Final Fantasy XI Atlas | 
 enlarge | Author: Ed Kern
Brand: Brady Games, Square Enix, Play Online
Category: Book
Buy Used: $32.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 358304
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0744004012
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.9325369
UPC: 752073004019
EAN: 9780744004014
ASIN: 0744004012
Publication Date: April 22, 2005
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Condition: Very nice copy. There is normal wear on the corners and cover of the book. The inside is clean and unmarked except for writing on page 140. Overall a very nice solid copy. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We ship daily.
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Product Description
BradyGames' Final Fantasy XI Atlas includes the following: Comprehensive resource detailing each area in this huge game.Maps are provided for every area including the cities, regions and dungeons throughout Vana'diel, and more.Notorious monsters and critical in-game characters are called out in each illustration.Region and dungeon-specific bestiaries for every monster.The Atlas will be packaged with a cool dust jacket featuring art by well-known Japanese illustrator, Yoshitaka Amano. This essential resource is a great value that's as useful as it is collectible.
Platform: PlayStation 2 and PC
Genre: MMORPG
This product is available for sale in the U.S. and Canada only.
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 Final Fantasy XI Atlas November 26, 2008
Final Fantasy XI Atlas Help with the game, the book is out dated, I'd look on line, for updated information.
 Its useful and thats what matters January 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes, ok, it doesnt have all maps, but what matters is it IS very useful, I play ffxi a lot and i use the atlas a lot, I recomend it to any player that can afford to buy it.
It's a supplemental guide, not a stand-alone strategy guide April 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book doesn't give as much information as the actual thick FFXI Strategy Guide. Heck, it's not even a strategy guide to begin with. It's a book that contains many of the maps of FFXI, both cities and dungeons. Take note, "many of the maps". There are a lot of missing maps and areas for some oddball reason.
The maps are personally drawn, meaning they don't use graphics from the actual maps from the game. This is good in some cases, especially the annoying maze-like Yuhtunga and Yhoator Jungles, where the actual map provided in-game does not include visible underground passageways, you can still get lost despite the map provided to you. The maps in this book include "dotted line" pathways just so you could "see" those underground passageways and where they are located on the map.
This may or may not be good for some of you, but it also has extra information and advice that you may or may not need, like Notorious Monster spawnpoints and an explanation on what these Notorious Monsters drop and why you need them (I call these monster drops "droppings"). It also has supplemental advice on where to buy good weapons, whether items are better bought in the Auction House or in NPC shops, the works. Personally I find these paragraphs a lot more interesting than the maps themselves.
Be mindful though, and I can't stress this enough. THIS IS NOT A STRATEGY GUIDE, BUT IT'S EXTREMELY USEFUL IF YOU BOUGHT IT TOGETHER WITH THE ACTUAL THICK FFXI STRATEGY GUIDE. Don't buy this alone unless you already own the FFXI Strategy Guide. If you do buy it but don't own the actual FFXI Strategy Guide then IMO it will definitely leave you hanging, but not necessarily a waste of money.
 Inexcusable; Brady should be ashamed November 7, 2005
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Do not waste your money on this steaming load. Not only is it missing a TON of maps (CoP zones, I can understand.. but no Boyahda, Quicksand, Onzozo, etc.?); for the maps it does have, that's just about all you get - a map. There's a little info on some NM pop locations, but that's it. This guide doles out useful information very sparingly. Not a single damn coffer pop location.
As if being an ATLAS WITHOUT MAPS wasn't enough, the guide is spotted with misinformation here and there. For example, don't try to use this guide if you need to go to a specific location in Western Altepa Desert - the grid is completely wrong.
The one useful thing you get from this guide is level ranges and aggro information for different mobs in different zones. Knowing whether raptors in the Valley link or not is a good thing.. for this, I give the Brady Atlas 1 star.
 Good, but not great. October 7, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This atlas, in my opinoin, is pretty good, but not complete at all. It does give you a lot of maps, but only the ones you start off with, or can buy/quest - none from coffers. (Maybe with the exception of Castle Zvahl, I can't remember how you get that map)It does give you a fairly accurate list of monsters and nms along with reccommended levels and some pop locations. Also, it does have maps of towns with some usefull NPC locations. So, if your a beginner, I would definetely reccomend it, since it can get you around for quite a few levels, but the more experienced players don't really need it, unless they really want to save a few gil by not buying maps.
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