Will ARR have a strategy guide planned?

[Zenaku]

What the point of releasing a book on a guild for a mmo that every update change it? seem pretty dumb to me i know japan would have one but there just not a market in na for it.

[Shougun]

I think a lore book would be better- like Lore book sub strategy book.

Focuses most on the story and characters as well as monsters and zones - with some aspect to strategy but enough that most of it could and should still be applicable a few years from now.


The net is best for actual strategy guides (as others have said).

[Rau]

guide books like FFXI had stuff on jobs explained abilities and levels you got them to types of subjobs for the main... even had mobs and what they droped and a bestiary and stuff and all the weapons and stats and stuff it was preety cool to have at hand and stuff

that same guide said WAR/WHM was a good combo.

[Zenaku]

I think a lore book would be better- like Lore book sub strategy book.

Focuses most on the story and characters as well as monsters and zones - with some aspect to strategy but enough that most of it could and should still be applicable a few years from now.


The net is best for actual strategy guides (as others have said).

Agree lore book is 10x better they could name the lore guild where they could release more and more like something something I,II,III and so on and seeing how lore guild can't be outdated that better then a strategy guild when 1-2update that book is useless and waste of money.

[Violet_Solaria]

I would love a guide book even if it was more a beastiary showing the monsters weaknesses and what they drop, maps of the zones would be cool, and information on what you can gather where, plus pretty pictures. The reason I would prefer this in a guidebook form rather then looking up a wikia page is because from my time playing 1.0 on fullscreen I never could look up stuff and having to constantly swap screens to find where I can get something would become annoying in 2.0.

A lore guide book would be amazing the backgrounds for the cities, the people, the beastman, the land and all the lore that there is for XIV, it well deserves a book.

[Yrusama]

but its so nice having the book x3 I still have my FFXI one too and its still cool =p

my book got beat up i used it so much. I ended up lending it to a friend, but never got it back.

[rina_inverse]

If this haven't mentioned, you can't ctrl+f a book
nuff said

[Seraphe]

If this haven't mentioned, you can't ctrl+f a book
nuff said

Nuff said, indeed

[Alhanelem]

printed strategy guides for MMOs are useless because they become outdated so fast. SE is better off not doing one. They're little more than collector's items.

[Kyri]

People used to flame the old XI guide but I loved it enough to use it so bad it broke, buy another one and it's about in the same condition now. Granted the only problem is mmos get updated. The xi book had a lot of out dated information, but it was still pretty handy to have around. I hope we get a nice site like the XI wikipedia, I found that incredibly informative.