If you're serious about getting better at Starcraft 2 so you can start competing at higher levels, then a strategy guide can save you a ton of time researching and figuring things out on your own. There's a lot to learn to master Starcraft 2, and relying on free information out there on the net isn't very reliable.

But if you want to buy a strategy guide, which one should you pick up? There's a bunch out there on the market and they all have different strengths and weaknesses. I've got just about all of them, so I want to give you the opportunity to learn about the various guides before you buy.

After checking out all of them, Joana's Starcraft 2 Strategy guide is definitely one of the best out there. If you haven't heard of Joana, he's helped thousands of gamers level up at record speeds in World of Warcraft. He's a pretty hard core gamer and has a way of breaking down information in an easy-to-understand format so you can get the most out of what he has to teach you. He's done his homework with Starcraft 2 and his guide can help you learn the in's and out's of the game.

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Strengths

Without a doubt, Joana's got the best Campaign strategy guide around so far. He's got actual video recordings of each mission that shows how it was beaten and how to get all the achievements on Brutal difficulty. He added in maps as well to show exactly where to go to get everything needed in each mission.

If you're into multiplayer, but don't have a very high rank on the ladder yet, you'll probably benefit from the extensive section in Joana's guide on the basics. He explains how the game works, what macro and micro are and how to do them both effectively. He's even got an area that will help you with any abbreviations that you might not understand in the Starcraft 2 universe.

As a more advanced player, I got a lot out of each of the race specific guides. Joana's Strategy Guide explains every unit in the game and the role they play in the game, what their strengths/weaknesses are and when to use them. Especially helpful are the sections on each matchup that you may face (for example as a Terran player I need to know 3 matchups: Terran vs Terran, Terran vs Zerg, & Terran vs Protoss). Strategies change depending on the race you're playing against, so knowing what your opponent will do is key if you want to win.

If you're into Team games and like 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4, Joana's Starcraft 2 Guide even has a section dedicated to team strategies. As of this writing it's not very extensive, but he says it will be updated more as time goes on.

Weaknesses

While still a great guide, Joana's Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide does have a few weaknesses that you need to know about before you buy it. First of all, it's a completely online guide, which means there's no PDF file or ebook to download that you can print out. This means that if you want it in printed form you'll have to copy/paste the info from the net into your own file.

He also formatted the guide a little funny where he has extremely long pages which makes the guide a little hard to navigate online. The nice thing about the guide being online is that it's going to be constanly updated even though there's no monthly fee, which is pretty cool.

As of this writing, the Campaign guide isn't quite done yet, but new missions are being added almost daily so I suspect that it won't be long before it's completed. Just keep in mind that if you need a strategy for the last mission and it's the day after I wrote this, you may have a little bit of a wait. =)

Final Thoughts

Joana's Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide is a solid collection of strategies and will help you get better at the game if you follow his advice. Though it's no perfect, for only a few bucks you can have a bunch of powerful strategies right at your fingertips that will help you increase your win/loss ratio online. Plus if you've got a pesky friend that you can't seem to beat and keeps talking smack, you'll be able to put him in his place. =)

And since it's being updated constantly, it's much better than buying one of those books at the store that will sit on your shelf and get old. Check it out through the link below and let me know what you think.

Click Here to Check Out Joana's Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide

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