Quote Originally Posted by Trisscar View Post
At the same time not every situation requires intensive gear swaps, either. Let's say you're a Mage-type character building Azure lights (for the purposes of this example, Blue Mage counts as an actual Mage). Sure, you can keep on doing those same gear swaps. But in the time it takes you to swap gears you can kill the monsters without the gear swaps.

Despite what macro junkies like to say, gear swaps aren't a panacea and it's something that needs to be done on a case-by-case basis.
There is a lot more to this game than Abyssea, seems a lot of people have forgotten that. Try soloing Proto-Ultima as blu like Draylo on Leviathan has, without gearswaps. I guarantee you you won't last long. Or anything where you don't have the atma(cite)/cruor buffs crutch to rely on.