Art Book, What About Instruction Book

Is there going to be some sort of users guide for Guild Wars, or is the Forums it. If so that would be cool, ive learned mostly everything from this site anyway, and so much more to learn. Playing my 1st BWE in march, i had absolutly no idea what i was doing, but picked it up rather quickly, i mean what true gamer actually reads the instructions before playing the game right ?
My 1st game was pong (nothing but 2 paddles and a white dot that bounced across the screen) who needed instructions? Then came Space Invaders wich had like a 4 page instruction book, that was mostly how to hook it up to your TV VHS antenna.

But no really, Is there going to be some sort of instruction book, to follow this game or is it just a online experience ?

Yes, I beleive it's been stated by Gaile at least once that there will be a manual

From the Fansite Friday #39.

Sweet Good read, thanks for the heads up. So the 1st manual is the picture book they were talking about in the Collectors Edition, or is this book in both retail and the CE ?

There is an Official Prima Strategy Guide for Guild Wars.. not the one in the preorder box. It's $20, and it ships the 19th (EBGames)

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categorie...g uild%20wars

A real gamer ALWAYS reads his manual. Why? Because you learn those little tricks, like key combos, that do useful things. I'm Diablo2 holding ALT did something and I used it all the time, but people who didn't read the manual lost out.

Always RTFM so you can pwnzor n00blets harder.

How effective are these guides for online games? I mean, don't they become obsolete pretty quickly as the game changes? And if things change from last beta to release, you already aren't getting the most for your money.

yeah I always wondered that too, it seems like guides for MMOs are somewhat pointless. They are released with or before the game and make predicitons about play styles, economy, and many other things that just turn out to be completely off. I don't think a strategy guide would really teach you anything that reading a good manual and playing for an hour couldn't teach you.

I think I should clarify something: There are actually four books and an on-line resource, too:

• The Game Manual that comes in the box -- has lots of lore and back story and it's really nice
• The Prima Strategy Guide - walkthroughs, builds, strategies, very detailed
• The Art of Guild Wars - the hardcover art book that comes in the Collector's Edition
• The Mini-Strategy Guide that was in the Preorder Package
• The On-line Manual

There, have I thoroughly confused everyone? I guess I should probably not mention the Quick Tips card, right?

Initially I thought there's only going to be an artbook, a printed manual and an online manual. 6 of them in total? Wow, now I feel spoiled..

Though I don't really think that people should be using Strategy Guides the first time that they're playing through a game (doesn't it take away from the experience and mystery of the game?), it's nice that there has been so much effort put into releasing these various books to the community. I'm sure a lot of people will jump on most or all of those books, if even just to support Arenanet and Guild Wars.

And to have a collection. Always nice to have a range of information and pictures.