FFXI G15 Keyboard AppFollow

I just downloaded this little app, and it is great for the G15! Finally something pretty useful for FFXI for those of us who don't like to break the ToS or anything like that. Now if it will only tell me when to go farm.......

I was actually looking at getting one of these keyboards today.

Do those that have it like it? I was also thinging about the Zboard one with a full keyboard and seperate movement etc keys on the left.

I like my G15 a lot. I also find it pretty useful for FFXI, because setting the G-keys to FFXI macro combinations (Ctrl/Alt+#) means they never fail due to not pressing them fast enough or pressing them too quickly the way they do when you use the keyboard combinations normally. All I have to do is hit one button on the side and it never fails to use the JA or spell it's set to. The LCD screen is also nice for controlling a media player and still knowing what's going on while in the game.

Glad everyone likes this app as much as I do!

BTW dont hesitate to stop by Inferias thread on the G15 forums and show some love!

Ya they had the G11 too.

Anyone have experience with teh Zboard? I'd like to hear from both sides.

Oh, there is also a G15 app somewhere, that shows your HP and MP. Can't remember where I saw it, the Windower forums, iirc.

WOW there is? Im gonna go look for it, if you find it post it for us plzzzz xD

:Edit: Found it! http://www.windower.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8910&highlight=g15



Unfortunatly no

These won't work with a 360 or ps2 etc only pc. ; ;

Edited, Aug 14th 2007 11:57:37pm by herbavore

Thanks :)

I would but I have deep seeded commitment issues.

The ZBoard is a piece of ****. I bought one and took it back the same day. There are no programmable keys on it at all. (EDIT: Ok is this a new Z-Board that's come out? 'Cos I bought mine ages ago and it had no programmable keys. Don't know anything about a new one.)

I bought a G-11 about three weeks ago. It's great for FFXI. The G-11 is the exact same keyboard as the G-15 but minus the LCD screen. That's the only difference.

With these G-keyboards you get 18 G-keys down the left hand side which can be programmed to instantly enter into the game any line of text. I use the keys for 18 of my most used one line WHM spells. Then I still have the 20 normal in game macros on Ctrl and Alt. I use those for all the gear swap macros I need because the G-keys can struggle with multi line macros in FFXI. But for simple spells like :

/ma "Paralyna" <t>
/ma "Stona" <t>
etc. etc.

... those G-keys are amazing. Really free up your macro palette for the more complex gear swap macros. Plus there are three modes those G-keys can be in. So it's actually 18x3 = 54 programmable keys. Useful if you more than one 75 job.

Edited, Aug 15th 2007 3:48:46am by Darwinion

I think you can do that yeah. Not tried it myself beacause it's a waste of a macro. You would have G1 being the same as your Alt-1 macro. Why would you want to do that? All you doing is saving yourself from pressing the Shift key.

Like I say, the G-Keys are great for simple one line macros like status ailment cures etc, freeing up your normal macros for those complex gear swap ones. I use normal macros for my WHM gear swap sets for Max MP, Max HMP, Haste, MND set ups etc. Also for my Bar spells 'cos I need to macro in +Elemental gears.

Haha! Yeah I see what you getting at there. But this keyboard is way better than just using it for that. I currently have 38 different spells/job abilities easily available for my WHM. Using the G-Keys to just have 18 available to save pressing Shift would be a travesty really. :p

Edited, Aug 15th 2007 4:04:23am by Darwinion

If you ever get a Logitech G15 gaming keyboard you can use the G keys to do all kinds of cool stuff for a WHM.

For instance I have mine setup so that the first 6 out of 18 keys on my 1st of 3 macro pages (each containing 18 possible keys) is all of my cures and regens.

Then I made the next 6 my most used na spells 'poisona silena etc' and then the final one of the 6 (G12) I made my Erase button.

Since theres only 18 that leaves ctrl+0 and alt+0 unable to be mapped to my Gkeys on one page, but thats not a problem as I thought up the idea of using those 2 as secondary gear switch macros, like my Cure setup has 2 macros for it Alt+5 and Ctrl+0. All I did was have my G14(alt+5) key trigger first alt+5 then 0.300 milliseconds later ctrl+0. And I did the same thing for my h/MP gear switch (alt+6 0.300ms alt+0) and it works great.

Then later on in using this crazy keyboard I stopped using my alt+7 and alt+8(G16 and G17) keys so I programmed those to trigger the commands used to open the magic menu and also to open the job abilities menu. Therefore buff spells are easily triggered through my magic menu (which was sorted manually to make scrolling through it easy *for me*) and that took care of my barspells, protects etc. So that now leaves my alt+7 and 8 free to be a 3rd macro page for possible gear switches if needed (ie. G14-alt+5 0.300ms ctrl+0 0.300ms alt+7)** All three in just one button is great.

Then I took my second page of macros and cloned the main macros from my other page, so that its a semi functional version of the original except the bottom keys are all dedicated to staff switch-outs. Which makes it insanely easy to change to any staff, then open the magic menu and choose a debuff or buff or raise or tractor or escape *insert 5000 spells here*

Page1(M1)
G1 ctrl+1 CureII
G2 ctrl+2 CureIII
G3 ctrl+3 CureV
G4 ctrl+4 Regen
G5 ctrl+5 RegenII
G6 ctrl+6 RegenIII

G7 ctrl+7 Poisona
G8 ctrl+8 Paralyna
G9 ctrl+9 Blindna
G10 alt+1 Silena
G11 alt+2 Cursna or Viruna or Stona *depending on situation*
G12 alt+3 Erase

G13 alt+4 Haste (good spot for it due to the way the macro palette is laid out.)
G14 alt+5/ctrl+0 Cure Setup
G15 alt+6/alt+0 h/MP Setup
G16 alt+M Magic Menu
G17 alt+J Ability Menu (seriously try hitting alt+J normally :rolleyes:)
G18 alt+9 is my /target <bt> macro for targeting whatever the group is attacking (call me old fashioned but I cant seem to shake my love for this particular button *mostly for debuffs unless ******** around with melee bs*)

Page 2(M2)
G1-G12 Cures Regens na's and erase(same as Page1(M1))

G13-G15 Earth Staff Wind Staff Ice Staff

G16-G18 Same as page1 (makes it easy to hit a staff and scroll the magic menu, or hit a staff use an ability ie. Elemental Seal, and then scroll the magic menu)

Page3(M3)
Blank... Seriously I havent thought of a use for this page of macros, but it will be there when I do.

:edit: I've changed up my setup a bit since then incorporating macro page switches into multiple macro gear switches. Such as the G button changing to a secondary page full of gear swaps and hitting 2-4 of them and then switching back to the normal macro sheet. ie. Alt+0 then Ctrl+Shift+4 then Ctrl+1 Ctrl+2 Ctrl+3 then Ctrl+Shift+1 back to my normal setup.

The possibilities are really limitless, oh and 0.111 is the magical delay that works in any lag (and is also incredibly easy to type when youre doing a multiple delay macro) 1 1 1 ftw


Edited, Aug 15th 2007 10:52:48am by herbavore