Convenient Tricks That Make FFXIV Better

[@AGrumpyWitch]

2 small tips I would like to add: Hold the ctrl key when looking at your map and the aetherytes will always display over sidequest markers. Helps when you have lots of sidequest exclamation points everywhere stopping you from clicking the aetheryte to teleport. If you do a roulette and meet a nice person you'd like to make a friend or someone who sucks you'd like to blacklist, click Social > Contacts to see the names of the people you were just grouped with. You can right-click their name to take actions on them :)

[@ericsmith1517]

1: THANK YOU SO MUCH! 2: so that's how i get random people i just ran df with sending me party invs

[@Controvi]

holy crap that is a game changer XD The amount of times I clicked on the msq icon when returning to the scions was beginning to get frustrating ^_^

[@kylie4507]

9:30 No, you cannot solo and use "limited leveling roulette" as an option. If you're lvl 80, you can still get a lvl 40 dungeon through leveling. Limited leveling roulette will only apply if you have a full pre-made party of four.

[@Spika94]

I was about to say, since what he said would pretty much ruin the point of leveling roulette.

[@DaereonLive]

Was gonna comment this, but saw yours. This should be higher up.

[@ncBadrock]

It even says so in the description of the option.

[@ryudarkness4564]

And because of that it won't increase que time, because you are a full party anyway 😋

[@Miss_Hi_Jinx]

I've been in a full party with limited roulette on and still got a low level dungeon... (we all left) xD

[@AlipheeseFateburnXVI]

The petsize thing should be clarified to be if you play WITH a summoner as well, since the change is client-side, and affects ALL summoner pets, not just your own.

[@mrbastos]

ohh good to know, thanks!

[@Sunila_DragonladyCH]

THIS! Stop insulting your Summoners for "leaving their pets on large". It's up to you to do this on your side :P

[@ArtificialQT]

How do I reset it when I want my pets to return to normal size?

[@AlipheeseFateburnXVI]

@@ArtificialQT Just replace the "small" in the command with "large" or "medium".

[@tc-tm1my]

@@Sunila_DragonladyCH lol yeah. it should be small by default though. idk why they made it large

[@Saint_Cuthbert]

I use the Materia Extraction (I think that's the name) button rather than a macro, it brings up a UI window and makes materia extraction easy. Tons of great tips! Big boss castbar is a game changer.

[@Jolsn]

Oh my god...I had no idea myself!

[@castoputa]

There are lots of buttons that cover that stuff, I have a hot bar that goes over all my jobs and classes with the basics like that on it, repair etc.

[@thehighfolk]

the WHAT

[@garybennett1859]

@@Jolsn also for aetherial reduction, desynth, melding, repairs, glamours, dyes

[@ladwarcoffee]

Me too, its list all gear and %. So much easier than typing a macro in for ps4.

[@JohnJRM]

A few other tips: 1. For those on controller using the cross hotbar, there are a couple settings under Character Config > Hotbar that make a big difference. First is changing Cross Hotbar Controls under the "Cross" tab from Hold (default) to Mixed. This allows you to either hold down the shoulder button OR toggle it with a button press to activate the cross hotbar. Save your index finger some strain during battles! 2. Also for the cross hotbar, under the "Custom" tab, enable Expanded Controls. These allow you to quick access up to two extra cross hotbars by holding down both shoulder buttons, or double-tapping a shoulder button. Absolutely essential as button bloat increases at later levels. 3. The Hunt Billmaster of each GC sells Aetheryte Tickets for 5 Allied Seals each that can be used instead of gil to teleport. By default, though, it brings up a confirmation prompt asking if you would like to use a ticket each time you teleport. You can click the little gear button in the top-right of the Teleport menu, and it will let you adjust that setting to automatically use the ticket instead of asking. You can even set a gil threshold and tell it to only use tickets for teleports that cost more than that amount! Super convenient.

[@elliscook9794]

There is also an option to double tap either trigger R2 or L2 to bring up a 3rd macro set. Very handy.

[@ryanrushford7918]

I do both of these on controller and it honestly makes things so comfortable to play with and use multiple hot bars at the same time. I’m almost certain that people who struggle on controller don’t actually make use of all the functions. The way SE designed the controller use for an MMO is extremely clever.

[@NightCrystal]

Ok I learned something I didn't know. Thank you for the target dummy tip. I was one of those that ran away cause I never thought to check for that reset option.

[@AstreaGT]

I had heard you could do it but every time I right clicked it nothing happened. Turns out you had to right click the name >.> I felt dumb.

[@XylessBrawl]

It’s still pretty new, was added a year or two ago.

[@Serratiger]

Just wanted to add that the /petsize command changes the size of all the egis you see, not how people see yours. This also works when you're not a summoner but you'd like other summoner's egis to be smaller.

[@Kyle81290]

Is Bahamut an Egi? Because that thing is fucking huge and I can't see shit as melee when there's 2 summoners in the party.

[@fuzzyplonks]

I believe it is, and it applies to phoenix too

[@EDMS]

There is actually a teleport ticket item that you get in ARR, and i think HW too called "Vesper Bay Aetheryte Ticket" that teleports u directly to the waking sands as well, eventho you only get around 28 of those, its plenty for what you need through the whole MSQ. Great video nevertheless, had no idea about the boss cast bar.

[@Jolsn]

Yeah, that's why I mentioned its more a fun fact for older players. Also I know a lot of people who accidentally didn't realize the value of the tickets and sold them to a vendor

[@TheRedAzuki]

The Vesper Bay Aetheryte Ticket only started in patch 5.3 So anyone that did the lvl 17 & lvl 46 quest before then didn't get them

[@RealBentusiII]

sadly, from my own experience last year, those were not nearly enough.

[@RFKG]

As a new player i appreciate the tip, but i must say that you are lying about them being enough. Im pretty sure i've teleported there 28.000 times

[@yunomoon3851]

@@RFKG im currently leveling my alt and holy shit, what are you doing with your tickets? I’m in heavensward already and I still have plenty of them

[@TehConvict]

Here's a nice trick you can use if you have Aetheryte tickets: when you open the teleport menu, click the gear at the top right. You can turn off the confirmation or even set a maximum gil amount before it just uses a ticket.

[@arandomcheese]

That would have been good to know when I was given 100.

[@arandomcheese]

That would have been good to know when I was given 100.

[@ayanhart]

@@arandomcheese It was only added in 6.0, with the increased teleportation costs.

[@TheAuron32]

i've been doing B rank Hunts to keep topped up on the tickets, i set the limit to 750 gil, a nice even mix.

[@arandomcheese]

@@ayanhart Ah, no wonder why I never saw it!

[@Jolsn]

Forgot to mention that limited leveling roulette is only available in a party, so actually no queue time increase either!

[@alexmorath]

Doesn't it check the lowest level of the party? So if you are lvl 90 and randomly end up with someone around lvl 20, you can still technically get sastasha? Pretty sure I've seen something like that.

[@Kairusy]

@@alexmorath You're right alex, its not going to put a low level in a high level dungeon because it's impossible and can be lore breaking for people if theyre scaled up in a dungeon that can contain spoilers,

[@Gustavozxd13]

@@Kairusy I'm pretty sure having a level 20 tank in a level 70 dungeon is a bigger problem than story spoilers but yeah I guess

[@ozmaohbs]

@@alexmorath The thing is "Limited Leveling Roulette" is not random as it requires you to have a Full Light party pre queing for Leveling roulette and I doubt you just go around and invite stranger into your parties

[@Raven3557]

@@alexmorath it's written that it's based on the lowest level of the party ^^

[@goldaer9582]

A small addition to the weapon glow: The glow can only be seen by people who were with you in the same zone when you pressed that macro. Those who come later, or leave and re-enter will only see the usual weapon.

[@tc-tm1my]

weird

[@allxtend4005]

@@tc-tm1my why weried ? it was a bug that got never fixed by Square Enix because people enjoyed to use this.

[@Asin24]

Good to note changing pet size applies to ALL summons, so its worth wild using it as a non Summoner so the summoners pets are smaller.

[@Blitzkrieger17]

Like other people's minions!?!??!! You mean I won't wave titan's ass all up in my face any more??? :o

[@NaegeruGaming]

@@Blitzkrieger17 yes it's client based It's not the summoner that's going to reduce the size of the summons, it's you that's going to set it so they appear smaller to you

[@Keeftie]

Is the command just for the duration that you client is active or do i have to reuse it every time i logon?

[@Asin24]

@@Keeftie It is forever.

[@darkmirror21]

I've recently set it to small after realizing the primals weren't part of final trial. Turns out, small summon size is perfect for lala size 😂

[@robertboyle6001]

Keybind > System > Confirm. You can do just about anything you need that involves an NPC or an item by spamming that. Don't have an enemy targeted or you'll try to attack. You may need to use Keybind > Targeting > Target Nearest NPC or Object sometimes but Confirm is a wonder. A few examples: (1) Running through the trash mobs at the start of Prae and having trouble targeting the elevator/teleport buttons fast enough? Confirm > Confirm > Confirm (target the teleport, open the confirm window, choose confirm). (2) Have items to turn in for a quest? Spam Confirm. It will first clear all of your conversation windows quickly, then click the NPC to open that "drop off" window, then open your items inventory, then move the items to the drop off, then confirm the choice. You may need to navigate through your item inventory and maybe there is an easier way to do this, but on KBM I use NUM4 and NUM6 to cycle back and forward through the inventory. If you are a crafter turning in a number of collectables, this works like a charm.

[@andyd3447]

I recommend everyone to make the boss cast bar huge and put RIGHT above their hotbar. It makes it so much easier.

[@kevinsowards9647]

im glad i came here. didnt even know they had a cast bar lol.

[@andyd3447]

@@kevinsowards9647 wow. You must be really good at the game. I would die every 5 seconds if I didnt know what spells they were casting lol.

[@kevinsowards9647]

@@andyd3447 I just started like 4 days ago. Lol

[@andyd3447]

@@kevinsowards9647 ahh I see. Its a good thing you found out before I did. I think I was level 80 lmao.

[@FranckKnight]

Extra tip for GC turn in, they appear under your Timers (CTRL-U), so you don't need to go back to the GC every time to see what you need to gather. Another tip I like is when doing the daily Hunt Bills. Use the Recommendation window, there's a submenu for "The Hunt", which will list the targets you have in the current zone. All you have to do is teleport to each of the 6 zones for that expansion, no need to shuffle through your stacks for what monster you forgot to kill.

[@archael18]

With the new aethernet UI, you dont have to click on the name, then the map. You can click the name, then when the map centers on it, you can click the name again. I find it much more convenient to just essentially double click the name, even though you cant double click very fast and have to wait that little re-centering on the map.

[@taesshi]

If you're already in the area and know where you wanna go, you can also click straight on the map so there's no need to click twice! Saves only some seconds, but still something. :P

[@Hirotoro4692]

Even better than double clicking is to click with both mouse buttons to teleport instantly. Don't have to wait for the map to adjust.

[@TupikWolf]

oooh I like the waymark for gathering. A tip I really liked when I started playing is when your moving the elements in your hud layout around, you can use the numpad 8462 to nudge the elements for when you absolutely must have that pixel perfect UI, it def made things much easier than mouse alone ^^

[@AdamWutke]

I learned this at some point playing through Shadowbringers. I spent the rest of that day tweaking my HUD to be *just* right.

[@amegenshiken]

Yeah, I use waymarks for gathering as well. But, what I usually do is I place one marker roughly in the middle of two nearby gathering points (if there's two near each other, that is).

[@sunayocarissime5309]

Oh my god for real. Getting to the Waking Sands for ANY character was such a nightmare at times, especially if you were leveling a low level. I've been playing the game SINCE launch and didn't know this!🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Jolsn!!😃

[@Verd254]

For the first macro, there's actually a built in menu for materia extraction that orders the list by spiritbond percentage like this by default. It's also easier to navigate and see rather than doing it via the armory chest.

[@Koden]

I was also going to bring this up. The way he mentioned is useful if you are grinding it but outside of that? Nah fam, use the menu.

[@davidcasey1119]

I didn't level SMN to 90 to have mini summons! In all seriousness I've played on and off since 2.0 and still found interesting things I either didn't know or had forgot! Great videos.

[@EatTheMarxists]

/petsize all small, thank you very much! Can’t see squat when Bahamut’s big butt is in the way 🤣

[@DoktorWieg]

Another good trick for turn ins at the Grand Company : if you can do Expert Deliveries (which is turning in old gear for Grand Company seals), transfer all the gear you no longer need from your Armory Chest to your Inventory. Then, in the Expert Delivery window, select "Inventory" from the drop down menu. It'll also remember that setting so you don't have to do it every time. And if you have a lot of items to turn in, a quick way to turn them in quickly is to simply tap the numpad's 0 key (which functions as the "Confirm" button equivalent on a controller) and you'll turn in and confirm each piece of gear very quickly. You can go through 30 pieces of gear to turn in that way in less than 10 seconds.

[@elliscook9794]

There is an option to not select gear set items. That's easier

[@sylinamalthea8313]

For the Materia-Tip: You can find extractable Materia and their percentage of spiritbond even easier than with that macro! Use the hotkey "Materia Extraction" in your Actions & Traits under General. Just click the button and swiftly extract everything from everywhere. :D

[@jayr7613]

You can also set your crafter glams to be different looks if you right click them in the character window where you save your gear sets. So your goldsmith can wear a different look as your carpenter even though they are wearing the same exact gear.

[@backboost453]

You don't need that spiritbonding macro. There's a command called "Materia Extraction" in Action & Traits --> General that does an even better job than your macro.

[@JSpyx]

one more small thing I'd like to point out which is useful in crafting (people might already know this, but I didn't know this for a long time) is when you're using a macro and you want the macro to stop instantly for some reason during craft, I have a macro with "/echo" in it. it instantly stops the crafting macro. Just thing it's useful for when something goes wrong during the crafting phase in the macro x)

[@colie6527]

Seriously?! Man I'm going to have to try that out. I use trial synthesis a lot and hate waiting after i see it a macro didnt work out. Appreciate you sharing!

[@JSpyx]

@@colie6527 no worries, It saved me a lot too haha

[@djJaXx101]

TIPS I discovered since Endwalker: - Press and hold X to make all names disappear (lifesaver for when 20 people are on top of retainer summon bell, or quest marker) - Right click Aytherite to change instance (helpful when no fates left, change instance for more fates. Also party members appear as ??? they are in a different instance probably) - Open Character window with C then > Profile > Title > icon > to set your Title!

[@keithstarkey5584]

Hey, is this on a controller? I'm using a PC, and I've remapped my X button. (Wondering if there's a setting somewhere that I missed for this.)

[@Shaderox]

The best use of the "Turn off Battle music" option so you only hear zone music: Running The Twinning

[@sayianprincevegeta7969]

The tip at 4:01 can be done with controllers as well by pressing square. It was a game changer when I discovered this a few months ago. No longer scrolling through inventory!

[@MrXXXRyanoceros]

THANK YOU

[@sayianprincevegeta7969]

@@MrXXXRyanoceros sure thing!

[@hkoizumi3134]

You're doing gods works. Keep it coming. I also have long forgotten 2.0 trick for extra Hotbar space. Any Jobs from ARR has an extra hotbar space we no longer use. For example, for Paladin, remove the job stone to revert back to your Gladiator. The hotbar you see are unique to Gladiator and it can be used for anything you desire. I use it for Job change. What I do is I put job shortcut into the first row of Gladiator bar. I then have a macro with this command. "/hotbar copy Gladiator 1 current 4" what this does is when I press the button that contains the macro, it will copy the first row of gladiator hotbar into current unused hotbar, which is 4th hotbar in my case. The 2nd row contains professions in gladiator hotbar. And I have another macro with "/hotbar copy Gladiator 2 current 4". This copies 2nd row Gladiator hotbar into my 4th hotbar. With this method, you can recreate very simple windows start button in your hotbar.

[@RoseArtemis24]

In the general tab of the actions menu (P by default) there's also a Materia Extraction button that you can drag onto a hotbar! It pops up a separate window and lets you quickly exctract from your equipped gear, and there's a dropdown for different parts of the armoury chest as well!

[@mk6407]

Thanks for finally pointing out the shortcut to Vesper bay. I've been telling that one to people for years, but so many still don't know.. you should do a vid on shortcuts in general, as there are many that people should know to save gil or get to a map faster (like for hunts)

[@jessshnarcky1089]

I took off everyone's special effects, except boss and some minimal effect for my own. It improved my FF14 life immensely.

[@veyllure5616]

The Limited Levelling Roulette function doesn't quite work like that unfortunately, it only limits the ranged based on the lowest member of the party you're matched with, so if you get matched with a level 20 player you can still get Sastasha, since it's still in their range. It's mainly for limiting your pool of levelling roulette dungeons with a full premade.

[@Jolsn]

You're right of course! I usually play my daily roulettes with people from my FC so we always turn this on and I didn't even think about that when making the video. Good catch

[@shinewherethouwillandthouh7455]

It's ONLY for that. Notice how one of the requirements is "Party must meet minimum size requirements" It doesn't even apply unless you're in a full premade.

[@crosssquirrel4293]

@@shinewherethouwillandthouh7455 And it is a good thing it is made that way, because otherwise people who are starting the game won't find a group in ages even as tanks or healers... much less dps... that of course includes MSQ trials and even the Crystal Tower raids which are mandatory.

[@zaknar1978]

@@crosssquirrel4293 Yeah and, honestly, it doesn't bother me at all to do satasha if someone in the party is at this level range. What bother me however is doing satasha when the minimum level in the party is 70+...

[@Hexepresso]

I have been playing FFXIV for about 6 years now. I had no idea you could do some of these things. Thank you for your helpful videos!

[@AdamRoss30]

The reset striking dummy thing was a godsend when they added it. Also, almost all of the things you access via right click can be accessed on controller by square (including the quick handover method for quest turn-ins).

[@loreofmetal5604]

when i right click the dummy, nothing happens :/

[@AdamRoss30]

@@loreofmetal5604 Try right clicking on the target HP bar instead. If you right click the dummy, it will start your auto attack.

[@keithstarkey5584]

One thing I do is make whatever aetheryte I have to go to (to do quests, this, or that) a favorite destination. Inevitably, I have found myself over and over having to return to that location while in that area and paying at least twice to do so than if I had made it a favorite. Another tip: in Keybinds > Movement, set a hotkey to the "Save current camera position," Return camera to saved position," and "Return camera to default." I use this when I'm out in the open; I simply press the hotkey for putting the camera to my saved position, which is far away and at a specific angle so I can see a lot around me.

[@TheBorzoi]

A much better way for extracting materia is use the "Extract Materia" action. It gives you a list of your items sorted by spirit bond and you can just go down the list then. For party sorting, if you go in to the Role Sorting option, you can set the specific order of jobs within the roles. For example, healer's default order is WHM, SCH, AST, SGE. I have switched AST and SCH so that I have pure healers first and shield healers second. The Limited Levelling Roulette option only activates if you're in a light party (4 people) when you queue. It even said it in your window you had open but the way you described it indicated that it would work if queued solo. Petsize only affects you. Not others. If you set it to small, it's only small for you. Everyone else, even if they're not on summoner, will need to run that action. It will also not apply to the currently active summon (I.e.: Bahamut won't get small if he's out already but will be the next time he is summoned).

[@ajm-kohaku840]

You don't have to manually sort your party list when you're playing different roles. In Character Configuration -> Party List. You can set the order based on your role. So if you're a healer you can sort by tank, healer, DPS. and then if you change roles to a DPS, you can set party sort to order by DPS, tank, healer, and so forth. In addition to this, if you click Role Sort Settings, you can choose the order in which classes/jobs will auto-sort for you.

[@deneios1905]

In keybinds/system there is key bind for confirm. If you spam that you can quickly answer yes to prompts and it will handover q items even faster because you dont need to move your mouse to the items. It also targets actionable objects like npcs that are under a big mount.

[@Richardnetor]

Now when a Yes or No questions it defualts to No, so now you have to either clikc and press the left key

[@mutantcarcrash]

Join party in progress is amazing. Joined prae once, party was already killing the last boss... so in and out of prae in 10 seconds with full xp gains.

[@kaydwessie296]

Your videos are actually so helpful! My friends taught me some of the things you talk about but nowhere near all of it

[@BigXam]

I have been playing for a few years and had NO IDEA about the currency button. Seriously! You are an FFXIV power user... lol. Thanks for this.

[@RiikoRinkoko]

Grand Company Delivery Missions/Turn-ins can also be checked in the Timers menu. So you can check them near the Market board (or wherever you get your items from) and don't have to run back and forth to your Grand Company. Same with the Custom Deliveries, so you can check upfront, which NPC gives bonus scrips/exp.

[@Khaos82_]

Thank you for this. You answered someone of the questions that I really can't find answers to and this helped a ton.

[@MB-em9ek]

For the limited leveling roulette, I originally thought that it would prevent me running low dungeons but actually the party is formed first then the rule will apply to the lowest level party member. That's why I ended up doing a lvl 44 dungeon while my alt was 80+ because there was a lvl 45 teammate.

[@wopian_]

It's only for pre-made light parties (requires party to meet minimum size requirements). So if you're queuing without a pre-made light party, the limited roulette setting doesn't do anything anyway.

[@fatandlazy93]

In your action Menu under General there is an action called Materia Extraction, using that you can see the Spiritbond of any piece of Equipment sorted descendingly and categorized into Equipment, Inventory Armory Chest (Main Hand, Off Hand), (Head, Chest Hands),.. etc from that menu you can extract materia with one left-click

[@Spaghetty]

as a sprout thats been playing for about 2.5 months now. some of these tips are super helpful, abd there are stuff that i found out on my own. excited to try out the ones i learned here

[@TigerLoveHeart]

so multiple things : people already talked about the spiritbound actions & traits thing (also works with desynthesize), for the waymarks gathering, some spots changes place time to time and aren't always at the same place so doesn't work for all farming places, for the grand company turn-ins meh... i'd suggest doing levequest turn-ins for fisher using gils on marketboard and the rest of the jobs, gathering is simple with levequests too and crafting it's best to level all the crafters at once (like by 10 levels or so) from level 20 to 50 you only need 1 set of equipments then do them by 10 levels but ALL at the same time because the way firmament works is the gathering area spots isn't usual and you need to go in circles (either clockwise or counter clockwise depending on if you're using miner or bota) anyways it takes practice to understand it all i guess for party finder well i also keep the "go in started duty" but there are some duties you're best off not going into like if it says 0mins on MSQ roulette... it's probably castrum... and castrum is pretty bad mainly if you're a tank and not know every little details of it... prae gives much more XP even if it's longer but more worth the time... as for using roulettes to get weekly tomes... doing expert roulette 5 days a week gets you to 450/450 tomes because they give 90 per expert (50 for the roulette and 40 for the dungeon) so no need to do any other roulettes at level 90 for tomes as for waking sands... as someone who hates limsa because it's filled with the most cingry of people and there's tons of people there always... and those pretend-girls dancing naked all the time i just only go there to use marketboard and if i need to change worlds to check other marketboards so i'd rather still teleport to horizon from anywhere in the game rather than loading to limsa using the aether loading again going to boat loading again... a lot of loading involved and a lot more actions involved ... sure you're next to it but is it REALLY worth it? you shouldn't play FF14 if you're soooooo desperate about gaining 2 seconds time for everything you're doing because everything will take weeks or months to do anyways so not really useful to do it that way honestly

[@TheSLX]

You just blew my mind with the waking sands shortcut. Thanks! Great and helpful video.

[@Er404ChannelNotFound]

Supply and Provisioning items for crafters are great if you throw in the gil for the materials for them instead. You can then proceed to craft them and maybe even make them at high quality which is some great exp honestly plus it trains you on how crafting works so you're not fully confused once you're max level and you just blindly use macros without knowing how they work.

[@MrCairnman]

There's an easier way to deal with spirit bond. If you grab the Extract Materia action from General actions (it might be Materia Extraction, I don't have it in front of me) it will bring up a menu with the 100% spirit bond items at the top and highlighted, and you just have to click on them and confirm to extract materia.

[@manic221]

Man using the party markers when gathering is such a big brain move - I cannot believe I have never thought to do that in all this time The macro for turning on and off battle effects is great too gonna use that Ive always been hesitant to do it and never felt I particularly needed to until the most recent Alliance Raid set where it has finally become to much for me but I didn't like the idea of turning them off permanently.

[@ohmaggiemae]

For the party list - if you just want the default (based on your settings), you can also just type /psort in your chat and it'll do the trick. Great videos, Jolsn - thanks!

[@arxeha]

10:52 the reason why you can go to Waking Sands faster through Limsa Lominsa because back in 1.0, there's a different mechanic in travelling using ship/airship than it is now. Back then, there would be a scheduled travel for all of the ship and airship and the travel itself is not instant, instead you're going to wait in the ship to actually travel between places in which you can do fishing there (except airship, it's a cutscene). And yes, one of the most popular ship travel route is from Limsa Lominsa directly Waking Sands, where back in 1.0 there was so many activity around that place. EDIT: If you want to know more about how closely connected present FFXIV compared to how it was back in 1.0, I suggest you search a youtube playlist named "Remnants of A Realm"

[@TheErosinda]

you can also type /psort to sort your party instead of doing it from the menu. Focus Target is also a good way to track boss health and boss casting.

[@elliscook9794]

Yes, not enough ppl use the Focus Target, you can also make a macro to target the enemy you have as your Focus Target; I believe. Which works well if you use a controller. Set that macro in slot 98 or 99 I believe and you can tie that into just 1 controller button press. Mine is set to L3

[@Devychou]

As I said in your previous video, 5yrs of playing and I'm still learning lol. Must be dump I got so mad we couldn't turn off the music in battles and it's litteraly just under the mount music which I turned off at the beginning of Endwalker... lol. Also the right-click in to turn in your items, I didn't know!! Life changer!!

[@vinidveryou7766]

I believe you forgot to mention for leveling players that when you go SOLO/Unrestricted party for dungeons, you can still aquire loot from treasure boxes and later exchange it for seals in Grand Company. Making it really easy way to fast farm GC seals, which is really helpful especially for new players, as you can even do it on 40-50lvl character soloing 15-20lvl dungeons. But of course it's easier later on in the game and grants more seals for items.

[@Otacanthus]

The thing with the waking sands teleport is that you need 3 loading zones instead of 1 to get there, so in a lot of circumstances it'll be faster going to horizon

[@pinomaster1]

If you don't have a potato PC it I u can do it with sprint and still have sprint left over after hitting limsa.

[@Otacanthus]

@@pinomaster1 Reread what you wrote and come back to me. Also, a lot of people play on console too. And a lot of people don't have money to buy the newest quantum computer every year. But go ahead, keep on pretending poor people and people with no steady income, like children, exist

[@One-of-Many27]

@@Otacanthus The main factor in this being lucky enough to have an SSD (and space to install FFXIV on it). Disk Read has a major effect on load times for almost everything. They're way cheaper than they used to be (though, more expensive and harder to get currently because... *gestures broadly*). But if you can't afford it, you can't afford it. I hated it when I only had 6gb of RAM and people would say, "oh, you really should get more!" Like, "Great, thanks, I didn't realize. Are offering to pay for it?"

[@Otacanthus]

@@One-of-Many27 Very this

[@pinomaster1]

@@Otacanthus lol I could do this since hw with a basic. i5 4590 and a 750ti back in the day. Just needed an ssd. My entire PC build was the price of a console plus $100 overhead. That’s not rather expensive.

[@AngryArcanine9]

Yo. I keep seeing these after I've logged out for the day but these are SO useful. Thank you so much

[@BoredinTo]

Immensely helpful videos. I'm shocked I never noticed the "Play music when mounted" setting before, but it's made travelling so much more immersive and serene, thanks.

[@ninatutturu2262]

I play on PS4 and use the cross-hotbar for the things I need on every job. One side is for running, calling my mount, teleporting and things like materia extraction... the other one is mostly healing with potions, gestures and useful things like a shortcut to the timer function to see what i can turn in at the grand company with my crafter jobs. What also helped me a lot with crafter jobs was marking some of the base materials from every crafter job as favorites so i can find them faster.

[@Guelicious]

FF allows you to customize everything in such great detail. however, you have to put in the work to set it up once and really dive deep into the options to get the most out of it. i'm really thankfull for the leveling roulette and dummy reset tips - i always ran away from the dummy to reset it. x)

[@rattusmortus1845]

Thank you for sharing as a relatively newcomer to FF these are a godsend

[@lysantera8918]

Owaaah ty sooo much for the limited roulette lvling !!! I never paying attention to this,it's the end of sastasha/aurum val suffering! D: (and for the grand compagny supply and provision , you can go through the Timers window in the Main Menu and you'll see all items needed without going actually at the GC quarter in the 1st place ^^ )

[@LegendConsole]

For the Spirit Bound sort macro, it might be easier to use the Extract Materia action that is in the General section of the skills menu.

[@fyrye]

As of 5.2 and completing the "Forging the Spirit" quest in Central Thanalan, there is a "Materia Extraction" button under General Actions, which will list all of your items and their Spiritbond progress, where you can right click + Extract.

[@Megiddos_13]

duuuuude the item turn-in thing is SO USEFUL :D i know is like 3 seconds saved but is really quality of life improvement!

[@zyrage]

The fastes way for people who are still doing the Mainstorypart there to Waking Sands is just using the ticket you get during the Mainstory I'm glad they added that ticket

[@nvtxo5878]

As someone who was running away from the dummies, I thank you for making me less ridiculous now

[@KeyJester]

I've got over 10k hours in this game and that waymarkers for gathering tip had me gasping out loud! Absolutely brilliant, thank you! Also, the camera thing in your other video was always really helpful as I had no idea that was possible (one of my mains is a potato so I mostly can't see shit at all, lol). Also, I think someone else already mentioned it, but for those still unaware there's an actual Extract Materia button you can use that brings up its own menu showing all the items you have that can get materia extracted from them. I got that one on one of my hotbars for instant extractiony goodness 👍

[@SuicidalPanda2]

To add on to the tip at 4:00 if you play with a controller to do the same exact thing just hit square on playstation and X xbox controller.

[@knowledge561]

I’ve been playing since launch and just learned about the striking dummy. Jesus what a game lmao.

[@aandrenery]

I can't play FFXIV now since I don't own the game nor have it downloaded for the free trial but really enjoying your channel

[@silvervibranium2832]

Two tips I like: Start a convo with any random NPC. Rightclick on the text bubble to bring up the option to make it bigger or smaller! For those huge gauges for each job. There is an alternate version of them that is tiny and small. The toggle for that is in your character preferences. ( worlds are in maintenance so i cant give better info right now)

[@silvervibranium2832]

oh, one more. Those damn quests that make you spam an emote over and over. If you are in motion, program will register that you emoted but will skip the actual animation of the emote!

[@BlaquePauldron]

The final tip had me feeling untold levels of rage, sorrow, regret, self loathing, pain and anguish, while at the same time, happy, knowing those who see this and are just starting out will not have to suffer as I have.

[@GamerGrimm]

You mentioned sorting the party list manually for AST, but you can actually set up default settings to automatically sort all jobs into very specific locations. I put ranged on bottom and melee on top so i dont have to think about cards. I even micromanaged it so the highest dps ranged is at the very bottom (blm-smn-mch-rdm etc) and the same for highest dps melee on tippy top of the dps roles (sam-rpr-etc) so my cards typically get the most value with no extra thinking needed. Ranged card? Put on the lowest player in my party list…melee? The highest in the dps list. They already have a card? Move to the next one.

[@reperfan4]

Note on the Waking Sands ferry, that's only actually a time save if your machine has good load times. If you're on a lower-end machine or even probably PS4 due to the fact you have to go through two loading screens in a normally very high-population area (Limsa) it ends up being barely a time save over just the normal horizon warp.

[@0MidnighttheDragon0]

on the subject of striking dummy emnity: as a controller player yes, I can confirm, the left face button (square/X based on if youre ps4 or xbox) is essentially your "right click" so you press that to pull up that window

[@mr.chicken9376]

Really great quality video, man. I also like that you include some of the tips in the comments as well! Very insightful.

[@detheavn]

That Horizon teleport felt like a personal attack... :(

[@StayCalm0]

For the GC supply missions: If a crafter item has a star next to it it gives more xp and if you turn in a quality one it gives double that. I used it to level crafters to 60 when you can get scrip gear because each turn in can be as many as 4 levels and good crafting gear for low levels is crazy expensive on the MB. IF you aren't saving for a big item it's a good gil sink to get crafters up completely painlessly

[@Azeliaa14]

Thank you so much for the Spiritbond macro! I feared that I had to manually check each item to find the 100% ones... So easy now!

[@Jolsn]

Hey, this is actually outdated and I wasn't aware of another feature this game has. In the actions menu, you can find an action called Materia Extraction that will be even easier!

[@Azeliaa14]

@@Jolsn Oh, even better! Thanks for taking the time to keep me updated. Greetings from France!

[@ZurilasZone]

For spiritbond you can also just go in the spiritbond menu because there you see whats on what percentage

[@dowaito4592]

Even though I play ff for so long, I actually didnt know about the strinking dummy reset and the restriction for the leveling roulett. So much time wasted in sastasha and temple of qarn. There is always something new. Thanks :D

[@BootsMcbuttons]

Ok, the waymarks on the gathering nodes is super slick, never even crossed my mind!

[@linz7307]

Omg I didn't know that about the striking dummy, you've just changed my whole experience haha thanks for the video!

[@Kofja]

There is also an Action called Materia Extraction which opens a new window that has all the gear you have on you with their respective spirit bond percentages shown. And it also lets you just click and extract the materia, no need for macros or clicking all the items through your character window or armoury chest. You can open "Actions & Traits" by pressing P (think that is the default button for it) and then clicking the "General" tab and in there you should find the "Materia Extraction" action. You could drag it to your hotbars or just open Actions & Traits when you need to extract materia :D

[@Kofja]

They do also get sorted by highest spiritbond percentage which makes it easier to use in my opinion :D

[@DrBajingo]

The striking dummy tip… omg… so many times I’ve run away from them… that’s a game changer haha thanks!!

[@KyuketsukiRei]

The test dummy and waking sands moments about killed me...Lots of great information again, thank you!

[@DeffNotRele9]

So happy that this channel is finally getting the traffic it deserves

[@catheriner999]

That Limsa to Horizon tip at the end is killer. God I hated making that trip over and over.

[@ReffyAquaria]

For materia extraction, use the materia button in your skill panel (P - general). this pulls up a list of all your spirit bond items, Your macro is neat, but it isn't really needed. You can also use the button for aetheric reduction to get a list of all items that can be reduced to sand and crystals.

[@ladysyberia7419]

5:20 I feel attacked.. Didn't know there was another way to get out of combat there besides running for the hills lmao

[@zenwilds2911]

Waking Sands travel blew my mind. Thank you for this!!!

[@javiermontiero4982]

I've been playing since Heavensward and I had no idea about separating the enemy cast bar from it's health bar. Thanks for that!!

[@elliscook9794]

Or you could use Focus Target.

[@RagnarokiaNG]

I was playing with a training dummy at my FC house with others and after watching me run into the house and back out each time I wanted to change jobs they had "the talk" with me.

[@darrelllewis5798]

This is easily the most useful FFXIV video I have seen in my 11 year experience of playing the game. Wow man

[@SteelyB]

You make excellent videos. We will watch your career with great interest.

[@konanxvii]

its crazy how apparently little i know about this game when it comes to these qol things or convenience tricks thank u so much

[@Xix1326]

I remember my first FC. When I found that Vesper Bay - Limsa connection, most of the FC, including vets, didn't know the connection existed. lol