Healing with Controller Vs. Mouse/Keyboard

[Kinseykinz]

Wednesday is aside from weekends my best day to play for an extended period of time so I will be setting up my keyboard/mouse hotbars tonight and seeing what I can do. ^^

Another suggestion,this is just for learning:

But re-roll a new character (healer) and set yourself up from the get-go as a KB+M player on that character. That way, you get the tutorial and only a handful of skills you have to use. Nerf around on that character until you feel comfy (you can always delete it later). Then, switch to your 'main'.

[Shyluv]

I want to switch to keyboard, for the faster targeting with f keys, but... the 3 attempts I made were terrible. I couldn't move out of ae stuff fast enough, and even when I somehow managed, the camera is so different that I would get turned around and run right back into it. No idea how I used keyboard for all the years I played xi. I know the controller isn't the same in arr as xi, but still.

[MizoreRainy]

I used to play on mouse/keyboard but it's really hard for me when I have to press skill slot from '7' to '='.
I have to use many skill slot such as Macro "/ac "Physick" <1>" to healing my party member which will take 4 of my skill slot.
And here's the advantage of the controller user, I've 16*4 skill slot that extremely easy to reach (It's maximum 16*8 but I use only half of it for my skill, item and the other half I use it for Emote).

I can't say that controller is the best way because it's have their own pros and cons so it's up to each people to decide what's the best for them.

[Dmer]

I prefer controller as well for healing. I wish they made it so that if you use the mouse to click on a skill on regular hotbars it would let you use mouse for placing the fairy and only use camera stick when activating from controller.

[Maku]

Ok have my keyboard/mouse hot bars all set up. my issue is though that with controller i could tell my fairy to heal someone without having to autolock target them so i could still have the mob targeted. but without pet macros I cant figure out how to do it with mouse. ><

[KomoChameleon]

If anyone has any issues moving on a keyboard there is some bigger problems to address. Moving on a keyboard is not hard....at.....all.

[Maku]

Healed AK last night with Keyboard. I will say that the ease of placing my fairy and AoE fields was crazy nice BUT in the end I found myself watching where my mouse cursor was for my MO macros instead of enjoying the fight and the movement was just crazy hard for me to get used to. I will be using controller for most everything I think. However, the potential to be faster in 8man situations is simply really strong with mouse/keyboard. So I am unfortunately still undecided which I want to keep using. ><

Also, with the Dpad you can scroll over a target and force an Embrace on them without actually targeting them and dropping target on the mob. Because there are no pet macros yet this isn't doable with keyboard/mouse? At least I couldn't figure it out. Plus the controller just lets me sit back and relax so much more cause I don't gota be up at the keyboard and stuffs. I hate being a libra and not being able to make decisions for the life of me.

[PiedPiper]

Play PS3:

I have never felt like I coudln't do it. That said, my first romp in 2.0 was to level ac/sch (healed all dungeons up through praet on my first runs) so I got practice from the get go.

Realy the GCD is your friend. You have plenty of time to select your next target during the GCD.

Field/fairy placement: its awkward turtle at first, I wont lie. But, I've gotten used to it and rather like it now. I find I can easily pre-aim one or two casts before I want to use one of these abilities and get them off. Even on summoner I've got to the point that placing flare doens't slow down my rotation. It is a bit odd at first, and maybe even clunkier than ti should be, but I can't really think of another option that wouldn't butcher the interface.

[Allyra]

I play using a ps3 controller because of my lifestyle (sometimes able to play on comp, sometimes need to play on ps3). I would have a huge headache trying to switch back n' forth between the X bars and the normal horizontal bars

With that said, if I had the choice, my favorite setup in any and all MMOs is a mouse + gamepad (g13). It was hard to switch back (I wish my ps3 could do this combo!). For those trying to switch to keyboard, but find it awkward, I highly recommend giving this a try. It's great for one-controller users because you still move using a thumb stick. When I play mmos I only use the keyboard for talking, the rest is all macroed to the mouse or gamepad.

Don't get me wrong, however. To each their own, and I think while it definitely takes more focus to heal with a controller, it's still definitely duoable, and people have to stop putting blame on others for no reason. Just figured I'd mention it because of some saying they tried to do it with a kb and hated it.

[Shyluv]

I can't seem to find a happy medium for myself. I love the controller, but it is slower to target. I have tried going back to keyboard many times. Tried <mo>, tried <me>-<8> on keyboard, tried F1-F8 targeting. I basically have to choose between targeting faster, or being able to move out of AE stuff. And well, I'm sure anyone I group with would rather I be just a little teeny bit slower at targeting that being dead all the time.