The players I have the most respect for?

[Nora_of_Mira]

It blows my mind anyone can do this in any sort of rotation. I save my clicking for Limit break and targeting party members in the party list for Dragon sight, and clicking for Salted Earth on DRK. When I see DPS players clicking their skills idk if I'm amazed or terrified...

[Liam_Harper]

I'm also sort of a click - hotkey hybrid. Usually the far right side of my hotbars I'll click, things like limit break, utility, some aoe. The bulk is hotkey though.

To give ff14 credit, it taught me to hotkey. In WoW, no joke, I played on a laptop using the touchpad (no mouse at all) and clicked nearly everything and I was generally one of the top dps in my group. It worked fine, I could get away with it. In ff14 that just doesn't work and I naturally found myself having to learn to hotkey, strafe and learn to move efficiently while dps'ing. You can say ff14 is a casual game, but for me WoW combat was miles easier.

[AlphaFox]

I could never get behind those who only click, it still almost annoys me when I see some players 1-2-3 combo being like 1-3-7 on the keyboard, like they just left it how they got em. Though I use Shift/Alt + 1-5, R, T, F, Z, X, C, V for all my needs.

Tho honestly it does help my 2 side buttons are programmed to count as Shift/Alt as well so no awkward hand positions.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

I never learned to hit keys 7 thru - on my keyboard consistantly, so anything on that end of the hotbar is often clicked. I try to put my rotation on keys 1-5 as much as I possibly can for this reason.

I have remapped hotbar 3 to be reachable with the ALT key, and I'm slowly retraining myself to use the numbers on the thumbpad of my mouse instead of clicking.

So I'm sort of a clicker, but slowly reforming.

[NekoNova]

I'm a combination of clicker and keyboard usage, depending on class, situation and what I'm trying to achieve

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

What kind of massive keyboard do you have for all your skills, menus, etc.? Can I get it on sale?

17 button MMo mouse

[Nora_of_Mira]

What kind of massive keyboard do you have for all your skills, menus, etc.? Can I get it on sale?

you can do everything you'll ever need with normal keys and Shift. special mouses or keyboards are purely QoL or preferences. 1-7 is easily reachable, as well as E-Y. Menus have even more options if you take the time to map all that out.

I don't use ALT or CTRL out of preference so I base all of my combat actions on frequency of use = close to my hand. So far, there isnt any class I've played that cant fit 1-7, E-Y(or U depending on hand size) with just 1 Shift modifier for each.

I did watch a streamer once. She was doing a raid while mostly clicking and I wasn't entirely sure how she managed to be part of the raid because she was SO slow. Literal "Hovering over the hot bar looking for the skill to click on" type of slow. It was unbearable to watch. It certainly doesn't work for everyone.

that has to be a significant DPS loss.

[AmiRose]

I have mad respect for people who do all their skills with a keyboard and use shift/control combos. Personally, I mix keyboard and clicking because it's a lot easier for me. For example: There is no way I can hit ctrl+5 with one hand without stretching it in the most inconvenient of ways (small hands, big keyboard issue) so I would have to use two hands to make it work and leave my mouse alone and I'm way too used to using my mouse to adjust the camera angle.. I might completely screw up fights. Just.. no thanks.

I did watch a streamer once. She was doing a raid while mostly clicking and I wasn't entirely sure how she managed to be part of the raid because she was SO slow. Literal "Hovering over the hot bar looking for the skill to click on" type of slow. It was unbearable to watch. It certainly doesn't work for everyone.

[Chortle]

My friends always cringe when they see my gameplay lol. I click 99% of my abilities because I never learned nor care to learn hotkeys. I am only comfortable pressing keys 1, 2, and sometimes 3 so those are usually my bread and butter dps skills.

The only previous MMO I have played was Aion and I only clicked in that one as well.

Here's an old clip from when I was learning how to do Byakko Ex when he was the newest Trial. My healing is not optimal nor is my dps. I have learned a lot since I took this video lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ONpA72cpg

[Endariel]

Dunno
1-4 q a e f g v w x with ctrl, alt and shift is enough for everything