FFXIV Wiki:Status effect icon revamp

Project description: Rework how status effects and their icons are presented on the wiki.
Status: In progress
Members: Erin Umbreon (talk), Gurgum (talk)
Discussion: Talk page, Discord

Overview

This project is taking up space in my mind as "the status effect overhaul" but really is about several distinct topics:

The current {{status effect}} icon template has issues.
- Having to specify "buff" or "debuff" every time you use an icon is annoying.
- The current system, where we have a small hardcoded list of names and everything else has to be specified by filename, is not super intuitive for editors.
- I (erin) have been working on {{game icon}} for a bit now, and it works for basically everything except status effects; it would be nice if it worked for status effects too.
We don't currently have status effect descriptions on the wiki.
- Is this even something we want to change? What use would it have?
The list of status effects on Status effects should be more comprehensive, and ideally not be manually maintained.

Erin Umbreon (she/it • talk) 18:19, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

☐ Decide on the overall strategy for status effect data going forward.
- Discussion - no consensus yet. Please take a look and contribute your opinion, and add yourself to the member list of this project if you want.
☐ List out what needs to happen next based on that decision.