Must Know Tips & Websites in FFXIV

[@haddib]

THERE'S A CRAFTING TREE!?

[@Hardivh]

The emote sorting by alphabetical order is already worth the like

[@NakedRadish]

I don't know how many know about this, as it took a while for me to find out, but if you want to see how your current gearset looks like in other colors, you can just go to you gear window, clicking any of the pieces and selecting "Try on". After you have the try on window open, enable current gear from the bottom and now you can click on all the pieces and select "Enable Dye Preview" to change to color of those pieces.

[@sapsay]

These videos are all extremely well done, thank you for making them.

[@Jolsn]

Glad you like them!

[@Zmanb14]

@@Jolsn You should add all the websites in the description as a quick link.

[@cybercat8819]

A small tip forr the map is to hold down CTRL to make the Aetheryte Crystals show up on top of quests instead of being hidden behind them

[@BlueGogglesPichu]

One more point to the inventory, you can have it display all 4 pages on a grid. so mine will sort by category, but i still have it all visible without needing to switch pages

[@InfinitusMG]

5 on your numpad will lock your camera onto whatever you're targeting (a true "lock-on" that makes strafing around your target to hit positionals MUCH easier)

[@craigyoung2261]

Yes, but it also restricts movement as backing up and strafing are slower than running forward. It's a nice feature but they need to alter it for high level play to be viable

[@yyZiggurat]

Another thing about "/bgm" : You can also type "/bgm 25" (for example) to set the background music to 25%. Different numbers will work too.

[@ixis]

I've been playing since the launch of ARR, and seen so many "must know tip" videos that are always the same 10 things experienced players like me already know. Thank you for making the first video with some actually new tips!!

[@Leon_Aldrich]

What did you learn?

[@lmgb8101]

OMG, 2 mins into this video and my mind is blown. I leveled several crafters to 90 without knowing this. :’( thank you!

[@Jolsn]

I wish I could say I knew about this before leveling mine :P

[@iamalthaea]

Thanks for this video, it's been really helpful! I also have been using FFXIV Hunt for my daily hunts, and just to add, the site also has a route calculator wherein you can tick the monsters you have in the hunting list, and the site will generate routes across different zones depending on time efficiency and cost efficiency.

[@chrislaine8807]

I've been playing since 2013 and I didn't know a lot of these helpful tips! I groaned out loud when I found out I didn't have to run over to my Grand company to find out which items to craft daily lol. Awesome work on an extremely helpful and well done video! Subscribed!!!!!!

[@HussarPlays]

It was such a saver. I found a way to keep both Marketboard and timers open to copy paste names of items to search.

[@crystallineentity7698]

Same, the crafting tree blew my mind.

[@EdwardPaulet]

Some these like the crafting tree and teleport tickets are relatively new additions. That said the timers page has always been helpful and I'm sorry you didn't know that XD

[@Leon_Aldrich]

I've been playing about 3 months now with 8 characters. Running to GC for each character, then writing down all the turnins (lots of ink & paper), only to find out (control U and timers) *cry*.

[@ariamachi]

I prefer Teamcraft for gathering. Shows you a map when you look up a node and you can set a group for nodes. Also in your lists for crafting you can just click the timed node that is listed and you will get an alarm. Teamcraft is best tool for crafting/gathering. Literal godsend.

[@Ethan-wu4re]

That grand company turn in tip blew my mind XD i always take a screenshot and paste it in Paint and make my FF window smaller so i can see what I need to buy and the double trips i had to make cause the name of the item sometimes is long it looks like "Shinyskin Leather Boots of M...." maiming ? mommy? maria ? i dunno XD

[@sheridan1217]

My tip to maximize mgp is to get the 15 percent mpg bonus items from your company squad, use one, then go do the fashion report, the large cactpot weekly rewards, and then the mini cactpot all on the same day, and you get 15 percent bonus on all of them. Also there are 3 challenges in the weekly challenge log to play verminion 5 times, note play, you do not have to win the games, you can just tab out and lose 5 times.

[@sunsparkda]

I've been playing for years, and I didn't know about the auto-use atheryte tickets setting. Thank you so much!

[@ericbergquist]

Video so useful, I bookmarked it. I have only played two months, but I can already tell these tips will save tons of time during crafting and grand company daily quests.

[@Ninjanades]

my gf and i reached our current available level cap at 80.. and now we just hold each other and cry whenever we watch your videos for not already knowing these things. thank you for all the helpful content! i've personally been playing this game off and on for over a year and am still learning new things every time i play! again, thank you for making this game easier and more enjoyable to play!

[@Leon_Aldrich]

At least you get to hold someone. I just have three cats.

[@TigerLoveHeart]

for garlandtools you didn't show SO MANY features : - making a group to make HUGE gathering lists - some items like in idyllshire are set as NPC selling automatically you have to tick a box in the item menu at the top to make it into a crafted item instead (so you don't have to spend 2k + gils PER item at an NPC) OR there's an option to automatically put all the items into crafter/gathered instead of bought to do the same thing but for ALL the items (it's easier that way and then set certain items to be bought from NPC) - the garlandtools bells part of the site allowing to make big amounts of timer nodes be notified when they pop (can also change many settings like a first and second notification for before and when it pops) as for teamcraft it's the site i use IF i ever need to do fishing because each fishes has their own page with literally EVERY DETAILS you need to fish a certain fish it's OVERLY GOOD for when you need to fish something very difficult to fish that needs a specific : weather, time (at the same moment), fishes to fish in between and all that stuff... the side even has timers telling you EXACTLY when the fish will be available to be fished, some fishes can take a few days or a week to be available for fishing (with every specific needed things like a certain weather at a certain time) there's also a site called something like FF14 angler or whatever for fishing, but really, use teamcraft it's just overly better, way way better for detailed fishing

[@Jmencolis]

thank mentor, you are a beacon to us newbies. Also I press F for your F Viera... you have my condolences.

[@Jolsn]

Don't worry, the bun is saved and will be back some day!

[@LEWIS1992]

Some great tips, but also you need to give the controls for PS4 and PS5 too, not just PC.

[@bluemyst42]

For the time clocks. Eorzea time is also represented by the sun icon that revolves around the minimap. If you know how to read an analog clock, then you can figure it out. It took me a while to figure out what the sun icon was, I kept thinking it was the direction the sun was in but it never was. Frustrated the hell out of me.

[@FarelForever]

Honestly, for Bards, you can disable the "Performance" option, then you'll only disable those types of sounds. Really wish we had something like this for disabling the sounds of people crafting. It hurts my head

[@Murasaki_137]

Excuse me sir but you look like my twin and thus I wanna tell you that you are adorable. - best regards, your bunny brother

[@Demogarose]

that "hit U, click leave" is gonna save me so much time

[@KazumiKiguma]

Beware for turning in items to the GC, especially if you're leveling alt jobs, that you may have gear not in a set that you can't filter out.

[@RezboaDog]

You are invaluable to the FFXIV community! Thank you! I have been playing since 2019 and you still showed me things I didn't know!

[@raleo7466]

THERE'S A RECIPE TREE? I'm going to cry for not knowing that

[@tyriaxepheles7996]

If you're a decorator, you should know that FFXIV Housing often has a several day delay after new items come out until they are posted. Another downside is that it's hard to figure out if an item is too big or small for what you're planning. However, sometime in Shadowbringers, the devs gave us a preview menu. Just go into your house and open the housing menu then preview indoor furniture. You can now place any housing item that exists in the game except seasonals in your house and see what it would look like without actually buying it. Unfortunately you cannot place them with glitches though. If you want to see seasonals, FFXIV Housing is still your best bet.

[@balagore]

I've been playing for a few months and this video actually blew my mind. So many tips! Thank you so much!

[@Jolsn]

Glad it helped!

[@NeguraGhost]

Your retainer is really called Horst Lichter? Da gibts wohl Bares für Rares. xP

[@randy5301]

almost 900 hours of clicking for no reason when i could be using a confirm button ........ thank you for enlightening me. i literally have had the thought "i wish i could just hit a key" so many times, and lo and behold i can lmao. also the recipe trees seem super helpful!

[@raventhorX]

I would like it if the devs went a bit more in-depth for the raw materials list or allowed you to adjust the number of items you want to craft in the crafting tree list for a crafted item. There are some recipes where it requires one or two other crafted items and both of those crafted items require some of the same base components. While you can plug in 10 items that you want to craft and it shows the raw material being like 30 or something it doesn't tell you how many of that 30 goes to another item that needs to be crafted as a raw material. I have often made mistakes by forgetting the count of how many of a certain item I need to craft and ended up using more materials then intended creating an extra item I don't need and lacking another. Results in me having to go out and farm more of the wasted material. Luckily most farming in the game isn't too difficult but there are a few recipes that require certain items that you can't just roll up on at its gathering location, for example monster drops which i guess maybe I'm just unlucky but i often find myself having to farm a bit just to get one item, especially if its a monster that drops multiple different items. Then there are materials that are from timed nodes, and also materials you can only purchase with things like scrips or poetics. Not sure if there are scrip only materials though but I know for sure there are a few poetics only materials.

[@Jolsn]

The whole material list could definitely be more integrated in the crafter UI, there's a lot of optimization they could do

[@emmakpark]

oh my goodness, that 'hold shift to snap to grid' made me GASP

[@-BarBeaRiaN-]

Hey, it's that famous BunTuber! Thanks for the tips once again :3 Good thing youtube recommends your channel

[@Lashante727]

Can you please put your tips in playlists, it helps alot when coming back to your content

[@Jolsn]

I had a playlist for general tips some time ago, but it felt pretty useless after a while because I was just adding every single video I uploaded to it. I'll have a look and figure out a way I can sort this stuff soon!

[@tsbulmer]

Knowing where to turn off background music so that you can hear a good player performance is handy, but knowing that you can turn off player performance sounds on the same screen is a lifesaver. It was for me, at least - my play experience is so, so much better now that I don't have to listen to people spamming sounds like toddlers with xylophones.

[@dafire9634]

Not all bards are good yes.

[@boxboxerson991]

@@dafire9634 Most of them suck.

[@rayndooma5624]

My 1st week in FXIV, and the youtube algorithm suggested your awesome videos. The shortcut to the Waking Sands from Limsa Lominsa came at the perfect time for me haha. Pray keep doing the work of the Gods. Thank you so much for making these invaluable videos!

[@Webberjo]

The MSQ gives you tickets to teleport directly to the Waking Sands now though.

[@Gaiddan]

Das wird meine Startseite für eine Weile - ich wusste nix davon und bin so dankbar :D Mega Video!! One thing for Housing - you have an ingame Catalouge where you can place the items without buying or having them, just to look how it would look if you had it.

[@azurechan]

It's funny how some of these tips are fairly recent additions to the menus. I'm a nerd who reads all the patch notes, so I know when new features like the "Raw Materials List" are added, but most people don't do that. Thank you for your service to sprouts and veterans alike. There are tips in here I didn't know, like the spam num pad 0 for turn ins. I also didn't know what the different sort options did and never tested it for myself. Teamcraft is an absolute must if you craft. I use their gathering alert feature since I can easily add it to the gathering list from the crafting lists. Teamcraft also offers a gathering overlay into the game, so I can easily look in the corner of my screen to check the timer on the next node. You can also preview housing items inside your house/apartment/fc room by opening up the housing menu inside the room and selecting the "Preview Indoor Furnishings" option. It will also let you move and rotate the item so you can see how it looks with the rest of the things in your house or if it fits in an area or not. This is very helpful if you have a specific size you need something to fit inside. You can only preview one item at a time though, so if you select something else, the item you are currently previewing will disappear. A side note: Another thing Eorzea Time is used for is Hunt calls. For example, if there is an S rank monster, people will send out calls on linkshells and gather people before pulling the S rank. If there is a time given on the map for the pull, it is usually in Eorzea time, since that's the same for everyone and you don't have to deal with time zones. Edit: Also, thank you for purring time stamps on the video bar, or whatever they're called now. It's so helpful to immediately go back to a tip to remind myself when in game.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

i vastly prefer ffxiv-gathering over ffxivclock and I've been called all sorts of different rude things for suggesting it, so I'm happy to see someone else suggesting it as well.

[@kageshigi1012]

The video I didn’t think I needed after 10+ years of playing this game 😨🤦🏿‍♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Akihito_Kanbara]

Me: here we go. Another video that isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know. Also me: YOU CAN FUCKING ALPHABETIZE EMOTES?!!?!!!

[@AS34N]

Sprout here.... AWESOME TIPS. Thank you so much. Very very helpful.

[@mistermaytrader4087]

I wish there was a, “Was this Video Helpful” rating! Celebrity vloggers drum up the excitement for FFXIV but their millions of viewers are left to figure it all out in game. YOU are why I search youtube and i wish i could sort through FFXIV content for the helpful tips instead of the most popular channels.

[@HankJ666]

5:40 *OH MY FUCKING GOD THANK YOU* Btw, tip for getting more MGP: If you have a squadron you can get "Gold Saucer VIP card" from the purple missions, take in mind you can only do one of these missions a week, so pick the one that gives you 10 cards The VIP card gives you a 2 hour duration buff that grants you +15% MGP on all Gold Saucer attractions, this works with Gates, minigames, mini cacpot, Triple triad matches, tournaments and I didn't test it, but probably Chocobo racing too, basically anything that can grant you MGP (minus tickets you get from Khloe or selling Tripe triad card dupes) but most importantly, it works with *the lottery and fashion report,* so basically if you pop a VIP card before your fashion report and get 80 points, you get a total of 69.000 MGP Using VIP cards you can easily passively farm MGP for the mounts if you don't feel like spending all day in the Gold Saucer, as you'll probably walk away with around 100k MGP each saturday If you wanna use them for Gates too, my advice would be to wait for either "Air force One" or "Leap of Faith" then wait until there's 5 or less minutes left to use a card and join in, this way you make sure your buff remains for a total of 7 gates as you'll have 5 minutes left in your buff for the last gate, which is enough time to complete any of them While you wait for the next gate, either do Triple triad tournaments if available, do your mini cacpots, some Chocobo racing or the chopping wood minigame in the lower floor of the Saucer The amount of MGP you obtain when using the card for gates varies depending on the gates, for example if you get "Any way the wind blows" you might come out of it with just 115 MGP, if you complete "The slice is right" you could earn up to 11500, on average completing all 7 gates will give you enough MGP as if you had completed 8

[@palkosedivy]

Hi everyone ! How did he pull up the hot bar at 5:00 which then disappeared please ? Thank you

[@TheTwekoNinja]

I would also like to know this

[@gr4mas144]

First you need one button on main hotbar to hide these pop-up hotbars /hotbar display X [on/off] ----- x is pop-up hotbar let's say 8 you can add multiple lines with other numbers (9 and 10 like him) /wait 10 ----- after 10 seconds it hides all these hotbars /hotbar display X off ----- and again repeat hotbars numbers from first lines ( 8, 9 10) Congrats you have something like in 5:00

[@clublulu399]

This game is real confusing at first, there's a lot of stuff you get slapped with. But I gotta say it's really grown on me. Love this game more than my own dad.

[@oneandonlyjark]

I am really not fond of using external websites while playing games, or to do things a game can't (like LFG tools for games that don't have them). Not fond of even browsing them via overlays like the Windows 10 Game Bar.

[@samwalker_dc]

Great videos and I learned a few new things actually! But please stop saying XIV as letters!!! It's the roman numeral for the number 14, so just say FF14.

[@nymeowi829]

I've been playing since late 2021 but have taken several breaks since them so I'm always watching these videos to get tips and tricks for when I get back to playing. Thanks for all the info!

[@nrieh4553]

Gods, to think that all this time I could macro bgm on\off instead of clicking through sound setting (the closest one I could put on my tab)?? Better later than never, I guess. TY! Some instances and zones - I love the music, but sometimes I prefer to turn it off.

[@NavaSDMB]

One which actually made me facepalm: when collecting items, as soon as you have one in inventory you can drag it to an action bar and see there how much you have. If I need stacks which are multiples of each other (say, I have 200 leaves of Flying Patchouli, therefore I want to collect 100 bottles of Stratospheric Water), I place both stacks next to each other on the bar.

[@ThuJ4]

*loud audioable groan*

[@Ayyooitsdustaan]

who else said "GENERAL KENOBBIII" when he said "hello there" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@babaspector]

Do a few hunts. Maybe some masked carnival. You'll never have to pay for teleportation again.

[@TheTwekoNinja]

I figured out how to make the hotbars appear and disappear! Just have to make a macro /hotbar display 10 [on/off] you can place pretty much as many hotbars in here as you want as their own lines. Just change the number that you want to the hotbars you want to quickly hide and display!

[@tmacandcheese1]

/BGM is HUGE for me as a player, thank you so much

[@Val_Grnnx]

All this time I've been using the keyboard arrows to adjust the UI elements manually, pixel by pixel...

[@KooriGraywolf]

A bit off-topic, but I just wanted to say I appreciate you follow my same logic for hotbar keys: all physically close to WASD for easy one-handed access and return to WASD

[@Gurtington]

I've been playing this game since 2015 and just now decided to look up a tips and tricks guide and I didn't know most of these...

[@ErwinNieuwenburg]

I usually check out these type of video's to kind of laugh at the silly things a lot of people don't seem to know... But that trick for setting auto use of tickets for teleporting I didn't even know yet! Subscribing!

[@Rorgash]

one important tip i would have is, there are addons, including one that makes clears you your hotbars by putting combo abilities on a single button, so aoe combo, 1 key, single target, 1 key, only ever use a skill after pressing another first? 1 key. its amazing

[@roberthentosh5635]

This video should play from the FFXIV Launch screen :D

[@bigDtex79]

@Joisn FFXIV, had a question for you, I have quite a few items on the market board but I can't tell when I added them or how long they have been there. If an item has been there for too long I'd rather just vendor it. Do you have any tips on how to track how long an item has been on the market board?

[@xerravolos]

Alright alright take your sub already, gosh... lol (just messing, these are all great and i learned something new! Thank you!)

[@keimahane]

Shift for snap to grid, why did I just find out about this??? Time to go back and get my HUD just right :)

[@HussarPlays]

Great tips. Bookmarked half the sites and saved this video for later. Definitely lots of resources for that person that figured out the basis of the game and is getting into the optional content

[@TheJukeboxzero]

Wow! How did I miss the aetheryte ticket trick. Game changer for me.

[@craigyoung2261]

It's only been implemented with Endwalker

[@azurechan]

It was added in Endwalker when they made the changes to the teleport price formula.

[@hobbes6222]

I can't believe you didn't mention the best features of ffxivhunt, which is putting in your daily hunt targets and getting an optimized list of what order to kill them in as well as a path guide

[@Nienna_Asyare]

So I was thinking I knew most of the tips there were to know but surprise surprise, there's actually a settings thing in the teleport window xD Also, the websites were really useful too!

[@KaraMelGemini90]

WOW! Thank you so much!!! These are amazing and I had no clue about it!

[@AraidonFFXIV]

You somehow remind me of MadSeasonShow a little bit and I absolutely love it! 😂 Great video as always ♥️

[@Jolsn]

I'm a long time fan of MadSeasonShow! Love his videos

[@AraidonFFXIV]

@@Jolsn Same! has he mentioned something about coming back one day? 😢

[@Jolsn]

@@AraidonFFXIV He made a really long video just a few weeks ago if you didn't see

[@missgrifter]

He's currently doing playthroughs of Dark Souls on his alt channel BadSeasonShow, pretty relaxing to listen to if its your kinda thing

[@mrs.alienrope5778]

i need more tips! also can you do maybe a meme and culture and jokes video. like where did lahee come from and why/how it got popular. and what each meme that was popular meant? really interested in learning about the culture

[@jdrt10]

are those web pages third party tools for playing XIV? Illegal. I bet you also use a third party mouse and keyboard that are not part of XIV. tsk tsk tsk

[@dirtybranchez5]

That Obi-Wan introduction "Hello There!"

[@Frogwormer]

Your Character looks way better without those sunglasses. Thank you for taking them off.

[@Reikis645]

I just recently started playing FFXIV and these tips/guide videos been godsend.

[@AschenDog]

Garland tools also has a timed nodes tracker, which I actually prefer because it also shows a map

[@seePyou]

What the hell man?!?! I knew NONE of these things and OMG I LOVE YOU!

[@r3sid3nt3vil8]

Whilst in HUD editor double click right mouse button to enable/disable highlighted HUD element When in a cutscene press spacebar to bring up a menu to allow the text/dialogue to auto scroll to next , tab button brings up text read speed menu , shift tab slow down, tab speed up

[@BloodyDIMISIS55]

is there a way to just click toggle auto scroll on and off? instead of a menu popping up

[@1Dylan1]

Okay, as a sprout , these were good fuckin tips man. Subbed.

[@donald347]

Holy shit this well helpful and why doesn't the game tell you this stuff?

[@ravenswisp813]

Thank you! I wish i knew about these websites earlier, I now can use a reliable source to find things.

[@richard_shepherd]

Whenever I watch videos like these all I can think about is "Well too bad you play on console"

[@Spike-xv1ts]

wait u can "snap on grid" i played this game for years ... how did noone ever tell me -.-

[@vegassims7]

I have been playing for 4 years and still did not know about some of this stuff. lol

[@gokkiyoutube]

The gathering stuff can be done in Teamcraft through Alarms.

[@Antonin1738]

that inventory sort is helpful.... if my inventory isn't full already xD

[@dazzlemasseur]

I just learned about shift click an drag in the UI. That's so nice !

[@craigpridemore7566]

lol I went straight to garland and added it to my bookmarks. Thanks!

[@tman41291]

Couple years late but this is gold me being a new player and new to FF.

[@PriomMashuk]

Great assortment of tips and useful information! Thanks for sharing

[@ChainedFei]

It's too bad a lot of these websites require you to log in and link your discord account.

[@loopywatwat]

How have i not known about the dumb aetheryte ticket allowance!!!?!

[@akomedias]

Half of this stuff can be replaced with an easy plugin... btw

[@mainmanmick]

if you right click on your currency on the bottom right it shows you all your other currencies :)

[@codex458]

Yeah all this “tips”, and i still can’t play the damn game. Massive applause sir 👏

[@amouramarie]

Those are some great websites, definitely gonna check out a few of these.

[@stealthcheck]

5:45 OMFG. I REALLY wish I knew it before.