GassyHaggis Your groups will love you if you manage to chuck out some Stone and Aero casts in between healing, it makes runs go much quicker 🙂 At that level you should also have an AOE heal called Medica IIRC, and possibly Esuna, which removes debuffs from party members.
If you unlock the mouse pointer (hold L1 and click R3), you can grab the top right corner of the chat log window to resize it. You can also resize the text itself in Character Config > Log Window Settings.
After a boss, you should see a wee window pop up somewhere on your screen, I can’t remember what it’s called. If you select it (cycle to it using bottom left/right click on the touchpad) and press X, you’ll be able to roll need/greed or pass on any loot that dropped. Commendations are just a way of saying ta to a party member at the end of a run, they don’t really do much beyond unlocking a few titles and cosmetic stuff.
A very useful UI thing - when targeting an enemy, you’ll see their target bar. Shows their HP and other stuff. Go to HUD Layout > Target Bar > “gear” icon. Select “Display Target Info Independently”. That removes the target bar UI element and replaces it with three new ones - Target Info (HP), Target Info (Progress Bar), and Target Info (Status). Each can be moved and resized independently. The target progress bar shows when the target is casting a spell, and which spell. It’s a good idea to move it to somewhere you won’t miss it, and also make it bigger (I keep it right above my hotbars and my own casting bar). As you get further into the game, it becomes important to know when a boss is casting certain spells - there’s fun things like spells that will wipe the whole party instantly if you’re in the wrong place when they go off 🙂
Glad you’re enjoying it. I think it’s incredible that they’ve built an entire fully-featured MMO that you can play effectively and comfortably on a gamepad.