FFXIV - Beginner's Guide to Crystalline Conflict (PVP) 

Something I would’ve liked to see: don’t be afraid to fall back if a fight isn’t going your way. Trying to take the enemy team on 2v5 isn’t going to help and then when your allies get up now there’s only 3 of them vs the whole team

Biggest issue I've seen so far is that too many melee/tanks go chasing for the kill, leaving squishier classes like myself (a Machinist.) alone to be jumped by the newly rez'd enemy team. That said, some good tips in this video. Had NO idea about the chocobo marker/black feather.

Here's what I've learned about how to position your team from experience, feel free to suggest additions. 1. If you are in a losing position Some players should be on the crystal, while the rest is spread closer to your spawn but still close enough to hit enemies and buff/heal party members. - If you are staying behind and hitting enemies from distance, and someone tries to chase you, it might be a better idea to run towards the rest of your team rather than to your spawn. You can't just go to your spawn to heal like a moba. - If you are on the crystal, don't leave. Don't extend further than the crystal. - If an enemy is camping in front of your spawn, try to run past them and into the crystal if possible. Use your disables and mobility actions. They can't kill you that fast, and if multiple party members are spawning around the same time you can just go. 2: If you are in a winning position Some players should be on the crystal, others slightly closer to enemy spawn so that they can disable/prevent enemies from stepping on to the point in the first place (But not so far that the players at the back can't rush into to help/target the further players with heals/support skills). If the players harassing enemies close to their spawn aren't doing well, they should run back to the crystal. - Chasing and 2v1'ing is something you can only be doing when you are in a winning position. If you are not winning, a 2v1 means the rest of your party is getting wrecked in a 4v3. 3: The crystal You don't all have to stand on the crystal. Only one or two people need to be there, the rest should be close enough that they can step in at any time while also hitting enemies, but should try not to make it too easy for enemies to land AoE's. Especially watch out for AoE's like WHM's, DRG's and SGE's. Just be aware of where your team is at all times. If you are chasing an enemy, don't chase so far that none of your party members can reach you within a reasonable amount of time. In overtime, be more greedy with your time spent on the crystal. Try not to waste a millisecond not pushing or blocking the crystal. PvP is balanced enough that a few mistakes or a few extra hardcore orbs can decide the game so stay focused. (If we ignore all the bugs and the very existence of WHM)

Tried this for the first time last night and holy smokes is it fun. Thanks for the breakdown!

6:40 Not mentioned, the orbs also increase your LB gauge. The DMG buff is nice but if you can couple it with an LB that hits super hard like Bahamut or MCH's sniper shot.... it can be a DESVESTATING turn of events in the right hands. Same with the chocobo feather for the sea of clouds map.

1. Weaving back and forth in between tightly grouped enemies can be a good way of avoiding damage. A lot of people use conal line of sight for their tab targeting and you can make it hard for them to actually get a lock on you by continually leaving their targeting LOS. 2. You can use Elixir casts as a feint to lure out greedy people. Start popping one in a blatant open area even if you have full HP/MP, target anyone who pops out and either gap close or bind/stun them. I do this with RDM when I have Verflare ready: Corps-a-corps, Displacement, Verflare 3. As RDM you can phase shift inside of a finisher combo. You can get the shields of the White Shift melee attacks and then shift to Black Shift to finish with Verflare instead. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets nerfed because it allows you crazy survivability (especially paired with Magicked Barrier) while also landing your strongest nuke on a target affected by Monomachy and Manafication

Ahh Mr happy always with the great guide keep it up man ❤️❤️ u always help me with anything in this game, u got me through so many content ❤️👍👍👍

Thank you for the info, I was wanting to move the UI and change the pvp target names but just couldnt find them on my own lol

A guide talking about the most important abilities for each job would be great cause it's annoying having to go through each job to figure out who has stuns and who don't

Extra-Time always confused me, so thank you for clarifying. :)

I wish this stuff was explained in game, ive been flailing around in pvp like a fool not knowing what im doing struggling.

The most common issue I’m seeing is too many people get the first respawn after a wipe and just rush back in. By the time the rest of you arrive to the fight, they’ve died and it’s 4v5. And you best believe they gonna do it again. Stalls can be situational if you know you can survive til your team show up… but just don’t run in and try and win 1v5. It’s much better to give the enemy a little bit of crystal progress if it means your next fight is a 5v5.

A thousand times Thank You for how to move the hud. Painfully kept trying during a match to move it. Not easy on PS4

Thank you so much !!!!

I had no idea that the aggro gauge is actually for LB. Huge!

CC is so good though I hope they tone down the Crowd control the lack of stuns was one of the best things in the old pvp system but everything else sucked. Granted I don’t thing the answer here is less stuns but more escape methods being stunned only to escape and get stunned again and killed targeted the whole game whilst your team does nothing to help isn’t fun. Otherwise I have no complaints hopefully this guide will help with my issue since people not helping seems to be due to a misunderstanding of the game mode!

play the objective, dont let the sam/nin wipe your party for free, and try to focus one target at a time. Especially a healer(whm specifically.)

Good match!

Huh I should have watched it yesterday before I decided to just run a casual mode game. I had no hotbar setup, no idea what was going on, nothing. I was confused as hell and got attacked immediately. Today I'll set up my hotbar, maybe the next try will be better then 😁 but first I'll watch your guide 👍

I hope they let us mark targets during lobby phase. Would be nice to be able to just do that easily and safely

i had no idea it showed your teammates limit breaks. Cool

The way Purify works is that it makes you immune to that same type of CC you cleansed. That's the way I personally understand it and have seen it work

This is so helpful I'm trying to get the mounts but I've only won 3 times out of 50

To beat the enemy team you either need to beat the WHM or be the WHM.

Please do make the advanced guide as well

Got to Crystal today, had a lot of fun playing it. I don't think I'll push for top 100 though.

So THAT's how overtime works!

How do you set up your hot bar before going into battle all my slots are now blank. I don't know what you can and cant use in battle. Don't want to just go in and not know where my buttons are.

Nice job! Nice job! Nice job! (Sincerely)

Dude this whole time I had my HP/MP below my skill bars and wondered why I never knew when I was low lmao

i REALLY WANT a target to warn players of enemy limit breaks crazy theres is none

nice

Limit break bar, MP bar, health bar, job in that order. Trying to drop someone even at 50% health and full MP usually doesn't work.

my pvp experience is, having to push the crystal as Whitemage.

My first match ended in a draw. My friend didn't think it was even possible.

Thanks for a great guide. I must be going crazy but I still can't find the PvP LB action. Does anyone know where that is?

A question... Does defeated in ranked match will made your star goes down by 1? I never try the ranked match yet just casually play the normal one.

These tips are awesome. Really helpful and realizing I am NEVER using my elixir D'OH! Loving CC, it's so addictive but sometimes feels like RNG with just who you get paired with-I keep getting to the edge of silver and then falling back into lower bronze. Realizing there are some improvements I can make too to prevent death/respawn as often.

I can't access the option to make a pvp hotbar

Always control the battlefield. One tactic I use is to take a bit of damage and then immediately scooping up all the potion bottles lying around to deny the enemy team a secondary heal source.

i went into my first casual match with my pve hotbar 😅. I set a few a while in the match 😁

MOVE THE CRYSTAL Everyone will thank you

Nice thumbnail :)

Meanwhile heres me with maybe 20 casual matches with 2 wins. The think that posses me off is stun I've had matches where there's been 4 range just utter destroying me with stuns

The biggest issue is Purify doesn't work at all, I actually refrain from joining CC ranked match if this issue still isn't addressed.

I like how I never did pvp before and all my buttons were red X AND I had no idea what to do and no pop up telling me.. it was a garage experience that I won't be trying again. Halfway in match I realized there's a pvp window to add the buttons to hot bar.. even then I had no clue what to do. It looked like my team didn't even matter the other team was so far ahead even from the start just seemed to intranet kill our whole team... so I don't get it and I think it's trash.

Ready to get my shit pushed in !

I can see all your equipments are fully spiritbonded in the lower right.

Made it into the video 🤣 Blueberry waffles

best guide EU WEST x♥♥♥

I had a match where we where 51% v 50% and just kept going back and forth and eventually the fight just ended in a draw

I hope others see this and other RU-vidr videos of CC, since I already know these things, yet I win a game in a stomp, and I lose a game in a stomp and then it repeats.

You have materia to extract lol (Thanks for the tips)

EDIT: After the patch, Apr. 26th, I finally go to the silver! What a rush of feelings I'm having right now! I don't know what really happened there, maybe patch did something, or matches were more balanced or I was just lucky. Who knows?! But atleast I'm on silver and that is something of little miracle there. ✨ Thanks for the great tip video! This is my sincere take on CC. I've been on the lower Bronze level from day one. And unfortunately I can't raise my rank even after I watching many videos, reading good tips, learning skills or whacking striking dummies. I have barely won 30 matches and lost countless of others. Sometimes it hurts a hecking lot to see that I'm only one who is even trying, when others are not pushing the crystal or they are having 1v1 match somewhere on the map. I'm kinda grown numb to CC and started to not care about winning. I would love to like CC more, but I don't know if I can anymore. But I'm interested to know, is rank climbing even possible after CC was introduced? Have anyone from the crystal rank tried raise ranks from the bottom level with a new character? That would be a fun video to check out!

It sucks that PvP still has balancing issues. If it weren't for the mounts and glamors I wouldn't be bothering with PvP to begin with. That said, it's much better than what it used to be, but I hope there's a balancing patch soon

most ppl just full of bloodlust and completely ignore the crystal.....

The one problem I'm having is with just how fast and chaotic it is. It feels like a game of Overwatch where everyone is hopped up on cocaine and low ability timers. On top of it some classe like MCH have over half of the abilities on a clock rotation I haven't figured out yet.

allways and i mean allways cc te healers (stun/silence/slow/charm wahtever) it makes it much easyer to kill the rest.

Surely it would be ridiculous for the game itself to teach any of this before tossing you in.

I started playing as black mage and then sage and then dark knight and finally white mage...... as white mage you felt like god lol

I was today years old when I found out about the chocobo

Went undefeated in all of bronze up to silver by playing SCH instead of WHM. Lower elo players don't realize that dots go thru guard.

I’ve been trying to match in any pvp in weeks and nothing

As a Black Mage I recommend you do not get jumped at all. We only have 48k hp the lowest in the game afaik.

I expect a full rant on Samurai next because that class should be forbidden

cant wait for high level esports if they really embrace this

I so learned that recuperate is a move today

Best advice out there for this pvp mode right now. Dont take the ranking so damn seriously. TRUST ME. There isnt anything really worth stressing out over. As far as ive seen and heard. all you get is an adventure card deco pack. Hardly worth the stress at all IMO. BUT, dont forget to keep at it, you still get pvp and series exp as well as wolf marks and with every series lvl, 1k Trophy crystals and other lvling prizes. Stuff that you can actually get something worthwhile with.

I've been stuck in silver since last Wednesday 😭😭😭

I still dont understand how pvp works. everyone just run off when it starts without any explanation at all

Didn’t tell you to just be the better white mage. 0/10 but 10/10 once game is balanced

I hope they add a team death match down the line. Maybe on a field that gets smaller and smaller after every minute w/ a hazard depending on the field type (burn, bleed, electrocution, heavy, poison, etc.).

Is this the aggressive guide or the offensive guide lol.

I don't get it. Im just a dead duck here. Nothing works , I can't fight

Its literally Overwatch only in MMO form instead of FPS form. MOVE THE PAYLOAD!

Get OUT of Bronze? I'm trying to climb up INTO Bronze! 3 dozen matches and I've only got one win!

I came here because I can’t even get to bronze 😖

With 123 Victories under my belt now and still being stuck in silver 3, Either you were able to get lucky and que with your friends, or you got lucky and I mean VERY VERY VERY LUCKY, to get into crystal tier with only 125 victories. I'm not saying I am the best in the world, (clearly I am not seeing how I can't even break silver,) however, I am pretty damn good, and the amount of RNG it takes to climb to tier crystal is by far the worst I have seen in any PvP I have ever played.

I know WAR is pretty up there in terms of strengths, but just having the IDENTITY of a strong as hell, hard to kill, crowd controlling dive tank is... so goddamn fun. It's why Warrior is my favorite tank job aesthetically and it's nice to see it reflect mechanically here now. Fuckin' man mode.

Step 1. Find a team and rank up together! 😉 Well, it will likely help. 😋 Edit: Please note that queueing up in a party for Crystalline is not possible. My bad! Apologies.

Man...Who needs a guide?

looks hard to get into.. no thanks

beginner's guide to pvp step 1: play white mage.

First rule, dont pick other than war, whm, nin, sam, drg, because if you do pick other class, u put ur team at very big disadvantage.

Move with the crystal. That is all. Absolutely primitive mod and you will still meet players who are not able to do even this one simple thing. And if you know you don't have at least a two-digit IQ, don't go ranked.

This a waste of time? Why do you make videos to waste people time do some quality work.

how many feast seasons have you played? and what was the max tier u got to? if u havnt played it, then let ppl who know pvp better do the "guides" best stick with ur "pve:" if anyone wanna learn pls join pvp discords lmao