Playing an MMO with a controller

[Gilraen]

I find playing on a keyboard to be incredibly tedious, especially if I want to chat and I chat alot. Always having to hit some chat-activator before I can use the keyboard to talk. And the targeting is even more so. Camera control isn't too hard, I use a trackball so no need to worry about running off the table. I've played alot of MMOs and have only really enjoyed the control schemes of those that allowed for controllers.

[karateorangutang]

I find the controller to be great for tanking. Camera usage is just so easy.

It is kinda hard to drop the controller and type then pick it back up mid fight though. So explaining things on the fly becomes difficult. Other than that I target faster on the controller.

[Maero]

I have played just fine on PS3 and now PS4
It really is not that bad, i do also use a keyboard alongside the controller

[Evangela]

I think FFXIV has a very good controller scheme but it will never be as good as mouse & keyboard.

this game needs at least 3 action bars to play your job to its full potential.

targeting with a controller is no match to mouse & keyboard as well.

[Nanaho]

I think FFXIV has a very good controller scheme but it will never be as good as mouse & keyboard.

this game needs at least 3 action bars to play your job to its full potential.

targeting with a controller is no match to mouse & keyboard as well.

I 100% Disagree with this. The controller already has more Button slots then we have abilities, and even more so on some jobs then others because of less useful abilities, etc. my DRG for example has 3 or 4 empty slots, because i just dont have any other abilities to put in them. Why would you need 30 buttons for one job? I just dont see how you would, Unless you have multiple slots with the exact same ability, And that would again make me ask, Why?

[aisustrong]

I 100% Disagree with this. The controller already has more Button slots then we have abilities, and even more so on some jobs then others because of less useful abilities, etc. my DRG for example has 3 or 4 empty slots, because i just dont have any other abilities to put in them. Why would you need 30 buttons for one job? I just dont see how you would, Unless you have multiple slots with the exact same ability, And that would again make me ask, Why?

sch is the only one i have that doesnt have enough space for everything
only because pets

[Nanaho]

sch is the only one i have that doesnt have enough space for everything
only because pets

Yeah ill concede to this, Pet classes like SMN and SCH are better off with a lot of hot bar space. and Healing in general is just easier with Mouse over macros, but for the rest of the classes, controller performs just as well if that's what you're used to using.

I just refuse to accept an answer of "you need 3 hotbars to be good at your job"

[Gramul]

I think FFXIV has a very good controller scheme but it will never be as good as mouse & keyboard.

this game needs at least 3 action bars to play your job to its full potential.

targeting with a controller is no match to mouse & keyboard as well.

I have 2.5 seconds to switch between action bars.
That's more than enough. And targeting is very easy. I may not have the immediate precision a mouse selection provides, but I've never been in a situation where it was needed. Not yet at least.

[Lexia]

this game needs at least 3 action bars to play your job to its full potential.

Well this game does have a lot of focus on casuals so not everyone plays their job to their "full ponential" and would guess it pretty large number.

[Kosmos992k]

Well this game does have a lot of focus on casuals so not everyone plays their job to their "full ponential" and would guess it pretty large number.

The issue with needing 3 bars to play to the fullest is more related to the pet bar than anything else since it adds a ridiculous number of options that you can use to optimize pet performance. For non pet classes 2 cross bars are sufficient.

That said, one of the Heavensward interviews with Yoshi talked about this issue a little and it seemed like they might be trying to do something else to make more commands available easily, not sure how that will work, but perhaps it will help for the pet classes.