FFXIV Sprouts! Keybinds are key!
I saw my HUD customization post was useful to some people, so I figure that I'd show the second thing you really want to play with when it comes to FFXIV and what will really help you play multiple Jobs like I do.
Hotbar and Keybinds are pretty important for playing the game, since you really need muscle memory to quickly pull off moves like a quick Elusive Jump to avoid and AOE or a Rescue to pull some out from certain death.
My normal keybinds are shown and explained in the picture below. As you'll see I make liberal use of 1-5, Q, R, and E. That's because they're where my hands are usually. (Funnily enough I don't use base Q and E lol)
Standard 1-5: My base combo, the bread and butter you'll be using every single fight.
Alt + 1-5: My AOE attacks, and in this Job my Fang and Claw combo right above their triggers.
Shift + 1-5: My buffs, I keep this the same across all jobs. If modifies damage, healing, or defense on a 60s or 120s timer, it goes there (with exceptions of course).
Shift + R, Shift + E, and Shift + Alt + E: For DPS Jobs, it's my Role Actions, for Tank it's DPS buffs, healers is AOE shields and critical healing actions etc. I change it up often.
Alt + Shift + 1-5: Special Job actions normally, like whatever effects the Job Gauge or uses those resourves. It's Jumps for Dragoon as you can see, and Fell Cleave or Blood Lily, etc for others.
Alt + Shift + Q, Alt + R, Shift + Q, Alt + Q, Shift + M3, CTRL + M3: This is my most dynamic keybind set, it pretty much changes every single Job, but I try to keep it for the big dps actions, stuns, interrupts, Rescue etc. I try to keep Alt + Shift + Q for movement across all classes though, but as you can see it's not the case here. Whatever works for you.
Me :D
Now I reccomend heavily that you do try to keep Role Actions in the same place. I try to keep Second Wind for DPS in Shift + Alt + E, Stun in Shift + M3, and True North in Shift + E. For Tanks, as you can see below, and Rescue is always in CTRL + M3 for Healers.
I keep Provoke in the same spot for all Tanks for muscle memory, Rampart, Tank Stance, the emergency invulnerability, and so on. But I do change it up! Paladin for example has Stun in my Alt + 1-5 bar and i even have Interrupt two times on Warrior just so it lines up and I don't have an empty space.
It's half vibes! I don't adhere to the order I use 100% of the time, I change it up on how I like it and what works for the Job. I normally try to keep Melee DPS's one ranged attack to Standard 5, but for my Dragoon I have it at Alt + R, just cuz I'm used to it now. Change it up how YOU like!
Now where can you change these keybinds?
Keybind menu of course!
Specially, the Hotbar menu for when you want a keybind bound to a certain hotbar slot. I split Hotbars half and half as you can see above, so it changes around 6 at all the hotbars. But also
You can use it for non-combat stuff!
Middle Mouse Button 5 (I have one of those mouses that have two buttons on the side of the mouse, I don't actually like MMO mouses really, but wow if you have those) is Limit Break so I can always access it quickly, END is whatever I want to, CTRL + ALT + M3 is my Chocobo mount, Alt + M3 is my HUD switch to my Job hub (see my last post on HUD!), and my most used button in the entire game, Alt + E, my sprint button.
Whatever Hotbar you use is where you want to bind the keybind too, there's 10 hotbars you get, and a Cross Hotbar with an additional 8.
I'm not even using keybinds to their fullest potential, you get so many to play with. It's good to play around with!
AND LIKE MY LAST POST SAID- THIS IS ALL SYSTEM SIDE- IT IS NOT SAVED SERVER, YOU NEED TO BACK IT UP TO THE SERVER! CLICK THE GEAR, THEN UPLOAD CLIENT DATA! DO IT, IT WILL SAVE YOU ONE DAY!!!!!!!! IT HAS SAVED ME MULTIPLE TIMES!