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Thank you so much for this! It's a huge help for new players like myself! One of the biggest obstacles I faced picking up the game was the UI layout. I'm a former WoW player and found myself spending hours trying to get the UI to my liking instead of playing the game. This allowed me to focus less on the UI and actually playing the game! Love the layout! If you make any for other classes please let me know.

Great vid, using something similar for WoW. No good videos for MMO's so this was super helpful

0:35 Guild Wars 1 would like a word But that aside, what I'd really really like is the option to change the party window. Bigger health bars, bigger debuffs, sort myself into the right category instead of always being #1. *sigh*

good vid, good hotbar advice!

Is there a way you can apply this to consoles? I like the way your screen is set up and I know it’s totally different for consoles, but I wanted to try this.

Looks great, but why 720p?

Fantastic video! Do you any have thoughts about moving the character with the mouse, by pressing both left and right? I'm actually not used to move with the keyboard, do you think is that feasible? I prefer to have more skills on my keyboard.

Commenting just to say that I'm one of the weird players who prefers standard movement control over legacy. I don't think it's better, and I agree that it's weird that Legacy is not default. It may sound counter intuitive, but Legacy controls make it harder for me to deal with mechanics that deal with your character's facing. I've got a lot of weird habits now such that it would be hard to make the switch, but I did use Legacy for p7s specifically because standard control auto-facing made it hard to avoid falling off the edge sometimes.

I'm team mouse and gamepad.

How did you get Hotbar 2 to be Shift+Numpad Numbers? Everytime I try i'm getting the Functions on the numpad instead of the numbers. Like Shift+Home, Shift+Page Up, etc.

Is there links to a free visual heatmap tool. I would love to see how my eye is being affected by my setup and improve. Thank you for this vid. I customized my setup years ago but there were still points of improvement i found watching this.

Hmm... I tried this, and while the G13 configuration worked, the FFXIV files didn't seem to do anything but bjork my graphics settings. >.> Were they supposed to tweak layouts?

Great vid, sharing this with all the sprouts in my life! While I personally play with a UI/control setup that would probably make you sick based on this video (check my channel if you don't believe me), I think the biggest takeaway I've had in 10 years playing this game is that the best UI/control settings are the ones that work for you. If your controls get in the way of you playing the game, then there is something wrong, but the solutions everyone comes up with are different, and the way you present the tools and ideas is a great introduction to get people digging through those menus to find what works for them. I don't know how many times I've been in Satasha and seen the sprout tank doing the standard camera turn and back-step then face-pulling a bat while trying to figure out how to target it then complain in VC that the controls are confusing.

Very solid video

I used to love using G13 keypad. It just does NOT work with windows 11 laptop though. :(

This is one of the best explanations of the thought process behind customizing your HUD. I lovelove LOVE the G13. I've gone through two of them. I'm trying very hard to make the Razer Tartarus v2 work. I like the mechanical keys but there aren't as many keys, and yes, the joystick acts more like a d-pad. But I don't understand how people can use the thumbstick to move while using the 20 key for spacebar/jump.

I know there's a lot of thumbnails that talk about the ultimate guide but this is legitimately it Visual parity is turning me into a MACHINE

HUD changes are nice but miss a major accessibility issue. Scale. If you're playing on console (or simply have poor sight), that layout and scale doesn't work.

Amazing video, I wish I had this 7 years ago but seeing this now, I can use your video to show my newer friends joining the game. Much love, keep it up!

This is great, I'm an artist who dabbles in design every now and then and have found that skillset very useful when making FFXIV work for me. Cause I'm also disabled in a few different ways and so my HUD, keybinds, and inputs are quite unique! I agree with other comments that a condensed version of this would be great to have on hand to throw at new players, or for current and old players who've outgrown their setup. You might find my setup interesting and I can send screenshots and pics if you want, the overlap between design philosophies like you mention and accessibility is big. I use a split ergo keyboard (Ergodox) and one of the newer Logitech G502. I play from bed, with my monitor on an adjustable arm that's got an angle adapter for facing it more downwards than ahead. So I'm laying down and looking up at the monitor essentially. I've taped an antislip mat to an ikea lap table, and put the keyboard and some macgyvered wristrests on it. Then I've clipped a mousemat to a literal clipboard for rigidness, and lay that on my chest. So, left hand on keyboard in my lap, right hand on mouse on top of my chest, laying down, looking up at monitor. My monitor is 27" 1440p and most of my HUD elements are at 200%. Physically irl (as a reference point that works regardless of screen differences) my party list is 14cm tall, minimap is 8cm tall, and the font in the chat is 0.5cm tall. I also have only about 30-35cm between my face and the monitor. My vision is garbage. The keyboard is programmable which is the key to how I set everything up. I can't really use multiple modifiers at a time, but I need access to a ton of keys on only 1 hand with a limited number of physical keys. So I've got 7 separate modifier keys. Ctrl, Shift, Alt making up the basic first 3. Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt, Shift+Alt making up the next 3. The last one is Ctrl+Shift+Alt on one key, which would be absurd if not for the fact it's still physically 1 key. My 3 basic job action hotbars use 4x3 layout and these keys: QWER ASDF ZXCV 1 is unmodified, 2 is a close thumb-key, 3 is a farther thumb-key. The normal question I'd get now is "but what about WASD?" I can't do WASD for movement, my hands just cannot. I've put it on the mouse by binding UHJK to movement in game, and putting UHJK on the mouse. Mouse front thumb button is forward (W/U), back thumb button is backward (S/J), scroll tilt towards right is right (D/K), scroll tilt towards left is left (A/H). For targeting I use 1234 party members 1-4 Ctrl+1234 party members 5-8 Tab next enemy Ctrl+Tab previous enemy G focus target Shift+G set focus target + the mouse thumb button as explained below Scrollwheel click / MMB is autorun, buttom thumb button is "target last enemy". I main healer and often target party members, so I enjoy "target last enemy" for jumping back to the boss. It also is one of the few targeting buttons that work regardless of whether or not the boss hitbox is within your cameraview! This is great for looking around for mechanics and not be limited in targeting. I have oddly specific camera angles during mechanic solving and often wouldn't be able to tab target any enemies as the enemies simply aren't on my screen in that moment. So this makes jumping between party members and boss possible even mid-mechanic in savage raids. I don't target my mouse clicking as I'm busy using the mouse for movement and usually can't see where my cursor is anyway. I use the column next to my hotbar keys with TGB for other basic functions like target nearest NPC/item on T, target focus target on G, confirm on B. All the letter keys mentioned (Q-T, A-G, Z-B) are used for many other things beyond the base layer and 2 modified hotbar layers. Firstly a fourth job-specific hotbar has Ctrl+QWER/ASDF on it, for things like food, items, macros, menus used in whatever im currently doing a lot of (like fate grinds or events), etc. Then for my odd multimodifier keys I have stuff like chat channel swapping, toggling HUD elements, and lots of menus on letter keys. If something makes me open the main menu more than three times per playing session, it gets a keybind. I don't use hotbars for that though, I use the "Shortcuts" tab in the keybind menu. My HUD overall is huge, and I have to look around a lot being so close to the screen as well, but it beats not seeing anything. I've banished my base hotbars small into a corner and use a GCD tracking one right under my castbar with basic combos duplicated onto it and a cooldown tracking one at the bottom of the screen below HP/MP and gauges. With job gauges included, I can usually fit everything I need to play my jobs in an optimised way on 5-10 hotbar slots. So that's waht I do. Less need to use vision and less problem fitting things on screen. My base hotbars 1-3 are too small to read for me anyway. So I just memorise everything! This is long but thought you might find it interesting! Thank you for this video I enjoyed it a lot.

been playing this game since 2.0 and i learned so much from this. I've played with m/kb for a long time and recently got an MMO mouse, so I've been trying to incorporate that into my hotbars. this video was very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you for this very well put together and up to date guide to the UI and keybindings! I've learned some neat new (to me) tricks, and you've given me some things to think about when it comes to improving my HUD. The G13 is looking pretty tempting, not gonna lie.

Thank you for your effort, I appreciate it very much. I would like to see all classes' HUD's and roles pls.

Thanks for this vid. Didnt know how it would work with a Tartarus but now I know. Great vid. What headset do you use?

I was gonna say when you stated that Hotbar 1 will change due to pet, mounts, fashion accessories, etc.. You can change the settings under Pet Hotbar Display Settings in Character Config so Hotbar 1 doesnt change when a mount or a pet like that, and leave all the change that is happening to the Pet Hotbar. That way you can still use Hotbar 1 freely.

SADLY, Logitech has discontinued the G13 and G600. Cause they are so good, the LOGIcal thing to do is discontinue them... :/ My G13 lasted until ShB, luckily I still have 3 G600 stocked. I always loved the idea that YoshiP also uses the G13, I wonder if he gets them special made from Logitech XD

silly way of saying the g600 mmo mouse is the best way to play

There's better an easier ways to do this. Appreciate the hud layout ideas, but encouraging people to download your files and insert them into their game files is fishy to me coming from what is essentially a stranger on the internet, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that sentiment. Consider just making a video teaching others how to do this for themselves, it will be better received.

The way you have explained these things in a clear and presentable manner is well done thank you. I say this as someone who has played for years.

Great video! One note: rather than assigning mouse side button to shift, try ctrl. In the game it probably wouldn't make much of a difference (though some may find it easier to reach shift on keyboard and ctrl on mouse rather than vice versa), but in everyday computer usage its much more helpful (e.g. can open new tab with ctrl-click, more comfortably change IMEs if you use japanese, which im sure some people who play ff do, zoom in and out with the mouse wheel etc)

Damn wish this panel happened when I started playing. People tend to bash on ARR for many aspects but honestly the default UI specially on console takes the cake, turned me off really bad when I booted the game for the first time. Over 3 years of playing I’ve learned many of the customization options mentioned but there’s stuff here I just learned for the first time like the fixed tooltip help, that has been bothering me for a long while lol. Also really nice macros, will definitely make use of them.

great vid! i feel its worth mentioning, ive played ff online since XI came out, I used the nostromo n51 single handed (later bought by razr? im not sure but the design was 100% duped. I used the g13, a few variants through my days. the one i just replaced was a single handed mechanical mane by "oneby1" it was 60 at best buy in 2016 and it lasted me years it infact still works. however i was compelled to purchase a new with DT releasing, so about a month before it came out i bought a cheap Redragon K585 DITI one handed mechanical on amazon for 30$ it has 42 programmable keys, with lights and its a champ. you have to forgo the joystick, but it has profile sets. no only minor complaint is that it doesnt allow you to assign the function button, but its non issue. oh and i guess it doesnt tell you where to get the software because it has mapping protocols on the deck itself. that said it was easy to get said software, and its been superb. I feel like SE dropped the ball with their extra expensive take on the single handed, and its woefully under equipped utility. I play ffxiv in such a way that all my jobs play the same no matter which im using (all 100's) so the first 6 keys are your base single target attacks, +shift is ogcds and mit, +cntrl is job based (ninja spells, ast cards etc), and +alt is my group aoes or my heals group heals) the only job that doesnt fit like glove has been pct, but ive even reign that in recently. lastly, i too use an ultrawide so i keep my hotbars up, however if you do a follow video, i think the collaspable hb rows (one button expanding to 10-12) is worth a nod as far as sceen cleanliness goes. again great stuff man. sorry for the minor novela. but its a great under discussed topic to draw attention to. mahalo and one love!

Some will think it's ugly as sin but i've built eseentailly a little frame around the center of the screen with my character in the middle so i can track GCD's health casts and mechancis.

i feel pretty happy with my ui and i've fiddled with it a lot over the years, but now i have the urge to change everything. awesome tips, still found out some stuff i didn't know that blew my mind (those hidden mouse wheel functions...)

Coulda condense it down to half with a script written down but the visual presentation looks very cleanly put together, i learnt something new through this altho i had 5k hours in already. Thanks all the best for the channel.

Thanks man, I'm kinda new to this game and tbh i don't think i would've ever knew all this stuff otherwise. The sheer amount of settings you can change in this game might be a bit overwhelming and this really simplified a bunch of stuff, and now i feel like i have a good grasp on how i wanna customize my HUD. 10/10

Im here and in need of help! Lol i have a raid tonight and just got my v2 in the mail. I need help setting this crazy thing up. Gunna watch the video first and then ill come with questions!

Just getting back into the game after a few years. I had a set up previously but totally lost my binds, and all my settings. This was a huge help, thanks.

i need help, idk if this is normal if it is this sucks, when i bind wasd on the dpad-stick, if i press 2 direction at the same time it will cancel and make the movement feel awful idk if there is a solution for that