FFXIV CRYSTALLINE CONFLICT GUIDE: 10 PVP TIPS TO RANK UP 

*Answering some FAQS* 1/ under your HUD for "Duty", look for 'Crystalline Conflict Battle Log" this is where the countdown timer will occur, for the Cloud map lifting people into the air 2/ the LB bar for everyone, is displayed as yellow horizontal bar below job icons

I feel like this is the only type of content FFXIV was missing. A really good attempt from the developers and I really hope they continue to nurture it in the future!

The retreat button "fall back and regroup" is so so so useful I wish more ppl use it more often.

Tip 11: Play something that can hard carry like samurai or dragoon because your team sure as hell isn't going to do any damage.

Another small tip is to see what kind of macros you can make for your job. For instance I have a 5 separate buttons f1-f5 for the machinist LB to quickly snipe a target and a target macro for bishop. I also have 2 different deployment tactics on sch. One for the party, one for the enemy. (/pvpaction instead of /action for those who are unaware)

I'm currently plat 3 3stars, one tip I would recommend for fellow dragoons/samurai or any other dps melee in pvp is to try to help peel for your healer/ranged, you may not have the highest kill rate or dps in the end, but it helps your teammates survive which wins the fight usually as everyone can target the one melee opponent who is targeting your ranged. Another would be removing the opponent from the crystal, if you are in the advantaged side during overtime, try to bait your opponent out of the circle or for monk try to push them off, this has won me so many games because people still fail to stand in the circle even in my ranks

Awesome video, these tips should help a lot! I just jumped into CC yesterday (and PvP only a few days ago) and I'm having a blast with it so far

great guide. Some of this I was starting to intuit as I played, but still good to hear it out loud and explained. I'm still bad, and maybe I need to explore other jobs and see if something feels better for me but I'm having a blast exploring this mode and learning it.

Great video Quaz, really helpful advice. I am VERY new to PvP in general and this has already helped alot :D Thank you :D

I've had overwatch flashbacks doing this, playing a healer and just getting immediately stunlocked and turbokilled by a mcree and genji, sorry, Sam and ninja.

Awesome compilation of tips here!!! Tried and tested them all personally! and yes! numbers game it is... :D thanks for the great video Quazii!

Thanks for the tips! Very helpful, wspecially the guard/knockup thing, I did not know that! Thanks again Quazii!

so good! thank you for all the great tips and explanations!

Great advice! A tip I have is when you're being chased to play to the elixirs on the field. I've seen people survive 2on1 and 3on1 situations by using mobility to drag their opponents from elixir to elixir. It can be very hard to take down ranged opponents who do this well.

I'd like to see more chat options, like "baiting" or "guard crystal", "stay together" "don't chase" "stay with crystal". The communication is extremely limited and it's annoying.

Great guide, thank you so much! Just started Crystalline Conflict and this is massively helpful.

Thank you!!! Very helpful, would love more guides and PvP videos :) I'm enjoying this mode a lot, it's really fun, but I'm not used to playing any PvP games, so I have a lot to learn and improve!

Just started with the game a few weeks ago, I am entertaining the thought of dipping a toe into PvP. I might still suck, but this guide helps take away a lot of the (sometimes overwhelming) unknowns of what to expect, and how to set a solid foundation for my entry matches. Much appreciated! Will definitely give PvP a try now.

Fantastic video. Can't wait to put these tips into practice.

By far the most aggravating things I’ve experienced from teammates so far are 1. what you mentioned, running around to chase kills while the enemy moves ahead with our crystal unchecked (at this point, pinging the “push the crystal!” prompt is part of my rotation…) - and 2. being completely unwilling to contest the crystal at all, even when numbers would be evenly matched or even outnumbered in our favour, and even when the enemy team is making rapid progress to our checkpoints and home base. So many of the ranged players, including healers, will spend the entire fight running around and away from people and trying to use distance as safety. That works well in frontline, but this is different. Sometimes even melee players do this when they get scared. When I see this from 2 or more players on my team, it almost always leads to our downfall, since they tend to leave the rest of us outnumbered by positioning themselves that way. I’m sure there are plenty of people who need the “don’t rush into obvious danger” tip emphasized, but at least from my personal experience in the last two days, I’d like to advise the opposite. xD The situation you explained about being one of the only ones alive, everyone else respawning and the other team is about to win - that happens a LOT!! I’ve had several cases of diving in to contest it, popping my ccs, lb, heals, and guard, knowing I will die, but buying enough time for my teammates to get there. Seen tanks do this really well too, but anyone is able to, not just them. I hope more people pay attention to when this is necessary, because it is so essential to turning the tides in this gamemode.

HUGE tip about the cyclone thing. I didnt know guard blocked that enviroment thing. Ty!

That was a fun guide! TY! I got my first CC win today with zero deaths, 4 assists and one kill on my SGE and it clicked! Basically fight skirmish mode, dash in and out is LOS, nuke the other side when they're clumped, otherwise avoid groups and hinder as much as possible while providing support to your own team!

My best tip so far is to USE SIGNS My win rate shot up when I started to proactively apply the #1 Sign on my targets.

Some other tips: Track opponents MP. A target with 70% hp and no MP is better than a target with 50% hp and full MP in most scenarios and coordinating your attacks on the no MP target will result in a kill if they're out in the open SGE and WHM reward aggressive play. Both have powerful offensive abilities allowing you and your team to push in and finish off prime health targets while shoring up your team's ability to stay in the fight. SCH and AST are more about debilitating the enemy's defensive capabilities in a group fight and supporting your team from the back line. Use the environment to your advantage. Corners/LOS are very strong as they were in feast and while focusing on the objective keep in mind the corners nearby that you can quickly use to LOS any ranged enemies. The Volcano arena leaves offensive buffs you can pick up after the fire bombs go off, grab any you see on your way to turn you into a killing machine. If any enemies fail to block the Tornado on that arena immediately burst them as they will have received a ton of damage.

Thanks that was helpful, great first guide 👍🏼

Very cool tips! Thank you for sharing!

Another tip, use sprint, is a toggle in this mode, not duration based, so everytime you are not in combat, use sprint, please

i found these really helpful! i'm not really looking to be super high rank Gamer Hours but i wanted to be more aware of what i was missing in the matches, i don't wanna just be a lump while i'm having fun!

Thanks! Great vid!

Another tip: you can setup your pvp specific hotbars outside of pvp instance while at Wolf's Den (I dunno if anyone else already posted this); you can pull pvp abilities via characther>pvp profile menus, I'm brand new to FF14 pvp and spent the first match i was spending the first part of the match frantically attempting to setup bars

Extremely helpful! Off to your next guide. =)

Very helpful thanks man!

I’m at work right now but this video made me so antsy to get home to try these adjustments!! Thank you!

this was great thank you!

A very helpful guide :) I found that just doing it makes things clearer each time. On the other hand, I cant do too many matches in one sitting; I guess I'm not made for that fast paced content but its fun none the less and the fact that its so short really helps. Sofar I've only done casual matches... dont yet dare to do ranked ^^°

Some great tips! One thing I would add, is taking time to fully understand your class's strengths and weaknesses. Know your KIT inside and out. Understand your most optimal burst sequences and ways to alter it to allow for more optimal escape related abilities. Key example: Popping evasive jump 4-5 seconds before initiating with the twin dragon strike will half the amount of time you'll need to wait for the next opening. So once your go in and dump your burst, it is about when your Evasive jump will be back up for you to pull up and recuperate for the next burst window. Plan your escape, and play smart. Just like PVE, the worst thing you can do is DIE

Good tips, thank you I will apply them :D

There is a keybind for "target nearest enemy". I never hear anyone talk about using this for pvp, but it's my favorite way to target. I put I put it on "~" and alternate between that to keep the gcd rolling and the keeping the pressure up in q bug fight, using "tab" to redirect from guarding/mitigating enemies, and I use clicking for targeting specific enemies for securing kills or crowd control.

Excellent vid my good sir!

using guard offensively with RDM is a great strategy, you would use corps a corp, then frazzle the entire enemy team then you use guard to get to safety. Not only now do they all have damage taken increased and their healing reduced while also surviving most attacks. This gives your team REALLY great power early on for the first 10 seconds of a fight

I’m clueless in pvp but I watched this and put some of these tips to use and just won in match. Great job!

OMG THANK YOU!! Yes, TIP #1 is the most important one there is in my opinion. K/D ratio holds no sway on scoring in this pvp mode as far as I have seen. This guide was so much more helpful than the last video I just watched.

great tips, i would also add, as someone else said below HELP PEEL FOR YOUR HEALER. no we do not pocket heal, however depending upon which healer we are are playing we CAN be a very strong support for the team - and many teams will still tend to dogpile us.

I loved this guide! Would be interested in a guide on specific classes and pvp

One extremely helpful thing is to put marks on the healers in your team and also on high priority targets on the enemy team, like the healers or a highly skilled, high threat target and always focus them first and burst them down (if it's not a tank). What I also like to do is to always put a mark on Dragoons because their LB is extremely dangerous if you failed to see it coming but can otherwise easily be mitigated/avoided. Dragoon LBs are the worst thing I witnessed my teams always getting killed on day 1 while escaping Bronze Tier xD

Something I found helpful regarding targeting. There is a targeting option for nearest enemy, map that to middle mouse button to quickly switch to someone. Far enemy’s click names, close middle mouse

Gained a sub! I really enjoyed this guide and love your coverage over the ff14 PvP.

It's mentioned in the Crystalline Conflict webpage, but not explicitly in-game: pick up the buffs available in the Cloud Nine and Volcanic Heart when the arena events happen! During Turbulence, stand in the yellow circles to pick up black chocobo feathers to get a movement and attack speed buff. Similarly pick up the orange bomb cores left behind during the Eruption event which gives damage up (up to 10 stacks). Both of these buffs also fill your limit gauge. So many matches could be flipped around by picking up these buffs.

This was actually REALLY good Finally taking pvp seriously and I found this guide Very informative Thank you 🙏🏾

Excellent guide dude!! A lot of these I was starting to naturally understand while playing, but putting everything in a nice, concise video like this with great explanations is really making me want to jump back in and get better now that I have more of an idea of how to play.

I have lost so many matches where I've tried to hold the crystal, died and just watched helplessly while the enemy push the crystal in to our base while my team chase after one warrior on full health. Also one tip about guard, you can see a telegraph for the dragoon lb, so you can use it to stop yourself from getting maimed by it.

Thanks so much for the tips! I'm loving C.C.

Not sure if this is a tip or not but I think it will help contoller people cuz it helped me a bit. Having macros "/target " will target enemy 1 for enemy 2 and so forth. So when you or someone puts a marker, its much easier to hard target them.

Good guide!

The sad thing I see is that people don’t regroup even if I ping. They just respawn and run straight into the enemy 5 man instead of waiting for our respawns. That being said the Warrior LB has clutched so many games for me: LB>AoE stun>Bloodwhetting>AoE finish it off with some Fellcleaves. Keep up the great videos!

This is really cool! Thanks for the guide. I'm good in Frontline and was good in Feast but I've sucked so much in CC lol So yeah, more guides would be helpful, like a guide for the different maps and some job skills. Thanks again.

Don't forget tip #11, play In The Balance (Nald'thal's Alliance Raid theme) as your battle music.

This was awesome! I just started to PvP and it’s really fun, I think I’m addicted 😂

I play with controller so I don't know if this is helpful, but the game has a variety of keybind options for targeting, including some you might not know about. There's "Target Nearest Enemy" "Target Last Enemy" and "Target Enemy Attacking You". Unfortunately they don't cycle so you have to de-target to target something else. There's also one that many might not know about because it's technically a controller input, which is the "Confirm" binding under the System tab. Confirm will target characters close to you, with a complex priority system based on your character's direct line of sight and what kinds of targets are on your screen. It's hard to explain but I find it quite intuitive, at least on controller, as it targets whatever is directly in front of your character, so it's quite easy to predict what it will target. It will also exclude certain targets based on your targeting settings so if you set your targeting mode to "enemies only" it will not target party members.

Good tips!

Loved the video, would watch individual class guides if you made them :)

All exceptionally good tips. Especially 5 & 10.

I hope more ppl see this ty been enjoying cc pvp alot

the thumbnail didnt lie this tips are fire!

Going here to supplement my levelling of my MNK and BLM thu pvp. I feel so called out haha! Thanks for the tips. I hope they translate to skill once I’m in game. Time to be deadweight!

The pvp so far for me has felt so RNG based on whos in your team, every single game for me has been always really one sided, either my team will just destroy or be getting destroyed.

As warrior you can open with a 3-5 player stun and immediately after pop guard after the stun falls off ,everyones first reaction after the stun is to retaliate with bursting and you can bait their biggest damage out early game, also puts your team in a early game advantage.

Amazing tips! I can't wait to jump back into a match so I can panic and forget everything you just taught me! 😂 Seriously though, the HUD tip alone is going to help a lot. It was frustrating not knowing how to configure that. Great point about the Elixir, too. I was a bit puzzled about how to use that effectively.

This is really solid advice all around. If nothing else, I can say to temper your expectations. It IS solo queue only and you can run into players pretty easily who may have no idea how to play this mode, or interest in really putting in that effort. Just try to have fun with it and don't get too frustrated. Anyone's bound to get annoyed if you're all the way up to Bronze/Silver/Gold etc 1 and then have a string of losses bringing you to the bottom of that bracket in a handful of matches.

Is that Dragoon in the thumbnail a dyed version of the Heavensward Job Gear or is that a new gear set?

Your tips helped me out alot just thought you should know, especially the focus on yourself part and targeting (ESPECIALLY the targeting tip why is FFXIV tab targeting so bad omg) now I got past gold and am on crystal rank now.. Subbed!

how did you enable the class icons next to the enemys hp bar above their head D:?

sharing this with my discord buds.

What's that circle on players standing at the wolves den? Does it do anything? How do you get it?

For someone who doesn't pvp much, this is quite helpful. I have to try to remember this.

Personally, I found Target Nearest Enemy to be pretty helpful in PVP, particularly for melee jobs.

Went on a 5 win streak right after finishing this video, all I can say is very good video!!

Only tip you need: Hope you get good rng to get the good teammates

What's the reward for this other than that armor set at lvl 25? I heard of a mount is that for this crystaline conflict?

Yo anyone know exactly what setting makes the pvp enemy names always show, I turned a bunch of stuff off for aesthetics and now can't figure out what to turn back on

Any tip for controller users regarding the tab targeting?

thanks!

Great tips, thanks. ^^ I've only tried out casual mode, but I've absolutely noticed the issue of all my team mates leaving to chase down one person. XP idk if people simply dont realize a tank is just as screwed if theyre faced with too many people? I play WAR for my static, just stuck with it for pvp, it's great but it needs attentive teammates who will capitalize on my CCs or go after the person I drag into our group with chains (usually the healer or ranged lol). I tried SAM, but pretty much the other team just focuses you for immediate murder so GL 😅 AST was ok, but basically useless. There's only 2 heals every 30 seconds and some useless cards and your teammates play like idiots because they think healers can still carry lol.

Tip #11; Play a ranged job if you're new, much easier to not be totally out of position when you don't have all the fancy movement abilities the melees do!

You have any tips with targeting on controller?

8:53 I'm sorry but i failed to understand this tip.."unit frame" ? what part does that refer to? is it the health part above the character head? Eveything you mentioned is really helpful so thank you for much for the video!

I've been playing a lot of CC but on Casual mode. Are there special rewards for Ranked?

omg! the hud is under duty! Thank you!

where do you see the timer for the arena effects?

after complete 6.1 MSQ , my brain can't stop repeat this : "water , water , foath and foam" in jp voice

What do you mean when you say pop “god”?

Could also add play the meta jobs as well in the guide there is a clear sign wich jobs are way better then the rest atm

Brilliant list of tips for a lot of people That has the be my biggest pet peev with ffxiv pvp. the tab targeting being so awful. I'm not sure why they don't have more distance based options that would fix probably 90% of peoples complaints. The guard tip is mega. i always find i'm an oh shit guarder need to fix that!

How does Dragoon do more damage than my sam when I have cast times and have to take damage just to put it out.

it is normal for low rank to have long queues time?

The most important part about the Elixir is that you get 4 more Recuperates. This makes Elixir the most important ability. The strategy of using CC then retreating to use Elixir becomes a viable option when most of your team is alive.

My favorite part was my first game where I didnt have the hot bars set up because i’m oblivious so I just stood there the whole time.

haha so true i been in so many bad parties that go for the glory, thanks for the tips i hope everyone watches this x

another tip is to try and help others who may be new to pvp in ffxiv, giving advice after the game or to your team if your in a static will help with confidence and can improve others way of playing

Diamond 2 here, I would say it is occasionally beneficial to chase 1 or 2 people down with low health in order to stagger enemy spawns which is great for keeping the fights 5 v 4 or 5 v 3.