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Final Fantasy XI Official Strategy Guide for PS2 & PC (Spring 2004 Version) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Lummis
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 166044
Media: Paperback
Edition: Spring 2004 Version
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0744003687
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.932
UPC: 752073003685
EAN: 9780744003680
ASIN: 0744003687
Publication Date: April 5, 2004
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Product Description
BradyGames' FINAL FANTASY XI Official Strategy Guide (for PS2 and PC) provides extensive character strategy. Crafting guilds for those following the path of a crafter. Comprehensive weapon, armor, and accessory tables. Complete bestiary for the monster-rich areas in the world. Plus, spell lists, skillchain chart, potions and meal effects, area, dungeon, and city maps! This Signature Series guide includes a special cover treatment, bonus content and a premium item. This product is available for sale in the U.S. and Canada only.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Excellent for begginers December 3, 2008
A great choice for begginers, though most of the game itself is self-taught and making friends always helps to move things along... Excellent purchase for me.
Use the Internet Instead December 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For one of my favorite games, I really don't like to bash it like this. However, this guide was, and is even moreso now 3 years later, pathetic. Back in the day, it was decent, but the lack of maps, real strategy for quests and the exclusion of things including skill caps for crafting really killed this. Not to mention there are only strategies listed for missions until you reach Rank 5. There's still 5 more levels to be reached afterwards.
To add insult to injury, there's nothing on any of the expansions, and at the time of this guide's release, Rise of the Zilart had already been released, yet there was no mention of the Zilart missions here. While it's understandable there wasn't anything for Chains, Treasures, or Wings, they still could've included something for this, let alone continuing the trend of releasing new volumes of the guide quarterly to keep players up to speed, but alas.
There is no mention of Dynamis, Beseiged or Sky, as well as guides for Level Limit Breaks.
I've come to love Brady Games and, while I do get some help out of this guide, I would much rather use a website like Killing Ifrit, Allakhazam, or FFXIclopedia.
***3 stars for occsional usefulness***
FFXI Guide for Beginners June 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This item has helped me a lot during my time in FFXI. YES the game is updated beyond this version, YES the information is inaccurate, but this guide has saved me tons of trouble, time, and effort for BASIC beginner information such as LVLs of Magic, Armor, Weapons, and Weapon Skills. There is even a neat little guide on what weapons skills link together to preform Skillchains! All in all I've been using this guide since the beginning and believe it is worth every penny. If you buy this guide, I HIGHLY recommend also buying the FFXI Atlas Guide as well. Both of these items make entering the FFXI world that much easier and more enjoyable from beginning to end game.
 just because i cant use 0 stars March 11, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
please dont buy this , it keeps me company on the toilet sometimes , but thats about it
Two Years Later and I Still Use This Thing...Sometimes. April 21, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Even though it is two years old (and I've been playing for about that amount of time) it still has some helpful info. Of course it doesnt have any of the recent higher level things because when this guide came out there were'nt that many high level players. Also SE does not want to give away too much end game information. SE wants people to keep paying money to find out for themselves. Even though some of the quest are a bit dated it gives me a starting point. Without this guide to show me certain quests I wouldn't even know where to start to look online for it. Oh, and about the job info, the guide was written the way SE intented the jobs to be used, not the way the players use them now (Ninja was never supposed to be a tank you know.) But anyway...to the real points >>>
1) The guide IS 2 years old going on 3.
2) It does have a nice list of guild recepies. (I have level 49 Clothcraft and I love this list!) (However there are NPC's in game that can tell you everyhting you can make up to your current skill level.) On a side note: The way you actually have to fish has changed because of an update, so ask a fellow fisherman for help if you are just learning :-)
3) It has a decent mob list. No mobs from the past 2 years. Most of the ones that people level off of are in there, and it does show weaknesses,how they aggro, their jobs and their levels. Has no Notorious Monster information though.
4) Has a good gear list too. Yes you can see it in Jeuno if you just search through the Auction House. But it's still nice to have on hand at any given moment. It shows which jobs can use the gear and all the status info on the items. It also shows some Rare/EX gear which cannot be found at the Auction House.
5) Only covers the orginal version with the Rise of the Zilart expansion pack (although Zilart Missions are not actually mentioned in the guide. Which would have given away secrets to the then new expansion pack at the time.) It does have a decent quest list for these cities (I still can't do some of them because my fame is too low XD)
6) There is a skillchain chart. However it does not show all the skillchains (even some of the lower level SC's are missing.)
7) Only has maps of the 4 moajor cities. These maps are easily obtainable in the game itself. It does have some key NPC locations based on the quests that the guide provides so you dont have to hunt for Tapoh Lihzeh (she is an NPC that provides a low level repeatable quest that can actually help build Windurstian fame)or any other strangely named NPCs.
9) Some of the job info is no longer correct due to updates in gameplay. Most of these updates are on the advanced (unlockable) job classes, so by the time newer players are introduced to these jobs they should already have been made aware of these incorrections.
In all this is a fairly decent guide that is still useable (for how much longer is unknown.) I would still recommend it to new players ONLY if they can buy it at the suggested retail price of 19.99 or lower.
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