“I don’t wanna even open my Armory chest cause I’m scared….” No truer words have ever been spoken.

For that dreadful moment when you do have to open your armory I made a macro that sorts every single armory tab by descending item level, that way all the gear will be organized according to their ilvl which makes picking out lower level gear you might no longer have need for a lot easier, as every single time you swap gearsets some of the stuff gets shuffled around a bit. The macro is basically like a defragmentation button for your armory. /isort condition armoury ilv des /isort execute armoury

for your fate levelsynch i would add /levelsync /action "Dismount" that way when you fly in on a mount you can be sync and dismounted ready for action.

Something that really helped me is that you can split the Target Info to display independently and show hp, progress bar, and status in different bars/different sizes. I scaled the progress bar wayyy up so it's in my face what my target is doing...

I have around 850 hours in FF14 and i still learned a lot from this video. Great job

legitimately, the default targeting function for tab was my most hated thing about the game - thank you so much for informing me about this, its honestly made combat so much better

With all the summoners in-game now, the primals cover a lot of the screen and can be annoying since they get cycled around. The command to make them all small is "/petsize all small". Not only does this make them smaller, but you get to laugh at Titan looking like angry Eric Cartman.

FFXIV is so loaded with good settings that for some reason aren't default, that there should be a tutorial just to show where all these settings are and what they do

1:33 Looking at the camera after the spinning was just a great move 😂🥰

I have been annoyed by targeting ennemies for a long time the cone targeting option is what i've always wanted. Thanks a lot man!

Here's one I use that I'm not sure if many other people do: When I was first learning some jobs, it annoyed me how mousing over a spell/ability on my hotbar would bring up that tooltip which covered other actions on my hotbar, so I found a way that you can make the "action help" hover boxes slightly transparent. Personally I think this is a major improvement. 1. System -> Character Config -> UI settings -> General Tab -> Help -> Change "Display action help" from "Next to cursor" to "Fixed" (Or disable it entirely if you want), apply the changes 2. Go to System -> HUD layout, click on the Action Help box. Next to where it says "Current UI element / Action Help" click UI element settings which is the little cog next to it. 3. You can change transparency settings & Size, personally I have it at 12% transparency with 100% size. 4. save changes here, and go back into character config and change action help display back to "next to cursor". Now, you'll have slightly transparent tooltips that follow your cursor so you can still fully see your hotbars when you're reading the text :)

to expand on the chat cycling, alt + r is a quick reply function for /tells, and repeatedly tapping it will cycle through the most recent people who have sent you /tells

For /isearch you can also put your item in quotes for more than one word. Ex: /isearch "of aiming" would pull up aiming gear, but /isearch of aiming would pull up anything with "of" in it's name.

If you ever do a part 2: I suggest Character Config --> Item Settings --> "Inventory Interface" change to "Expanded" Being able to see all 4 item sections at one time instead of tabbing through each one is pretty nice. One more: Sorting the duty list by "Level (Descending)" so the highest level content you have is at the top. Pretty nice, not having to scroll down a mile long list to get to the duty I just unlocked. Anyway, I enjoyed the video and learned a thing-or-two. Cheers~

7:10 another great thing about hide armoury chest items is if you plan to exchange all of your inventory for seals, you can just spam the heck out of the NUM-0 key for turbo mode turn-ins

One tip that I did for myself quite some time ago and often think that new people would benefit from, when running alliance content, is to change your own party's name color to be something different than the other alliances' colors, so that if there's a "get with your group" mechanic, you'll have an easier time identifying your own party members to get with. For example, my own party names display blue, but other alliances display green, in my settings. So I know whenever there's an add phase in an alliance boss fight and each alliance is supposed to take a separate one, I'm with my blue folks. You can do this under Character Configuration > Display Name Settings > Others, then just change the "Party Members" to whatever color you want, that is different from the others.

the armory chest / inventory one is so freaking helpful. thank you

10:08 on the topic of cycling more chat modes: Alt+S Say chat Alt+F Free Company chat Alt+P Party chat Alt+A Alliance Party chat Alt+Y Yell chat Alt+H shout chat Alt+L Linkshell chat (press again to cycle thru the Linkshells if multiple) Alt+R immediately reply to whoever whispers (can press again to cycle thru multiple whispers) Those are all the chat modes available I believe, hope it helps 😁

As a beginning FF14 player, i want to thank you for sharing these tips. There are so many elements to the UI - it can quickly become overwhelming. This helped me tremendously!

Man I've been playing this game for 5 years and I just learned some things (like the camera angle...). Thanks a lot...!!

Great vid, lot of useful tips here! Following on from the window scaling tips, you can do that to cutscene text bubbles! (Especially useful for higher resolutions.)

Been playing for 8+ years and I didn’t know half of this; never bothered to look, yet found myself repeatedly saying “this is exactly what I wanted!” THANK YOU for making this video hahah!

For targeting I personally took some advice to change my tab key to "target nearest enemy" then set up some hotkey combinations like ctrl+tab to cycle targets. It works for me but maybe not for everyone, cone still targets really strangely imo. Great advice though, I learned most of this over thousands of hours so it's great to see it condensed into one video!

When you are turning in a bunch of gear at the GC instead clicking each item and then clicking accept, mash zero on your number pad. It is effectively a controller's "accept" button so it'll automatically move the cursor to the item then the deliver button and hand everything in a a fraction of the time.

this video is actually incredible thank you. Also, “I dont’y even want to open the armory chest because ~I’m scared~” is an entire mood

With the amount of zones ever increasing, I right click ones I visit often in the teleport menu and select 'Save to History' which will pin them to the top of the history page making a custom port list so I don't have to look around for the correct locations. Common use is when I am on a mining run for high end mats on timers.

The armor being sent to you inventory is amazing 👏. Thanks a lot also the tab 😀

Thank you so much! I just started using Sage and Astrologist and a lot of these tips improved my experience so much (I use a ps4 controller). So nice to see concise, straightforward tips like this.

So for the scaling of windows, if you have any window open, you can just press ctrl+home to cycle through the different scaling %s to quickly increase its size

You can hold right click and use A and D to strafe without binding them.

Thank you so much Jolsn, I was looking for a QOF video like this one and most of your tips were incredibly helpful.

It's honestly amazing how many optional QoL settings have been put into the game, goes to show that the devs play their own game and care about all this jazz.

Duuuude thank you the standard tab targeting has been grinding my gears for months!!! Great video!

You can also create a /c macro to check someone's gear without your character staring at them.

Thanks for the video, I already knew/used most of the things you mentioned (legacy movement

Great Video. Very helpful. I really appreciate how you have this video set up to show where each of your settings are. The cone targeting! So much better. Thank you

In a macro /hudlayout # will swap you to a different hud layout in case you have more then one hud for any reason. I use all 4. /echo will trigger a sound in a macro for you to hear (like an alert when you finish a macro), /trade will open trade with a targeted player. alt+r will allow you to respond to a direct message or even cycle through who you respond to.

For the battle effects, you can create a macro for turning them off and one for turning them on. /battleeffect USAGE: /battleeffect [subcommand] [setting] Configure battle effects settings. Subcommands: self - Configure own battle effects settings. party - Configure party members' battle effects settings. other - Configure other NPCs' battle effects settings. Settings: all - Show all effects. simple - Show limited effects. off - Hide all effects.

Thank you very much for this educative video. One thing I really appreciated was the commands for cycling through chats, but not in a way you might have intended. For some skills, I use the Alt+1,2 and 3. But on some occasions, I started typing in chat mid boss fight even though I don't remember pressing "Enter", due to accidently pressing one button combination. Thanks for revealing me that all this time I've just been pressing the command for the various chat channels.

Thank you! I don't know how many times I've had running toward an enemy on bard get me/nearly get me killed while I was trying to rapid fire abilities and dodge mechanics. Also for the camera tilt. How tall some of the bosses were and being able to see almost nothing they were doing was maddening. 0.0 I can't believe I did not know about the scale window option. That has driven me nuts for ages! Thank you so much for all of these.

Even as someone with thousands upon thousands of hours in this game, and a notorious options scrutiniser, I learnt a good few things from this. The CTRL+arrow keys camera thing BLEW MY MIND, as a controller player I had no way to access something like that to begin with, but I had no idea it was a thing either, its going to make actually seeing big opponents in combat much much easier. Incredible video.

Wow, probably one of the most useful FFXIV videos across all of KZfaq, thank you for this!👍

This is awesome, it's incredibly informative and worth watching a few times over so I can do the same in my game! Awesome work, dude!

I also like to set the item tooltip to a fixed position. It really sucks when you're hovering over items in your crafting log and the tooltip covers half the log. Set it to fixed so it goes to the lower righthand corner.

I'm so glad this game has another 10 years in it because this video made my gameplay so much better just as I finished Endwalker 😅 Thank you for this!

As someone who's played since ARR, I actually learned a couple things from this video & your other one tysm I loved this

so many really good tips in this video. I never have the patience for going through the settings in depth myself, so I love when I see a video like this one doing the hard work for me lmao

That astro tip is amazing! I always felt awkward about weaving Earthly Star but this looks like it will solve it quite nicely. Thanks for sharing!

Adding onto the part where you hand in gear to your Grand Company, you can just spam 0 on the numpad on keyboard. Saves you moving the mouse and clicking away, and everything can be turned in super fast. This also applies to most interactable objects/characters. Just spam 0 to quickly go through the options. Note 0 Numpad is the default keybinding.

10:28 you can cycle through the window sizes with strg + pos1 (ctrl + home) as well.

I'm gonna immedialy apply the inventory setting, big thanks! One thing that I found annoying at the start of my FFXIV adventure was the Chocobo mount music and I was so happy to discover there's a way to mute it from the settings.

For casting ground targets its better to just make macro with spell name and to auto drop aoe on target that choosing option for double tap

The camera angle is a life saver, thanks for this

It’s a shame I can’t give you more likes. I’m a new player and this really is going to make things more enjoyable for me. Thank you.

i really needed this video i’ve been slowly learning these kinds of things for months and i’m only halfway through the video and learned so much TY ^-^

BIG thank you for this video, I have just sat and followed along and got myself all set up. Cannot wait to try that fate macro!

I've been playing FF14 for several years now and I got many new and useful tricks from just 12 mins, thanks alot :)

Loved this and your last tips video. Been playing for a few months and I found a lot of tips that I shared with my friends, along with the video :D Another one I love it leaving a duty with "U" and then leave, rather than running to the blue exit

That CTRL arrow is news to me as well and it is absolutely amazing because for some boss skills I sometimes need to move the camera while running! All in all I’ve learned lots of new things today. Thank you for this video. Stay safe. ❤️

Not a lot of people seem to realise how nice it is to disable PC and NPC names in the overworld. Makes it much more immersive and less of an eyesore in busy areas And you can still check names by selecting the characters ofc

Thank you for this especially the scale window it always frustrated me looking at gear in the fitting room

Omg, I did not know there was a setting that would not add new items to your armory. I wanted something like that for the longest time lol. A lot of great info here. Thanks!

Been playing the game for many years already and some of them changed my life back then when i started using them... but it amazed me to learn the isearch one with your video.... thank you so much!

You can also type motion after the emote to not leave a log message i.e. /wave motion

Standard works for me and put them on strafe a long time ago. You can still spin if you hold right click. The limit range and the other option were introduced in EW if you didnt know.

man, my favorite out of this is the switching between enemies from further away to cone....ive been having troubles with this for so long, can't believe I didn't just look this up haha. thanks!

I had no idea about most of these or didn't care to change and try them. Thank you so much!

I found that changing colours on my friends made them easier to find, too. Made them bright magenta, just so the name stands out.

2:45 Yep, super useful. You know what else I do to accommodate for this issue is I put my hotbars and cross hotbar on the right side of the screen to make sure my character and where I am standing is clearly visible and not obscure it with hotbars. That way, I can keep my camera angle pointed high for most of the time. Also, I use one of the paddles on my Xbox Elite 2 controller to map that paddle + LB and RB for adjusting the verticle camera angle on the fly without needing to reach for my keyboard.

OMG that targeting one has been my bain since I started playing this, thank you so much for that! So many amazing little things that will make this game so much better, I will be using a lot of this info, thanks again!

Man, I hit Like in your video in the first tip - and so many of the rest were even more useful! Thanks a lot!

Here's my tip and trick for folks recording video of FFXIV. In the Chat Log settings, you can enable your 4th channel and only select the things you would be okay with people seeing while you're recording. You can also use that to modify your existing filters. I usually disable stuff like "Other's Synthesis Messages" since if I'm chilling in a city, there's usually an unending stream of those.

Similar to the level sync macro, I also have 2 other macros to toggle my HUD. I have one that toggles my current quest list, and one that toggles the msq quest display. Very nice being able to take these things on and off screen at will, if you are someone who for some reason doesn't like having a mini-map you could toggle that as well with a button. Additionally you can have your gear sets placed into your hotbars for easy fast switching without having to navigate any menus

Fantastic thanks so much! Clear and concise with perfect examples! Keep it up!

These were really helpful! Thank you so much! I especially loved the cycling through chats and isearch

Weird I haven't seen this one yet but there is an option for an expanded inventory for both your inventory and your Chocobo Saddlebag so you have all the sacks open at once instead of having to flip through two pages to find what you want.

Just about anything you have to search through the menus for, like the chocobo saddlebag, or the weekly timers, they can be dragged onto the hotbar so you can just press a button instead of going through a menu each time.

I learned a lot of neat things from this, most of all how to change camera angle I had NO idea, thanks!

Great video! The window scale trick is something I've always wanted to be able to do!

Standard Type Movement was introduced specifically for Mouse+Keyboard based on the system from World of Warcraft because I guess at the time YoshiP and his team had grown accustomed to that style and knew that MMO players at the time were accustomed to this form of movement while 1.0 used the same system as FFXI which is the legacy system which is based on controller/console controls, basically flight stick controls. It was added to try to make ARR more accommodating to people who came to the game from pre-existing western MMOs. However, right after Heavensward released the developers shifted their focus; They abandoned the WoW-Clone approach to the game and instead shifted it in a direction based entirely on the feedback and desires of FFXIV's community. Basing ARR on WoW saved FFXIV, I won't deny that and both WoW and Blizzard deserve their credit for inspiring YoshiP and his team with the direction they took to save the game; But after that point, they went their own path and FFXIV is far from the WoW clone it begun it's life as to the point where end game boss fights are so far removed from that of the WoW like boss fights of ARR and Heavensward 3.0 base content (the 5 starting dungeons and 3 trials that came at launch), especially so since Stormblood that the combat is so intense at end game that Standard controls hamper players from being able to maximise their own potential at damage output while dodging mechanics. Good luck trying to melee Savage and Ultimate with Standard controls, I don't even think it's possible anymore. Also here's a tip: In WoW you can change the game's movement settings to that of the same as FFXIV's legacy settings but it has to be done manually though hotkey reassignment... which is annoying. Also the double click to cast template abilities immediately on target is a quality of life feature added shortly before Endwalker released. Before then we had to set up Macros. A lot of these features have been added over the years at the request of the fanbase in Japan but a lot of English players are not even aware they even exist because they get brushed over in patch notes and the developers only really discuss them on the live letter in casual conversation and never had them up on the presentation and since before Endwalker the liveletters were exclusively in Japanese and only the presentations got translated, few people knew about it.

You can turn off facing the enemy ur targeting when u hit an ability, you don't need to turn on legacy for that specifically and even with the standard movement you can just hold right click to strafe with A and D Edit: I feel like i should add to turn off auto-facing a target go to Character Config > Control Settings > Target > Turn off "Automatically face target when using action"

New to the game and this vid helped alot thank you. Love the look back on the first tip - "Or maybe we do.."

Man you're a real mvp, i've logged over 700 hours and still never figured out some of these things. The camera angle change is gonna come in REAL handy, as well as cone targeting, thanks!

as a ninja main who gets trolled by shukuchi every day of my life, THANK YOU for the limit ring movement. GAME CHANGER.

just 1 issue I found about legacy movement is when facing boss trial in Bardram mettle where you should avoid aoe & gaze one after another, I 70% failed that because my character can't walk backward without facing the boss lol

I've been playing about ARR and didn't know about a few of these! Particularly "change camera angle" (I'm a lalafell so this is a life changer) and "Easily Cycle Chats". So glad I clicked this video, thank you for sharing!

Just started the game and man I love the humor on this video while also giving good info/feedback

It's a small thing, but I always recommended to new players to reorder their emotes to an alphabetical list. Also put the lookout emote in your favored emotes for sightseeing.

Just one thing. You’re using a keyboard and mouse meaning you don’t use the Cross Hotbar. Any settings related to the Cross Hotbar will have no relavance to you and would be a placebo effect at most.

Thank you I just came From ps4 to pc and the settings were my biggest issue but with this video has made it a bit more manageable

I have been playing off and on for years. I learned quite a few new things in your video. Thank you for making it. Much appreciated.

Legacy + Auto face target gives me the superpowers to run forward or full speed backwards while throwing my shield behind me without slowing down or doing awkward jump mouse acrobatics. Its a personal preferences, its whatever is comfy for the user.

I like standard type movement more because it feels more rp-like.

Amazing video, great tips. Lots I didn't know and now I'm going to fix that issues. Thanks!!!

I've been playing for a few years now and had no idea about most of these. Really helped lol thank you!

another way to make targeting even better is to change the actual keybind for tab to "target closest enemy". that way you can just spam tab to always target whatever is closest, if I want a specific target I just use my mouse

Standard movement does not make your character face a target when dpsing. It's an entirely different setting that can be disabled. I've tried to like legacy but without free look, I don't think it'll ever replace standard for me.

thank you! im completely new to this game and the movement was making me dizzy. im so glad i found your video, you literally saved me from thinking if i should buy the full game or not.

honestly, never new about window scaling upon right clicking even though I have been playing since ARR, managed to fix a long time issue for myself thanks to this where I couldn't see the numbers in my character info panel for stats and stuff, TY for this

Simple thing, but on one of the additional hotbars I assigned the 'Z' and 'X' keys, put the Sprint action on 'Z' and my main mount on 'X'. Frees up room on the main hotbars and makes it easy to get around quickly.