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Endwalker is nearly here and we've been putting some work into ensuring that you can all find the guides you're looking for as quickly and easily as possible!

As many of you likely already know, given the lack of a PTR or Beta testing phase in Final Fantasy XIV, the structuring and creation of guides for the game works somewhat differently than it does for many of the games we covered previously, such as World of Warcraft.

Many of the job guides, for example, are made over the course of weeks of testing post-release, with certain aspects being more difficult/more time-intensive to test, which posed us with somewhat of a problem. For WoW, we always made sure that our guides were "ready" on day 1, with updates being made and deployed shortly before the patch or expansion went live, but that's not a possibility here.

Instead, we are going to be utilising a "badge" system moving forward, where we will be tagging job guides as one of three options:

  1. EW Ready - these guides have been updated and completely deployed, with all necessary pages, and as much information as possible. In this context, the guides may still get updated as new theorycrafting or changes happen, but we would consider them, as the name suggests, ready.
  2. WIP - these guides are actively being worked on and updated, and there is a possibility that the information in them is either from a previous patch (as will be the case for the 5.5 guides we currently have live), or that they are missing some pages (most guides will be missing melding recommendations until it can be theorycrafted further).
  3. Coming Soon - these guides currently do not have any pages posted for them, but are still being worked on and will be posted, or partially posted, as soon we can!

With these badges and the guides accompanying them, it's possible that certain guides may not be of the quality you have come to expect from us in the past - there might be pages missing from job guides, there might be more detailed sections missing, but we wanted to make sure that we allow our writing team the possibility of putting out pieces of work as it gets completed, and to allow for our users to also be able to find as much content as possible on the site. We simply thought it was better to have some of a job guide, rather than none of it.

The final badge that you may notice is the "New" badge, which will be used on the most recent guides we have posted on the site, so you can quickly find new content!

I really hope that this will help with the release of the guides post-Endwalker and ensure that you can feel confident in the information you find on the site, with a proper overview of the "state" of the job guides at any point. 

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