Prima Guide?Follow

I remember buying the Prima guide for EQ1, many years ago and it was a total waste of money. It never told me anything I didnt already know from playing the game for a few hours, reading the instructions book and it certainly had nothing on the likes of Allakhazam for info. Unless they have drastically changed the format of their guides I would forego on it and just stick to reading all the fan-sites. It's even worth getting a sub to Allakhazam when it gets more populated with data. I have done with EQ1 and SWG and found it a lot more useful than any book I have read.

And, NO, I am not an employee, friend or relative of allakhazam :)

Cheers
Minky

It is coming out next week in paper form. but you can get in personalized PDF for now from the Prima website. or via the news articles in www.everquest2.com you may print it out for yourself but you may not share the file with anyother pc so be ware of this.

I have the EGuide.. its crap.. hardly any of the quests are in it.. the only thing that is worth is the Maps of the areas that dont have maps in the game but im sure in a little while Allakhazam will have those too.. so dont waist your time and money buying the guide

my 2 cents

I totally disagree...

I bought the online guide and think it is a great collection of information for the cost.

Most of the info is general knowledge that some players already know, but many do not; The maps are detailed and look nice; has tons of artisan recipies; and it has most of the newbie quest walk-throughs.

The guide is basically just a collection of general, easy to obtain information for new players up to about level 20-25. It has little that Allakazam does not have or will not have soon. However, I like the way it is written and presented and it is easily worth the $9.99 I paid, if for just the maps and recipies alone, but the organization and easy to read format allowed me to find several quests that I missed on my own and via Allakazam.

If you want a guide (or reference manual) then I would say spend the ten bucks.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

I have purchased the e-guide and regret it not because I don't think the material is good but because of the whole "can't share with other PCs" since I can't share it with my laptop...

Anyways

The race section was already outdated - showing the Barbarians with lower WIS then they have. I don't know how accurate the other stuff is regarding races, since I haven't really looked into it.

Recipies are useful for looking ahead to what might be a high demand item or to know what you should stock pile up on.

The maps are very useful I will say. Even for the zones where you have an in-game map it does at least tell you where all the NPCs are. And since the waypoint system in EQ2 is actign funny - I find it usefull.

Even if the quest lists aren't complete - it gives me something to work off of to get me started.

It does seem pretty complete for the character abilities though - and the Heroic Opportuinties section seemed ok.

Over all I prefer Brady Games strategy guides to Prima - they did fairly well on FFXI and their WoW guide looks ok.

I bought the Prima Guide for L2 and used to read it alot. I also had the Prima Guide for the EQ Trilogy and read that one alot. Now that I'm more experienced with MMO's I probably won't be buying the guide, however if u are new to the game they are definitley worth it. Sure some of the quests are wrong and alot of times the currency is messed up in the guides, but they have many advantages too. Stuff that you can easily look up while playing the game or at work.