Olivia's Frontline Guide!!! 7.75

note: some things are currently in revision, so might be buggy. 1/9/2025

Tip of the year: You can sprint and mount at the same time.

Preamble:

• Preface
• Goals

Base:

• Basics
• Combat
• Additonals
• Jobs
• Comps

Maps:

• Secure
• Seal Rock
• Shatter
• Onsal
• Triumph

Advanced:

• Scenarios
• Pinches
• Pulling
• Macros
• Commanding
• Tactics

Credits and Resources:

• Resources
• Glossary
• My Thanks
• About Me

• X
• Twitch
• Discord
• Ko-fi

If you want to follow or support!

• Change Log

Change Log:

Known Issues:Change Log:
2/2/2025
-Glossary Alphabetized
-Coming Soon section is displayed
-"Comps" in comp section were changed.
-Numerous grammatical errors fixed.
2/22/2025
-New comps added to "Comps"
-New tactics added to "Tactics"
-"Scenarios" Section Added
-"Pinches" Section Added
3/10/2025
-"Pulling" Section Added
-"Change Log" made its own section.
-3/19/2025
-major update to "Jobs/Comps" page
8/3/2025
Seperated "Jobs" and "Comps"
Added new comps
8/11/2025
Added macro section to guide
1/2/2026
Began edits for next patch
1/15/2026
New Comps added.
1/16/2026
Seal Rock and Shatter Edited
1/22/2026
Onsal updated, Preface and Goals added, General macros started.
Updated tierlist.
1/30/2026
Updated the Triumph section of the guide, fixed the symbols section.
4/22/2026
Spelling Errors fixed, Tank, Healer, and Melee burst rotations changed. Key section of tier list updated. New comp added.
4/24/2026
All jobs burst rotations updated.
8/9/2026
Battle High Chart Added, Tier List Updated, Dragoon changed to A rank

• Back

After my static broke apart in Shadowbringers, I was devastated. Raiding no longer held the same draw when I wasn’t doing it with them. On top of that, my job, Scholar, had been irreparably changed, the content had begun to feel stale, and long stretches passed with very little to do.So I took a break.When I eventually came back to XIV, I set out to do all the content I had once written off. Maps. Mount farms. Venues. Everything.One of the things I had failed to truly engage with was PvP.I was bad.
Really bad.Like everyone before me, I had no idea what was going on during my first Frontline matches. Chaos everywhere. Deaths that felt instant and unavoidable. Losses that seemed inevitable.But beneath that chaos, I saw something deeper.I saw games where we were completely trounced by the enemy teams. I also saw moments where a commander stepped up. Someone made calls. The alliance followed. Suddenly, that same mess of players moved as one, claiming victory after victory.I saw those commanders, and I knew I wanted to be like that.I wanted to be someone who could take a cobbled together group of strangers and lead them to a stunning win.And I was still bad.
Really bad.But I was hooked.Because sometimes, it worked.And the deeper I dove into the strategy, the design, the movement, the positioning, the psychology, the better I became.And it felt good.I can say, without a doubt, that Frontline is an incredibly deep mode. One that rewards effort, learning, and skillPerhaps you already understand that.
Why else would you be here?This guide is a deep look into Frontline. It covers the basics. Maps, scoring, jobs. It also goes further. Much further. Into positioning, combat flow, tactics, and decision making.It may seem intimidating.That is okay.
It is.But I promise you this. Your efforts will be rewarded.I hope you find this guide useful.
I hope it helps you claim many victories and suffer few defeats.Go forth.
Learn.
Master.
Triumph.

This Guide's Purpose: To Win

Then:

Now:

It is not about fairness or balance. It is not about having a good game or a friendly match.Frontline is a war, and I treat it as such.That is to say, I will not mince words in this guide. If I believe something is broken, I will say so. If I believe something is bad, I will say so.I believe that any advantage you can obtain, aside from cheating, should be used. Anything at your disposal should be leveraged.That is what it means to chase victory.

Bias

That is not to say this guide is without its faults:-The strategies presented here are written from the perspective of an NA player, with NA teammates in mind.-The guide assumes that the opposing teams are of roughly equal strength.-The guide assumes that your team has a commander, or that you are willing to step into that role.

Call me Out

I will be the first to admit that there may be better strategies out there. However, many of them are simply impractical in the current state of play.That said, if you have tactics or strategies that consistently outperform my own, I welcome them. Show me the results, and I will gladly update this guide to reflect them.