The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (Prima Official Game Guide)
Your Main Guide to the World of Middle-earth
·Middle-earth's mysteries revealed with labeled maps of all nine regions.
·Master the art of fellowship play so you can conquer the most dangerous foes!
·Complete guides to the Burglar, Captain, Champion, Guardian, Hunter, Lore-master, and Minstrel classes!
·Crafting charts for all 10 professions to help you become a master craftsman.
·Exclusive strategy from The Syndicate, one of the world's largest and oldest online gaming guilds!
·Basics, crafting, classes, maps
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The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (Prima Official Game Guide) Reviews
Is still a good book for a beginner to get the hang of some of the basics and basic maps. With all the patches/"Book"s/updates/changes that have come out since LOTRO's release, this book is quite outdated in information. Some of the training guide info is off, map areas released after original release like Evendim are not included.
Only option is to subscribe to some online strat guide that keeps up to date or just go to the LOTRO Lorebook. Many of the skills and map locations are just wrong or missing. They change constantly and Turbine has been updating almost monthly. It's an MMO. Bound guides just don't work for MMOs. This guide has some usefulness but is VERY VERY outdated.
And there is a large section on crafting. The maps are excellent. If this book only had maps, it would be worth the price. You can get an electronic version of this book (basically a passworded e-book) from the publishers website, which was updated. I can get updated information from many websites.
However, the book also has information about each class, listing the skills and even diagramming how to use them at beginner and advanced level. But the book is great, so I guess it was just a case of "you can't please some people". Personally, I prefer to have a paper copy. I have read reviews that criticise this book because it's doesn't contain something they had in another game, and I nearly didn't get the book because of them.
It's always useful to have these Prima Guides for complicated games like LOTRO - the only shame is that I didn't get it until just around when the new expansion (Evendim) came out - I wish they would release a free supplement for people who have already bought the book.
The game has a well developed PvP, in Monster Play. This book is a real time saver for LOTRO players. It gets the beginning player off to a fast start, and is still usefull at level 50. The maps are very usefull as are the descriptions of player classes, traits, deeds, etc. Any review that says that LOTRO does not have PvP is suspect.
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