Question bout controller

[Mr_Gyactus]

This pertains to my girlfriend as I've stated before she has issues (lupus iron deficiency so on). She is swapping to a Playstation controller today actually later today I'm wondering how good is the gameplay in controller, we're going to do dungeons eventually, we looke to be forming a static (possibly have 5 members now), alliance raid and gold saucer mostly and to be fair I haven't played on a controller ever in the MMO so I just wondering how well it does, is it a little bit slow responsive, how bad is the targeting on it just general pros and cons she's got a video on how to set it up or I guess it's three videos from somebody I found on YouTube I don't know his name that has 3 vids pertains to controller. At the moment she's a dancer main I don't know I guess any extra advice or any foreseeable future problems we might have with this would be appreciative knowledge as this is something I've never considered.

cons:
- write in the chat,
- place marks /banner / ground abilities (mouse is faster for these things)
- no more than 32 abilities (almost every job has less even with sprint and limit break included). I know there are 8 cross bars, but she need to switch between 1 and 2, and she can do that with R1 (click -> 2 (16 abilities) click -> 1 (16 abilities) if you add more abilities it's 2->3->1 OR press R1+triangle, R1+circle, R1+X ....

Pros:
- she can move the character, move the camera AND something else (for example change target in the party list or use an instant ability).
- she can filter targets rotation (thus you don't target a mob instead of a character using mouseover or wrong click on the list)
- less bars in the GUI -> less "things" hidden behind them. She can let the cross appear only when she clicks L2 or R2.


hint:
- legacy control movement
- cross hotbar Controls: HOLD
- remove the lock on button and first person view (it's easy to click L3 or R3 and in the worst possible time)
- organize abilities: most used -> easy to click with your thumb; cooldown/mount/limit break -> difficult to click; panic buttons -> half way (you'll understand with experience where).
- switch crossbar pressing R1 during the 2.5 sec cooldown.

[Delis]

cons:
- write in the chat,
- place marks /banner / ground abilities (mouse is faster for these things)
- no more than 32 abilities (almost every job has less even with sprint and limit break included). I know there are 8 cross bars, but she need to switch between 1 and 2, and she can do that with R1 (click -> 2 (16 abilities) click -> 1 (16 abilities) if you add more abilities it's 2->3->1 OR press R1+triangle, R1+circle, R1+X ....

Pros:
- she can move the character, move the camera AND something else (for example change target in the party list or use an instant ability).
- she can filter targets rotation (thus you don't target a mob instead of a character using mouseover or wrong click on the list)
- less bars in the GUI -> less "things" hidden behind them. She can let the cross appear only when she clicks L2 or R2.


hint:
- legacy control movement
- cross hotbar Controls: HOLD
- remove the lock on button and first person view (it's easy to click L3 or R3 and in the worst possible time)
- organize abilities: most used -> easy to click with your thumb; cooldown/mount/limit break -> difficult to click; panic buttons -> half way (you'll understand with experience where).
- switch crossbar pressing R1 during the 2.5 sec cooldown.

I do things a bit differently. I never use R1 to switch to crossbar 2. I feel using R2+L2/L2+R2 then the button of the action I want, to be faster. Like on Dragoon my jumps are on the right side of bar 2, high jump on square. So I would hit R2+L2 then square then let go either of R2 or L2 depending on which where I am at in my rotation to get back to bar1. Also you can have 40 abilities. The 16 on bar 1, 16 on bar 2, 4 on double L2 tap and 4 on double R2 tap.