Essential Tips For Frontline | Final Fantasy XIV PVP Guide

To clarify with the last tip since there is some confusion:

My point is that you shouldn't fight for fighting sake. Every time your team goes for a fight it should be a sure thing which is why I noted the importance of flanking. The goal is to build battle high easily, and not lose it. This is why when you win a fight you want to move on to something else because waiting for new enemies give up your advantage and potentially sacrifices the gains you just made. Remember don't take fights that aren't a sure thing. Fight Smart.

Nah. I never win cuz I'm the worst. And it's because of me the team loses.

Something worth mentioning with keeping the map open that it took me embarrassingly long to realize was a feature, is that there should be a little lock button on the left side of the map window that makes the window only closable by clicking the x on the window, and pressing escape will no longer close it (mouse and keyboard players, unsure what it does for controller players). This is great especially if you tab target and use escape to untarget at all because now you wont accidentally close the map in the heat of battle. Another button on the left iirc is an eye icon that makes the map somewhat see through when not focused, which is useful if you dont like the map being such an obstruction of vision for the environment around you. It helps make sure you can still at least catch movement from behind the map at the least, rather than making it a whole blind spot.

Frontlines, where doing the smart thing is mostly about trying to guess which stupid thing the other team will do.
Though I don't really get why the situation pictured would have Adder commit to center as it seems like they have every incentive to hit the close north point as Storm does. The fact that this map requires a person to manually cap without damage as opposed to point gain via crystal DPS, it seems like often you just need a few people preventing a cap until you mop of the easier caps. Often no team is throwing everything at the center so small groups just hold each other from cap until the outside is decided and people start to converge. At least, that is what I most often see.

Sadly, tip 2 is kind of hard to actually pull of, because, sometimes i feel like one of the enemy alliances have botters in or pre-made parties to demolish both of the company partys, like sometimes its insane how ppl can instantly "target" you and instantly cc and kill you like to the point of having no chance of even healing or react

and i play a drk and i sometimes because of that i die within few ssecs even tho its a battlefield when im basically not the only one qwho shoulsd be targeted, if that makes sense like CC bots/cheaters but in frontlines.

other than that good tips!

my FL ratio so far since EW is

1st place: 47
2nd place: 61
3rd place: 60

Very good guide. I wish those who needed to see it cared enough to.

Waiting for a CC guide because I suck

Great video but I'm going to have to disagree on your last point. Fighting is not your last resort. You wanna stay engaged fighting and building BHs as much as possible. Most matches are won by the team that can constantly win group fights unless there are terrible spawns. A little more advance strategy when you know you are teamed with confident fighters is: ignoring objectives early game and focus heavy on building battle highs. Enemy team won't try to chase you since you are technically losing at the moment. So mid-late game when better obj spawn, your team becomes unstoppable because you can claim any of them since you can easily wipe the enemy team.

I don't want to nitpick but suggesting people to use flags is not great advice imo. First of all, a lot of controller players play this game on ps5 and even on pc. Second, even keyboard players don't want to constantly click flags in chat cause it takes focus away from your gameplay, especially during combat. The best way to do calls is by using sound effects and general directions like cardinals and intercardinals like south, north-east, etc.

Scholar is my favorite frontline class to play as!

Don't play frontline is the best advice i can give. Crowd control makes the game mode insufferable and for some godforsaken reason they never implemented diminishing returns.
Have fun tank mains.

This video boils down to:
1. Teach new players the most basic of basics so they share the video.
2. Add generally bad examples for decisionmaking, so you get more wins thanks to your "guide"

Genius

Thank you for this! Now I just need to find something to teach me how to make being a pld in cc less frustrating.

Your video still doesn't work for sprout, most are here for lvling. lol

There's a lot of videos giving frontlines advice but this is the best I've seen so far

"fighting should be your last priority"
What the fuck am I hearing my man?
In no way, ever.
This video is aimed at newer players yes?
How are they gonna get better if they're encouraged to not play the game?
Unless you're in a party with others who you can coordinate with, what wins Frontline games? It's being able to play the game, making as much of an impact as you alone can.
How do you learn to play the game? By fighting. Obviously some fights are worse than others and shouldn't be taken, but for the first 5 minutes that literally doesn't matter. Learn what you're capable of in fights, learn what you can get away with, how you can make an impact on the game.
New players should run into the bricks wall as many times as it takes. They'll learn and get better.
But they won't get better if they're just looking for the smart thing to do at every point of the game.

Tldr
Do fight, don't ever """"defend""""
Be the aggressor

Just got my war horse recently, sad that some people wont even give anything PvP a try.

I really enjoy frontlines!

What do the symbols over your head mean (the + and squares)? I've seen it on some matches and wasn't sure what it was intended to mean.

FF community when a guide drops for a normal dungeon: 🧐

FF community when they queue for a self explanatory PvP mode: 🥱😴

I need this video to be a mandatory tutorial within the game

Thanks for using "flank" instead of "pinch". Everyone on Crystal uses "pinch" and I totally hate it.

This is a phenomenal guide! I started Frontline during ShB and learned a lot of this from experience. Wish I had a guide like this back then!

BLOOD FOR THE MOTHERCRYSTAL !!!

Or, hear me out, get two dark knights and 3 astros/drg and automatically win.
Careful planning and tactics are overrated, there is no match for absolute power.

This was an excellent video! The check for understanding at the 6 minute mark is top tier.

One tip that I don't think I heard here is using sound effects like <se.1> to get my team's attention

Not everyone looks at chat all the time or might be caught up elsewhere so using that sound to bring attention to the chat to communicate can be REALLY helpful

The amount of times the map hasnt showed me the enemy alliance is astounding. Idk why, but it's wild.