Guides and other means to aid with progressing through fighting games is nothing new to the MMORPG community. They literally come hand-in-hand. Besides the official guides that is made available by the game producers, guides and walkthroughs can be easily found in forums, blogs and community sites. The same goes for Final Fantasy XIV.
Months before the official launch of the game, introductory guides are made available to gamers who keep a close eye on how the game progresses. The closer the official release date, the more detailed and topic specific guides become. Players can easily find different types of resources from a Final Fantasy XIV guide designed specifically to cover class skills and strategies to the more general Final Fantasy XIV guide.
Although the game no longer embrace the traditional concept of levels wherein, leveling up a character is practically the only way to move on in the game, physical levels is still implemented in FFXIV. How powerful a character becomes is influenced by class ranks and skill maximization. This hybrid system means Final Fantasy XIV leveling guides as well as skill guides are likely to become available to gamers as well.
The new guildleve system brought forth by Square Enix means quest walkthroughs and guides would also continue to prevail. With the new concepts introduced in this latest addition in the Final Fantasy Shooting Games series, it is predicted that a large number of gamers would resort to guides and walkthroughs.