Guild Wars Factions (Prima Official Game Guide) Reviews

• Prima strategy guide for Guild Wars Factions

  
  By A13K9NXDUJR8KK on 2006-05-18
  This is a product you don't need to spend your money on.
  
  If you - like me - played the original game and bought the Prima guide and liked it - then you're probably moving on to Factions now and thinking about buying the new guide. Do move on to Factions, but don't buy the guide.
  As a more experienced player you don't need the basic stuff anymore and a lot of the advanced stuff you'll be looking for (where to capture elite skills, which bosses drop which green items) you won't find.
  What's more alarming is that even a lot of the stuff that was good in the old guide is gone. The new maps are poor (the collectors aren't marked for example) and the general description of the game is poor.
  The only worthwhile thing in the guide are the skill lists and even these are dated because Anet changed a lot of the skills recently (so no fault to Prima, but it still makes the guide less useful).
  So this product is a no go unfortunately.
  
  

• GW Game Guide from bad to worse

  
  By A2JBKT35YK1X0V on 2006-05-09
  Okay, base on comparsion on last chapter of Guild Wars game guide to this one, all I can say in is that this game guide was even worse than the last one. You can tell by just looking at the table of content.
  
  The following information that is lack from this game guide:
  
  Poor layout on the table of content
  Pull-out Map of Cantha did not even showed the name of each explorable area.
  Skill listing was okay except the layout was harder to look at it than the original Guild Wars game guide.
  Missing information on merchant item and incorrect information on the cost of Guild cape.
  Some of skill information was already outdated the date Factions released.
  
  Anet said they had someone write this game guide this time instead external writer, perhaps they should let external writer do it. Like what people say "leave it to the professional".
  
  

• Pointless to buy -- information quickly is out of date

  
  By A3PZB8KZU22LG1 on 2006-06-21
  If you have played Guild Wars, you probably already know that the game is constantly being updated. That makes strategy guides like this one pretty pointless. Even worse, there are plenty of websites dedicated to keeping this information up - for free. Google it, I use guildwiki.org for my information and it's 100% free and updated by players frequently.
  
  Don't waste your money on this guide. This is why people created fan websites!
  
  

• This Guide is Sooooooo BAD!

  
  By A31SQ9ZG9R0XXZ on 2006-08-20
  The Prima guide for Guild Wars Factions was the worst game guide book I've ever seen Prima produce. Don't waste your money -- in fact, don't even waste your time reading it if someone gives you a copy.
  
  

• lame lame lame and again LAME

  
  By A1RYZSEWOWCEVM on 2006-09-28
  I have NEVER been very impressed with the PRIMA guides and this is just another crummy example of what a terrible job they do, particularly with Guild Wars. I once bought one of their e-book versions and their stupid piracy protection was so hokey I ended up getting my money back. The content is very superficial. While they do a reasonable job of listing all of the skills and mobs in the game, if your hoping for some actual helpful hints on how to beat that tough mission (especially if your going at with just henchies), this guide is of zero use. There is practically no real mission specific information or hints. You would be much better off going to guildwiki or guildwars.gameamp.com or tentonhammer or just googling for what your after. You'll get much better information then this guide will give you.
  
  

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