This is a guide going over just about every possible setting and option in Final Fantasy XIV. Your keybinds, HUD, graphics, character settings, all of it. This is from a PC player perspective on the PC version of the game. Much of it applies to the console version though.
Some settings are poorly worded or wrong. Others you might just realize exist! Let’s go through them and see what you may or may not want to use.
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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Keybinds: 3:31
System Configuration: 12:19
Character Configuration: 27:52
HUD Layout: 1:26:16
Misc. Extras: 1:35:14
Outro: 1:37:10
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Thank you for this! I am still new to the game and need creators like you to kindly educate me!!
I'm a firm MMO mouse player – it works better with ergonomics and not moving my hands around too much as an artist with already bad wrists, but still excited to watch this!
As a tip to other MMO mouse users: I ended up discovering a small little quirk that really works for me, putting sprint on a small little static hotbar I use for a collapsing macro setup, and mapping it to a middle mouse button/scroll wheel click. It frees up a spot on your job hotbars, and if you have your hand on your mouse all the time like me, it's always easily accessible!
Oh hell yes
Really hoping there’s a simple input to turn around and walk backwards, I’ve been struggling really hard with the default “s=super slow backwalk”
I only use the actual keyboard for chat. I use a gamepad (Had everything from Belkin, Razer, Logitech, even one of those wierd Azeron thing but couldn't get on with it) Currently I have the FFXIV one made by Hori. Also have always used a MMO mouse.. currently, Corsair. More than enough buttons for anything I want to bind.
I love the subtle shade you throw at the commenter yelling at you for using your right hand in your opener by immediately cutting to your TOP pov video 👌 That's my level of petty and I am here for it haha. Thanks for all your videos, I always come to your channel first when I pick up a new class in XIV! They always set me up for success when I'm learning a new job.
34:03 if you're a lala player I would HIGHLY recommend adjusting this, at least to a similar angle as the other races have by default (I have mine set to 50)
Almost scrolled right past this man, change the thumbnail!!
Been playing since shortly after ShB drop, General Duty Button or whatever it was called…wish I had known what it did forever ago XD
My twin has started playing on the free trial, and I have immediately pointed them to your channel. Thank you for everything that you do!
Legacy is definitely easier, but if like me you play one hand on mouse and the other on keyboard its not terrible to learn to flick your camera for movement backwards then flick back
ok dude
wesk, i don't normally comment (i'm forgetful and end up finishing and clicking off), but i really appreciate all the hard work you put into these videos. i'm not sure you hear it enough, but you have such a huge impact on the community in such a positive way. thanks for all of the videos that help beginners and ffxiv veterans alike.
FFXIV's framerate cap is kinda bad and can caus stutters and the like. Rather just cap it in your gpu driver software if you want to save power.
I have to say it…I'm really surprised at the bindings you are using, and fully conscious I might be walking into a trap here 😅 I get that UI and bindings are very personal, but objectively these bindings could be a bit of a handicap.
Take your Arm's Length on 9 for instance. This is an ability you often have to use quite reactively, and often during times when other mechanics are resolving where player position and camera control are inportant. So it seems quite challenging to place this in a way where you force yourself to relinquish camera control in order to use the ability, not to mention the challenges of ensuring your hand is landing in the right place to consistently hit the buttons each time.
On the other hand, I've always though it would be cool to try keybind setups that rely on two handed bindings, but the only other time I've seen this was where the numpad was being used instead. Interested to see what you are doing with the some of the keybinds oriented around the WASD keys as they are freed up with your current approach. Also what made you decide to bind your abilities this way, was it based on maximising the use of the default bindings, or you getting used to these and therefore never changing them, or did you concsiously develop your playstyle this way?
Seen your other video where you played this way too, and no doubt you've clearly made it work for you!
Also I love your videos, your guides have been the doorway to every job for me so please keep up the amazing work ❤
It's really funny to me seeing "why would you ever turn your own HP/MP bar off even with the party list" the day one of my friends turned her HP bar off to make her UI look more clean and more like a traditional rpg like xenoblade. (She actually used xenoblade x's small personal HP bar that I genuinely forgot existed as I only used the party list in that game as the tipping point to decide it)
MMO mouse user. I can't imagine myself ever using the right half of the keyboard like that. JKL are dedicated to text chat, M to map, N to draw/sheathe (not really important), and punctuation to system or other purposes (i.e. comma is screenshot, period is hide UI). That only leaves me with HYUIOP currently unused (I unmapped all default menu keybinds and only put a few important ones on F5-F8).
I also came from first-person shooters, so 1. the ability to fine-adjust direction with the camera is mandatory at all times, and 2. absolute control of the camera with my mouse is mandatory, which is why I like "disable camera pivot" and "maintain camera distance" settings, making the game's automatic movements of my camera a bare minimum (only when the camera hits terrain do I lose any control of it).
dude at 30:35 actually gave me sound advice to play with my gaming keypad!
love ur vids <3
"you're a warrior of light, not an airplane" I laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂😂
Ah the pet hotbar on cross hotbar 1 is things I forgot to uncheck
good video, I play since years and learned some new stuff. ty.
32:20 Housing Cutscene are there when you send your boats and submarines off or if you build something in the workshop of the free company
I play on console using a controller. I have a wireless keyboard but use it exclusively for chat. The opening demonstration had me wondering if that was Mavis Beacon Teaches Rotation.
Thank you for this content. My gaming began on consoles and have always used controllers. I got into pc gaming a year ago and have wanted to try playing MNK. I have tried but always give up due personal frustration within the learning curve. I think I will create an alt and dedicate that toon to MNK play only, using this as a guide to the same.
I’m console, so sadly this doesn’t help me much
Most annoyingly, Eukrasia removes your soft-target.
Addendums or corrections:
The HUD Layout Pixel Movement I thought was entirely its own input. It is actually in System Keybinds. Move Cursor up/down/left/right are this action.
My monitor is 2560×1440.
I play in windowed 2560×1080 for some uavonline.
If you have 3440×1440 monitor you can play in 3440×1080 and play from the moon.
This is a fantastic video, but the idea that you play with your right hand on the keyboard and have to swap back and forth to the mouse breaks my brain.
This is kind of related, but two of the most useful macros I have are:
1. Toggle mute everything except system sounds and BGM
2. Toggle mute on BGM
Way more useful than the sound settings and built-in sound controls.
That way I can toggle BGM on and off if I'm listening to a podcast or watching TV or playing my own music, while still keeping all the in-game sounds.
And I can also toggle off all the in-game sounds if I don't care to hear them, but because it doesn't turn off system sounds, I don't lost things like duty finder chimes. Perfect for alt-tabbing.
the housing cut-scenes
are things like training chocobos in stables : ) like fc house stable or the one outside of apartments