05' FFXI game guide?

[Jei]

I got a Tekken 5 guide book and guess what, every moves that should use right kick are all listed as left kick - -' not just one but like the entire guide book.
I never use it.

[berzerk]

Ok thanks all for your opinions. But I just wander, how do the guides and the websites find all of this information out? like every little detail and what not. Do they play the game non-stop until they find what they were looking for? I mean, there are so many little things in this game that you basicly need some type of a guide to do what your doing. That just made me wonder..

[Blood Red Poet]

If only SE gave the lincesne to Myster tour or Somepage to make a strategy guide...

[Intensity]

I bought the last Strat guide they came out with. I tore out the Quests/Missions section and let my 9 month old daughter tear it to a million pieces and run it through her digestive system where the useless portion of that book belongs

[Intensity]

That is to say I kept the quests/missions but destroyed the rest of the book.

[soru]

but he may not have wanted the guide for use. he could be a collector. i know i like getting the guides to most ffxi games and i dont use them, i do it so i can say "i have that bit of merchandise"

[lionx]

Originally posted by berzerk
Ok thanks all for your opinions. But I just wander, how do the guides and the websites find all of this information out? like every little detail and what not. Do they play the game non-stop until they find what they were looking for? I mean, there are so many little things in this game that you basicly need some type of a guide to do what your doing. That just made me wonder..

I would say that they tested these out extensively. Some information is inputted by players and then gathered together. Of course the validity of these things are usually also corrected by players themselves. They could have also used those bad guides and put it there, edited over time. Alot of what the help guides we have now are mostly player done and through their hard work helped many of us with the rougher spots of these games. And i thank them ^^

Note: THey dont have every information out there, example like those 8mil subligars and other expensive gears and their desynths. a

[little ninja]

the brady guides did nothing but polute the minds of almost everyone who has looked it over. thus why people always had the race wars. my galkas better then your elvaan cause brady said so. or whaaa your a hume dragoon, you suck cause the brady guide said elvaan are better. that was always the topic of the dunes an quifim. it drove me nuts.

funniest thing about the brady guide is the beastmaster section. it stated that /whm wasnt the best combo for bst. cause no mp. but this would be great for tarus.. it also stated that pld or brd were good subs. the book also listed about 12 quests total, but you could go on the net an download about 100 quest for an area. some of the quest needed you to finish quests they never mentioned..

like 99.9% said. dont waste your time, effort or money getting involved with this book..

[Centurion]

Originally posted by swiften
they need to translate the japaneese vana'diel world reports.

that would be better

i completely agree, that is a Tome of information i am sure many of us would like to see.

[Killerclown]

Re: 05' FFXI game guide?

just use internet , faster , better , cheaper , forumsnessnesssness

[Drawmuh]

Re: 05' FFXI game guide?

the brady guides did nothing but polute the minds of almost everyone who has looked it over. thus why people always had the race wars. my galkas better then your elvaan cause brady said so. or whaaa your a hume dragoon, you suck cause the brady guide said elvaan are better. that was always the topic of the dunes an quifim. it drove me nuts.

funniest thing about the brady guide is the beastmaster section. it stated that /whm wasnt the best combo for bst. cause no mp. but this would be great for tarus.. it also stated that pld or brd were good subs. the book also listed about 12 quests total, but you could go on the net an download about 100 quest for an area. some of the quest needed you to finish quests they never mentioned..

like 99.9% said. dont waste your time, effort or money getting involved with this book..

I agree , not only that but there are plenty of sites out there that can give you better more and in-depth infomation for free of charge. The game is constantly changing , why would you want to buy a guide for $15.00 or more when it wont be up to date once S-E makes its latest patch.

[fastcart]

Re: 05' FFXI game guide?

It's tough to use the net while you play. Unless you have 2 pcs. I bought the 1st 2 NA guides (not the atlas). The both are very helpful when you're starting out. As a newb sam, I used the renkei and mob weakness charts extensively. But, it got annoying at later lvls due to innacuracies and incompleteness.

But, now i have a printer and use the net (when I'm not in game) to fill in updates to the game like newest cop info. But, it would be inadvisable to print everything you could possibly need. There's just too much stuff. So, sometimes having an out of date but organized book is more helpful. And having the stuff in a bound form is a big plus. That being said, I haven't used the books this year I think. Wait... I used it to look up simple synthesis and guild days/hours back in February. d:

In conclusion, the guide is great for when you're starting out or don't have a printer, but becomes almost useless after lvl 50+. Very useless after lvl 60+ because they don't even have zilart and m13+ info as well as lack end game details.

[Skygto]

Re: 05' FFXI game guide?

All strategy guides suck in my opinion. Espicially the FF9 one. It actually made you go online to find stuff about the game -_-