FFXilicious

We’ve linked to it before, but have never mentioned it in full. FFXIAH is a revolutionary website, taking real-time Jeuno/Whitegate auction house data, and dumping it into the website. It gives a new meaning to convenience, almost eliminating long, boring runs to the Auction House just to find the price on something. I’ll go over the website in a more detailed perspective below.

Features

Item Pages

FFXIAH is full of features, it’s got more than it needs really. It obviously has the AH history, listing the date, seller & buyer, and how much it was sold for. The history will go back 25 sales, farther than the in-game AH’s meager 10 sales.

You’ll also find plenty of information that you don’t really need, but it’s there. You’ll find information such as the average price, cross-server prices, and a price history graph. You’ll also find a real-time counter of how many of a certain item are in stock, a very useful tool. You’ll also find links to informational sites on an item, most commonly the past-mentioned FFXIClopedia.

You’ll also find comments, which can be given a good or negative feedback, similar to systems used on YouTube and Digg. You’ll also see information regarding xNM’s, whether they be BCNMs, KSNMs, or ENMs, it will tell you where if it drops in any of them. You’ll notice that there is also a built in Bazaar feature, which is separate from the in-games, where you can advertise items you are selling. The Wanted feature functions similar except, instead of selling the item, you are interested in buying it.

Lastly, you’ll see at the bottom right of all item pages, a crafting section. Displayed in it will be any recipes that the item is used in, or is made with. It will display all the ingredients and their prices at the Auction House, then add them up, giving you a total cost of the ingredients. You can cross-check this with the cost of the item you are making, to find out if you will profit from the item or not. The one flaw is that you can cannot display NPC prices, so sometimes an item could profit were you to buy the materials from a vendor. Overall, it is an extremely useful feature for crafters.

Recipes Section

We touched on it a little above, in the item pages, but the crafters get a whole section to themselves. Inside the Recipes section, you will find every single item that is possible to craft, from level 1 to level 100. You can use the search function to find a certain item, and find out the same information you see on the item pages. This is a very useful tool for browsing for profitable items to craft, making it just a little bit easier.

Bazaar/Wanted Sections

Two very basic, and almost identical sections, but quite useful. You’ll find a table that lists all the necessary information on one page (unless it goes to multiple pages after a certain number of listing get reached, I’m not sure on this), and all the columns are sortable, a nice touch. You can find listings for different servers by changing the server in the drop down box above the search boxes.

xNM/Assault Section

The xNM section, as touched on slightly in the Item Pages, displays all the xNM’s in the game, be they BCNMs, KSNMs, etc. You’ll find a listing of all the drops in a certain xNM, the maximum value of the drops you can get (providing they were sold on the Auction House, under the current rate), you’ll find the Minimum profits, and the Average. Also included is the information links you’ll find on the item pages, generally linking to FFXIClopedia. And you’ll of course find Comments and Screenshots (we haven’t mentioned Screenshots, but they are also a very nice feature, and self-explanatory).

You’ll find a similar Assault section, where you’ll find the same information that was seen in the xNM section, but also a price/points ratio, that displays how much value you get for how many points you’ve spent, provided the item can be sold on the Auction House.

Conquest Section

The conquest section is an awesome little section. Basically, it displays all the items you can purchase using Conquest Points from your nation’s guards. Selling CP items can be an easy way to make money, and this feature will help you decide what the best item to buy and then sell on the AH would be. You’ll find the same ratio you found on Assault section.

Relics Section

This is a very neat little section, that really doesn’t have much to do with the sites intended purpose, but it’s pretty interesting. You’ll find a breakdown of how many people own certain relics, the latest people to obtain a relic, and total currency spent. Maat’s Cap isn’t displayed here, but it counts in a user’s relic section, and has a list of people who own it displayed on it’s item page.

Achievements Section

This section is also very interesting, although the results of it aren’t to be taken 100% seriously. Basically, it displays the top players. Everyone get’s a place, overall, and for their server. This rating depends on all of your characters stats, from crafting to job levels. The reason these rankings shouldn’t be taken very seriously, is that it only counts those who have signed up on the website, verified their character, and placed their linkshell community link in their profile. Otherwise, FFXIAH cannot gather the necessary information about your character. It has plenty of fun options for sorting and finding players, and is very fun to browse.

Guild Pattern Section

The guild pattern section is a great little section for crafters. You’ll find the necessary guild point item to turn in for the current day, the point values, among other stuff. I haven’t used it much yet, so I can’t say much about it, but as a crafter myself, it is helpful.

Database Section

The database section is simply statistics regarding FFXIAH and the game itself. You’ll find a breakdown of how many characters and transactions are on each server, the top users and commenters on FFXIAH, and a little box of total stats on the far right. The character count is not 100% accurate, however, as for a player to be entered into the FFXIAH database, they must have made at least 1 transaction at the Jeuno/Whitegate Auction House, and there are always players who are just starting out.

The site also includes a blog, which lists their latest updates and news, and a forum, which is very nicely integrated directly into the site, and includes many forums for discussion, including a Japanese forum.

You’ll also find that different Polls are always being ran by FFXIAH, and their results.

Usability

FFXIAH is extremely simple to use, though the amount of information it provides can be daunting. Everything is laid out nicely, in simple tables and forms, and you’re rarely wondering where something is. It’s also fast and streamlined, and not bloated with images and ads. The only thing that could be said is that character verification is a bit annoying, as you have to go on the game and purchase a single crystal for a set amount of gil from the Auction House, and than it can take a bit for your character to enter the database, but it’s a small downside.

Aesthetics/Speed

FFXIAH looks great. It’s not filled with crap, and presents everything through simple tables. It’s easy to read as well. It may be a little simplistic for some, but I think the simplicity is a huge upside.

The site is always fast and experiences little downtime or bugs. The developers are always adding new features and content, and making sure it runs smoothly.

 

FFXIAH is great website, we have to give it props for having no advertisements, as that is generally a big thing that detracts from a website’s quality. It’s always getting new features, and you’ll always be finding uses for it. The site is truly a genius idea. We’re sure you’ll end up bookmarking this one!