Anyone getting the Brady guide?Follow

Serious question: after all the brady guides failed (the atlas lacking half the zones), will anyone actually get it for FFXIV?

If it's free with the game or under 5 bucks I might. Some of my chairs aren't level.

lol

I used the ffxi one when I first started... but quicky learned that it was mostly useless after the beginning levels. XD

Why do I have to die? WARRIORS SAVE LIVES!!!!!

i used the hell out of that guide. the manager at gamestop sold it to me for $1 because the cover was torn. pretty useful for a dollar since it was pretty annoying logging off and on to check allakhazam. so, yeah i will get it. hopefully they package it with the game for a discount.

Oh most definitely. Without the Brady Guide I would never have known that RDMs get Cure V at lv. 73, that RDMs can also be an effective tank, and that NIN/RDM is secretly a very 1337 combination that can destroy mobs and make you super awesome. But seriously, I used this guide nonstop, and I gotta say the info on job abilities, job traits, quests, and some other things really did enhance my playing (just take any spell list with a grain of salt xD). So I'll probably grab the guide, use it until a major database like FFXIclopedia arises, and then laugh at how painfully ignorant i was.

The people at Brady Guides also have families to feed. Let them ask for welfare, sorry guys I ain't falling for it this time around.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

Im definitely getting the guide if only for the artwork, monster listing and coaster when I need a nice cold drink. >.>

Seriously though, for all its horrible flaws, it was useful early on... except for the 'recomendations' it gave for jobs. Fun to look back on it though, hopefully in there next guide they won't make suggestions like that for a constantly changing game and just stick to the basic premise that makes each job and not what the community at the time feels it should be doing. (and in the case of BST, that which never was till they made it that way from all the noobs XD "BST leaches your party EXP don't party with it!")

I'm in favor of this, as long as the general style is similar to a tourist's guide (disclaimer that information may be out of date, moderately irrelevant commentary about things, and the like).

In fact, I'll volunteer Jinte to help with it.

LOL. <3 those guys.

But Pikko...we already do, except the chapters are found in the different forum headings and the book tends to evolve, which is important for MMOs because their potential to evolve is such a huge part of their appeal.

@OP: The fact that MMOs evolve is the main reason why I wouldn't dream of paying for a hard copy of a strategy guide based on the state of a game at release. So much of what works and doesn't work is based as much (if not more) on how players make use of the game mechanics, not the way the game mechanics are described in a manual or a tooltip. Specific details like mobs/mob behavior/drops/quests don't take long to show up on forums and if the information that first shows up is wrong, it doesn't take long before it's corrected.

Brady is bad.

The reason that having an original guide is good is because they are a fun time capsule. Watching online games evolve over time is magical, and revisiting the original guides, game manual and box itself is charming.

If you install Warcraft III, don't patch it and play a custom game against the CPU, look what drops from all the creeps. Goblin Mines, huge exp tomes, all sorts of stuff that has long long been deemed imba and patched over. Good times.

For me the Brady guide was a part of the whole experience of playing FFXI (and an MMO) for the first time and it was a magical experience. There's no way I'm gonna start FFXIV without the Brady guide. It'll end up in the closet collecting dust for years, but only after I've read every word on every page and enjoyed it thoroughly.

No, I still have toilet paper.

Bunch of mother@#%^ing blasphemers in this thread. Here's the order:

Brady > SE > That kid that lives next door > lolwiki > allakhazam.

When people ask which came first, FFXI or The Guide, it's a rhetorical question. This ain't no egg«-»chicken deal.

Edited, Jun 4th 2009 1:50pm by Paskil