Scholar Keybindings - Endwalker 6.55 (2024)

Last updated on May 21, 2024 at 01:24by Zyrk5 comments

Welcome to our keybinding and controller setup guide for Scholar. Here you'll find example setups to play FFXIV for mouse and keyboard configurations, as well as controller users.

Controls and UI setup are, above all, personal preference. What works forone person may not work for you, and vice versa. This guide is not meant to beprescriptive. Instead, it aims to provide general tips and guidelines for whatto keep in mind as you set things up for yourself, including example bars andexplanations for the decision making process.

Personal comfort and familiarity will almost always outweigh these generalrecommendations. If your current setup works for you, there is probably no needto change it unless you have reason to believe it would be improved by some ofthese suggestions.

Hotbars and keybinds are extremely subjective, and the only thing thatmatters is that they work for you. Most people's hotbars start outlooking fairly logical, and they make less and less sense with each newexpansion that adds new skills and reworks or removes old ones.

Familiarity and muscle memory will make most of the decisions for you in thelong run, but in order to build that familiarity, you may want to follow someof these guidelines to maintain some structure and consistency.

1. Make sure your core skills and instant-cast GCDs are easily accessiblewhile moving.
   • Swiftcast is often used for mobility, so you may want to placeit where it can be easily reached while moving.
   • Similarly, Sprint and even Expedient may beused for mobility, so it makes sense to keep them accessible while moving.
2. Group similar skills together, either on adjacent buttons or on the samebutton with different modifiers (like Ctrl, Alt, and Shift on a keyboard orholding down different triggers on a controller).
   • If you play other jobs, try to place similar skills on similar buttonsbetween jobs. The most obvious parallels will be between healers.
   • For example, I keep Sacred Soil and Asylum on the same key because they are bothground-targeted healing abilities.
   • You can even build on your experience and habits from other roles and othergames. My offensive AoE GCDs like Art of War II and Holy III are all on F. Even on other roles, thatis where I usually place an offensive AoE GCD. That one habit has shaped mykeybindings for every single job simply because I started the game as a BlackMage and decided that F is for Flare.
3. Think about how you use your skills—the frequency, the skills thatare often used together, and the order in which they are used.
   • I keep my single-target damage GCDs on the same key, but with differentmodifiers. Most of my faerie heals are on the Alt modifier, while most of myAetherflow heals are on the Shift modifier.

There is a native targeting function that is incredibly useful for keyboardusers. It can be found under Keybind → Targeting. The function islisted as "Target the Target of Your Current Target (Assist Target)". It isbound to T by default. That is quite a mouthful, but it doesexactly what it says. If you target someone and press the Assist key, you arenow targeting whatever they were targeting.

The Assist key is one of the most used keys on my keyboard. If you aretargeting the boss and you press the Assist key, you are instantly targetingwhoever is currently tanking the boss. You can be dishing out damage as usual,then tap the Assist key and immediately heal whoever the boss is attackingwithout thinking about who has aggro or moving your mouse to click the partyframe. Better yet, you can then press the Assist key a second time to instantlyre-target the boss since that person will almost certainly be targeting theboss.

Being able to click the party list, use an oGCD heal, then press the Assistkey to re-target the boss for your next GCD makes this process very smooth.More importantly, it is more consistent than relying on tab-targeting, whichcan be inconsistent if there are targetable adds on the field or if the boss isvery tall and your camera is not at the perfect angle.

Another option for quickly re-targeting the boss is the "Target CurrentFocus Target" function, found several entries below the Assist key in theKeybind menu. It is bound to F10 by default, but because its usageis so similar to the Assist key for my purposes, I rebind it toShift+T. If you set the boss as your Focus Target, you canalways use this function to instantly re-target the boss. Just pressing theAssist key works 99% of the time, but there are some occasions when a partymember may not be targeting the boss at that moment.

Having a functional HUD and UI is vital, and these tips should almostuniversally improve your experience if you are not already making use of thesesettings and features. I strongly recommend that you try them out.

1. Move your party list closer to the center of the screen so it is easier tomonitor and, for keyboard and mouse players, to target party members byclicking the party frames.
2. Enable "Display remaining time of status effects" shown on the party list.This setting is found under Character Configuration → UI Settings→ Party List.
   • (Optional) Increase the maximum number of status effect icons displayed onthe party list to seven or more. Buffs and debuffs beyond this limit will notdisplay on the party list. The game tries to prioritize displaying the mostimportant buffs and debuffs, but with the default limit, buffs like regens andmitigation will sometimes not be shown when people have too many high-prioritybuffs and debuffs to display.
   • You want to make sure your buffs are consistently displayed on the partylist instead of being cut off when there are too many buffs and debuffs active.That way, if you do not see your buff icons on someone, instead of wondering ifthey were just cut off by the display limit, you know they were probably out ofrange.
3. Enable "limit ring movement to targeting range" and "press action twice toexecute" for easier Sacred Soil usage. These settings canbe found under Character Configuration → Control Settings → Target→ Ground Target Settings. If playing on a controller, you may alsowant to change the Target Ring setting to "Unlocked" so it is aimed with yourcamera instead of your cursor.
   • The first setting clamps the targeting circle to the maximum placementrange if your cursor is too far away. If you are trying to place Sacred Soilfar away, this will allow you to quickly place it at the maximum range inteadof giving you an "out of range" error and forcing you to find the maximum rangewith your cursor before you can place it.
   • The second setting allows you to simply press the Sacred Soil button asecond time to confirm its placement. This way, you can just keep tapping thebutton until the skill activates, which is slightly faster than having tonotice that the targeting circle has come up and then press a different buttonto confirm the placement.
4. (Optional) Use this macro for placing Sacred Soil.This macro improves the speed and responsiveness of placing the abilityby skipping the ground targeting prompt completely, immediately placing theability under your cursor, if you are using a mouse. If you are using acontroller and change the Target Ring setting to "Unlocked" as suggested above,it will instead be placed where your camera is pointing.

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   • This is still less responsive than real action queueing, but groundtargeted skills do not queue in the first place. The macro allows you tosimulate a degree of queueing while also skipping the step of confirming theplacement via the targeting circle, which is why it is actually more responsivefor placing the ability than the non-macro version.
   • Without any <wait> commands, macros execute one line perframe. By repeating the command 13 times, there is a 13-frame window for eachbutton press in which the macro will send the action command if you finish yourprevious action within that window.