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Useful Guides and Helpful Links
Work In Progress
These sites are so good you could very well only visit them and have good access to information about the majority of the game. It would serve you in good stead to go ahead and bookmark each of these.
Garland Tools
Includes items, crafting lists, and tons more also includes links to other major resource centers. Even has a method to determine what gear NPCs are wearing. Timers and locations for Unspoiled, Ephemeral, and Legendary gathering nodes. Fishing timing windows, bait, other fishing resources
GoCombat and Questing are a large part of the core of the game. The listed sites and guides have good information about these aspects of gameplay.
Basics
The Hunt
ARR Relic and HW Anima
Deep Dungeon
Tomestone System
Blue Mage spell and skill aquisition and guides to the Masked Carnivale and other BLU content.
Blue Mage (BLU)
Crafting Disciples of the Hand (DoH), gathering Disciples of the Land (DoL), and the market board (MB) serve as the center of the in-game economy. The following links and guides will keep you busy. Also note the guide to earning 'green', or 'new to the economy', gil. That guide can help you to building your initial bankroll to fund a gathering or crafting career.
Crafting and Desynthesis
Gathering General
Earning Gil
Glamour, as well as all the assorted mini-games, collections, and the Gold Saucer itself can very well be the true end-game for many of us. Some guides and info about these distractions that can easily become main gameplay.
Glamour and Screenshots
Collections - Minions, Mounts, Orchestrion
Triple Triad
GATEs
Mahjong
Housing is tied in many ways to the Free Company system. Locked behind property ownership lies gardens for both the individual and FCs. Also, the home or apartment owner can take advantage of stables to train or color a chocobo companion. Companies additionally have access to the workshop and the airships and submersibles that are a part of that system.
Housing
Chocobo Companion
Gardening
Airships, Submarines, and Company Workshop
Guides or information about customizing the UI and the macro system.
Macros
While many players are interested in the lore some will take it even further and incorporate it into in-game roleplaying. Whether a fan of the story or a budding new roleplayer there should be some good information in the following links to brush up on your Eorzean history and culture.
Roleplaying
Lore
There are quite a few Streamers and other Social Media stars in the FFXIV community. Ranging from pure comedy to focused guides on gameplay, and everything between and more, these links should get you started. There are many more great personalities out there.
Guides
Comedy