Players using keyboard & mouse

[hynaku]

I play using a gaming mouse and keyboard with a USB Num. keypad at the side that I use for my hotbars.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I've tried doing MMOs on KB+M but I just can't adjust. I have what I like to call gamer's fingers, where your fingers always default to some kind of curled position as if holding something, and even after breaks from XIV my muscle memory with controller can just do everything on the fly with minimal thought. Been playing video games for about 20 years with the various controllers. My brain is like a stubborn old man: Set in its ways. xD

[Avidria]

Meanwhile I'm out here completely unable to wrap my head around how anyone could play an MMO with a controller. It's nuts to me lol, I can't imagine playing this with anything but mouse and keyboard.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Meanwhile I'm out here completely unable to wrap my head around how anyone could play an MMO with a controller. It's nuts to me lol, I can't imagine playing this with anything but mouse and keyboard.

Its like right-handed people trying to write with their left and vice versa. The human brain isn't overly fond of change so once you have a way set up its tricky to switch to another.

[Kytrin]

Meanwhile I'm out here completely unable to wrap my head around how anyone could play an MMO with a controller. It's nuts to me lol, I can't imagine playing this with anything but mouse and keyboard.

I imagine it makes sense if you're familiar with controller functions. But yeah, I've only ever played keyboard and mouse so parts of it baffle me too. Though I admit right now that I use a trackball instead of a traditional mouse. I can't move around with a traditional mouse for anything. The one time I tried (back when I first started MMO gaming) I couldn't grasp how to keep my camera from dragging into the ground where I couldn't see anything. Switched to trackball and haven't looked back since lol.

[Infindox]

Meanwhile I'm out here completely unable to wrap my head around how anyone could play an MMO with a controller. It's nuts to me lol, I can't imagine playing this with anything but mouse and keyboard.

As someone who has played this game for 3 and a half years on only controller, it came out of the fact I had no other option at the time. I feel like xiv is more suited to controller play then people think, especially if you use Extended Hotbar. It then comes down to playing the game long enough that it's like how typists know everything without looking

[Avidria]

As someone who has played this game for 3 and a half years on only controller, it came out of the fact I had no other option at the time. I feel like xiv is more suited to controller play then people think, especially if you use Extended Hotbar. It then comes down to playing the game long enough that it's like how typists know everything without looking

Yeah it makes sense really
I've just been playing PC games and MMOs with mouse/keyboard for around 20 years now. I don't think I could play this on a controller if I tried, but I also have no desire to

[Gothicshark]

Razer Tartarus v2 with a Logitech G602 mouse.

my Desk (added privacy to bits on the second screen.)



Screen showing my UI how I play normally.

[Kytrin]

Screen showing my UI how I play normally.

Your UI confuses me. How do you find anything with it all scattered like that??? o.O

[SomeRandomHuman]

Your UI confuses me. How do you find anything with it all scattered like that??? o.O

I think I get the set-up. Its actually super organized if I'm right.

Left-most cluster is the aoe stuff and out of combat button.

Center cluster has the bread and butter single target stuff on the upper half and utility stuff on lower.

Upper right cluster is the miscellaneous things

Lower right cluster is everything that doesn't need pressed every GCD but still used regularly.

The way everything is organized is super tidy and organized based on priority by cluster from left to right. At least that's what I see lol. Could be totally wrong though.