Random Tips, Tricks, & Helpful Information

[Wyyote]

The following is a small listing of information or tips that I've received from helpful members of the community. I've found that these have made my day to day FFXIV experience easier. I thought I'd share the basics, and hopefully pay it forward. These are not life changing by any means, but just minor things I find save me some time & effort.

Separated by category for your viewing pleasure!

I'm sure there are many more tips and tricks out there. Feel free to contribute if you so desire!

[Wyyote]

General:

• Spend some time organizing your HUD. Depending on how particular you are, this could take hours, but it's the single best investment of time to improve your experience. See some examples throughout the thread, along with players input below on how to customize virtually everything.
• Always acquire rested experience. Be sure to log out in your inn room or town as much as possible. Inn rooms in major towns must be used to get rested bonus.
• Grand Company Seals. If you're grinding fates for seals to rank up, don't forget about the "Timer" menu. It shows GC turn in items. A full list of turn in items can net you over 4k seals if HQ. Quite often, these items can be bought fairly cheaper off the wards should you not have trades leveled.

• Map. Enlarge your map, and use that transparency option when you can. Makes it easier to navigate zones or find quest markers. You can have it overlay your HUD.

• The majority of lower level items are able to be purchase directly from NPCs. When leveling crafts this will save you significant Gil.
• Build a macro to target the nearest NPC. Allows you to easily target that summoning bell, or quest/FATE NPC when large numbers of players are around. My macro is:
  • /macroicon "Target Forward"
  • /tnpc

check all the keybinds. there alot of useful ones that aren't bound by default.

Type <pos> and your current map coordinates will pop in its place, and people can then click those coordinates and it will mark their map with a flag.

If you want your rank 10 chocobo barding you have to spec down a single tree.

The one tip that I use when I play: Pay it Forward...

Avoid spamming emotes by entering motion. Example: /poke motion

To quickly blacklist the last tell (from an RMT), make a simple macro with the line, "/blacklist add <r>"

To add to customizing your UI, you can use Control-HOME to adjust the size of elements. You can adjust the size of your hotbars and background elements in the UI menu, you can change your menu sizes by having them selected.

If you don't know how to use a command type /? /*command* , this is a carry over from 11 and it will spam your chat log with the syntax for what you're doing
example: /? /pcmd, which stands for party command

more UI configure things... you can actually make macros to add or remove UI elements. This can be used to remove clutter on your screen by adding/removing things like the mini-map, duty list and hot-bars.
commands are:
/hotbar display <number> <on/off> ... on/off is an optional command when left out it will toggle the bar
/hud <element> <on/off> ...
[code="<hud element>"]Target Bar
Focus Target
Parameter Bar
Minimap
Main Menu
Server Info
Gil
Inventory Grid
Duty List
Item Help
Action Help
Limit Gauge
Experience Bar
Status Effects
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LONG bit on hotbars, and some macro commands

Check out Post #29 for detailed info. Some cool stuff in there Teleniel! Thank you!

[Wyyote]

Combat:

• Zoom out in boss fights. It's much easier to catch onto the dynamics and see the overall battle. This tip literally solved Titan placement on bombs for me.
• Put key information right in your line of sight (example target bar, party list, etc.)
• Build another target macro for the nearest enemy:
  • /macroicon "Target Back"
  • /tenemy
• Focus Target. This was a game changer for me in Coil Turn 2. By using focus target I can see all debuffs/buffs etc. on a select player. Useful for buffing/debuffing party members or specific fight mechanics.

• Separate your chat log if possible. Use one side for damage and other battle info. Use the other side specifically for mob abilities and things you "need" to know/see.

• You can watch a cooldown from an action by putting this line at the top of your macro code: /macroicon "Input action name here"
• If you play with a controller, you can dismount by hitting the L3 button
• If you play with a controller, you can enable hotbars to switch when you draw your weapon. Turn on "Enable customization" and "Enable customization for when weapon is drawn." in the Character Configuration > Cross Menu, and highlighting one hotbar each to switch to.
• If your hunting monsters for items or in a fate party with multiple monsters dying fast, use /targetenemy and /action "Input ranged action here" <t> for quick targeting the nearest enemy. Use actions that are instant cast such as Tomahawk, Piercing Talon, Aero, etc.

Sometimes it's a good idea to Focus-Target players, other times Monsters (Shift-F to set it, only works for PC)

Enemies are bound by the same spellcasting mechanics as players. If you move behind them or otherwise out of their Line of Sight when they are casting a non-AoE spell, their casting will fail. In this way, you can force mobs to fail at spells like Void Thunder III, Fire III, even Water and Fire. This does not apply to spells that are AoE like Blizzard II, Fire II, etc.

Further to this, you can fight some enemies without taking any damage at all. Firemane in Halitali is one example. Lock on and strafe in a circle around it. Every single cast of Fire it attempts will fail because of the above mentioned mechanic.

[Wyyote]

Disciplines of Land/Hand:

• If you have multiple jobs, always change out to a DoL class in downtime in order to generate GP. This allows you to have full GP for rare nodes at the proper time. This applies to waiting on parties, Duty Finder, or browsing the market wards.
• If you build out job change macros, always add the "Truth" ability of said job so it pops up when you switch roles.
• Build a macro for all rare node locations and items. Example below.

Save your gil, most decent gear and weapons can be farmed in the dungeons (no matter how tedious it seems) and can usually carry you for 5+ levels
and one I wish I would have followed: Try and level a craft and gathering skill together. both will help you craft gear you may need later, or can sell to make gil, or spirit bond and convert to materia you can sell or use

Spirit Bonding through crafting is not related to level. It's tied to difficulty. A One star 50 like Rose Gold Nuggets or Twin Thread will get you less sprirt bonding per synthesis than a level 48, 80 Durability Synthesis.

A set of level 55 gear to 43% spirit bond in the Sylphlands and the loot drop count was at a solid 0. Good if you like to spiritbond with no inventory clutter. Bad if you like to get loot.

Having a chocobo out will increase your drop rates...something to do with the chocobo being counted as a party member thus you get 2 rolls for the same item instead of one.

• Leave the first row open in your retainer if you find you "split" inventory a fair amount due to crafting. It's easier to locate the items after, and saves your own personal inventory space so you can remove just what you need for a synth.

Added useful links for reference:

Materia Melding Chart for iLVL70 items
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4468/y0to.png

FFXIVDB - Reference for all you need to know on FFXIV
http://xivdb.com/

Rare Node Information (Technyze)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...GYk1TNHc#gid=0

Materia Setup for Crafters (Raldo Volca)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...p-for-crafters

Crafting Macro Builder
http://xiv-macro.appspot.com/

XIVPads - Character and FC Information (DB & Community)
http://xivpads.com/?Characters

All credit for links and resources goes to those whom created them.

[Rightchaus]

Playing without a blindfold increases surrounding awareness.

[Wyyote]

Playing without a blindfold increases surrounding awareness.

Well I tried to contribute in a positive way. That tip works for driving as well.

[Luso]

Nice post. ^_^

[Wyyote]

Added useful links for reference:

Materia Melding Chart for iLVL70 items
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4468/y0to.png

FFXIVDB - Reference for all you need to know on FFXIV
http://xivdb.com/

Rare Node Information (Technyze)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...GYk1TNHc#gid=0

Materia Setup for Crafters (Raldo Volca)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...p-for-crafters

Crafting Macro Builder
http://xiv-macro.appspot.com/

XIVPads - Character and FC Information (DB & Community)
http://xivpads.com/?Characters

All credit for links and resources goes to those whom created them!

[storm]

type <pos> and your current map coordinates will pop in its place, and people can then click those coordinates and it will mark their map with a flag. I'm often surprised how many people don't know this.

If you're in a major city don't expect rested xp unless you log out in your innroom. Despite being able to roll into any minor little dirt hovel in FFXIV and get rested XP, you only get rested xp in the major cities if you log out in the inn.

If you want your rank 10 chocobo barding you have to spec down a single tree and cannot hybridize it.

[Kanash]

Make friends. It will be the single greatest boost to your enjoyment of the game.
And never forget, you were once a newbie too.