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Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is by no means a cheat guide, if that's what you want I suggest you look elsewhere. This book is geared mainly toward the few people who play this game for the ROLEPLAYING aspect, which 99% of players seem to have overlooked and play this game as if it was another Quake or Unreal...

Anyway, this book gives lots of interesting information on the history of Norrath, zone info, NPC info, and beautiful maps. The maps are not like the grid-based, satellite view maps with mob locations and spawn times like you would find on most cheat websites.

If you prefer to roleplay and not just run from one zone to another killing certain mobs just to get your current quest item, then this book is for you. If all you want out of the game is to max out your level and get your epic in the shortest time possible, you're better off visiting a cheat site. Or better yet, go play a Final Fantasy and save money and bandwidth.

Dont waste the money...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The GAME is great. This book is just shy of useless. The maps are fairly accurate, but the World Maps lack clairity. The Atlas lacks detail in description, art, and map detail. ....

Not worth [the money]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A waste of money. Good if you're a collector I guess but not useful if you want maps. These are just small pictures of maps. They're not even useful except for very general directions....

Better than most think

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I perchased the Everquest Atlas knowing what was said about it. And some of it is true. The level range for zones is somewhat squed and inacurate. I have not seen anywhere that connecting zones are inacurate, but I haven't tested the example other's have given. Another complaint is that the maps were poor in detail and lacking consistancy with which direction North is. For the most part north is somewhere at the top of the page. It might be at a slight angle, but still mostly straight. As far as lacking detail, if you want to know where who will drop, then this is the wrong book for you. These maps were done as if you really did live in Norath and were drawing them by hand, paying keen attention to noticable landmarks. That is that. Also, the description and history of each zone was useful, but the notable NPCs were pretty much for lvl 60+ who are looking for more things to do now that they can kill most anything.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, I guess Sony just couldn't stand the online entrepreneurs producing maps of this great game so they decided to publish a paper version and sell it.

Well, you would think that the company that owns the game would know the content of the game, but they evidently don't. If you are a novice gamer, please do not buy this book as a guide to the world of EQ. The maps are grossly incorrect in respect to locations of landmarks, camps, town, druid rings, you name it. The zone levels listed are most incorrect and the "dangers within" background stories are erroneous.

Ever since Sony shoved Verant Interactive out of the picture, there has a been a succession of poorly executed attempts to milk the EQ cash cow. This atlas is one of the worst.

Please don't make the mistake I made when I preordered this terrible boot and waste of money.

Please save your money...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're an Everquest enthusiast, you've probably already bought it. An enthusiast would find the background stories to each area very interesting. This is why the guide fails so miserably. You get a roughly drawn map with only 3-7 vaguely located places on each map, inaccurate monster levels for each map, and one to three full pages of background for each location. The histories will do nothing to enhance your gameplay. Any useful information is encoded into cryptic passages that start with "There are rumors..." I wish for my sake it had been better and I hope for your sake you now know better.

Only thing Good about this is the humor

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The only thing good about this is the humours errors. They mis level almost every map. the maps are so useless it's comic. we've been using the web and our own scrachpads of notes to keep track of things for years, and done a better job. this book is a horrible joke.

Symphonic

This "atlas" will get you KILLED in EQ

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my wife for Christmas as we're both avid EQ players....

While the book does have some interesting reading material, as another reviewer has stated, this is certainly not why I bought it, and the writing is definitely not worth the price you pay.

Here are some of the major problems with these maps:

1) Map and adjacent zone information is simply wrong. Example: I believe the map says that "The Grey" is adjacent to "Marus Seru", when it is not - "Mons Letalis" is between The Grey and Marus Seru.

2) The maps are not at all detailed. If you have used the [online] maps you probably expect a certain level of detail (where certain mobs live, etc) and little of that detail is in these maps. Additionally, the maps are TINY, and they're shown at a strange angle, which makes them ever less useful. Again, [online] maps are at a directly overhead view and are decently sized.

3) Information about zones is incorrect. Each zone has page or two of info and background, including the range of mob levels. I can't remember the exact zone, but there was one listed in this book as level 10-25 that has 55+ monsters in it.

... I wish I had purchased it from [Amazon.com] rather than a mall so I wouldn't have to drive all over the world to return it, because I don't have the patience for that. So now we're stuck with a book with mediocre writing and useless maps. Way to go, Sony....

Save your money--this contains BAD information.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The maps are worse than the one that came in the box in terms of detail--as in what is where, and no mob spots are shown. The desriptions are like a travel guide--fluff and worthless. The Mob levels are completely off. I am not making this up, the Dreadlands lists, right from page 97, Monster Level: 1-10. In truth, the monsters in that area are in the 35-45 range. Go there hunting as the Atlas tells you and you will be doing corpse runs a lot.

Simply put, this does not merely contain 'no worthwhile information', the information it contains is bad and will cost you time and lives.

Take [money], throw it in the street--you will be better off.

Too bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This book had the potential to be a "must have" on every avid EQ player's desk, but it falls painfully short. So short, in fact, that as a map resource, it is horribly inferior to most maps available on the internet. As a source of practical zone information, it is completely useless, in some cases (as have been mentioned in other reviews) the information is simply incorrect. As a bit of light reading including some EQ lore minutiae that may have been heretofore unknown, it might actually succeed. I can't tell, however, since I really don't care.
Things that are not included that should be, in my opinion:
The positions of Plane of Knowledge books.
A grid for finding locations.
Names for prominent map locations.
Descriptions and possibly level ranges for various monsters. found in the zone and information on where they can be found
Faction information in a more specific sense.

Almost all of these things can be found on maps provided by many of the various EQ cartography sites.

If you want hand drawn maps with colorful commentary about the various zone, but not much else, maybe this book is for you. If you want a legitimate EQ resource, look elsewhere.

One more thing, the book that I purchased (brand new) was missing roughly 30 pages. Zones starting with the letters "E", "F" and "G" had vanished from inside the shrinkwrap mysteriously.

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