[Aku Hakujin]

If you haven't payed attention to this game till now. This is the thread that will catch you up on about 4 months of information gathering. Failure to use teh Googles and the following resources before asking in LS chat will yield a yellow card.



Databases

-Best maps
-Light Layout

Yellow Gremlin
-Dark Layout
-Better Disciple (Job) Reference Pages
-JSON/XML API Support

http://ffxiv.zam.com/
-Allakhazam from FFXI and earlier.
Had dats mined pretty early as well.

Maps
http://ffxivmaps.com/ which uses:
http://db.ffxivarchives.com/maps/ - The BEST maps of ALL zones. Think Google Maps + FFXIV. Street View coming soon.
http://rawrcat.com/ -Also has EPIC guides. Best city maps of NPC location.

Recipes
http://www.ffxivrecipes.info/ - Around since Beta Phase 1
http://www.ffxivorigin.com/db/search/ - Around since Beta Phase 1
http://ffxiv.zam.com...recipelist.html
http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipes
http://mog.eorzeaped...ategory:Recipes
http://db.ffxivarchives.com/recipes

Forums (Assuming everyone knows the big communities, these are the little smart ones.)
http://www.ffxivorigin.com/forums/ - Formed from SE Beta internal forums. Early users were only allowed access to "beta" forum by posting in private thread on SE's site.
http://forum.neko-se...isplay.php?f=54 -Regulars on bluegartr also post here.

IRC
Gamesurge: #ff14, #ffxiv, #ffxivarchives, #ffxivkashuan