WoW to FFXIV transition guide..

[Griss]

Honestly, Im not exactly sure. They both have complained about the difference in controls. The thing is, my seven year old started playing this game and has lvled a Paladin to 38.... He is able to play without much input from me, quite well. He also has played other mmos such as SWG, SWTOR, Rift. He crosses over quite easily. >.<

Kids are learning and adapting machines. Old fogies not so much.

As far as them not liking the default control scheme tell them to "quit yer bitchen and fix it". The keyboard is fully configurable in game under the config menu. Outside of that just make sure they know the basics. But i don't know what the new user experience looks like these days. So I dont know where to start giving advice.

[Priya]

Kids are learning and adapting machines. Old fogies not so much.

As far as them not liking the default control scheme tell them to "quit yer bitchen and fix it". The keyboard is fully configurable in game under the config menu. Outside of that just make sure they know the basics. But i don't know what the new user experience looks like these days. So I dont know where to start giving advice.

It's actually NOT fully configurable. Not at all. Honestly, the complete LACK OF configuration is going to be a HUGE turn off for someone coming from a game that let's them use virtually any button they want for their skills.

Unless you boot up some AutoHotkey script or something similar, your options are 1-0, ctrl+1-0, and alt+1-0. You don't get shift as a modifier, you do not get to map skills to letters or to your mouse. You do not get mouse over macro capabilities (it will always be click thing to target it > hit applicable button) Your life as a mouse/keyboard user is going to involve an awful lot of clicking as well. The best way I've personally found to deal with any of this is map my action bar shifts to Q and E-- at least then I can scroll to my next bar and hit 1-5 a bit more quickly.

I played XI as my first MMO for 3.5 years (and I still LOVE it) before I touched WoW, but I can't go back to the two hands on the keyboard now. The only reason I don't ditch this game over keybinds is because 2.0 promises I will have more control.

It's going to be hard for anyone without loving nostalgia for a game like XI to stick with a game like XIV when most of the controls are so outrageously sub par. That's where this game tries to "hand-hold." They give you very few options for anything other than their way.

If you love Final Fantasy in general and are very lore-centric, it helps deal with the lack of functionality in other areas. The two Final Fantasy MMOs present their stories more prominently and much better than WoW does.

[lordvr]

Kids are learning and adapting machines. Old fogies not so much.

As far as them not liking the default control scheme tell them to "quit yer bitchen and fix it". The keyboard is fully configurable in game under the config menu. Outside of that just make sure they know the basics. But i don't know what the new user experience looks like these days. So I dont know where to start giving advice.

It is not, and that's a huge issue. There's really no way to hot key individual skills unless you use a macro keyboard to remap certain keys to ctrl / alt + # and use macros for every single ability. The ui is obviously meant for controller, and not keyboard.