BIG Quality of Life Tips [Final Fantasy 14]

salutations with almost a decade's worth of gradually added mechanics features and options for new players to figure out in Final Fantasy 14 it can all get a little overwhelming today we're going to cover some of the most helpful ones up first we have some low-hanging fruit inventory expansion well at least visually the default setting has you clicking through 8 million little tabs but if you go to character config item settings and inventory interface selecting expanded will give you a large Square inventory with only two tabs while open all will well it's kind of in the name critically while you're here I'd also uncheck this by default every piece of loot you get goes to the Armory this separate inventory meant only for gear this is obnoxious even at level 1. by end game when you might have several gear sets for several different roles it is Unthinkable to waste precious Armory space on random dungeon clutter have it all go to your inventory where you can organize it and get rid of it much more easily on the topic of gear let's talk about Spirit bonding inside your gear there will always be two bars one for durability and one for your binding spirit bond will naturally grow over time as you do content with the gear on and when it's at 100 you can extract material from the piece of gear giving you well Materia and resetting the bar to zero percent these material are important especially at endgame as slotting them into these little empty circles gives whatever extra stats the Materia offers for those who played wow they're pretty much like gems however the real reason I bring Spirit binding up here is to share the Henry Ford method of mass production or rather hear destruction and your actions and traits page and under General you'll see Materia extraction has its own button clicking this will bring up a special menu which allows you to see the progress on any piece of gear and extract right there get comfortable with this system early and often and it'll feel natural at endgame where it matters most for the Crafters out there the synthesis and ethereal reduction have similar options but crafting closing out our talk of gear let's cover something special about that other bar durability over time gear wears down and eventually breaks basically nulling out its stats until you get it repaired NPC spring all over the world can do this for you bringing the gear right back up to 100 but there's a better way when players repair gear it doesn't simply bring the piece up to 100 durability it adds another 100 durability on top of whatever the gear already had for instance if you had a player repair your gear at 85 Max durability it would give you 185 this is a great way to make your gear last longer between repairs but it requires you to either be or know a decent crafter real quick I'd also like to draw attention to the slightly less useful but rather obscure sub-command box just below if for whatever reason Square's default sorting of options when you right-click an item offends you you can entirely rearrange those options here okay we're done with all the inventory and gear garbage now let's cover some fun stuff 14 is a very social game but it can sometimes be hard to make friends when you finish a fight or dungeon and everyone immediately leaps through the portal in a desperate effort to avoid your commendations well we can't do anything about the commendations but fortunately for your missed connections there exists an obscure social setting forgotten by even many vets a contact list this menu will show you all the gamers you've recently done content with and you can send friend requests to people who made a good impression or Blacklist the demons you might not make frequent use of this while leveling but at endgame where most content is done through the party finder is a great feature I use often speaking of leveling though up next is some quality of life stuff for questing it isn't exactly hidden but here in your quest log this map button is your best friend it will immediately bring up exactly where you need to go for the next objective a convenient time saver compared to fumbling manually around with the map clicking on the msq element serves a similar function and both can help keep you focused while leveling for another time saver stop dragging in the required items for hand in quests you can simply right click the box which will bring up the exact item PC needs from you finally let's cover some combat related stuff Jane jobs might seem a bit clunky when you're new as you have to equip a weapon and then a job stone to properly change ideally you'll save a new gear set for every job to make this process easier from there however you can then drag these gear sets down to a hot bar making them much much easier to interact with on the Fly some people put together fancy macros that hide these job swap icons in collapsible windows but I've been lazy and only recently set this up myself but it's very easy to do just set aside a few spare hop bars and make them shared meaning they won't change depending on your current job line them up somewhere like so drag your jobs down and then disable them the macros will then literally just re-enable them I added read stole these extra lines from a pinned comment on Ilia doll mix tutorial for this setup which basically just means clicking on each hot bar closes any other ones and they'll automatically close themselves after a few seconds making it all feel properly ui-like as a sub suggestion here it's worth noting that you can drag and drop almost every UI element in the game onto a Hotbar want an easy way to access just your sound settings drag it down the material extraction we mentioned earlier drag it down housing drag you get it opening the actions and trait Spellbook backup let's talk about this option compact view is a great way to quickly understand what abilities an unfamiliar job actually has as it will clean up the sprawl of the default setting and show you exactly what upgrades into what big recommend let's close out with some camera stuff it is after all a third person MMO and so the camera is a beast you'll be wrestling with the entire time you play this isn't really quality of life but I strongly recommend you get comfortable with the max zoom level as playing with a NASA telescope zoomed into the back of your character's neck will blind you to half the stuff happening in a fight if however this feels off I would like to introduce the up down camera adjustment the game has either through this setting in the menu or by holding Ctrl and then the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard you can actually adjust where the camera centers Tinker with it and find something comfortable I promise it will make a difference I hope some of these options helped now don't you dare click away yet we have to have the inaugural credit role of our dear patrons and I'd also like to make a quick advertisement for the delinquent Art 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Length: 6min 28sec (388 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2023