't like it.

Trade items - it only lists the mats, not what they do or stats. Better off using a mod
Armor and weapons section - it doesn't list stats on any of these. Better off using a mod to get this information.
Maps - too small, but at least somewhat useful
Quests - many mistakes; not sorted in any order that makes sense. Very hard to use this situation. It would have been nice if they had been sorted somehow - alphabetical order, grouped by quest chains, grouped by quest giver location, anything.

Overall, this was a complete waste of money. There is information obtainable from thottbot, allakhazam, or wowwiki which is easier to find and more accurate.

Stay away from this.

More Disappointing than the First Guide
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.