New Player Questions (PS4)

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To start, every new player should know this website, its super useful source of information: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/FF14_Wiki

1. You can set preferred destinations that costs reduced prices, as well as a home point, and a free destination if you use the security token (phone software). It's cheap and Gil is plentiful in the game even just via dungeon runs and quest rewards.

2. Never paid attention to this TBH, lol.

3. Most zones have a variety of mob levels. There are also Hunt monsters, classified by A/B/S. See the console wiki link and type in Hunt for more info.

4. There's crafting items, Ventures used for your retainers, as well as items used for your chocobo (point reset) and to reset your own bonus attributes (allowing you to tinker, very useful for smn/sch people). I'd suggest usng them to upgrade rank first. I have used seals to get gear in the past, but you'll get pink and green drops quickly.

5. Gear is easy to get in this game for the most part. Its mostly just a time sink to save up tomes to trade in, or running Void Ark (the latest 24 man) for drops (its an easy instance, as long as you're willing to learn mechanics).

6. Some abilities are less used than others. I have played every class/job on the ps4, it takes time to find a good hotbar setup you like. You can also use L2+R2, L2+R2 to get cross hot bars (it will pop up one side of a hot bar you designate, changable in the Hotbar settings). Personally, I use R1 to flip between 2 hotbar sets, plus the R2+L2, L2+R2 to access a third, gives me 12x3 slots (and I usually fill them all). I also use an extra horizontal bar over the normal hot bars, and a horizontal bar beside the normal hot bars, to keep track of important cool downs (not to activate them, activation is done on the gamepad).

I also use macros to reduce the number of hotbar slots used; on SMN for my pets I've combined abilties so it uses 3 slots for 9 abilties. Each pet has 3, so 1 macro has each Egi's AoE, 1 macro for their Stun/Knockback and 1 for their "unique" ability. Save space and brain power

The PS4 hotbars are *very* customizable once you find all the settings. Target dummies are very useful when seeing how well your setup works, and tinkering around with it.