[Dragar]

I play mostly CBM and still refer to the manual all the time. Items and spells are the major things you look at in the manual, and not that much has changed, particularly items. Even in terms of spells, it is mostly just research level that has changed, not effect. And you pretty quickly get to know what the major level changes are

There would only be a few specific changes in CBM other than pretenders that could ever really render a strategy guide invalid, such as use of Carrion Woods and Call Lesser Horror. For the most part everything still applies in principle