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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

So there are no Meridians or any other orienteering guides other than landmarks? I guess those of you that think that having a location grid would be a cheat guide have never read a REAL map. I'd rather spend my money on the ink and paper on that "other" site.

Why buy this when you can get it all on the web?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Seems rather excessive to have to pay $$$ to get a book that details the zones in the game when you can go to any number of websites and get the same content.

A book only a newbie could love..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Nice, somewhat informative. Well drawn maps, but not really helpful to someone like a newbie who's lost and /shouting for directions. The average novice would find it useless I think. Yea sure it shows landmarks, that's if the person can find those even. Location grids are by far easier to navigate with and its very easy to get lost in allot of zones and not be able to see landmarks that could be familiar. I agree with "This one Guy", get a REAL map. Only good as a collectors item you ask me. Get better maps online.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you want "The EQ Story Book", this is your product. However, very few people purchase this for the stories. People purchase this for excellent, detailed maps and they do not exist.

There is nothing in this book that cannot be pulled from a website... Owners of the other Sony authorized guides were probably aware this would be the problem.

This material is sold as if it contains in-depth information to help people find secrets in game, but like all other materials Sony has released on EQ, it is full of "roleplay" speak and void of detailed substance.

Pretty Pictures, but not a very useful tool

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As with other reviewers, this isn't for someone that has been playing long enough to have a char in thier 50's. You won't be blind to zone layout, but it doesn't help you get to a specfic location because you can't really tell WHERE that location is.

Buy if for looks, but if you need maps that are worth using in game, just print them from the internet.

A midget Coffee Table book.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I spent the money to get a copy of the SoE EQ Atlas. It arrived last night. (I have not checked the bonuses on the CD yet, but the labelling made it look very promotional.) Here are my views on it.

Positive Points:
1. It has nice 3d colored pictures of each zone. The pictures show the positions of the entrances and exits.
2. Nice general write up on the zones including history.
3. General Identification of a few mobs in each zone.
4. Some indication of the Zone level Mobs.

Negative Points

1. The pictures/maps have no co ordinates on them.
2. The pictures/maps are to small to be useful in normal navigation. They might be useful in extreme cases for navigationn. But without coordinates or indication of north, I am not sure how useful.
3. No mob/key locations are showm on the few picture/maps, I checked.
4. No information concerning levels of identified mobs.
5. Nothing but very general information on mob drops.

Conclusions

It is no replacement for Eq Atlas Maps and Allakhazam. The exception would be the places where EQ Atlas has not done maps then a poor map is better than no map. In fact, there is less information about the zones than in the Prima guides.

I would call it a coffe-table book except that for the size. It is somewhere in the 4 x 6 or 5x7 range.

EverQuest Atlas, Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are an avid EQ collector then buy the book. However, if you play the game, this book is worthless to you. There are no grid lines and North is not at the top. SOE could have done so much with this, but as usual they didn't even go half way.

If you just have to spend the money, donate it to the premier map site. At least there it will do some good.

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....

Lacking a few important items

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Atlas offers some background and nice maps. It is however outdated. List level of mobs in Innothule Swamp as 1-26. The Black Ravagers were added in May of this year and are level 55.

No Planes of Power Maps. If this was the case, why not release it ahead of Planes of Power. Not even the mapes of the Plane of Tran. or Plane of Knowledge.

No Port locations to the Planes are listed, or even the port stones to Jaggged Pine from Surefall Glade or Black.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The reviewers who said this atlas is a waste were absolutely right. The maps are very general (and in some cases inaccurate) and contain none of the detail needed to find your way around the various zones. There is little to no detail on vendors, camps, guard houses, NPCs or quest information -- just a lot of pretty but useless sketches. Want to avoid getting lost? Go to the EQ Atlas site online (independent) and print out the maps available there.

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