I din't read any answer from others, so sorry if I'm double typing anything.
Personaly, I like to play using a controller for some reasons:
- to target party members you just need to press "down" the D-pad. This is awesome when you play as healer.
- you can configure the HUD in a way you can see all skills/spells on screen (WXYB or whatever it's the name in the crossbar configs. Just allow them to be always displayed and pick them to show the second crossbar. Then, put all skills/spells between bar 1 and 2). To access the second bar, just click and hold L2 or R2 two times
- it's take a time to master precision of moviments (for jumpings especially), but it's great after you understand it.
- all the other aspects is the same as keyboard in terms of gameplay. Some people like to use controller even using PC (myself included).
- you can combine the use of mouse/keyboard and controller as well as more tabs from the keyboard configuration allowing you the use of more bars than regular keyboard only users.
- there are some videos for tips about using controller to play FFXIV in a really competitive and functional way for high end content. Look for them on youtube![]()