Everquest Player's Guide: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: October 9, 2001

Welcome back to the world of Everquest, a multi-player fantasy role-playing game capable of supporting more than 1,000 online players per server. Prepare to enter an enormous virtual environment - an entire world with its own diverse species, economic systems, alliances, and politics. Choose from a variety of races and classes, and begin your quest in any number of cities or villages throughout several continents. Everquest: Trilogy--Getting Started includes everything new players need to enter this mysterious world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (October 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761537627
• ISBN-13: 978-0761537625
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #995,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for Everquest Newbies, March 18, 2002

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DaveTan "davetan" (Newport Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Everquest Player's Guide: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Everquest is so huge and complex that getting started with only the game provided quide is very frustrating. Before I got this book I spent hours buying spells only to find I couldn't use them on my particular character. The book itemizes and describes the spells and who can use them at what level up to level 10. It has maps, character creation guides, handy references for commands and emotes. It helped make the game much more enjoyable.

Why only 3 stars? Despite being 166 pages, it is still very thin on coverage of the game. Fortunately it does provide links to websites that literally have thousands of pages of info. You could simply search the web and get the info contained in this book there, but the book does compile the most critical starter info into a neat organized book.

As far as I can tell there are no other Everquest strategy guides (except the Luclin one) in print.

Worth getting unless you are on a really tight budget and prefer to spend your time hacking away at learning the basics or have the time to research on the web.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for beginners only, August 17, 2002

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Julio Soto (Lake in the Hills, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everquest Player's Guide: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This book says it is intended for beginners only, so that's what it is for. It gives you a lot of info, tips, and things you need to know as a new person playing this game without overwhelming you with hundreds and hundreds of pages.

The layout of this book basically covers what you need to know from levels 1 - 10, after that, you will need to get another source of information.

I particularly enjoyed the detailed info on characters, spells, tips, the Jargon Glossary (which is very good so you can understand the many many abbreviations used in the game), commands , emotes, and detailed maps. Well, That means I particularly enjoyed the whole book then.

I recommend this book for someone who wants to learn, but not have a huge 300 - 400 page book to have to sort through. This book about 160 pages, very illustrated, and easy to understand. I am happy i bought it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Certainly Worth The Price:), November 13, 2002

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Michael F Parsons (Riverview, New Brunswick Canada) - See all my reviews

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This book is a plus for a newbie on EQ and will easily aid the player on his quest and answer all question you have at the beginning.I was lost without it.I am certain in the future i will still refer to this book for the maps.