The unbalanced advantage of game controllers and how to make keyboard play better.

[Laraul]

Keyboard & Mouse is marginally better for targeting, since they have mouse-over options that controller players don't. (KB/M would probably be significantly better than Controller if compared to the default controller configuration, but most of the controller's awkwardness is taken care of by setting up multiple targeting filters. It still has the issue of targeting elements of a particular type in a strange seeming order, but the keyboard has that same issue, leaving the mouse as the tiebreaker.)

There's very little use of the custom target filters outside of the sheathed/drawn mode. For the most part all targeting is done either via L2/R2 + L1 or R1 to targets enemies, and up/down on the directional pad to target party. L1+ Up/Down cycles thru the enemy list.

Keyboard and Mouse is better for things like setting waymarks or any action that gets placed at a spot on the ground rather than on your target.

This can be true, especially w/ waymark placement. Actually placing an action ground target isn't that hard do to the size of the targeted area. On the other hand, when using ground targeting via a mouse from an object (i.e. cannon) it's awfully easy to accidently disengage yourself from the cannon, forcing you to right-click the cannon with the mouse to bring back up the cannon's hotbar.