Updated June 1, 2022
Disclaimer: The following information is for educational purposes only. I do not take responsibility for any consequences, in or out of game, as a result of using this information or tools mentioned in this guide. Use of these tools is always at your own risk. Please see section "Won't using ACT get me banned?" below for additional info. Use common sense, and stay safe!
Welcome to my ACT for FFXIV guide! The purpose of this guide is to walk you through installation, setting up ACT for FFXIV, and to activate a basic overlay.
What is ACT? Advanced Combat Tracker (ACT for short), is a "parsing" program. More techinically speaking, it reads the numbers flying back and forth between the game and the server, then stores and analyzes (parses) this data for you. Not a program made just for FFXIV, ACT may be used with many MMOs for many reasons.