Quality of Life Tips and Tricks You Might Have Missed on FFXIV
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2023
- Here's a list of useful quality of life tips and tricks you might have missed on Final Fantasy 14. I hope these chat commands and system settings help you!
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Thrilled to announce how devistated I am to learn you don't need to sprint 200 miles away from the training dummys to TP
It is relatively new to be fair. I forget which patch, but at least within endwalker i think
@@Nutrafin-3D I think it actually came out in 5.3, as I remember doing it with the dummies in Bozja
@@UOTQAUIBO was it that long ago? Time flies
I literally learned this because there's a training dummy at my fc house. One of my fc mates laughed at me for running so far away just to get rid of enmity from the dummies I hit 😂
I literally just learned that this was a thing you could do like a week ago. 🥲
If you craft something a lot, you can drag the recipe to your hotbar, so clicking it makes it go instantly to that recipe. Helps save time with something like pots, which you'll probably be crafting a lot if you're a raider.
Oh my god... this is incredible, thank you!
Omg... Where has this been all my life O.o I have my crafting log at hand on my hotbar, but I never knew you could actually add RECIPES to your hotbar. I am immediately gonna abuse it and fill my non-shared crafter hotbar with recipes for each and every single crafter.
Wtf hahahahahahah thank you
NO WAY
HOLY SHIT YOU CAN DO THE WHAT
You can shorten /echo to just /e for even faster note taking
I thought that was the shortcut for /emote at first. But the results were scuffed
@@feniu10 Yea, the emote shorthand is /em
Related to turning down the battle effects, there's a graphics setting I recommend turning off: Radial Blur. It's that annoying distortion effect on some spells like RDM Impact and BLM Fire IV that momentarily blurs everything to make the effect look more intense. I was getting frequent headaches while playing years ago, but the moment I turned this off, the headaches stopped.
5:45 is why I have Timers bound to a hotbar. Very convenient for figuring out what I need to gather for custom deliveries and letting me know that I did, in fact, drop 40 Allagan Silver Pieces off at the Doman Enclave this week. (I have so many)
Extra tip: In Character Config, change control type from Standard to Legacy.
This lets your character be moved independently from the camera, so you won't have to whip your camera around if you want to run backwards to avoid an AOE
Turn off camera pivot too
If you play with a controller you can assign macro 98 and 99 to the stick buttons. I have mines set up so my right stick button uses sprint and my left stick will target my focus target (useful for targetting tanks in dungeons or bosses in raids/trials).
Exactly what I do!
do you mind telling me how to do this please?:3
@@aerith6977 if you go into system configuration -> gamepad settings the bottom option should be gamepad customization. You select button configuration -> begin. In the new window that pops up there should be a drop down for L3 and R3. You can select "Execute macro #98" or "Execute macro #99". Then you just have to have the macros saved in those slots in your macros.
Edit: if you're asking specifically about the macros I use then.
Target Focus Target
/target
Sprint
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
/ac "Sprint"
I exclusively play with an xbox controller on pc, and this info is amazing! I can now stop pressing left+right trigger to get my sprint button and set it to one of the stick buttons! THANK YOU!
For the battle affects: you can ALSO turn off the damage numbers of other players!!
Thank you so much for saving my sanity with the error sound!!! I had no idea that was a thing!!! Um, as for maybe useful tips is the Character Configuration -> General Tab -> Movement Settings to Legacy lets you not to that awkward backup motion so that its easier to dodge mechanics without moving your camera every which way.
If you want to check if you have 100% spirit bond with any items on you, but don't want to go into your armory chest/inventory, go into your actions (P or U on keyboard I believe) and look for an action labeled material extraction, use it, you can even put it on your bar, it will show all your items in one menu and floats the highest spirit bond items to the top of the list.
Don't like where the duty actions are at on your screen? Their is an action in your action menu for that too! So you can put duty actions right on your bar!
Need to craft a lot of something but don't know how much stuff it will take? right click it in the crafting menus and click "show raw material" play with the amount to see what your missing and by how much.
if an ability or action puts in the ground targeting mode, you can normally put it in a macro with a after it and it will be placed on who or what ever your actually targeting. I personally use this for caster LB. like the "/ac "Limit Break" " You can also use /facetarget for abilities that depend on where your facing. like Physical ranged LB
/facetarget
/ac "limit break"
Okay, for eureka begginers: if you find magia board confusing you can use /magiaauto or right click the mob nameplate and click to set it to offensive or defensive
If you are a DRK or GNB you can macro whenever you about to do those invuls that can unalive you, to let healers know. As someone that plays healer, I am quite appreciative of a tank that lets me know that they need a benediction.
Limited battle effects all the way!!
I played up to Shadowbringers with full effects on and it was fine, but once you get to the lvl90 raids, it's literally mandatory.
My first case was in Aglaia when I literally could not see the boss hitbox to find the safe spots and do positionals, true nightmares and highly recommended to limit them, so you at least see yours. :)
thanks a lot for the tips! I started XIV about a month ago and I'm currently binging tons of FF guides whilst playing, I love your editing and pacing of video, would you consider making a sprout friendly intoduction to skills like Cooking/crafting? it's come to my attention that food for buffs can be very helpful, along with potions! none the less going to defintly watch your video "Tank drama" as I am exactly that noob tank :')
5:30 new players PSA for expert deliveries you will have to complete your company hunting log (not job hunting log) to access this feature. I HIGHLY recommend doing this as the paltry amount of gil received for just vendoring pinks, greens, and blues is nothing compared to what your retainers can get for you via quick exploration by purchasing "ventures" from your grand company with the IMMENSE amount of grand company seals you will receive.
Another thing that helps with battles is to size down pet sizes.
/petsize all small
That will make Summoners primals much smaller. I had an issue in a few raids where they would be blocking my views of the arena
the tip about the turning effects up down, you can also make it as a 1 toiuch macro to turn it on off
/macroicon "Smile" emote
/bfx self full
/bfx party full
/bfx other full
/nameplatedisp party 1
/nameplatedisp friend 1
/nameplatedisp Alliance 1
/nameplatedisp other 1 (full bore)
/macroicon "Straight Face" emote
/bfx party simple
/bfx self all
/bfx other off
/nameplatedisp party 1
/nameplatedisp friend 1
/nameplatedisp Alliance 4
/nameplatedisp other 4 (party only)
/macroicon "Sad" emote
/bfx other off
/bfx party off
/bfx self simple
/nameplatedisp party 4
/nameplatedisp friend 1
/nameplatedisp Alliance 4
/nameplatedisp other 4 (0 effects good for alliance/hunt train)
This is genius 😮
THANK YOU! Manually turning effects off (and back on) for every hunt has been a pain. This is gonna make it so much easier. :')
@@LiorVolf OH ohohoh I forgot a very important side note when I posted this; you *need* the graphics back up to "full bore" when fishing or else the ! !!! !! wont show above your head
@@EchoXVince OH ohohoh I forgot a very important side note when I posted this; you need the graphics back up to "full bore" when fishing or else the ! !!! !! wont show above your head
@@michaelgerlach7137 Good to know! Thanks!
1:55 I recommend rightclicking the dummies from your enemy list, than approaching each target individually. Saves you time (and sanity) when there's some distance, or you don't know where the aggroed dummy is.
4:20 /random is only /say chat, but with /dice it puts into your current chat or any other you specify.
e. g. /dice party 20 ; other chats available: party, alliance, fc, pvpteam / pt, linkshell1-8 / ls1-8, cwlinkshell1-8 / cwl1-8
For total info, you can call up help text with "/? /dice"
7:10 /e is enough, if you don't feel like writing 3 more letters :)
7:49 You can also rename the friend group, like "kitties", "dummies" or any other fun(ny) names, by rightclicking on friend group in the list when assigning.
I recommend going through your system and character configurations. There's a ton of options, but you may be surprised how much less headache you can set for yourself!
Also read the patch notes. SE often includes new QoL-stuff, and you will NOT be notified about it ingame! Especially each major patch (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, ...)
thanks for stopping by last night, glad youre enjoying the scene! ♥ your videos are awesome!!!
You guys have a lovely venue! 💜
glad i found this channel recently as a new FF player, very informative and hilarious vids. keep it up!
OHHH that echo command is SO nice holy crap. Thank you so much! ❤ I found out about right clicking quest turnins on accident like last week. I’ve been playing for a year. 🤦🏼♂️
A small thing, with focus target i dont use the in-game one as it is a toggle as tend to spam it! So made a macro and assigned a hotbar (CTRL + F) to focus target) and i can spam press it and it doesn’t remove/toggle it when i tab target it
The quest turn-in right click trick is fantastic. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! It made my collectable turn-in a lot less of a mess!
For controller users, the Square button will behave the same as a right click.
i know one. open your map and you are about tp to another area. but you have side quests you never done that is covering up the ather tp thing. well on your keyboard hit ctrl make sure map is open, the aethers will move on top of the side quests so it is easy to click on without zooming all the way in. :D your welcome. trust me, game breaking
I feel like I can watch 400 of these types of videos and still keep finding ways to make stuff better/easier for me
Same. She mentioned note-taking with Echo, which I did not use, I used to link items to myself using say, but it's good to not have others see what you're trying to do. And also the idea of adding recipes to your hotbars as someone mentioned in the comments... I did not know you could do that O.o
If you put in the party chat, every member will hear a sound effect. Change the number for different sound effect. Good for getting the tank attention when leveling and they forgot their stance. Just don't spam it too much and makes everyone hate you.
Not sure if anyone covered this yet but if youre sending a Tell to someone friend or otherwise, after you selected to send a tell to someone just hit enter on youre keyboard to continue to send msgs to that person. There for you dont have to continue to repeat clicking on said person open the sub menu and click the option again ! You only gotta do it once !
Funnily enough, all these but the echo chat I literally learned within the past few weeks. The echo chat will be so helpful! I craft a lot, but I've been using my phone's notepad to write things down, lol I made a separate chat bar strictly for tells, and I never get any! Boom permanent pins. Great video as always, Ave!
About looking at the timer to see what items you need to be turned in: If you decide to buy these items, you can right click them and copy the name so you don't need to type it in at the market board.
Learning about the glamour linking is game changing !
Hopefully they rework portraits to just set with whatever armor you have on, but just remember you can only have it linked and apply in a resting zone, if you swap in the open world it will not apply the glamor but have you with your regular armor.
Thanks for stopping by our venue last night! ❤ Hope your fun on the scene continues! I actually didn't know about friend groups 😅
AvyCatte: Cat Girl jump scare
Me: Doesn't react
AvyCatte: Hey it's AvyCatte
Me: *SCREAMING*
i saw you on ultros a couple days ago and said hi :3 thanks for the frequent uploads !!
Didn't know the linking glamour plates, that's great! Thanks
never noticed linking glamour plates tyyyyyyy
Been playing for over 8 years, didn't know about /echo
Thank you Avy!
the auto target only works as long as you don't have anything targeted. as a healer, whenever you have a friendly target targeted, it WILL NOT work (and it's a shame). so you still have to tap or click or whatever you prefer to target the boss or a mob.
I have like 130ish days of game time, and i just found out about linking glamour plates to gearsets!
ty!
If you're like me you got to wolves den and that's where you learned the reset target dummy option. I know I'm not the only one because for a full year after I learned it every time I would tp there I'd have to teach a new player how to do it too. I spent at least a full hour there thinking I was stuck and had a mission or something.
As a new player who is maining the PS5 version, this came into my recommended at the perfect time. Not that easy to aim at enemies with controller but it's doable, but that feature is definitely a must use, makes life easier, and then if you need to aim at a specific target, it's just L1 with Up or Down on the D-Pad.
This wasn't mentioned and I understand not many can have ideal space for a Keyboard, but if Keyboard is just not an option, I'd say try to get used to the Motion Sensor for typing on Controller, it's a lot faster than typing with the D-Pad to navigate keys once you get the hang of it (will have to calibrate once in a while as it will sometimes drift but that's the only tiny drawback).
Happy I knew all this, I was afraid of not knowing any of this, after playing since day one.
Holy crap never been this early, NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE BATTLE EFFECTS, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Just started and so glad I found this video thank you
I didn't know about auto targeting! I appreciate that!
Sweet!!! Disengaging from striking dummies has been an annoyance for waaay to long. 👍 Thank you!!
Avy! It was so nice to run into you on Ultros last night - I was the au ra that ran up and said hello 😅
The dice chat commands are super handy! We use them in the FC I'm in to determine winners for giveaways!
I never thought about linking an item in the echo command, that's clever
I also extracted materia by manually clicking each gear piece. And totally missed that there is a SPECIAL BUTTON FOR IT IN THE GENERAL TAB!
Many useful tips here, especially the item handin one! Can't believe I didn't know that
That was good timing opened up UA-cam to see a new Catte drop!!!
QUESTION: the whistle sound when summoning a mount, is there a chat command to turn that off too?
You don't have to swap target to heal your team tho~
/micon "Lustrate"
/ac "Lustrate
/ac "Lustrate
/ac "Lustrate
It will first try to heal whomever your cursor is resting on, either on health bar in party list or their body on the screen. If cursor is hovering over nothing, it will then try to cast on your target. If you don't have a target, and cursor hovers over nothing, it will then cast it on yourself. Reuse this macro on everything you use to heal or protect with (Especially Rescue, Icarus, and Ætherial Manipulation) and you will never have to target an ally again!
But you can't weave with macros unfortunately. Specially if you have bad internet.
Great raiding w/ u Avy! Keep up the great work!😁
We don't talk about how many times I died during that raid. 😭😭
In the same vein as the reduced battle effects: Do yourslef a favor and use "/petsize all small" That way you don't miss a mechanic because Ifrit was blocking your screen for a hot minute.
Im really new. How do you set the “focused target” to make sure it stays on your screen?
Omg... you can actually edit the battle effects!! I had such an issue with that. Well, I'm changing this asap
I just got back to the game, this video was helpful and I appreciate your time and work you put in to make this for everyone and anyone, stay blessed 🙌
I was somehow able to do well in every raid except euphrosine without turning off battle effects. I'm not sure if they got worse or if euphrosine was just that one unhappy raid, but they've been turned off since. It's a bit sad because I liked all the anime effects but being able to see what's going on is more important. Esp now that I main as a tank.
I knew most of the tips here but it's still a very very good video to watch and I thank thee for making it for all those who learned even one trick.
I turned the 24 man effects off just so I could see my own animations and my current party
Yesss I couldn’t see anything in that raid I died a bunch of times I think I’m finally going to have to do this
OMG THATS ME 6:27 thanks for having me avey :))
Nice Bun!
Lovely vid as usual! Here's the "EUREKA Macro" a friend gave me when I joined FFXIV - so called because in Eureka, you're not just dealing with 24 players, but up to 100+ in the same area! It'll melt your CPU if you don't do something. Name them what you will, but I like to call them "Sound On" and "Sound off"
Sound on means all FX and Volume are at 100% (I actually adjust this one myself to 80% volume and customized the icon with "examine self" instead. Any emote can be used)
/micon "Yes" emote
/bfx party all
/bfx other all
/soundeffectsparty 100
/soundeffectsother 100
This is the "Sound Off" I use the Tomestone emote, but that is only if you have the SQEX app for 2F login, again, use what you want. Yes and No are just the easiest to use her imho.
/micon "No" emote
/bfx party simple
/bfx other off
/soundeffectsparty 50
/soundeffectsother 20
I have both these macros on a click only hotbar, leaving FX on while I'm not in duties. This saves me having to toggle through endless menus to toggle fx and volume manually. :)
Holy shit, the number of times I’ve been beside myself with rage trying to target the enemy or other thing I need to on console is, well, way too high. Haha nothing like furiously cycling through every NPC before you get the right target, maddening. Lmao I had to learn the hard way that with trash it’s easier to just press a hot key and it’ll target whichever mob instead of targeting then attacking first. If funny you put this out today because I have literally only just learned a few of these tips in the last month or so after coming back from a 5 year break.
I was today years old when I learned that not only does the timers screen exist but it also tells me ALL THE TURN INS?! Oh that would have saved me so much back and forth....
Do the action error off commands still work?
I Did not know about the target part,
My mouse randomly clicks off bosses all the time!
(I didn't know there are FPS mice so it is just supper touchy)
This is going to help me quite a lot.
I have two macros for my Battle Effects 2:58 so I can switch between "Pretty mode" and "Raid Mode"
/battleeffect party simple
/battleeffect other simple
/echo Battle Effects: Simple
and
/battleeffect party all
/battleeffect other all
/echo Battle Effects: All
I knew about the clicking the turn in box to turn things in easily. It's typically the first thing I teach new players I meet. XD
I have not removed the battle effects for other players up to this point, even for raids... I'm not gonna start now. XD
This video is so helpful, thanks!
5:54 Can we take a moment to appreciate that AvyCatte has yet to play dress up with Amelliance.
I’ve been procrastinating 😭😭
I have played FFXIV for years. Still play on a day 1 retail account. Though I didn't play for more than a few days at release because.. well.. you know the rest.
I've never played for the battle system. That's an inconvenience that I suffer, to allow me to enjoy the other stuff like running around and crafting/gathering etc.
BUT.. The day the actual battles and dungeons etc. became tolerable for me, was the day that I decided to experiment with a 'target forward' action button on my crossbar.
I only really played Archer/Bard for the first few years. Because that was for me the most 'button masher' friendly job. (if it's flashing HIT IT! basically lol)
That target forward button made it so that I could pick and choose targets with much more ease than trying to manually select stuff with left and right or indeed the mouse as you say.
Healers that don't use focus target are so perplexing to me. How do they do it? Why?
I can link glam??? You've just changed my life!!!
Those recast and action error command saved my life lol. I have been playing for almost 6 years now and i never knew. Goodbye awful sounds alert!
You can set the battle effects to marcos so you can turn it on and off easier. 1 click and i turn it off for raids, 1 click and its back on for jraphiks
@ 6:42 Nice ;)
I got all my crafting jobs from 1-90 ONLY doing gc turn ins
The ones I know:
On controller/ps4/5 I hold down L2 or R2 paired with L1 or R2 to swap between enemies. To target party members quickly, use the Up or Down buttons on d-pad
Also for autorun or walk, hit L1 while moving
I’m listening to this at work right now and I’m already dying to get home so I can turn off party/alliance animations.
Did Avy clip out part of this video or am I losing my head lmao
Edit: Nvm i am going insane XD
youre officially my favorite content creator
the commands for the action error doesn't work for me. idk what i'm doing wrong
Recas-Terror
Sounds accurate.
EYO. The recast sound macro. That shit will save my life
"its impossible to see the boss"
i think i can tell from the absolutely devastated bitrates too
8:04 min.: really useful tips to be honest. but I already knew almost all of it xD I've been playing for 3 or so years and had to take a forced break for 2 years because the client simply didn't want to update. I fixed it and am currently catching up. The only thing I didn't know was about the friend groups and the automatic target. only the automatic target brings me anything tbh. So thank you anyway. hope you all have a great day.
The Echo tipp is nice but you could just right click on Material list no?
Another thing that I see people miss all the time is the fact that you don't have to right-click a person's name then click "Send tell" to type a dedicated message to someone, every. Single. Time. You can just do that once and immediately press Enter to create a dedicated chat to the player you want to send a tell to. I was told this tip very early on, and I've been abusing it to spam my friends with messages and they cannot keep up with me sometimes, so I tell them this tip... so they can :D
You can also use the hotkey of Alt+R to respond to the most recent message, hit Alt+R again after first time to cycle to NEXT most recent message sender
Avy, my husband showed me your channel and we love your content, I'd love to see a part two😊❤ this was super helpful even as a Playstation player of on and off since 2013. 💕🎉😂
How to get diff clothes/hair ????
It took me waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to realise how to link glamour plates to a job (I just happened to come across it by accident when I was adding a new job to the job list)...I kept swapping between jobs that share the same gear, then going to glamour plates to select the glamour I want...it was sooooo tedious. There are heaps of things the game doesn't teach you until you randomly come across it sometimes.
Woah woah woah wait a minute!… Are you telling me it means I can have jobs wear the same gear and this will glam them automatically? Ive been doubling up on gear this whole time!
@@SucculentSiren YES!!!! It's such a game changer for my glam game since I discovered this.
@@Meikyu1 Shoot! There is one problem i forgot! You can't use glamour plates outside of cities which is dumb :c You can do normal glams outside so idk why you can't with glamour plates.
Hi, I have a question, Hi, I have a question, So I got the “Shadowbringers” only, and I’m stuck at lvl 80, I have to buy endwalker too if I wanna get lvl 90? Please explain
80 is the cap for Shadowbringers. If you want to reach 90, you would need Endwalker. It'll be the same when the level cap raises for Dawntrail whenever it comes out.
There are even more quality of life things to know about FF14 and that is Hud Layout, you can have 4 different ones
And you can change between them with macros.
So now you can have one Hud Layout for combat, one for crafters, one for gatherers, and one for whatever you want, with macros you can switch between these very fast and you don't have to have a cluttered UI because of this.
The macro for this is /hudlayout #
So /hudlayout 1, /hudlayout 2, /hudlayout 3 and /hudlayout 4.
This will improve your FF14 experience so much more(and I just found out about this TODAY xD and I have played FF14 since 1.0 on and off).
So now I am going to change my UI and hotbars and Hud Layout to suit everything :D
My favorite tip I have as a new-ish player entering Endwalker, is setting a macro for “/gearset” (no quotes) which directly opens up my gearset window (instead of opening character first, then the gearsets).
I can keep my main jobs on a bar but quickly switch to anything and even keep the gearset window open on the side. Way less clunky and convenient.
As a bonus, I also use “/autosheathe off” without quotes to stop my character from putting the weapon away after every fight. Much more immersive for me.
shift+C also opens your gear sets so you can do that unless you're playing on controller
@@remarkablehairdo3110 I just tried that, since that's the first I have heard of it. Shift C does not open the gear sets, just the character window. Unless there's a checkbox hidden in the settings somewhere for that.
@@acefire0005 that's odd - I do not remember adding it as a custom keybind, but I might have(years ago?). You can go in keybind and set it to whatever you want though, mine is shift+C
@@remarkablehairdo3110 When I’m back in Eorzea later today, I’ll go through the key binds, then. One less thing on the bars is a win in my book.
what are those shoes and pants in your blue top outfit. I need them
Skallic Healing Bottoms and No. 2 Type Boots
5:07 I know it sound so logic, but might not be that obvious for people who don't know this, your plate won't change in area where plate don't work (out of cities mostly)
The grand company one... OMG
I've been playing so long with tab targeting that my subconciousness realizes when i untarget an enemy and my pinky automatically presses tab without me noticing. i noticed this after i enabled auto targeting xD also.... THANK YOU FOR /recasterror off SO MUCH xD
the cannot use sound effect is hilarious :)
oh my god the training dummy thing is life changing my ass been running away from those things for years