Gunbreaker Keybindings - Endwalker 6.58 (2024)

Last updated on Apr 18, 2024 at 06:00by Tor12 comments

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

Hotbar setups and keybindings are things that are simultaneously incrediblyimportant and incredibly personal to each player. What might work for one playermay be impossible for another. With that in mind, the following hotbar setupsare meant to be used as an example, and are not meant to tell you that you needto set up your bars this way. Feel free to tweak these so they work for you,or completely make your own set. The most important thing is to find somethingthat works for you.

The design of FFXIV encourages players to play multiple jobs on the same character.Because of this, it is likely that most players will play at least two or more jobs.This can create some headaches when trying to figure out how to design your hotbar setups asnot all jobs play the same way. Below are some tips that will help you mitigate these headaches,regardless of whether you use keyboard and mouse or controller, by keeping things as similar aspossible between job hotbars:

1. When possible, assign similar abilities to the same buttons. Most jobs have several buttonsthat do the same thing as a different job, so keeping them assigned to the same keybinding helpsyou keep track of where they are by muscle memory. Some examples of this include, but are notlimited to:
   • Combo Abilities: All melee DPS, tanks, and some physical ranged DPS jobs have combo actions.Putting these combos in the same location on your hotbar will help you keep up the muscle memory of wherethey are and make it easier to swap between jobs.
   • Mitigation Abilties: Every combat job has access to at least one form of party mitigation,whether through class/job actions or through role actions.For tanks, this is especially important as each tank gets access to Rampart and Reprisalvia role actions, in addition to their job-specific mitigation buttons.Many of these job-specific mitigation abilities have the same function and cooldown, such as Gubrbreaker's Nebula and Paladin's Sentinel which share the same cooldown length of 120s,and have the same mitigation value of 30% damage reduction. Some job-specific mitigation abilities do not do thesame thing exactly, but are similar enough to consider assigning them to the same keybinding.An example of this is Heart of Corundum and The Blackest Night, which are bothstrong single target mitigation abilities that can be used on yourself or a party member, and are on a short cooldown.Keeping these actions bound to the same button makes it easy to carry the muscle memory between jobs.
   • Single Target vs. AoE Abilities: Every job has skills that either only affect a single target,or affect targets in an Area of Effect (AoE). Keep single target skills grouped together in similar keybindings,and do the same with AoE skills to avoid confusion when playing other jobs. For example you may wish to keep Fated Circle and Decimate on the same keybinding as both spend gauge toexecute an AoE attack.
   • GCD vs. oGCD Abilities: It can be very disorenting to be used to a button being a GCD action, andpressing it on another job activates an oGCD instead. Keeping GCDs and oGCDs grouped to similar keybindingswill help with the general gameplay flow when swapping between jobs.
2. Put abilities on easy to reach buttons based on how frequently you use that ability.For example, Combo abilities tend to be the most used abilities on any job, so those should be on easy to reach buttons.Abilities that are less frequently used can be put on buttons that are less accessible, but should not be so farout of the way that it is difficult to press when needed.
3. Use modifier keys to reduce the amount of physical buttons you need to have keybound.For example, instead of using 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9, you might instead use 1 2 3, L CTRL + 1 2 3, and L SHIFT + 1 2 3.This has the added benefit of reducing the distance your hand/fingers need to travel to press the key.L CTRL, L SHIFT, and sometimes L ALT are common modifier keys, but remember to use ones that are comfortable for you.An MMO mouse also works very well for doing this, but you can do just fine without one as well.
4. Make sure that you are still able to comfortably move your character while pressing each keybinding.This is especially important during periods where you are having to press a lot of buttons at once, such as burstwindows or periods where multiple mitigation abilities are needed at once. Keybinds preventing you from moving duringthese times may result in deaths/party wipes from failed mechanics!
5. Your core HUD information (such as hotbars, buffs and debuffs, target bar, etc.) should be in a place that is easyto view while also keeping your character the center of your attention. The farther away something is on your screen, theharder it will be to see it while keeping up your character's positioning, the boss/enemies, and the arena.Furthermore, make sure your character is clearly visible and you do not have UI elements covering your player model, as itis important to be able to see your character clearly for several mechanics.
6. If you play on controller, you can add an additional hotbar on your screen and place important abilities on it to trackcooldowns without the need to swap hotbars to see them. This can help with both cooldown management and staying focused onyour character/the fight.