Asheron's Call Official Strategies & Secrets

By Rusel DeMaria

Asheron's Call is the latest in an extremely popular new genre: online role-playing games. Similar titles include EverQuest and Ultima Online. The player creates their own character and joins a fully... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782126545
• ISBN13: 9780782126549
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Extremely Helpful but slightly out of date

Due to Recent Additions by the developers at MS. I noticed that some of the Coordinates are incorrect as far as finding lifestones and portals. However, This book offers great information as far as character generation, location of Dungeons, and the how-to's of playing this game. I would recommend this book to anyone new to the game.

Asheron's Call: secrets and strategies

First of all this book does a thorough job of giving you a complete overview of the WORLD OF DERETH. I found this book to be indispensible for creature weaknesses and strengths.Second, although the book was a thorough overview it does not cover the "secrets" that is implied in the cover. I understood that it would give me the spells I needed and secrets to the game. The only secrets that I would have not found were the Microsoft Easter Eggs built into the game, this did me no good.Overall this book does a great job of giving you the portals, lifestones, dungeons, and points of interest needed to the new game player.I would truely recommend this book to the new player to the world of Dereth but as I am an intermediate player the book serves a medium amount of interest to me but none the less a true necessity for the new player.

Nice Addition to Have

Definitely a nice addition for general strategy and such. My major concern is that the book is not totally accurate. There is no way the book can be accurate. Turbine can change the game on the fly and just did. Vorous Shreths and Shore Armadillo's are no longer what they were before the change. Likewise, some dungeons and locations have changed. Get the book for a solid description of general strategy and reference, but remember things have an will change.

Worthwhile But not Perfect

This book was helpful to me as a new player. It is particularly good at spelling out how skills work, exactly how crafting (fletching, cooking, etc) is done, the allegience system, the portal system, and the magic system. It does not tell you exactly how to make a given spell; it tells you how to begin figuring it out for yourself. It was clearly written with Microsoft's approval; it should be called "Strategies and Hints" rather than "Strategies and Secrets". The authors have been careful not to spoil any surprises. More concrete information about quests and spellcraft as well as specifics on the monster's strengths and weaknesses would have improved the practicality of the book tremendouslyThere are a number of tables, and a fair amount of text. All of it is written in a way that is easy to follow and not particularly overwhelming. If you are going to invest in the game, this guide will give you a boost. If you're thinking about giving the game as a gift, this guide will help the new player a lot - but be prepared to hear a little grousing about the lack of "cheats" and walkthroughs.