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I am not 100% sure, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think they mentioned they were going to add this. Again I vaguely recall them touching the topic, but I think I remember reading this.

I hadn't seen anything, but there are a lot of options that are not open yet I think.

On a side controller topic, the last night I played, my index finger was getting bit tired from holding down the R2 button. I know there is the toggle option, and I use the mixed setting, but it's pretty tricky to get the hang of, so usually I just hold it down. Long story short. Tired finger. I was thinking of getting a pair of these, my buddy swears by them, and the price is right.

http://www.amazon.com/Pelican-Triggers-Controller-Attachments-Playstation-3/dp/B001AW156U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1372821243&sr=8-2&keywords=ps3+pelican

If anybody uses these, or thinks they are a waste of money, please speak up, I'd love to know.

First time I tried the toggle mode I went into the teleport menu & forgot to toggle it off. So scrolling up/down in the port menu resulted in me wasting some hi-pots & ethers. That was smooth.

I did the same thing, was freaking out because I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.

I like the toggle mode, but if I'm fighting more than mob I don't use it. I like the mix, because once I get everything down to 1 mob, I can turn it on without having to worry about pressing turning it off to switch targets. It's great to turn on for the long winded boss fights as well.

Those things are only a buck, I guess it's not putting me in the poor house to try um.

360 controllers work like BUTTAH. I've had no issues with mine, however it is corded. You will probably need a third party program to use a wireless one, even if you plug it in via USB. I strongly suggest getting a $26 GameStop wired 360 controller if you are planning on picking one up and you actually have a GameStop near you. I'm pretty sure they are licensed by Microsoft so they are plug and play for all modern games that support controller use. Plus the Official Microsoft ones are $40+ and pretty much the same thing.


Also, I've tried toggle as well, and I hate it for combat. However, toggle or mixed work wonders for crafting. If you don't map an action to triangle/Y you can still use it to quick synth in the craft menu without having to toggle the cross bar off. It is pretty nice not having to constantly toggle/hold the button while crafting. I'm sure you could also map a synth action to triangle/Y if there is one for the same effect.

Edited, Jul 4th 2013 4:42am by DamienSScott

Edited, Jul 4th 2013 4:46am by DamienSScott

Does that wireless 360 controller still turn itself off when you set it down for a break?

In 1.0 you could not re-activate the controller after a break without shutting down FFXIV and restarting. So then I bought a wired 360 controller.

I'm curious if this issue has been somehow fixed in ARR.

This targeting you speak of is what I want more information on. Are the available targets limited to four? Icon targeting is faster than scrolling, but imo four available targets is not enough.

Right hand fatigue from controller.

It does shut down after a while .. I just hit the guide button and you hear a ding and it picks up just fine...

The major thing I noticed with 360 pad (guessing any controller) was that if you weren't a certain distance from an enemy, it would be completely excluded from target switching. Was kind of annoying trying to switch to a target right in front of you, yet it cycling through everything in the far background. I would have to break target, run back to put a little distance between us, then reinitialize the target. If they get that sorted out, I will give 2 thumbs up as controller being just as viable as mouse/keyboard.