Bro the way you literally went right into the info and not just gassing up the first 1-2mins of the video is such a breath of fresh air! I started 14 like 7ish years ago, and just got back into it. There is SO much I need to learn.
Best setting I've found is in Character Configuration > Control Settings > Mouse > Mouse Wheel Settings You can set the mouse wheel to scroll through both the party and enemy list with either shift, alt, or control. Much faster than trying to click on something in a raid, important when there's a time-sensitive heal or interrupt that needs to be done.
Despite playing for 10 years and nearing 1k days of playtime this video actually made me go into the settings and disable things that started bothering me for quite some time!
1000 days of playtime and not knowing how to use the website after each patches to read out notes and what's added/changed? have you just been running a useless PC AFKing in limsa?
I wish Summoner had the ability to choose summon size by player. I'd love to have my own summons be set to large to be as accurate to the primals as possible, but I don't want that to be for ALL summoners on my screen, just me.
The most important thing about the tab targeting is that ignore depth will target everything on your screen from left to right, while cone will target things in front of you from closest to farthest.
I switch between the settings on the fly as I have two different macro buttons. One turns Show All and the other is Show Limited for things like alliance raids.
This ground targeting circle limitation thing helps me out immensely. I never used the ninja teleport skill cuz it was always a pain to set up the proper distance but I couldnt do so in snap choices. this makes it so its always at its max range if need be and I can use it whenever now. Thank you!
4:20 The one small disadvantage to having the "press twice" option enabled is for spells like WHM's bell which can be triggered again once placed. So if you're spamming your key to place the bell, you may accidentally also end up using it early.
this was mitigated in an earlier patch by having the skill unactionable for like 1 second after you drop it, you have to really be spamming it without paying attention for a while for that to be an issue.
@@milekmalik8368 The button on the hot bar where the spell is assigned. As a WHM, if Asylum is on 2, press it once for the large reticle to display, then press 2 again to land it rather than clicking on the ground.
For number 6, you can also create a macro to snap the camera angle to certain angles without panning it slowly. the macro is simply /tiltcamera (insert number). and it ranges from 0-100.
Just use the mouse to pan the camera. You can whip the camera as slowly or as quickly as you like. Hold down the right mouse button and move your hand. Assign strafe buttons to the two buttons on the left of the mouse and you can strafe while panning the camera. All movement and camera direction is 100% controlled my the mouse on my setup. All combat and jumping is the keyboard. There is no faster way to move around in combat.
Thank you for that targeting explanation. I recently came back to ff14 to play Endwalker. I had upgraded to an ultrawide monitor during my break and now have this constant issue with things I don't wanna target getting targeted. Ultrawide gives me extra horizontal vision which means I often target some mob on the other side of the planet. Will definitely be using the cone targeting now.
For the battle effects on, I created to macro buttons that allow me to turn other player battle effects up and down between show all and show limited depending on situation and on the fly. I love seeing all of the battle effects, but sometimes it becomes overwhelming to see all of them whe you are in higher end content like raids.
The absolute best tweak I made was splitting up the Target Info in the hud config. Making your target's cast bar really big and right in the center of the screen makes it so much easier to see boss mechanics and respond accordingly. As a Sage, I can see when the boss is about to hit us with a party/raid-wide attack and cast Eukrasian Prognosis and Kerachole to prepare for it (or Panhaima for those multi-hit raid-wide attacks.)
So I have a bad eye, my right one. I had acid splashed in it which burned my cornea but i healed from that. Later on i got a tiny piece of metal dead center so now my right eye is really blurry. This makes it so hard to find the mouse pointer. That sonar will help me out so much, thank you for that tip!
Wow, the targeting stuff actually makes a huge difference for me. I was so annoyed by how targeting worked in this game. Thank you! Also, I was wondering how people made their summoner pets so big, so thank you for that as well.
With this kind of stuff, might be worth putting out a new video like this going over stuff anyway even if it weren't for the new features added since, if it helps get this info out to the people that could use it. I watched your old video going over some of this way back when I started playing back in august, but I realize now that I had forgotten to actually fiddle with some of the settings you talked about, so it's been a helpful refresher.
I've been playing for 10 years, and I never knew about the second tip. It was so frustrating, that I'm just embarrassed that I never tried to look for a way to fix it. Thank you so much for the helpful video!
I'm sure it's been mentioned already being the release of this video was 6 months ago, but it is entirely possible to move around you camera angle on console similar to the way you did @ 7:20 (just in case it wasn't mentioned or someone else was wondering)
The only time I've found a problem with auto target is ranged physical DPS where I'm just taking out a few mobs for quest or hunt log and I then have to spend an extra few moments killing a mob I didn't want to target in the first place, but that is literally a skill issue. If playing controller, I'd recommend finding a good camera angle for combat and making a macro to change your camera angle when you're in duty or fates. /tiltcamera [subcommand] →Adjust 3rd person camera angle settings. >>Subcommands: [angle number] Set 3rd person camera angle to the specified setting. Settings available: 0-100.
Role sorting DPS to put those able to also rez on top is great if you also use a rez "all" macro that tries 2 -> 3 -> 4, etc or just keeping them in one area to always go to is beneficial in trying to recover and avoid a wipe. I also tend to sort roles caster to melee for easier selection of card target when playing AST. I'd love to enable all, but there really should be a setting to have aoe warning areas take precedence or similar so they don't become not visible behind the other effects. Its the only reason I have it disabled as I miss way too many when all are enabled.
Does the pet size thing affect how other people see your pets or is it a only you thing ? If I set up the pet size to L, and my friends never touched the setting and it's on whatever the default is, are they going to see it differently instead of my Large option ?
One annoyance of the legacy camera is that it tends to angle you upward or downward while in flight and you have to land somewhere and take flight again to cancel it. "Auto-target according to priority" honestly just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen so I'd rather keep it turned off. The "enable clicking on field" option sounds inconvenient to not have enabled tbh, and specifically because it doesn't apply only to enemies. And I actually find it useful to have unassigned slots showing because it lets me know exactly how many I have available if I want to add in an emote, a macro, or whatever else. Other than those, I agree with most of your recommendations.
I don't get why would I use standard in any scenario if the character turns around to attack...I guess that's just a preference thing. Btw on this setting 6:29 : I find it very useful to disable right clicking on allies, I never, ever want to click on allies (I do it via party list) and I move the camera all the time for any reason, I used to click on allies all the time in battle by moving the camera which interrupted combos, spells... With this the problem is gone PD: You can still click them with left click
holy shit thank you for the pet size command. I despise how big summoner's pets are by default. It's insane they aren't considered battle effects. Especially when they aren't your own.
My preffered alternative to the mouse sonar: there is an option in System Configuration to increase the size of the cursor. With the sonar I couldn't find a convenient keybind that wasn't already used for something else, so I still had trouble finding my cursor fast enough when I needed it With the Large mouse size (only the first size up from ), I never even lost the mouse cursor again.
Well, you seem like someone who likes tweaking every little setting until everything's perfect... much like myself. So I was wondering, is there an actual reason behind having your own name constantly floating in the middle of your screen or are you just a bit forgetful? (Sorry, pet peeve of mine.)
I know this is weird and definitely personal preference, but when doing combat I get a weird anxiety when I dont have a target so if you are in an encounter that has pyretic and don't want to remove the target you can sheathe your weapon and it will accomplish a similar effect, you just have to remember to wait out the pyretic effect before hitting another weaponskill/spell. I believe the default keybinding is z and for me this is easier to reach than trying to press esc.
as a healer or tank, i suggest putting dps on a different color, because red is also the default color of the engaged enemy.. also different from your alliance color.. so i put my dps on yellow cause my alliance is on orange..
For role sort, you can also change the job order to match buff priority, like having SAM at the top of the dps section if youre playing dragoon or dancer
I believe the game automatically sorts DPS with melee on top and ranged on the bottom by default. But yeah, this could be handy if you want to prioritize certain classes above others. Or if you're in a raiding static and want to ensure where each player is going to be in your party list.
I want to come back to the game but I'm waiting for them to condense the combo abilities like in PvP. There is no need to have 3 different skills. A man can wish
That clicking option is a god send, so many times have I been in a fight and suddenly stopped targeting the boss because I clicked to move the camera which made me lose a gcd before noticing.
Changing either engaged enemy or DPS role colors to be different is pretty essential though because by default they're the same color red and it makes it hard to see the enemies among all your melee in big trash pulls.
I knew about all of these except mouse sonar. While I won't need it too often, occasionally I lose my cursor in especially chaotic fights and this'll be great to help me get situated again. Thanks!
So that's what "/petsize all small" does. FC members were talking about that the other day, but I wasn't able to get clarification because I might have been in a duty or something. Anyway, that's sooo helpful because I was just wishing I had a way to hide summoners' egis. Thanks! I'm gonna try some of the other settings too.
Changing camera angle is very helpful especially when you are in actual duty because of wide range vision. The only downside is when RP because the skill UI covering almost half of your WoL legs. Many recommend around 65/100 or more If you can make change with macro, please share it. It's quality of life feature we need
My recommendation is a separate hud layout for rp. I personally have different layouts for instances, pvp, and rp/exploring. I then have different camera tilt macros set up for whatever situation.
Sorting party list by role is pretty important. If you are DPS and you use the default option the list will be ordered YOU > tanks > healers > DPS. For this round of raiding in particular where you have to constantly check party debuffs by role, you'd want to sort your list so that all members are lined up by role.
I knew most of these, but mouse sonar might unironically be a good option for me. I sometimes just completely lose track of where my cursor is in the heat of combat.
Lots of option I had went through but lots that I had missed like the bigger cooldowns and the targeting, now I fully understand this really recaps everything very well explained especially for my basic levels of english :) loved it!
tfw after 13K hours of game time, I play with a super cluttered UI, full effects, maximum sized minions, and none of the added bonuses mentioned here and tbh I prefer having them set to default settings. Am I weird?
In regard to the special effects options being show, it is limited to just battle effects. I turned mine on “show limited” and it turns off the ! symbol when you’re fishing! So if you don’t have your vibration on your controller, or your volume high, you’re not going to know you’ve caught a fish. I found that kind of frustrating lol. Would be better if we could CHOOSE which effects to limit.
I just recently came across the Show Limited Effects for when I run raids. Jesus Christ was it a huge difference. Like it's cool we're all together kicking ass but I don't want to see 12 explosions and shit while trying to see the boss attack lines. I'll keep that shit to show all for dungeon runs ❤
Hey, really useful and helpful for someone who's been playing since 2019 and hasnt meddled with the settings because he's too chicken-shit XD thank you so much pal, big love from Scotland ^_^
I have been wishing for the ability to make macros to just attack the closest target when nothing is selected for years like WoW has. Now I feel dumb seeing it has been an option. This is going to make my life so much easier thank you so much for this video! So many things I am going to use from it.
Legacy movement has its perks in camera independent movement, standard has the perk of movement independent rotation. FOr mechanics like eden shiva being able to turn around without sliding is really nice. everything else is personal preference
Excuse me but i shall have my Bahamut as large as possible thank you very much. Jokes aside, this was a nice refresher as i lost all my configurations recently and was trying to get everything back into shape.
Thanks. I already configured pretty much most of these, but the mouse sonar was really nice. My eyes are pretty bad and when I'm tired it happened quite often that I just lost my mouse cursor. Having it on middle click is a really nice addition.
One other nice thing about tab targeting. It always cycles through targets from left to right. If you however press shift-tab it cycles from right to left.
Thank you for the SMN minion size... people need reminding that it's on their settings, not the summoners. I'm a SMN main and I can't tell you how often some one in an Alliance raid rants abut our pets being so big and they can't see. I wish the default was small, or it changed to small if you aren't on the SMN class... but that's just me. Good video, I might have to try some of these settings tomorow (it's bed time now)
legacy controls are where it's at, i was very happy to learn about this probably from your last video. i think i'm gonna setup the sonar thing, one of the perils of playing at 4k i find is it's EXTREMELY easy to lose the mouse and it's pretty annoying when it happens mid combat
Not sure about the rest of it but the chest piece is either the Diadochos Jacket of Fending (Lvl 90; crafting) or the Ornate Diadochos Jacket of Fending (Lvl 90; Khloe), both share the same model. I know this is a month old comment but I spent way too long tracking this piece down for myself.
I've played this game virtually since it came out and I didn't know like 80% of these these options despite how many times I've been through those menus. I'm kinda mad about that. I'm surprised they don't have an auto-target function in the list that targets lowest HP so if you don't have a target selected it will automatically choose the enemy with the lowest HP %. Good for DPS trying to thin out mobs. MOUSE SONAR. I've been wanting that for years and now I'm doubly mad I didn't know about it. I have it activated in windows for specifically that reason
I personally kept Unassigned slots on but THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing that menu so I could disable "display hotbar number" and "enable hotbar cycling button" I cannot tell you how many times I've gone to click my first spell and accidentally overshot my cursor and cycled to another hotbar
One more tips for Movement Types section. Keybind > Movement > Put A/D key on Strafe Left/Right instead of Turn Left/Right So your character would straightly move to left right instead of turn around
I tried using legacy movement, but after 2k hours I'm so used to flicking the camera around to run backwards that I can't play any other way. I have Q and E bound to hotbar slots, so to strafe I right click to hold the camera and use A or D. Probably strange, but it feels good for me.
I strongly agree with the effect... when you have a full raid using sparkling techniques it is just unplayable XD Plus you can't see the enemy AOE and this bad !
I think myself as experienced player and i have been playing FFXIV little over 3 years now and still there was things i did not know. Im gonna post this to my FC discordd server so that the all sprout members doesnt have to wait for years before finding these quality of life options!
So, Im actually the exact opposite of your "clicking off the target". I use right click to move my camera and not left click. i actually use left click to stop targetting things sometimes. so i want it the opposite of how you have it lol. Role sorting: i wish the game let me NOT be the first person on the list. I ALWAYS want it to be the tank first healer 2nd dps last. If im a dps i want to be at the bottom of the list for instance not the top.
As a NIN main, the 'Limit ring movement to targeting range' option is pretty big for me. I've dealt with it this entire time with no problem, but I feel like movement will feel a bit better with that enabled going forward. Thank you.
I didn't see the video yet but I need to write first THANK YOU for not go roundabout with the presentation "you read the title, you know why are you here so let's go" sublime
Is there a way to keep the camera behind you at all times? What I mean by that is that I use a joystick and have to use two of the thumb sticks to move around. I want to be able to turn left and right with the camera behind me. Set up the camera sucking around the character. Thank you 😁
Finally ... I hate this little pets of summoner. Finally I can make them large like in the trial. Now I have an excuse when I lay on the ground with my dragoon.
Bro the way you literally went right into the info and not just gassing up the first 1-2mins of the video is such a breath of fresh air! I started 14 like 7ish years ago, and just got back into it. There is SO much I need to learn.
Best setting I've found is in Character Configuration > Control Settings > Mouse > Mouse Wheel Settings
You can set the mouse wheel to scroll through both the party and enemy list with either shift, alt, or control.
Much faster than trying to click on something in a raid, important when there's a time-sensitive heal or interrupt that needs to be done.
this is amazing, thank you!
Despite playing for 10 years and nearing 1k days of playtime this video actually made me go into the settings and disable things that started bothering me for quite some time!
likewise :)
Sheesh 20k+ hours
@@miweneiaThis is actually insane.
bro 20k hours 💀 i need to see ur account
1000 days of playtime and not knowing how to use the website after each patches to read out notes and what's added/changed? have you just been running a useless PC AFKing in limsa?
I make the DPS in party bright pink instead of red, if you leave it red they look almost identical to any enemy in the dungeon.
I wish Summoner had the ability to choose summon size by player. I'd love to have my own summons be set to large to be as accurate to the primals as possible, but I don't want that to be for ALL summoners on my screen, just me.
Would be nice if that customisation was an option
make 2 macros one for small one for large get it on your hotbar and then one click to change
The most important thing about the tab targeting is that ignore depth will target everything on your screen from left to right, while cone will target things in front of you from closest to farthest.
"Show limited is for cowards", I cope while my computer lights on fire during a hunt train.
Holy retina burn Batman
Me too 😂😂 and I wonder why I can't see 😂 "limited and none is for cowards" I need to get over that 😂
I tried limited and because I've played for so long with all the flashy lights it feels like no one is attacking and it freaks me out.
I switch between the settings on the fly as I have two different macro buttons. One turns Show All and the other is Show Limited for things like alliance raids.
@Art2D2 what is the macro if you would be so kind to share it?
Holy crap. The "limit ring movement to targeting range" is what I've always wanted - for the reason in the video, the ninja ability. Thank you.
This ground targeting circle limitation thing helps me out immensely. I never used the ninja teleport skill cuz it was always a pain to set up the proper distance but I couldnt do so in snap choices. this makes it so its always at its max range if need be and I can use it whenever now. Thank you!
No problem! I know the feeling exactly! The Ninja gap closer is so janky but with these options it actually makes it manageable and good!
I was today years old when I found out that XIV had built-in mouse sonar. Turning that on and never turning off again, thanks.
4:20 The one small disadvantage to having the "press twice" option enabled is for spells like WHM's bell which can be triggered again once placed. So if you're spamming your key to place the bell, you may accidentally also end up using it early.
Nice catch! I completely forgot about that
this was mitigated in an earlier patch by having the skill unactionable for like 1 second after you drop it, you have to really be spamming it without paying attention for a while for that to be an issue.
Can you tell me which keybind it is to press twice? Like what key do i need to press twice.
I don't really understand what you're asking. Whatever key you have assigned to your hotbar slot for the spell..
@@milekmalik8368 The button on the hot bar where the spell is assigned. As a WHM, if Asylum is on 2, press it once for the large reticle to display, then press 2 again to land it rather than clicking on the ground.
For number 6, you can also create a macro to snap the camera angle to certain angles without panning it slowly. the macro is simply /tiltcamera (insert number). and it ranges from 0-100.
Yep! I have one for /tiltcamera 50 for overworld and /tiltcamera 70 for instances
Just use the mouse to pan the camera. You can whip the camera as slowly or as quickly as you like. Hold down the right mouse button and move your hand. Assign strafe buttons to the two buttons on the left of the mouse and you can strafe while panning the camera.
All movement and camera direction is 100% controlled my the mouse on my setup. All combat and jumping is the keyboard. There is no faster way to move around in combat.
Thank you for that targeting explanation. I recently came back to ff14 to play Endwalker. I had upgraded to an ultrawide monitor during my break and now have this constant issue with things I don't wanna target getting targeted. Ultrawide gives me extra horizontal vision which means I often target some mob on the other side of the planet. Will definitely be using the cone targeting now.
Invaluable guide for new players. I had been playing without auto targeting as a THM. No wonder i wasn’t havjng as much fun as everyone else
For the battle effects on, I created to macro buttons that allow me to turn other player battle effects up and down between show all and show limited depending on situation and on the fly. I love seeing all of the battle effects, but sometimes it becomes overwhelming to see all of them whe you are in higher end content like raids.
Would you be willing to share the macros you use? That seems incredibly useful.
The absolute best tweak I made was splitting up the Target Info in the hud config. Making your target's cast bar really big and right in the center of the screen makes it so much easier to see boss mechanics and respond accordingly. As a Sage, I can see when the boss is about to hit us with a party/raid-wide attack and cast Eukrasian Prognosis and Kerachole to prepare for it (or Panhaima for those multi-hit raid-wide attacks.)
So I have a bad eye, my right one. I had acid splashed in it which burned my cornea but i healed from that. Later on i got a tiny piece of metal dead center so now my right eye is really blurry. This makes it so hard to find the mouse pointer. That sonar will help me out so much, thank you for that tip!
I just started playing, thank you very much for this video, it's a TON of help!
Wow, the targeting stuff actually makes a huge difference for me. I was so annoyed by how targeting worked in this game. Thank you! Also, I was wondering how people made their summoner pets so big, so thank you for that as well.
keep going bro always nice vids up here
Helped a lot! Especially the Cone targeting and the sonar! Major problems I had!
With this kind of stuff, might be worth putting out a new video like this going over stuff anyway even if it weren't for the new features added since, if it helps get this info out to the people that could use it. I watched your old video going over some of this way back when I started playing back in august, but I realize now that I had forgotten to actually fiddle with some of the settings you talked about, so it's been a helpful refresher.
I play this game for 8 years now and i didnt knew many of these things thank you!
dude, all these things were issues I was having. Huge QOL improvements.
Mouse sonar, what a concept. Thanks for the info.
The changing camera angle thing works on controller play, as well; I just did it a couple of days ago so I could see what was happening around me.
I've been playing for 10 years, and I never knew about the second tip. It was so frustrating, that I'm just embarrassed that I never tried to look for a way to fix it. Thank you so much for the helpful video!
I'm sure it's been mentioned already being the release of this video was 6 months ago, but it is entirely possible to move around you camera angle on console similar to the way you did @ 7:20 (just in case it wasn't mentioned or someone else was wondering)
This video helped a new sprout so much! Thank you! :3
The only time I've found a problem with auto target is ranged physical DPS where I'm just taking out a few mobs for quest or hunt log and I then have to spend an extra few moments killing a mob I didn't want to target in the first place, but that is literally a skill issue.
If playing controller, I'd recommend finding a good camera angle for combat and making a macro to change your camera angle when you're in duty or fates.
/tiltcamera [subcommand]
→Adjust 3rd person camera angle settings.
>>Subcommands:
[angle number]
Set 3rd person camera angle to the specified setting.
Settings available: 0-100.
Making a macro.... that's actually a really good way about changing your camera angle as a controller player!
Role sorting DPS to put those able to also rez on top is great if you also use a rez "all" macro that tries 2 -> 3 -> 4, etc or just keeping them in one area to always go to is beneficial in trying to recover and avoid a wipe. I also tend to sort roles caster to melee for easier selection of card target when playing AST. I'd love to enable all, but there really should be a setting to have aoe warning areas take precedence or similar so they don't become not visible behind the other effects. Its the only reason I have it disabled as I miss way too many when all are enabled.
Does the pet size thing affect how other people see your pets or is it a only you thing ? If I set up the pet size to L, and my friends never touched the setting and it's on whatever the default is, are they going to see it differently instead of my Large option ?
One annoyance of the legacy camera is that it tends to angle you upward or downward while in flight and you have to land somewhere and take flight again to cancel it. "Auto-target according to priority" honestly just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen so I'd rather keep it turned off.
The "enable clicking on field" option sounds inconvenient to not have enabled tbh, and specifically because it doesn't apply only to enemies. And I actually find it useful to have unassigned slots showing because it lets me know exactly how many I have available if I want to add in an emote, a macro, or whatever else.
Other than those, I agree with most of your recommendations.
great info. I am new and this was super helpful.
thanks mate !
I used almost every single one of these tips. As a new player, TY. Especially The summoner tip about changing the size of the pets.
Bro, as a "new" player that started in late Shadowbringer this is very useful thanks.
Subscribed you’re awesome dude I just started on Xbox !!!
Thank you for this... this helped so much!!
Extremely helpful. Thank you
I don't get why would I use standard in any scenario if the character turns around to attack...I guess that's just a preference thing.
Btw on this setting 6:29 :
I find it very useful to disable right clicking on allies, I never, ever want to click on allies (I do it via party list) and I move the camera all the time for any reason, I used to click on allies all the time in battle by moving the camera which interrupted combos, spells... With this the problem is gone
PD: You can still click them with left click
I recently started to this game. After BDO, I wanted to play old-school MMO like in the days I used to play Knight Online. :D
Everybody knows the bigger your summons the more damage they do
holy shit thank you for the pet size command. I despise how big summoner's pets are by default. It's insane they aren't considered battle effects. Especially when they aren't your own.
My preffered alternative to the mouse sonar: there is an option in System Configuration to increase the size of the cursor.
With the sonar I couldn't find a convenient keybind that wasn't already used for something else, so I still had trouble finding my cursor fast enough when I needed it
With the Large mouse size (only the first size up from ), I never even lost the mouse cursor again.
Well, you seem like someone who likes tweaking every little setting until everything's perfect... much like myself. So I was wondering, is there an actual reason behind having your own name constantly floating in the middle of your screen or are you just a bit forgetful?
(Sorry, pet peeve of mine.)
I know this is weird and definitely personal preference, but when doing combat I get a weird anxiety when I dont have a target so if you are in an encounter that has pyretic and don't want to remove the target you can sheathe your weapon and it will accomplish a similar effect, you just have to remember to wait out the pyretic effect before hitting another weaponskill/spell. I believe the default keybinding is z and for me this is easier to reach than trying to press esc.
Did they change this effect? Pyretic has never punished me for attacking only moving.
as a healer or tank, i suggest putting dps on a different color, because red is also the default color of the engaged enemy.. also different from your alliance color.. so i put my dps on yellow cause my alliance is on orange..
For role sort, you can also change the job order to match buff priority, like having SAM at the top of the dps section if youre playing dragoon or dancer
I believe the game automatically sorts DPS with melee on top and ranged on the bottom by default. But yeah, this could be handy if you want to prioritize certain classes above others. Or if you're in a raiding static and want to ensure where each player is going to be in your party list.
I want to come back to the game but I'm waiting for them to condense the combo abilities like in PvP. There is no need to have 3 different skills. A man can wish
That clicking option is a god send, so many times have I been in a fight and suddenly stopped targeting the boss because I clicked to move the camera which made me lose a gcd before noticing.
Changing either engaged enemy or DPS role colors to be different is pretty essential though because by default they're the same color red and it makes it hard to see the enemies among all your melee in big trash pulls.
I knew about all of these except mouse sonar. While I won't need it too often, occasionally I lose my cursor in especially chaotic fights and this'll be great to help me get situated again. Thanks!
I enabled the auto-target according to priority setting. If (or rather, when) I pull something by accident I'll blame you. Great video!
So that's what "/petsize all small" does. FC members were talking about that the other day, but I wasn't able to get clarification because I might have been in a duty or something. Anyway, that's sooo helpful because I was just wishing I had a way to hide summoners' egis. Thanks! I'm gonna try some of the other settings too.
Changing camera angle is very helpful especially when you are in actual duty because of wide range vision. The only downside is when RP because the skill UI covering almost half of your WoL legs. Many recommend around 65/100 or more
If you can make change with macro, please share it. It's quality of life feature we need
My recommendation is a separate hud layout for rp. I personally have different layouts for instances, pvp, and rp/exploring. I then have different camera tilt macros set up for whatever situation.
Sorting party list by role is pretty important. If you are DPS and you use the default option the list will be ordered YOU > tanks > healers > DPS. For this round of raiding in particular where you have to constantly check party debuffs by role, you'd want to sort your list so that all members are lined up by role.
I knew most of these, but mouse sonar might unironically be a good option for me. I sometimes just completely lose track of where my cursor is in the heat of combat.
These were really helpful, thanks for sharing! Especially the HP percentage, color schemes, and adding the job icon to player names.
Lots of option I had went through but lots that I had missed like the bigger cooldowns and the targeting, now I fully understand this really recaps everything very well explained especially for my basic levels of english :) loved it!
Thank you!
tfw after 13K hours of game time, I play with a super cluttered UI, full effects, maximum sized minions, and none of the added bonuses mentioned here and tbh I prefer having them set to default settings. Am I weird?
Just sounds like you're a real gamer
In regard to the special effects options being show, it is limited to just battle effects. I turned mine on “show limited” and it turns off the ! symbol when you’re fishing! So if you don’t have your vibration on your controller, or your volume high, you’re not going to know you’ve caught a fish. I found that kind of frustrating lol. Would be better if we could CHOOSE which effects to limit.
I just recently came across the Show Limited Effects for when I run raids. Jesus Christ was it a huge difference.
Like it's cool we're all together kicking ass but I don't want to see 12 explosions and shit while trying to see the boss attack lines.
I'll keep that shit to show all for dungeon runs ❤
Thank you for the video. Learned some useful stuff here!
Hey, really useful and helpful for someone who's been playing since 2019 and hasnt meddled with the settings because he's too chicken-shit XD thank you so much pal, big love from Scotland ^_^
I have been wishing for the ability to make macros to just attack the closest target when nothing is selected for years like WoW has. Now I feel dumb seeing it has been an option. This is going to make my life so much easier thank you so much for this video! So many things I am going to use from it.
The first Hint took me 800 hours tonfigure out or even asked for it
Legacy movement has its perks in camera independent movement, standard has the perk of movement independent rotation. FOr mechanics like eden shiva being able to turn around without sliding is really nice. everything else is personal preference
Excuse me but i shall have my Bahamut as large as possible thank you very much.
Jokes aside, this was a nice refresher as i lost all my configurations recently and was trying to get everything back into shape.
Thanks. I already configured pretty much most of these, but the mouse sonar was really nice. My eyes are pretty bad and when I'm tired it happened quite often that I just lost my mouse cursor. Having it on middle click is a really nice addition.
One other nice thing about tab targeting. It always cycles through targets from left to right. If you however press shift-tab it cycles from right to left.
u can change the view on a controller ( dont remember the convoluted steps for it) but my buddy couldnt play this game till we figured it out
As someone who just started FF online a few weeks ago, this video was amazing. Seriously. Thank you!
Thank you for the SMN minion size... people need reminding that it's on their settings, not the summoners. I'm a SMN main and I can't tell you how often some one in an Alliance raid rants abut our pets being so big and they can't see. I wish the default was small, or it changed to small if you aren't on the SMN class... but that's just me. Good video, I might have to try some of these settings tomorow (it's bed time now)
legacy controls are where it's at, i was very happy to learn about this probably from your last video.
i think i'm gonna setup the sonar thing, one of the perils of playing at 4k i find is it's EXTREMELY easy to lose the mouse and it's pretty annoying when it happens mid combat
Standard movement type is cancer, why is it default? You cant dodge with standard. Remove it SE!
I've seen your older QOL vids before so personally I like this updated version! Thanks for the help!
Instead of mouse sonar I just made my cursor super big. And it's way more inconspicuous than I thought it'd be.
Could I get the names of the pieces in that DRK glam? Looks rad
Not sure about the rest of it but the chest piece is either the Diadochos Jacket of Fending (Lvl 90; crafting) or the Ornate Diadochos Jacket of Fending (Lvl 90; Khloe), both share the same model. I know this is a month old comment but I spent way too long tracking this piece down for myself.
7:25 Really important for a Lalafell player, the camera angle height can actually hide mechanics on bosses from your view lol.
Thx
Oh man, I changed so many settings after this video. Thank you for this guide!
I've played this game virtually since it came out and I didn't know like 80% of these these options despite how many times I've been through those menus. I'm kinda mad about that. I'm surprised they don't have an auto-target function in the list that targets lowest HP so if you don't have a target selected it will automatically choose the enemy with the lowest HP %. Good for DPS trying to thin out mobs.
MOUSE SONAR. I've been wanting that for years and now I'm doubly mad I didn't know about it. I have it activated in windows for specifically that reason
I personally kept Unassigned slots on but THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing that menu so I could disable "display hotbar number" and "enable hotbar cycling button" I cannot tell you how many times I've gone to click my first spell and accidentally overshot my cursor and cycled to another hotbar
One more tips for Movement Types section.
Keybind > Movement > Put A/D key on Strafe Left/Right instead of Turn Left/Right
So your character would straightly move to left right instead of turn around
When rejoining i forgot about that targeting setting, was wondering why I couldn’t use skills without enemies selected
I tried using legacy movement, but after 2k hours I'm so used to flicking the camera around to run backwards that I can't play any other way. I have Q and E bound to hotbar slots, so to strafe I right click to hold the camera and use A or D. Probably strange, but it feels good for me.
I strongly agree with the effect... when you have a full raid using sparkling techniques it is just unplayable XD
Plus you can't see the enemy AOE and this bad !
I think myself as experienced player and i have been playing FFXIV little over 3 years now and still there was things i did not know. Im gonna post this to my FC discordd server so that the all sprout members doesnt have to wait for years before finding these quality of life options!
So, Im actually the exact opposite of your "clicking off the target". I use right click to move my camera and not left click. i actually use left click to stop targetting things sometimes. so i want it the opposite of how you have it lol.
Role sorting: i wish the game let me NOT be the first person on the list. I ALWAYS want it to be the tank first healer 2nd dps last. If im a dps i want to be at the bottom of the list for instance not the top.
0:28 standard is all well and good for PC. However, if you’re playing with controller, I suggest Legacy.
As a NIN main, the 'Limit ring movement to targeting range' option is pretty big for me. I've dealt with it this entire time with no problem, but I feel like movement will feel a bit better with that enabled going forward. Thank you.
Another way to toggle the menu in gpose (or more accurately the HUD) is pressing Scroll Lock. This hides everything ^^
I didn't see the video yet but I need to write first THANK YOU for not go roundabout with the presentation "you read the title, you know why are you here so let's go" sublime
Is there a way to keep the camera behind you at all times? What I mean by that is that I use a joystick and have to use two of the thumb sticks to move around. I want to be able to turn left and right with the camera behind me. Set up the camera sucking around the character. Thank you 😁
Finally ... I hate this little pets of summoner. Finally I can make them large like in the trial. Now I have an excuse when I lay on the ground with my dragoon.
Horray!! Positive video! LOVE IT!
Vid was a great help brother! Thank you greatly and keep up the awesome content! Cheers!!
if you're a ninja in pvp, you better know when someone is exactly 49.9% HP