A website like wowhead but for FF14

[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.

[Ultimatecalibur]

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.

The decentralization is likely due to the sudden death of one of the big info sites towards the end of HW(?). At that time there existed a site (XIVdatabase?) with a very large and easily searchable database of gear, FATEs, instances, quests, mobs and NPCs than most of the western playerbase used heavily. One day the owner of the site stopped updating it, sold it to someone else and the new owner quickly shut the site down. Since that happened the information support portion of the playerbase has been a bit wary of going all in one basket.

[Enla]

The decentralization is likely due to the sudden death of one of the big info sites towards the end of HW(?). At that time there existed a site (XIVdatabase?) with a very large and easily searchable database of gear, FATEs, instances, quests, mobs and NPCs than most of the western playerbase used heavily. One day the owner of the site stopped updating it, sold it to someone else and the new owner quickly shut the site down. Since that happened the information support portion of the playerbase has been a bit wary of going all in one basket.

Yep I remember that. There's been other attempts since then like the Moogle Post, which imploded because one of the creators had some serious allegations levied against them, but almost all of them have gone up in flames in some way or another. Given how it's happened more than once and just how many people are content running individual sites for specific niches I doubt we'll ever get an all-in-one website for this game. Not without significant efforts.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Eorzeacollection - Glamour for days.

I can spend hours on this site looking at all the cool glamour Easily one of my favorites.

[Iscah]

Garlond Tools - Item database. Has several other functions but it's absolutely a life saver.
Consolegameswiki/gamerscape/lodestone - Jeeqbit and Anhra covered these.

Spelling check though - it's Garland Tools and Gamer Escape, though the search may find them regardless. I haven't tried.

[Enla]

Spelling check though - it's Garland Tools and Gamer Escape, though the search may find them regardless. I haven't tried.

It's appreciated. o7 I typed them out when I was drowsy and half asleep.