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Chapters:
0:00-0:46 Intro
0:47-1:57 Selling Items on the MB
1:57-2:22 Easily See Aetherytes
2:23-2:49 Inventory UI
2:50-4:19 Unsyncing Content
4:20-5:17 Buying Items in Other Worlds
5:18-6:03 /isearch
6:04-6:31 Recent Player List
6:32-7:46 Coordinate Chat Shortcuts
7:47-7:43 Transcendent
7:44-10:03 Camera Adjustment
10:04-10:45 What are your tips?
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1. using legacy camera controls to prevent slow back-pedalling is rly useful in combat if you can get accustomed to the change
2. you can right click the target frame on striking dummies to reset enmity. you don’t have to run to break combat like i was
3. spend allied seals on aetheryte tickets and never pay for teleports again. click the gear icon in the corner of the teleport menu to set a gil threshold so you don’t have to confirm use every time
4. a bit niche but crafting old collectible recipes can often be faster to craft and more profitable than current recipes at max level. see rarefied draught vs rarefied syrup on ALC for example
lots of useful stuff in here, thx aitherea ☺️
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLatBUqXIPJGg77ODNDckYbK6hiRP-ERW8
I've been playing for yonks and i didn't know about the cam control, cheers for letting us know.
As a controller player on PC who has played since 2.4, it took me until late stormblood to learn that during alliance raids you can cycle through and target other alliance members from the alliance raid list if you hold L1 (or LB for xbox) button and press left/right on D pad. Made life way easier to find those dead healers in other alliances without the need of a mouse.
A few extra tips for controller players. You can set macro number #98 and 99 to the L3 and R3 stick buttons. With this you can set your L3/R3 to activate sprint by setting a simple sprint macro or you can ride a mount. L1 + Share (LB + Back) toggles the HUD and L1 + Options (LB + Start) takes screenshots.
1. ocean fishing with website "Lulu's tool ocean fishing" in google search to get ocean fishing guide for best catches and what baits to use
2. teamcraft for gathering items locations and recipes plus it does the math for you how much items your trying to craft
3. If you have gathered an item before you can use your retainers to go on short missions to gather that specific item as long as u have the retainer job/class unlocked and leveled up. use script gear or poetics to gear them up every 10 levels. use grand company seals to buy currency for retainers
4. when crafting u can see a break down of what items and mats u need for the item ur trying to craft by right clicking picture of craft item and select either raw material lists or the recipe tree
5. you can set up your mouse buttons on you mouse to use shift modifiers like control alt or shift to be able to use other abilities. check ur gaming mouse app program like corsiar has one for example where u can remap buttons on your mouse
6. always use trial synthesis when testing out macros first to make sure the macro will have a successful attempt
7. you can use scripts to purchase materia to use for pentamelding if you want to save guild just need to gather mats yourself. best white scripts recipe alc 89 draughts best purple scripts recipe cul 90 sykon bavarois
8. for gatherers you have to look up best purple scirpts route using miner and botanist where in eorzea time every two hours you can gather collectables and use 900 gp and recover 900 gp by the time the next colllectable shows up without the need of cordials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiGlVPpvkf0&t=360s
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OUB–CL8vw98g1G4ZTcWDaKB6vuOHDqbO_RGfYItgSg/edit
9.use ff14 clock website but i also believe u can set up timers in game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGo3Vnvq43k
I wish i knew that the void in my life would not be filled by pretending to be a cat girl…at least i learned something, thanks cool kitty woman from my puter.
also, for any of you who want to make their weapons glow while sheated here's the macro, you're welcome 🙂
Macro:
/bm
/sit
/wait 1
/sit
Fun fact: I did Ultima Extreme unsynced for Wondrous Tales…and completed it in UNDER a minute. So yeah, unsyncing is great.
That said, it has diminishing returns the higher level the content is, so HW extremes/savage raids and most content Stormblood onwards isn't exactly soloable unsynced but often can make for smoother farming runs if you want loot for glamour/mounts/relics/WT.
How is this all not basic known information… Holy shit
This one is mainly adressed to european non-english players : If you think your queue times are way too long (i had sometimes to wait for like 1h and still couldn't find a group for the last trial of heavensward 3.0 …), consider changing the language you're searching in the duty finder settings. Basically you can just keep your basic language, and add english to the list and so you'll be queued with all the people queueing in english, not only your homelanguage – which means you'll be queuing with 99% of players. Everyone already speaks english as the basic language of international online gaming and so you might not see the difference within your parties, but you will definitly lose so much less time just waiting for your duty to pop after the hype got to a climax.
For combat (& higher end raiding) –
1. The entire game works on a snapshot/queue system. Slidecasting (the ability to move while on the last 0.5s of your cast time)? It added that you finished your cast to the ability queue, so moving won't break the cast – it finished. Similarly, pressing any button 0.5s before it's able to be used will make the game register that you're using that – you don't need to spam your buttons. For slidecasting, put an emote on your hotbar and you'll see when you can move because the emote will grey out and then un-grey out during the cast. For extra busy classes like Machinist or melee's etc, the ability queue is a godsend once you get used to it. This ability queue is also the reason that macroing your entire DPS rotation does not work anywhere NEAR as effectively as manually pressing the buttons yourself – because macrowaits (<wait.3>) can only be performed on a full second, and the GCD is (generally) around 2.5s.
Other instances of things happening as a result of snapshotting – Tank dying despite invulnerability going on cooldown? Enemy attacks snapshotted before the invuln was applied. Think about things as though they were slidecasting and you pretty much have the timing for the very last second to push your invuln. Got hit by that aoe despite having ran out of it? Snapshotted – and it actually shows you the snapshot zone generally. See people walk back into the fire and not get hurt? Because it snapshotted before the animation – you'll get so used to doing that you'll do it in other games accidentally and die. This lets tanks keep the boss in the middle despite aoe's forcing them out of melee range, and keep the boss facing a direction despite cleaves forcing them out of the front.
2. Melee DPS have positionals. This gives a slight damage boost and whatnot when the melee dps is either attacking behind the target (rear), or behind-the-sides of the target (flank). Hit F1 to target yourself and look at the target circle on the ground beneath your feet – the part of you that doesn't have a circle is the "rear" positional, and the part of you behind the center of the arrows on the lines is the "flank" positional. As tank, as long as you're turning the boss with the melee DPS sitting in one of these 2 zones, you can be sure you're not screwing up their rotation too much. They can see that you have mechanics sometimes where you need to move the boss across the map, so don't worry about them in those cases – just go do what you gotta do.
3. Uptime vs greed. You're not going to be clearing a boss if everyone dies to greed and isn't doing mechanics. If you do mechanics correctly, though, you'll find that the game really, really tries to give you enough of the uptime that you need to clear the encounter. If you find an issue with uptime, it's probably because you should preposition either yourself or the boss a little teensy tiny bit better for that next mechanic. This will help IMMENSELY with solving players greeding too hard – they'll be able to greed naturally just a tiny itty infinitesimally teensy meeny little bit. The sliding scale between uptime and greed is small, but it's there. Put simply? Uptime is braindead, greed is dangerous. Try to minimize the urge to greed.
Omg some of these make me feel so dumb lol
Only 80 hours in so this sprout learned a lot today!
This was actually incredibly helpful. I didn't know any of the chat commands you showed. Thanks for sharing this info! Also your voice is silky smooth and I could listen to you talk forever! Well done!
Something I didn't learn about for way too long: Focus Target
Also that camera thing, that's amazing.
I had no idea about the ones with the aetheryte, that is so useful for hunt trains! Slowly working on completing every side quest in the game (and reading every single line, yes i'm insane) but haven't catched up with the EW ones yet so that really helps with finding the aetheryte trough all of those side quests!
Unsynced is also great for weekly journal! Level 90 Summoner can have Bahamut murder Ifrit in 10 seconds flat.
I don't think a lot of people know this, but if you're on keyboard and there's a load of players around an NPC or other interactable, you can hold down the X key. It hides player names and makes it so you can't select them, making it much easier to access the NPC or quest spot.