Others say...

"Quality Resource"
This game Guide is another quallity production from Prima that we have come to expect from them. I open it always during every mission and when exploring the land of Cantha.

I would highly recommend it's purchase. It's assets far outway it failings. That is to say, we cannot judge this guide poorly in the face of the game's rapid development.

There have been many Quests and changes added to the game sense this book was released this is how life goes in an MMO. It is to be expected. Where the Books lack newer quest information forums seem to pick up.

On a very positve note I found the mission maps easier to read then the ones they first developed for the main game. So that is at least something too.

Great Book
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"Pointless to buy -- information quickly is out of date"
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!

"Prima strategy guide for Guild Wars Factions"
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"
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".