Did the original official guide contain much lore?
 

Was thinking of picking it up online somewhere, but if all it really had was race stats etc it would be a waste of money since we have access to the wiki.

Anyone have this guide

The Prima's guides?

Meh a bit, and some little stories. It's still neat to have though, especially for nostalgia.

I picked up the Kunark and Luclin ones both for a combined $8 off Ebay maybe a year ago.

You could probably find a PDF somewhere... if you know where to look

the manual had a decent bit of it like 20pages of this stuff

http://oi46.tinypic.com/2ueplzr.jpg
http://oi50.tinypic.com/legps.jpg
http://oi46.tinypic.com/28i85z8.jpg

Any info in those that would still be useful in p99?

The Prima guide for EQ was outdated even as EQ went live (they write them months in advance).

Most of the info was false or just downright bad.

What a sham lol

Yeah Prima guides for MMOs are not a good idea.

it would be badass if someone made pdfs of those, just sayin.

The favorite part of the book I had (and still have) was the little blurbs about a gnome sneaking through an ogre city, or an erudite getting lost in the woods and barely escaping the sacrifice-seeking necromancers. If there is any interest I'll take photos of a bunch of them and upload them.