EverQuest II Atlas (Prima's Official Atlas)

 (4 customer reviews)

The maps themselves are very detailed, but end up being hard to read, mostly because every page is covered in some weird LSD dayglo colored layout. I sort of wish they would just had a black and white book at this point instead of bright purple, blue and green colorings over everything. It not only makes the text hard to read, but gives you a headache when looking at it too long. You could almost lick the book it is so colorful. This might be good for something like an art book, but this is meant to be a reference book, so the coloring doesn't work well for this format.

Also, a numbering system for mob/npc placement would go a long way to making this a better product for future books. I'd like to look at the map on one page filled with a list of numbers, and on the opposite page have the numbers and their descriptions laid out.

Overall, still a decent book, just very hard to use.

I really like the idea of an Atlas for EQ2. It has a lot of zones. The maps though are tough to read. They are pretty tiny and in tough colors to stare at. One thing that the Atlas is really missing though is a level guide. As a noob for EQ2 I have no idea which zone is really for my character level or not and unfortunately this Atlas doesn't help.

While this can be a bit hard to read because of the dark colors used it is really helpful for older zones and instances that are not on the downloadable map. When there are multiple layers to a zone as in Deathfist Citadel or Palace of the Awakened you can see all of them on one page which helps to know where to go up or down a level. After 7 years of playing EQ2 I still pull this out sometimes to help find where I"m going in the older zones.