post-Dawntrail even story dungeons are harder and more punishing to heal than ever

[Zano]

yes but consider this:

finding the button and clicking on it takes time, while you're also trying to orient yourself and move in time, if you're using the mouse to both click on buttons and for camera control as you used WASD to move, clicking even instant cast buttons might cause you to die if the AoEs are too fast or too punishing. I typically find i can only toss out my instant casts towards the end of a movement phase for this reason, and because the boss does this 4 times in a row, there isn't enough "breather room" to use any abilities until the mechanic is over with and someone has probably either died to the aoes, the poison dot, or the spread markers.

I also click my abilities. It just feels awkward to hit ctrl, shift, or ctrl+shift with the same hand I'm trying to also click 1-5 with.

With that in mind, now that you are through the problem dungeon, I suggest playing tank. You can make a handful of mistakes and, as long as you mitigate tank busters properly, vuln stacks in dungeons are glorified cosmetics. In addition there are less buttons to press compared to most healers, so it's much easier to parse which ability you need to click. There are occasionally tank specific mechanics in higher difficulty fights, but alternating with the other tank to soak a tower in the 1st DT extreme is way easier than healing the same content. lol

[Arohk]

I also click my abilities. It just feels awkward to hit ctrl, shift, or ctrl+shift with the same hand I'm trying to also click 1-5 with.

I agree here, i don't know how people do it pushing ctrl or shit+numbers, its jsut not possible for my hand, my little finger is already at 1, how am i suppose.d to push ctrl?
I have a total of 29 Hotkeys for abilities, that is about the maximum i can handle, i only click stuff i rarely use, like situational 2 minute cooldowns.

[Caitamm]

I agree here, i don't know how people do it pushing ctrl or shit+numbers, its jsut not possible for my hand, my little finger is already at 1, how am i suppose.d to push ctrl?
I have a total of 29 Hotkeys for abilities, that is about the maximum i can handle, i only click stuff i rarely use, like situational 2 minute cooldowns.

I hit 1-2-3 with my ring, middle, and pointer fingers! I've always kept my pinky finger near shift or ctrl since many games will bind those buttons to either crouching/sprinting actions.

[EiraWoqiso]

I agree here, i don't know how people do it pushing ctrl or shit+numbers, its jsut not possible for my hand, my little finger is already at 1, how am i suppose.d to push ctrl?
I have a total of 29 Hotkeys for abilities, that is about the maximum i can handle, i only click stuff i rarely use, like situational 2 minute cooldowns.

Ring, middle, and index fingers on WASD. Thumb on Space. Pinky on shift, able to move to ctrl easily. This works wonders if you have an MMO mouse. I genuinely have no idea how people use the number row for their rotation and can expect to move with WASD, though.

[Caitamm]

Ring, middle, and index fingers on WASD. Thumb on Space. Pinky on shift, able to move to ctrl easily. This works wonders if you have an MMO mouse. I genuinely have no idea how people use the number row for their rotation and can expect to move with WASD, though.

Holding down both left click and right click will cause your character to move forward in the direction your camera is facing. Very helpful when long, continuous movement is needed.

[EiraWoqiso]

Holding down both left click and right click will cause your character to move forward in the direction your camera is facing. Very helpful when long, continuous movement is needed.

I tend to do that outside of raids, I've always found it to be a little tricky to use when trying to do mechanics. Cool to hear that people have it mastered though!

[yoshinoharu]

Holding down both left click and right click will cause your character to move forward in the direction your camera is facing. Very helpful when long, continuous movement is needed.

I set my auto-run to middle mouse button and just do that instead tbh >.>

[Zano]

Ring, middle, and index fingers on WASD. Thumb on Space. Pinky on shift, able to move to ctrl easily. This works wonders if you have an MMO mouse. I genuinely have no idea how people use the number row for their rotation and can expect to move with WASD, though.

maybe that's what i need is an mmo mouse. In ffxiv I keep my ring, middle, and pointer finger on q, w, e respectively and move with legacy movement for ease of turning away from the boss for glare mechanics, and during movement intensive moments i can click all my abilities. When there are moments i can stand still I switch my wasd hand to 1-5 and click anything not in my main rotation, such as defensives or my spellcasting burst combo for pld. I can do extremes/savages pretty comfortably, but i think that my current playstyle would be an issue if I ever wanted to do an ultimate.

[Arohk]

I genuinely have no idea how people use the number row for their rotation and can expect to move with WASD, though.

it is a combination of moving with your mouse as well, but you need quick fingers, i use Q and E to strafe though instead of A and D which is closer to the numbers buttons.

looks like this

[victoriate]

I also click my abilities. It just feels awkward to hit ctrl, shift, or ctrl+shift with the same hand I'm trying to also click 1-5 with.

With that in mind, now that you are through the problem dungeon, I suggest playing tank. You can make a handful of mistakes and, as long as you mitigate tank busters properly, vuln stacks in dungeons are glorified cosmetics. In addition there are less buttons to press compared to most healers, so it's much easier to parse which ability you need to click. There are occasionally tank specific mechanics in higher difficulty fights, but alternating with the other tank to soak a tower in the 1st DT extreme is way easier than healing the same content. lol

I rebound my ctrl and shift to mouse buttons instead.