Customer Reviews
dont buy it - By: M. Oneill, 02 Jul 2008 
why buy this , there is already an online atlas antd you can just find the information online instantly instead of flicking threw pages
Lost between an Atlas and an A to Z: Utterly useless - By: Luis Morais, 12 Nov 2007 So you want to have a quick look to see where that lake an archived quest talks about is, or whereabouts the Night Song Forest is? Want to know whether you are walking towards Horde or Alliance territory or likein a real Atlas know a bit of geo-political snippets of races inhibiting the territory, even perhaps a little indication of the friendliness or level of those? At least a few nice illustrations of the characters dwelling the regions? Well, forget it.
The strength of an Atlas isin its index. When you are lostin London, you know where you want to go, it is how to get there that you don't. You can bet that you will not find 80% of the locations describedin questsin the index of this Atlas.
This also might be the only "atlas" that instead of also listing the geographical areas by proximity, starting from one point & then progressing towards neighbouring regions, it lists macro-regionsin alphabetical order. The question is, will you know whether Teldrassil is a macro region or a region inside a macro-region as easy as San Francisco isin California & California isin the States or that Westminster isin London & London isin England & England isin the UK?
The artwork is incredibly unimaginative, it is maps, & maps... nothing else, no nice drawings of Orcs, or Elfs, or fauna or flora, it is just maps, bleeding maps without icons or faction flags, or anything that could liven up this throw up of "atlas". Just check the cover of the book & you can see what I am talking about, how exciting is it to have a hazy picture of a desert as the cover? Yet this will be one of the few illustrations other than maps you will findin the whole "atlas".
Oh, yes, there are no coordinates either. Instead they use the A to Z approach of letters & numbers. Then you will have to guess wherein each square (covering several yards) your faction village is. It is sadly unhelpfulin all senses.
I have found myself using the internet & later the maps add-ons offered for free over the web more than this "atlas", which due to its tight-fisted art doesn't even qualify as a valuable collectible.
Very usefull - By: Max Olsen, 29 Jul 2007 
This is a great book if you take questing seriously. Someone compared the Wow gaming area to be the size of Switzerland .. & it is a big game indeed.
Adventurning on your own & discovering new places is of cause a large part of the game, but i still find myself stuck searching for hours, trying to find that elusive mob that should be located "north of crossroads" somewhere.
This is where this great book shows its worth. Half the book is area/city maps & the other half is a large alfabetic index so you can quickly get the right location on the map grid. Sometimes the index also give you a small hint like "blow horn" or "behind tree".
Book also have a handfull of pages listing placement of profession NPC, vendor, flight & those rare & hard to find mobs.
Best of all, this book dont SPOIL the game at all. Its is NOT a quest-killer or walktrough, it is NOT a list of vendor-items being sold, it is NOT a faction list or a gold making book .. & thank ye gods for that.
Just a nice Atlas that will help you when you get stuck or cant remember the location of one of the 1000+ places or people.
Your road map to WoW - By: Mr. Duncan Harvey, 11 Apr 2006 This is truely a fantastic publication - from your first dayin the game it will help you find your way through the world until the very end of level 59 (not level 60+ because a lot of the game is "off map" then. Whether you need a lump of copper ore or to find that evil boss that respawns once a wekk - this book will help you.
A must buy!
Lovely to look at but not an essential purchase - By: , 06 Dec 2005 
Firstly I have to say this book looks lovely & feels more like a "coffee table" book than a game guide. Although it does a good job of telling you where a lot of monsters & NPC's are, it only really duplicates what isin the Strategy guide.
This is a little more detailed on town maps & vendor details, whereas the strategy guide gives you all the NPC's that give you quests & their approximate locations.
Perhaps worth getting if you want all the information you can hoover up, but personally I feel if you already have the strategy guide then I probably wouldn't bother with this as well.
