Request: Any video or written guides on Tanking/Healing END GAME using only Gamepad?

[Drjigs]

Not a real guide to tanking, but its where I put my abilities so they feel comfortable.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-%28Paladin%29

[DarkReed]

Hi there,

Controller player here too. I use out of combat hotbars and in combat ones. Normally when tanking, I put the target marking on the out of combat set. I use a few macros, noramly either hate grabing (provoke and ranged abiltiy in 1) or self Buffs (Like Defence (Rampart, Foresight, etc) is one, and just plane buffs(Tempered Will, Awareness, etc) on another)

But, I just made a post kinda on this very subject. Showing how I setup my summoner, but I have also done the same for my SCH.

Link is as follows...

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...80%93-Summoner

[RaijinkenXIII]

Healers shouldn't play with a gamepad... no matter how good you can use it.

I'll definitely just stop playing the game entirely then since I don't have a strong enough PC and have no plans to play any other class. Thanks for the heads up!

[Sylkis]

My biggest concern is learning how ot macro pets (Eos and Selene).

There isn't much you can do about the pets. Even if you use obey, it will use 2 of its skills. I just put them on auto.
I almost never use Selene, so can't say much about that.
The only 2 pet skills I use are heel and place.

This is my current setup
(there was a mistake in the first image, fixed it now)

[Edenholt]

Honest question: Every single tank I've met on DF that didn't mark (excluding the bad/lazy ones) said they couldn't mark mobs because they were on gamepad, is there a way to help them with that? I try to wait and see which one he is attacking to not make it a hell to keep aggro, but sometimes I get a bit lost myself.

[Sylkis]

Honest question: Every single tank I've met on DF that didn't mark (excluding the bad/lazy ones) said they couldn't mark mobs because they were on gamepad, is there a way to help them with that? I try to wait and see which one he is attacking to not make it a hell to keep aggro, but sometimes I get a bit lost myself.

All they need to do is target mob and press square, select mark then double tap x to assign [1] to it
There is also a macro but I can't remember what it is exactly. /mk attack1 <t> or something

If you have HP bars set to disappear at full, you can just look for what mob has a HP bar.
You can also macro your skills and use <tt> with the tank targeted

[Zell]

You can place markers on a hotbar (maybe hotbar 3 or 4) and use it to mark.

You can also mark targets by selecting them, pressing Square on PS3, and it will open up two choices (mark) being one of them. Same goes for Xbox controller, it's which ever is equivalent to Square on PS3.

There's multiple ways to mark. You can even create a macro that Toggles 1, 2, 3, 4. You select one target, click confirm and will mark it as 1. Select next target and click confirm twice, and it will mark it as 2.

There's many ways to skin a cat.

[Estellios]

Honest question: Every single tank I've met on DF that didn't mark (excluding the bad/lazy ones) said they couldn't mark mobs because they were on gamepad, is there a way to help them with that? I try to wait and see which one he is attacking to not make it a hell to keep aggro, but sometimes I get a bit lost myself.

Tell them to find the "Signs" menu (I am on PC and use the PC mini-menu thing, not the PS3 fullscreen one so I am unsure whre it is). All they have to do is push Square on the sign they want to use and they will get the prompt to add it to their action bar.

Personally I only use one sign and move to the next enemy a little before the previous one dies, works fine.

[DenzelTaru]

snip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xGruTtzvQ

its not a guide per say.. but here is a video of me and my friends.. I am SCH and this video will show you how i have my bars setup and how i use them..

cross hotbar is not enough and switching sets can trip you up.. so make bars 1 2 3 and 4 visible in the character menu.. i then make bar 3 and 4 shared which means they dont change when my class changes and put all my emote macros, recruitment, menu buttons and minions/mounts on there..

ctrl and alt bars work even with gamepad

edit.. all my damage and dot spells are macro set to

/micon "Name"
/ac Name <t>
/ac Name <tt>

that way you can use them while targetting the tank or tartgetting a mob

[DenzelTaru]

Healers shouldn't play with a gamepad... no matter how good you can use it.

oh dear >.>

yea it hinders us.. no it doesn't make us bad healers..