A website like wowhead but for FF14

[Kileased]

It sounds like blasphemy mentioning WoW but I love the community site of wowhead. Is there something similar for FF14 to read up on boss mechanics and just looking at a database?

[KageTokage]

I don't think XIV has an "all in one" website like WoW does and has several specialized websites for different purposes including extreme/savage encounters.

[Ralph2449]

Depends on what version of the site, old Wowhead was useful for finding stuff and information.

New wowhead is literally article upon article "This is the meta specs you should play" "Here's why X is meta and broken and everyone plays it" "Top 10 broken meta specs" "X way to abuse/do thing faster" "Why your spec is weak/bad compared to meta" which makes the community's tryhard metaslaving even worse but hey, they got their clicks and that is what it seems they mainly care about these days.


Though tbh the game does a way better job at explaining things compared to WoW so i had definitely had less need to check external sites outside of finding stuff about questlines/mob locatiosn etc

[Jeeqbit]

It's usually not kept up to date, but there is consolegameswiki. Gamerescape is closer to being a database with accurate information such as potency, tooltips and so on, but doesn't necessarily go over mechanics much like consolegameswiki.

They both come up at the top on Google so just google whatever you want to know and they will usually answer it.

[Anhra]

It sounds like blasphemy mentioning WoW but I love the community site of wowhead. Is there something similar for FF14 to read up on boss mechanics and just looking at a database?

Lodestone is as close as you can get, but don't expect too much from it.

[Jeeqbit]

The lodestone is an excellent point.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...game_playguide
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../text_command/

[Jin-]

Nothing as good. FFXIV has pretty terrible community resources if you compare it to other big games. Maybe the Japanese have good sites, I don't know.

[Enla]

Nothing as good. FFXIV has pretty terrible community resources if you compare it to other big games. Maybe the Japanese have good sites, I don't know.

I think the issue is that nothing is centralized. The individual parts are all amazing and work really well, Garlond Tools is a life saver as is SkyWatcher and all the community driven guides on singular pieces of content, but no one group is interested in consolidating. Which I can't really blame them for recently as a LOT of it is behind discord servers like The Balance and copying everything to an actual website would be a pain. That said it's never been much of an issue in my experience because the tools that ARE there aren't too hard to find and are usually just a google search away.

That said OP:
The Balance Discord - Your one stop shop for progression and class mechanics.
Garland Tools - Item database. Has several other functions but it's absolutely a life saver.
Consolegameswiki/gamerescape/lodestone - Jeeqbit and Anhra covered these.
Skywatcher - Tells you the weather in game. Very useful for fishing.
FFXIVCollect - VERY useful for when you're hunting down specific titles and items.
LuckyBancho - Keeps tallies on server populations and achievements across said servers. Not as useful day to day but very useful if you want to check the health of any given server.
Youtube - Check out MrHappy and MTQ for encounter mechanics. Both of them have videos going back to ARR and both are really good about staying on top of current content. MTQ takes longer but her guides are usually more concise, but MrHappy is usually a good quick alternative these days.
Eorzeacollection - Glamour for days.

Everything else you can generally find via the Reddit as I can almost guarantee someone has made a gigantic google doc for whatever you're curious about.

[Rilifane]

I'd also add:
1) teamcraft.
While not really a database it's a great tool for experimenting with crafting rotations and stats aswell as creating crafting lists for a neat overview of all the materials needed and how to acquire them and setting an unlimited amount of alarms for timed nodes with node locations precisely listed.
2) ff14housing
A database for alll things housing with a picture of how each item looks ingame and data on how to acquire it

[Catwho]

Other ones besides those already mentioned that I have in my bookmarks:

FFXIV Crafting / Crafting as a Service: Recipe builder. Lets you build a block of things to craft and tells you exactly what you'll need to make it
Cat Became Hungry: Fishing database
Ariyala's Toolkit Hunts: Hunt tracker for each server
ARR Triple Triad: Like XIV Collect, but focuses on the TT cards
Lalachievements: Achievement tracking per server based on Lodestone data. Also tracks some collectibles like XIV Collect.