One-Handing Playing Suggestions

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So in a couple weeks, I'm going to be getting surgery to fix a pinched nerve in my elbow. The doctor said it'd be like ten days recovery, so I'm kind of expecting that arm to be out of commission. Having very little interest in TV shows on right now, thinking my books may be too heavy for the non-dominant hand, and pretty sure I won't be out of it on pain meds, I decided to look into things I may be able to do in-game with my working hand.

To note, I'm a PS3 player using controller for play.

So far, all I've come up with is feveling fishing. Leveling crafting is a possibility because of quick synth, but I'm horrible at making gil to fund that for too long.

I don't think I can level classes too much, with using a ton of abilities.

...so going to fall behind on my alexandrite maps...

So I figured I'd see if anyone may have some suggestions for things I can do in case I need a change of pace.

fishing, botany, logging. you can do crafting 1 handed since it isn't timed you can set all the macros on your good hand and change page.

Do you have any other gatherers to level? They should be cheaper than fishing~ Tedious, but cheaper.

cant ps3 players use a mouse? with that u can do nearly everything but hard dungeons :P (avoid playing melee / tank :P)

I think PC has the best capability for any disability(permanent or temporary), can you connect a keyboard to your PS3?

Can you change the button assignments on PS3? Maybe change your R1 and L2 buttons so you can activate both sides of your cross hot bar with one hand. Possibly make all of your macros/etc on the triangle/square/circle/x buttons but on multiple pages. Movement might be an issue though, but maybe if you could also switch the R3 and L3 buttons then you can handle movement also with the same hand you hit your macros with. As for targeting mobs, make a macro that would tab between targets. Or even a macro that makes you target what your tank is fighting. I don't know if any of this helps or if you can even do any of these things on PS3. Flip all of my suggestions if you're using your left hand though :p

I realize this might be difficult actually, switching between pages on your cross hotbar. Not sure how you would go about that if R1/L2 are switched.

You can gather certain items (mining/botany) depending on what is selling well on your server. That way you can still play and level if you need to. Sell a few stacks of popular items and make some money in the process. Or hold on to them for when you need the items to craft with! Fishing is laid back and relaxing. It would be a nice time for you to chill. The profit isn't always there. But you could stand in one spot for quite a while if your arm hurts to much.

It helps if you have long fingers. The PS3 controller I mastered with one hand its nice because it smaller than the PS4 controller. Though not mastered yet, I have become pretty good with the PS4 controller, one handed, the only thing is the touchpad which is very easily "touched" and it activates the cursor. I could change it but what fun would that be.

Battles are not that bad as long as the hotbar is setup with main attacks to one side, defensive to the left (playing as PLD). Macros too will help ( though I don't use them) for short term it may be better. Haven't done any dungeons one handed, but FATES and any other above ground battles aren't bad. Heck I have even used my chin to hit buttons. Gotta do what you gotta do. Though I have been doing this for years, 10 days may not be enough to get the hang of it.

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Originally Posted by Warlyx

cant ps3 players use a mouse? with that u can do nearly everything but hard dungeons :P (avoid playing melee / tank :P)

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A 12 button mouse like my razer naga would be perfect for that.

Guess I should've specified hand was which. The one getting the surgery is right, and I'm pretty much planning to stick to the left half of my controller. While keyboard is a possibility, I don't have a place for a mouse, even if I could adjust to using it.

Yes you can reassign the controller binds on PS3/4. You will of course want to make the adjustments and get used to it before the surgery. you could level lower level combat jobs would have to set the controller down to rotate the camera or use target lock to turn it. Looking at the lodestone your archer would be a good job to take to 30ish, can do the commands all on the left 4, using L1 and L2 for macro bars indstead of L2 and R2. You'll lose autorun but not a huge loss. Set L3 for target lock so you can use it to turn the camera fast.

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Originally Posted by Miya_Carbuncle

A 12 button mouse like my razer naga would be perfect for that.

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yes I would suggest razer naga as well but the OP is using PS3 and PS3 cannot use that mouse so the OP only option left is using keyboard, as the key are close to each other and don't need any addiction to open up second menu in the hotbar

@OP : I dont think you can do anymore than DoH and DoL and FSH. FSH lvl 50 with full meld can be fun if you want to try to catch big fish, those can consume a whole days continues (lvl up CUL de-sync beside is recommend).

I suggest the OP stay away from combat (alex map with help is another story, you can do alex map or w/e maps, as long as you have ppl to help you)

When I'm lazy I usually only play with one hand using only the keyboard, it's possible to play most primals, ST and regular dungeons. I can't do Titan as I don't have strafe bound so any direction other than forward takes a while.

I frequently play a second game with my left hand when doing something easy or monotonous in FFXIV with my right hand (gathering, for instance, or crafting a ton of items in one go, or beating up weak mobs for my daily Hunt registry). I've found that it's actually pretty easy to access all the controls on the controller with one hand if I rest the controller on a surface (I use the arm of my recliner) and place my hand on top of it. I manipulate the movement and camera controls with my palm, and press the control pad and buttons with my fingers like they were a keypad. It gets very easy with practice, though I wouldn't recommend trying anything too intense.

The only times things get awkward is when executing hotbar commands that require stretching my hand all the way across the controller - for instance, L2 + square button, or R2 + control pad up. I try to keep frequently used actions away from those hotbar configurations.