Controller Vs. Keyboard, LFG...

I'm trying to picture what I'd do if I used equipsets as a controller player and needed to do something unplanned. It would be awkward for sure, but that's more the unfamiliarity of not using equipsets than finding the spell in the menu fast enough. With enough practice though, I'm sure the advantage keyboard might have would not be the difference between winning or losing a fight.

I mean you keep thinking of stuff that "won't work" so.. you're just gonna keep thinking up random things that controller players "can't" do.

Let's just all play vanilla on ps2 controllers and see how that goes. Yes, I did that for ages. It works if you don't mind 200 macro palettes.

If you really want an answer as to how a vanilla controller player would handle unexpected spells is you have a macro for equipping gear for casting nukes/enfeebles/songs/whatever else but not actually casting anything. You hit the macro, then menu the spell. There you go.

Is it fun? No. That's why gearswap exists.

Leading events, I couldn't imagine playing with a controller while also trying to type to my party. I often throw out information between spells and abilities.

But that's the only serious disadvantage I can see from playing with a controller. If everyone in the party are using headsets it doesn't matter.

FFXI is the only game I play full-time with a keyboard because that's what I started with twenty years ago and got used to it. I don't use gearswap or anything like that, and can use commands via macros, typing it manually, or by doing it straight from the menu. And that's all it boils down to. Adapting and improving on what you use.

I don't think I've ever had a problem with this weird "controller players can't prepare for problems" phenomenon.

Like, this is a very simple page 1 of an older macrobook I was using that I had no issue using in endgame.

If I had to guess I would say that Maletaru has me blocked or something, because I've responded specifically to his edge case at least twice.