Final Fantasy 16 (FF16)

Tips and Tricks: A Beginner's Guide to FF16

FF16 - Beginner
Know more about Final Fantasy 16 (FF16) with our comprehensive beginner's guide! Learn how to master your abilities, choose the right difficulty level, and unlock the power of the Eikons in Square Enix's latest entry to the Final Fantasy franchise!

Beginner's Guide: Essential Tips and Tricks

Essential Tips





Selecting Your Difficulty Mode

FF16 - Action Focus Mode

When starting in Final Fantasy 16, you'll be immediately greeted with initial settings such as language options and even language voiceovers. The most important setting, however, is the ability to select difficulty modes. There are currently two existing modes which are Story Focused mode and Action Focused mode. You can change between them anytime.

Recommended Difficulty Settings

Story Focused and Action Focused Modes

Difficulty Options Description
Story Focused Automatically equips Timely Accessories to Clive at the start of the game.
Action Focused No assistance is added to Clive and you can experience the game's combat to its fullest.

Story Focused mode automatically adds the Timely Accessories to Clive to make battles much easier, so make sure to choose Story Focused Mode if you want to entirely just enjoy the game's story. But if you want to truly experience the challenges of the game's combat, setting the option to Action Focused will allow you to challenge the game's battle system in its entirety. Timely Accessories can still be equipped in Action Focused mode.

Should You Choose Story Focused or Action Focused Mode?

Using Timely Accessories to Ease Difficulty

Timely Evasion Indicator.png

Timely Accessories make the game easier by providing shortcuts or assistance. Pictured above is the Ring of Timely Focus which shows an indicator for when to dodge an enemy attack when equipped. There are other accessories such as a combo simplifier where you won't need to do several inputs and just use one button for combos.

Timely Accessories Guide

Understanding the Eikon Mechanics

Phoenix Best Abilities

Eikons are massive entities and are central figures in the storyline of Final Fantasy 16. While the main highlights of Eikons are their battles, they also serve as an integral part of the game's combat system as Clive can learn skills and abilities tied to these Eikons.

Eikonic Feats

You can equip up to three Eikons in the game and can freely switch between them, greatly changing Clive's moves during battle! In the image above, Clive is currently using Titan which lets him use Stone and Titanic Block. Use your Eikons to stagger your foes and unleash powerful damaging skills against them!

Eikons Guide: All Eikons and How to Use

Utilizing Abilities and Skills

Abilities
Aside from changing the main movesets, there are also several Abilities you can learn under each Eikon skill tree which can affect how effective certain Eikons are when equipped. You can obtain ability points from multiple sources such as redeeming rewards using renown points in the Patron's Whisper or defeating enemies and leveling up!

Best Abilities to Learn and Master

Master Parrying Early On

Watch Clive take a chunk of Gigas' health by parrying!

To successfully parry attacks from enemies, you need to press the Square button right before the attack hits you. The trick here is to study the enemy's attack pattern and yours!

Learning how to parry is extremely worth mastering as it allows you to deal lots of damage, especially in boss fights! Remember to study the attack patterns of your enemies to take advantage of this skill.

How to Parry Attacks

Unleashing Limit Breaks at the Right Time

A Limit Break is a temporary empowered state for Clive that lasts until the Limit Break gauge is fully depleted, which happens after a few seconds upon activation by simultaneously pressing L3 and R3. During this mode, he deals more damage and heals up every time he deals damage.

Using Limit Break is most effective when an enemy is staggered because enemies take more damage at this state. Since the enemies can't retaliate when staggered, it also allows you to deal damage uninterrupted, allowing you to make the most out of the buff.

How to Use Limit Breaks Effectively

Making Use of Cid's Hideaway Features

FF16 - Cid
After progressing a bit through the game, you'll unlock Cid's Hideaway, which acts as the central hub area of the game.

Here, you'll be able to access all sorts of services such as buying items from the shop, taking bounties, crafting and upgrading weapons, and more!
Everything You Can Do at Cid's Hideaway

All Tips and Tricks Guides

All Tips and Tricks

All Tips and Tricks
All Stats Explained Crafting Recipes and Upgrades
Timely Accessories Guide How to Fast Travel
How Long to Beat FF16? Active Time Lore Guide
Quick Time Events Guide List of Trophies
Is There a Mini Map? How to Exit Training Mode
How to Use Photo Mode How to Redeem Pre-Order Bonuses
How to Get a Chocobo Mount How to Sprint and Move Faster
Arcade Mode and Stage Replay Explained Missables and One-Time Events
How to Respec Abilities All Six Signboard Locations
Unlockables and Hidden Content Medal of Valor Guide
How to Unlock Alliant Reports How to Upgrade Inventory Slots
How to Upgrade Potion Potency List of Guest Party Members
Farming Guides
EXP Farming Guide AP Farming Guide
Gil Farming Guide -
Best Guides
Best Abilities to Learn Best Side Quests
Best Weapons Best Combos
Best Accessories Best Armor
Best Builds -
Combat and Gameplay Guides
How to Use Eikonic Feats How to Parry Attacks
How to Limit Break How to Stagger Enemies
How to Use Precision Dodge Combat Basics Guide
How to Change Lock On Targets How to Use Shift Strikes and Shift Shots
How to Punish Enemies Should You Choose Story or Action Focused?
How to Command Torgal How to Do Precision Sics
Battle System Mechanics Explained Death Penalty Guide
How to Decrease Enemy Will Gauge How to Use Item Shortcuts
How to Heal Level Cap Guide
Post-Game Guides
New Game Plus Guide Post Game Content and 100% Guide
Final Fantasy Mode Guide
All Cid's Hideaway Features
Arete Stone
(Training & Arcade)
The Black Hammer
(Blacksmith)
Charon's Toll
(Shop)
Thousand Tomes
(Loresman)
Orchestrion
(Jukebox)
Patron's Whisper
(Renown)
State of the Realm
(Story Overview)
Hunt Board
(Moogle Quests)
All Hideaway Guides
How to Open Letters at the Reading Table How to Get All Wall of Memory Items
Should You Buy a Round for the Hall? -
Controls and Settings
Language Settings How to Save
Graphics or Framerate Mode? How to Skip Cutscenes
Difficulty Level Differences How to Adjust Screen Brightness
How to Turn Off Motion Blur Controls and Best Settings
FAQs
Romance Guide: Are There Romance Options? -
Demo Guides
How to Transfer Demo Progress Eikonic Challenge Mode

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List of Categories
FF16 - Main QuestsMain Quests FF16 - All Eikons Banner Eikons
FF16 - AbilitiesAbilities FF16 - Tips and TricksTips and Tricks
FF16 - GearGear and Equipment FF16 - Side QuestsSide Quests
FF16 - Hunt BoardHunt Board FF16 - BossesBosses
FF16 - Map and RegionsMap and Regions FF16 - CidCid's Hideaway
FF16 - Chronolith Trials Chronolith Trials FF16 - CharactersCharacters
FF16 - EnemiesEnemies Final Fantasy XVI (FF16) - Items PartialItems
FF16 - Story and LoreStory and Lore FF16 - News and UpdatesNews and Updates

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1 wAke6 months

Hello, two dlc have been released, please update the manuals, preferably with builds and combos

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