BEST Quality of Life Settings To Improve Your FFXIV Gameplay (6.4 2023 Edition)

In this video we'll be going over every gameplay settings that will enhance your quality of life in FFXIV, enjoy!
0:00 Movement Types
1:00 Targeting Types
3:00 Ground Targeting Types
4:35 Limiting Battle Effects
6:20 Clicking Options
7:14 Camera Angle
7:54 Party List Setting
9:26 HP Percentage
10:07 Hotbar Setting
11:14 Colour Settings
12:34 Error Messages
13:08 Pet Sizes
14:17 Mouse Sonar
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[@wiseguise5960]

Bro the way you literally went right into the info and not just gassing up the first 1-2mins of the video is such a breath of fresh air! I started 14 like 7ish years ago, and just got back into it. There is SO much I need to learn.

[@nambreadnam]

Best setting I've found is in Character Configuration > Control Settings > Mouse > Mouse Wheel Settings You can set the mouse wheel to scroll through both the party and enemy list with either shift, alt, or control. Much faster than trying to click on something in a raid, important when there's a time-sensitive heal or interrupt that needs to be done.

[@isaach681]

this is amazing, thank you!

[@TheFizzster]

The most important thing about the tab targeting is that ignore depth will target everything on your screen from left to right, while cone will target things in front of you from closest to farthest.

[@overratedcynic9124]

Despite playing for 10 years and nearing 1k days of playtime this video actually made me go into the settings and disable things that started bothering me for quite some time!

[@EstelPowell]

likewise :)

[@miweneia]

Sheesh 20k+ hours

[@christophersebastiao7501]

​@@miweneiaThis is actually insane.

[@pknothere]

bro 20k hours 💀 i need to see ur account

[@TigerLoveHeart]

1000 days of playtime and not knowing how to use the website after each patches to read out notes and what's added/changed? have you just been running a useless PC AFKing in limsa?

[@garbagebandit5934]

I was today years old when I found out that XIV had built-in mouse sonar. Turning that on and never turning off again, thanks.

[@HikingFeral]

I make the DPS in party bright pink instead of red, if you leave it red they look almost identical to any enemy in the dungeon.

[@Primu]

4:20 The one small disadvantage to having the "press twice" option enabled is for spells like WHM's bell which can be triggered again once placed. So if you're spamming your key to place the bell, you may accidentally also end up using it early.

[@AzuriteTV]

Nice catch! I completely forgot about that

[@zephyas1699]

this was mitigated in an earlier patch by having the skill unactionable for like 1 second after you drop it, you have to really be spamming it without paying attention for a while for that to be an issue.

[@milekmalik8368]

Can you tell me which keybind it is to press twice? Like what key do i need to press twice.

[@Primu]

I don't really understand what you're asking. Whatever key you have assigned to your hotbar slot for the spell..

[@Marke522]

@@milekmalik8368 The button on the hot bar where the spell is assigned. As a WHM, if Asylum is on 2, press it once for the large reticle to display, then press 2 again to land it rather than clicking on the ground.

[@lazyyfox7914]

"Show limited is for cowards", I cope while my computer lights on fire during a hunt train.

[@SigridKroon]

Holy retina burn Batman

[@davidpoa7775]

Me too 😂😂 and I wonder why I can't see 😂 "limited and none is for cowards" I need to get over that 😂

[@milkyage4160]

I tried limited and because I've played for so long with all the flashy lights it feels like no one is attacking and it freaks me out.

[@Art2D2]

I switch between the settings on the fly as I have two different macro buttons. One turns Show All and the other is Show Limited for things like alliance raids.

[@mouakyle17]

​@Art2D2 what is the macro if you would be so kind to share it?

[@TheDaxter11]

I wish Summoner had the ability to choose summon size by player. I'd love to have my own summons be set to large to be as accurate to the primals as possible, but I don't want that to be for ALL summoners on my screen, just me.

[@AzuriteTV]

Would be nice if that customisation was an option

[@patrickv1080]

make 2 macros one for small one for large get it on your hotbar and then one click to change

[@atheist101]

So I have a bad eye, my right one. I had acid splashed in it which burned my cornea but i healed from that. Later on i got a tiny piece of metal dead center so now my right eye is really blurry. This makes it so hard to find the mouse pointer. That sonar will help me out so much, thank you for that tip!

[@MMDesignsAPB]

Thank you for that targeting explanation. I recently came back to ff14 to play Endwalker. I had upgraded to an ultrawide monitor during my break and now have this constant issue with things I don't wanna target getting targeted. Ultrawide gives me extra horizontal vision which means I often target some mob on the other side of the planet. Will definitely be using the cone targeting now.

[@brocmt]

The absolute best tweak I made was splitting up the Target Info in the hud config. Making your target's cast bar really big and right in the center of the screen makes it so much easier to see boss mechanics and respond accordingly. As a Sage, I can see when the boss is about to hit us with a party/raid-wide attack and cast Eukrasian Prognosis and Kerachole to prepare for it (or Panhaima for those multi-hit raid-wide attacks.)

[@revartillery9612]

For number 6, you can also create a macro to snap the camera angle to certain angles without panning it slowly. the macro is simply /tiltcamera (insert number). and it ranges from 0-100.

[@0shawhat]

Yep! I have one for /tiltcamera 50 for overworld and /tiltcamera 70 for instances

[@deydraniadiancecht8298]

Just use the mouse to pan the camera. You can whip the camera as slowly or as quickly as you like. Hold down the right mouse button and move your hand. Assign strafe buttons to the two buttons on the left of the mouse and you can strafe while panning the camera. All movement and camera direction is 100% controlled my the mouse on my setup. All combat and jumping is the keyboard. There is no faster way to move around in combat.

[@CTsaysHello]

Holy crap. The "limit ring movement to targeting range" is what I've always wanted - for the reason in the video, the ninja ability. Thank you.

[@kasken719]

I used almost every single one of these tips. As a new player, TY. Especially The summoner tip about changing the size of the pets.

[@Memphis_ritz]

Invaluable guide for new players. I had been playing without auto targeting as a THM. No wonder i wasn’t havjng as much fun as everyone else

[@pookiipower435]

As someone who just started FF online a few weeks ago, this video was amazing. Seriously. Thank you!

[@pawrsley]

Wow, the targeting stuff actually makes a huge difference for me. I was so annoyed by how targeting worked in this game. Thank you! Also, I was wondering how people made their summoner pets so big, so thank you for that as well.

[@fieldsofblueheather]

These were really helpful, thanks for sharing! Especially the HP percentage, color schemes, and adding the job icon to player names.

[@acecommanderjoker3926]

This ground targeting circle limitation thing helps me out immensely. I never used the ninja teleport skill cuz it was always a pain to set up the proper distance but I couldnt do so in snap choices. this makes it so its always at its max range if need be and I can use it whenever now. Thank you!

[@AzuriteTV]

No problem! I know the feeling exactly! The Ninja gap closer is so janky but with these options it actually makes it manageable and good!

[@OlamDaniel]

I've seen your older QOL vids before so personally I like this updated version! Thanks for the help!

[@SappomanK]

Lots of option I had went through but lots that I had missed like the bigger cooldowns and the targeting, now I fully understand this really recaps everything very well explained especially for my basic levels of english :) loved it!

[@ZessaSnake]

Thank you for the video. Learned some useful stuff here!

[@mcdoogle_robotman]

Bro, as a "new" player that started in late Shadowbringer this is very useful thanks.

[@stephenwalters2076]

This was amazingly helpful. Ty for making this video! Love the tips!

[@DBFCIEnglish]

Oh man, I changed so many settings after this video. Thank you for this guide!

[@silasisawesome]

With this kind of stuff, might be worth putting out a new video like this going over stuff anyway even if it weren't for the new features added since, if it helps get this info out to the people that could use it. I watched your old video going over some of this way back when I started playing back in august, but I realize now that I had forgotten to actually fiddle with some of the settings you talked about, so it's been a helpful refresher.

[@kojpog]

I just started playing, thank you very much for this video, it's a TON of help!

[@SirPreyas]

Thank you for making this video! It was very helpful!

[@RafetSaciri]

keep going bro always nice vids up here

[@yoda0017]

I knew about all of these except mouse sonar. While I won't need it too often, occasionally I lose my cursor in especially chaotic fights and this'll be great to help me get situated again. Thanks!

[@sandyman9696]

Efficient, straight-to-the-point, and helpful video. Thanks, mate!

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

Thanks. I already configured pretty much most of these, but the mouse sonar was really nice. My eyes are pretty bad and when I'm tired it happened quite often that I just lost my mouse cursor. Having it on middle click is a really nice addition.

[@MatthewGaither]

Definitely learned some things. Thank you!

[@singhmastr]

Great video, loved your breakdowns. Incredibly thorough!! 😁

[@merlinswife]

this was a big help! thank you :)

[@King0x]

Helped a lot! Especially the Cone targeting and the sonar! Major problems I had!

[@genisay]

For the battle effects on, I created to macro buttons that allow me to turn other player battle effects up and down between show all and show limited depending on situation and on the fly. I love seeing all of the battle effects, but sometimes it becomes overwhelming to see all of them whe you are in higher end content like raids.

[@Jawaman8]

Would you be willing to share the macros you use? That seems incredibly useful.

[@GuardiosK]

I enabled the auto-target according to priority setting. If (or rather, when) I pull something by accident I'll blame you. Great video!

[@davidpoa7775]

This video helped a new sprout so much! Thank you! :3

[@Flamemog]

Well directed instructions and video. Subbed!

[@enikata7349]

Most of these I already have enabled, but my goodness getting my summons to small and the mouse sonar, thank you very much for those!

[@the_maker1841]

thank you for this video, lots of good basic info that helped a lot with some annoyance

[@Cardiax]

So that's what "/petsize all small" does. FC members were talking about that the other day, but I wasn't able to get clarification because I might have been in a duty or something. Anyway, that's sooo helpful because I was just wishing I had a way to hide summoners' egis. Thanks! I'm gonna try some of the other settings too.

[@thekingchem8800]

Awesome, I actually went through and used all these recommended settings. I have been playing for many years and didn't have any of them enabled which I was surprised about. Maybe I did at one point but reinstalls of the game reset things to default. Thank you for the video

[@AdonayFloresLaMota]

Thank you for this... this helped so much!!

[@StickmanCorp]

My preffered alternative to the mouse sonar: there is an option in System Configuration to increase the size of the cursor. With the sonar I couldn't find a convenient keybind that wasn't already used for something else, so I still had trouble finding my cursor fast enough when I needed it With the Large mouse size (only the first size up from ), I never even lost the mouse cursor again.

[@mgaming7]

great info. I am new and this was super helpful.

[@phenomeenah-yar]

Thank you. I stopped playing for 8 months and it's a great refresher

[@arthurdowney2846]

Great information here, and well presented! That said, your WHM hot bars make me incredibly anxious.

[@Xander-FinalFantasy]

Ah this is awesome and will help me when I get started.

[@-cat-..]

For role sort, you can also change the job order to match buff priority, like having SAM at the top of the dps section if youre playing dragoon or dancer

[@0Fyrebrand0]

I believe the game automatically sorts DPS with melee on top and ranged on the bottom by default. But yeah, this could be handy if you want to prioritize certain classes above others. Or if you're in a raiding static and want to ensure where each player is going to be in your party list.

[@laughingmanime4622]

I personally kept Unassigned slots on but THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing that menu so I could disable "display hotbar number" and "enable hotbar cycling button" I cannot tell you how many times I've gone to click my first spell and accidentally overshot my cursor and cycled to another hotbar

[@Chibi-kittenplays]

Horray!! Positive video! LOVE IT!

[@Cobaltbear]

Extremely helpful. Thank you

[@afishcalledminnewawa]

Mouse sonar, what a concept. Thanks for the info.

[@NoCuffTooTuff]

hello mate. 9 months on and this video is very relavant Helped me out a tonne , thank you.

[@StrikerZero6]

This...has been quite a huge help actually o_o

[@Trajikbpm]

this just helped me so much! Mouse sonar FTW!

[@jcphoenix32]

Been playing for like 3-4yrs now and most of these I had no idea about! The pet size is a BIG one; so many times I can't see in raids because of peoples' summons. Probably the most important, to me, is the Mouse Sonar! I've been doing a bunch of alliance raids and with everything going (I did reduce some of the visual actions), I'd often lose my mouse cursor. I was wondering if something like this existed recently, and here I stumble up on you video. Many thanks!

[@currannesmith632]

Subscribed you’re awesome dude I just started on Xbox !!!

[@stonedruid]

Thank you, good info

[@thenotoriousstemcells3446]

holy crap thank you so much it just makes me do better now that i know it will help me thank you so much

[@user-ge2vc3rl1n]

dude, all these things were issues I was having. Huge QOL improvements.

[@jahkl1974]

number 5 is a life saver tyyyy

[@yoldmate5450]

Thank you for this was super helpful

[@Sorjal]

Role sorting DPS to put those able to also rez on top is great if you also use a rez "all" macro that tries 2 -> 3 -> 4, etc or just keeping them in one area to always go to is beneficial in trying to recover and avoid a wipe. I also tend to sort roles caster to melee for easier selection of card target when playing AST. I'd love to enable all, but there really should be a setting to have aoe warning areas take precedence or similar so they don't become not visible behind the other effects. Its the only reason I have it disabled as I miss way too many when all are enabled.

[@Chris-xt6yp]

I'm new to the game and so this was super helpful!

[@toblurrz]

Thank you so much for this!!!!!!!

[@badacid7388]

Holy crap this was super great! I have been struggling with not having an auto target. 😣

[@Random_Lurker]

You're so zoomed in I scrolled down to the comments multiple times instinctively trying to zoom out lol. Great video those these are useful settings for people to know. Even brought up a few I've never noticed before

[@Dyvinell]

ive played around 3 years now with about 7k hours sunk, and you solved a couple issues i always had that i never knew had solutions already. thank you thank you o/

[@NavikvonBathory]

This was very helpful.

[@ExpectingMonkeys]

One other nice thing about tab targeting. It always cycles through targets from left to right. If you however press shift-tab it cycles from right to left.

[@thistlemcthornbody6788]

THANK YOU. Mouse Sonar *will* change my life!

[@smoocher]

Thanks for the very helpful tips. Love the accent!

[@TheNeoVid]

I've been playing for a couple of weeks, and the insanely inconvenient tab targeting was driving me out of my mind. You're a lifesaver.

[@Mat-uq8wg]

thanks mate !

[@_lizziee]

Thank you!

[@zerofox8756]

I've been playing for 10 years, and I never knew about the second tip. It was so frustrating, that I'm just embarrassed that I never tried to look for a way to fix it. Thank you so much for the helpful video!

[@RenanAkafoxSouza]

Great video!

[@FluffieXStarshine]

Thank you for the SMN minion size... people need reminding that it's on their settings, not the summoners. I'm a SMN main and I can't tell you how often some one in an Alliance raid rants abut our pets being so big and they can't see. I wish the default was small, or it changed to small if you aren't on the SMN class... but that's just me. Good video, I might have to try some of these settings tomorow (it's bed time now)

[@78MatWar87]

legacy controls are where it's at, i was very happy to learn about this probably from your last video. i think i'm gonna setup the sonar thing, one of the perils of playing at 4k i find is it's EXTREMELY easy to lose the mouse and it's pretty annoying when it happens mid combat

[@GrandAdmThrawn]

Thanks ❤

[@chingcc7]

One more tips for Movement Types section. Keybind > Movement > Put A/D key on Strafe Left/Right instead of Turn Left/Right So your character would straightly move to left right instead of turn around

[@zerikafox1595]

The changing camera angle thing works on controller play, as well; I just did it a couple of days ago so I could see what was happening around me.

[@kirinkappa5662]

Very poggers video, thank you.

[@ScudLance]

hell yes. thank you

[@crimson5664]

thanks for the tips

[@raygm6303]

I have been playing casually for only a few weeks for years now, and now that I plan to play, still casually, but consistently, this is very useful!

[@NidhoggMoshpit]

I didn't see the video yet but I need to write first THANK YOU for not go roundabout with the presentation "you read the title, you know why are you here so let's go" sublime

[@golvellius6855]

Thank you

[@herebejamz]

The only time I've found a problem with auto target is ranged physical DPS where I'm just taking out a few mobs for quest or hunt log and I then have to spend an extra few moments killing a mob I didn't want to target in the first place, but that is literally a skill issue. If playing controller, I'd recommend finding a good camera angle for combat and making a macro to change your camera angle when you're in duty or fates. 　/tiltcamera [subcommand] →Adjust 3rd person camera angle settings. >>Subcommands: 　[angle number] 　　Set 3rd person camera angle to the specified setting. 　　Settings available: 0-100.

[@AzuriteTV]

Making a macro.... that's actually a really good way about changing your camera angle as a controller player!

[@asmallcoffee9684]

Hey, really useful and helpful for someone who's been playing since 2019 and hasnt meddled with the settings because he's too chicken-shit XD thank you so much pal, big love from Scotland ^_^

[@solerosable]

I know this is weird and definitely personal preference, but when doing combat I get a weird anxiety when I dont have a target so if you are in an encounter that has pyretic and don't want to remove the target you can sheathe your weapon and it will accomplish a similar effect, you just have to remember to wait out the pyretic effect before hitting another weaponskill/spell. I believe the default keybinding is z and for me this is easier to reach than trying to press esc.

[@VentrexTheXVth]

Did they change this effect? Pyretic has never punished me for attacking only moving.

[@Katsurisan]

I think myself as experienced player and i have been playing FFXIV little over 3 years now and still there was things i did not know. Im gonna post this to my FC discordd server so that the all sprout members doesnt have to wait for years before finding these quality of life options!

[@Foxpawed]

Changing either engaged enemy or DPS role colors to be different is pretty essential though because by default they're the same color red and it makes it hard to see the enemies among all your melee in big trash pulls.

[@F14Flier7]

THANK YOU! I just did an Alliance Raid and had NO IDEA wtf was going on; it was very hard to even act like I was tanking.

[@blue8913]

The mouse sonar, holy crap??? gonna change my life, the amount of times i lose sight of my mouse is insane, especially with multiple screens i had no idea that existed omg.

[@DevinFire724]

Excellent, QoL stuff, i didn't even know about. thank you