Tips for PS3 using newbies

[Sephirah]

Ugh, see this is what I mean.

I'm sorry if my original post wasn't clear enough. Allow me to elaborate.
1) Press start, go to social lists, then signs



2) Assign your marks to a hotbar



3) Select a mob, hold down trigger



4) Press the button you set your mark to

[Blindheart]

How do you have that horizontal command bar and a cross hot bar? Is that PC only? After leveling 3 classes to 25, I've quickly run out of cross bar slots for all the commands I like. Being able to pull out my keyboard for lesser used, but useful skills, or this marking skill, would be very handy indeed.

[Sephirah]

How do you have that horizontal command bar and a cross hot bar? Is that PC only? After leveling 3 classes to 25, I've quickly run out of cross bar slots for all the commands I like. Being able to pull out my keyboard for lesser used, but useful skills, or this marking skill, would be very handy indeed.

Not sure if it's only PC, but if PS3 will let you do it, just press start, go to System, then HUD Layout. Select Hotbar 1 and press (I assumed triangle since xbox controller uses Y) - If you can use a mouse, you can right-click it to do the same thing.

[Spoolx]

I don't think ps3 can use a hot bar?

[Avalon_Albrook]

snip!

Brotha preach. We're one in the same, friend. On PS3, never once even touched an MMO, got hooked on this thanks to the last beta, and dove head-first into Gladiator not even realizing all the implications of it. To be fair, I can't imagine wanting to do any other role besides tanking, for some reason, so it's worked out in that sense. But still, tooooooootally unprepared for the nuances, expectations, etiquette, etc. that come with it.

It may sound lame, but as someone in your exact position, what's helped me enormously has been to go to an area with lv1-3 enemies so there's zero risk of you dying while experimenting with all of your stuff. Then, spend as much time as you need perfecting your hotbar configs and order and testing out the layouts for yourself by fighting those sissy enemies. When you have zero pressure on you and you can find a comfort zone for yourself at your own pace, it suddenly becomes so freaking easy to find your rhythm with everything -- marking, switching targets, getting aggro , etc. -- when you develop it without being under the gun in a dungeon. Hell, I still do this now, as goofy as it looks for me to be lv36 going to town on a bunch of lv1 ladybugs...

[KeithXK]

Pictures!

Lousy daily post limit. I posted most of that early in the mornin...then couldn't respond.

Thank you SOOOO much! Info like that is exactly what I was hoping for. I also appreciate Avalon_Albrook's low level suggestions. I had begun to edit my main hot bar, and then when I received Provoke it defaulted into a new bar set instead of my combat one, so I got edit shy.

[Onshinn]

Ah I'm learning this stuff too, and am lvl44.... I'm so immune to the bashings I get from everybody, my personality is now as thick as my armour...

[arkeciel]

I play on PC but use PS3 controller because it's way much comfortable. Here are few tips I found throughout FFXIV forums when using PS3 controller

1. Holding (L1 or R1) + (L2 or R2): Cycles your main target through enemies, regardless of what setting you have defined for targeting filter. Tends to focus on the target closest to you. Useful when you forgot what target filter you were using in the middle of a battle.
2. Holding (L1) + (L2): Cycles through the aggroed enemies only. Useful when you want to regrab the aggro on a mob that you can't see on the current screen.
3. D-Pad <-, ->: Cycle through the enemies depending on the target filter you've set. Personally, I only set it to cycle b/w aggroed enemies when weapon is drawn.
4. D-Pad Up, Dwn: Cycle through your party members. Useful for cover.

One thing that I've set up personally was delaying the time needed to sheath/unsheath weapon after battle to the max so that I can have different target filter for the two stances.

[della]

Ah I'm learning this stuff too, and am lvl44.... I'm so immune to the bashings I get from everybody, my personality is now as thick as my armour...

lol amen to that

[Soulburn32]

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Thanks. I'll check it out tomorrow.

Its in the main commands I believe, you can also target someone and hit square it should bring up emote and mark, then select the mark you want and do a set to hotbar option