Down with Gear Swapping!

[Dale]

Cyx has it right. If you are a healer blaming DD for dying "because they blink" then please don't play a healer job. Problem solved, all this annoying whining goes away. I would rather SE look into bigger and better things than listening to people who are too mentally challenged to use proper macros.

It's not just with heals. It's anything that requires targeting. And exepcting people to create a seperate macro for everythign they do just so you can avoid having your target suddenly canceled on the whim of someone else is too much of an inconvience, i'm sorry.

If it was just with healing spells alone, then yes - it woudn't be a huge problem. But it isn't. This is a false debate, this whole healing thing. A non-issue for people to seize onto and call people names over.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

It's not just with heals. It's anything that requires targeting. And exepcting people to create a seperate macro for everythign they do just so you can avoid having your target suddenly canceled on the whim of someone else is too much of an inconvience, i'm sorry.

If it was just with healing spells alone, then yes - it woudn't be a huge problem. But it isn't. This is a false debate, this whole healing thing. A non-issue for people to seize onto and call people names over.

you dont need to have macros for everything you do, just the important stuff.

[Dale]

you dont need to have macros for everything you do, just the important stuff.

I don't know why people keep saying this. It's just not true.

I have played with people who gear swap like it's a compulsion. I would have had to create a macro for just about every ability i use to have prevent my target from being canceled. It depends on the extent the people you are with use the technique, and I think a lot of the people pretending this isn't a big deal and just useless whining have been lucky enough not to party with people who use it like a compulsive habit.

It's just irritating. I already have a zillion macros. I really don't have the room or the head to use a zillion more.

I gear swap a ton myself, but only with gear that doesn't cause the blink effect. Why? Because i know how annoying it is I don't want to drive other players nuts. Be nice if everyone else would afford the same courtesy.

I would only swap gear during a fight that causes the "blink" effect for rare actions you don't use very often - otherwise the annoyance you will cause others will far outweight the benefits gained IMHO.

This is a real problem and Square should get around to doing something about it that doesn't involve having to make 50 extra macros so I can spend more time flipping through rows of macros than I do actually enjoying the game. Perhaps they should simply add this <stal> command or w/e into the coding of the game so that the command is automatically used with all targeted spells and ablities. I don't know enough about programming to know if that's a realistic solution or not, but it is one idea.

And then there is the spam issue also, flooding my battle log with this annoying yellow message telling me something i already know. That needs to be fixed also, and is just as irritating as the "blink" crap. Gear-swapping during battle has just become too big a part of FF 11's accepted game play for it to be as clunky as it is today. It's time it got some refinements.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

I don't know why people keep saying this. It's just not true.

I have played with people who gear swap like it's a compulsion. I would have had to create a macro for just about every ability i use to have prevent my target from being canceled. It depends on the extent the people you are with use the technique, and I think a lot of the people pretending this isn't a big deal and just useless whining have been lucky enough not to party with people who use it like a compulsive habit.

It's just irritating. I already have a zillion macros. I really don't have the room or the head to use a zillion more.

I gear swap a ton myself, but only with gear that doesn't cause the blink effect. Why? Because i know how annoying it is I don't want to drive other players nuts. Be nice if everyone else would afford the same courtesy.

I would only swap gear during a fight that causes the "blink" effect for rare actions you don't use very often - otherwise the annoyance you will cause others will far outweight the benefits gained IMHO.

This is a real problem and Square should get around to doing something about it that doesn't involve having to make 50 extra macros so I can spend more time flipping through rows of macros than I do actually enjoying the game.

And then there is the spam issue also, flooding my battle log with this annoying yellow message telling me something i already know. That needs to be fixed also, and is just as irritating as the "blink" crap. Gear-swapping during battle has just become too big a part of FF 11's accepted game play for it to be as clunky as it is today. It's time it got some refinements.

as DRG... I gear swap for WS (twice actually) for healing breath, for jumps, and for when I go in and out of battle (I have some of that dusk crap) and none of the mages in my LS ever complain or have a problem healing me.

as DNC it is even worse, I gear swap for everything I do. The only job that is one of my three mains that I dont geaerswap on is PUP, but that is only level 40 or so.

it is all about macro slot management, and people using the right commands.

[Dale]

as DRG... I gear swap for WS (twice actually) for healing breath, for jumps, and for when I go in and out of battle (I have some of that dusk crap) and none of the mages in my LS ever complain or have a problem healing me.

as DNC it is even worse, I gear swap for everything I do. The only job that is one of my three mains that I dont geaerswap on is PUP, but that is only level 40 or so.

it is all about macro slot management, and people using the right commands.

Just because they aren't complaining doesn't mean it's not driving them nuts

And it's not all about macro slot management, and people using the right commands. It is about a broken system that needs to be tweaked in a more appropriate way. It may not bother you having to create a macro for every single abilty you use that requires targeting, but a lot of us are going to think that's unreasonable.

They also need to get rid of the annoying yellow spam.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Just because they aren't complaining doesn't mean it's not driving them nuts

And it's not all about macro slot management, and people using the right commands. It is about a broken system that needs to be tweaked in a more appropriate way. It may not bother you having to create a macro for every single abilty you use that requires targeting, but a lot of us are going to think that's unreasonable.

They also need to get rid of the annoying yellow spam.

my LS is actually honest to each other, and they where the ones to teach me gear swapping in the first place.

again learn to use STPT and STAL on your most important spells, and there wont be a problem.

again you don't have to macro everything, just use STPT for the "life saving" stuff