Down with Gear Swapping!

[Airenn]

Forget the past. Ignore the future. Enjoy the present. still incorrect :|. we dont really need to rid of gear swapping, why is this thread still up?

RIGHT ON TEARVALERIN AT IT AGAIN!!!

[Eeek]

when healing on my rdm and someone blinks i just re select them takes a few seconds and if they blink when they are bouta die preventing me from healing tough luck.

SE addressed this issue years ago. Adjust your macros to <stpt> (for party members) and <stal> (for alliance members). With these macros, you will not lose target when someone changes gear.

[Chiibi]

SE addressed this issue years ago. Adjust your macros to <stpt> (for party members) and <stal> (for alliance members). With these macros, you will not lose target when someone changes gear.

im pretty sure <stpt> limits it to the party and <stal> is your party and allience so just put <stal> and call it a day

[Neika]

im pretty sure <stpt> limits it to the party and <stal> is your party and allience so just put <stal> and call it a day

Yep. I have all my cure macs set as just <stal>. I love it!

[Eeek]

im pretty sure <stpt> limits it to the party and <stal> is your party and allience so just put <stal> and call it a day

Why would you do that? Can you quickly target your party members with <stal>?

It's actually an honest question! I don't know the answer since I'm quick enough to type-cast most of my spells.

[Alderin]

Why would you do that? Can you quickly target your party members with <stal>?

It's actually an honest question! I don't know the answer since I'm quick enough to type-cast most of my spells.

Yep.. It's the same as normal - F1, F2, F3 etc selects the people specifically in your party i believe.. (correct me if I am wrong on this one). As for alliance - you can't help that one unfortunately. (Unless someone else knows another way?)

But in my opinion it is just as fast to quickly scroll up or down on the person you need to heal from the party list... Truly doesnt take that long - Most of the time you will only have to cure your own party but <stal> lets you target ally members from the list as well..

[Deadlyscorpion]

SE addressed this issue years ago. Adjust your macros to <stpt> (for party members) and <stal> (for alliance members). With these macros, you will not lose target when someone changes gear.

Wow thank you!!! I didn't know about that one. I knew about stpt but not stal.

[Morgantisthedon]

when healing on my rdm and someone blinks i just re select them takes a few seconds and if they blink when they are bouta die preventing me from healing tough luck.

I agree If you use alot of macros to swap gear and a specfic mage is having problems healing you stay in the specific gear you have on so they can heal you this is another way to help them till you get cure bombed. Knowing how specific heals works I have made peoples names on them dependant if they where a mp sponge to further help me with this. But use the swap with good judgment is a good rule of thumb... sure it can bring greatness,.,,,, also your death to a inexperianced healer who keeps losing target of you .... If this happens adjust you play to them so they can target you while weak. Rember FFXI isnt how great you are..... Its the people around you that make you great as a team and how you work with them <3

[Kwate]

Gear Swapping shouldn't be allowed in the game, I full time my AF3+2 and off hand my Relic with my Mythic, I can't bring myself to do an Empyrean after all the work I did and all the people I used to get my Relic and Mythic

Please SE add a penalty for Gear Swapping(Like in Brenner and Ballista), do you really think an NM is going to sit and watch you get undressed, then re-dress in front of them just so you can cast Ni 3 seconds faster? If I was Alfard I would stomp on the player in the middle of their gear change, I don't have all day to watch a Mithra get undressed to put on a bunch of Evasion Gear, or watch a Galka get undressed to put on a bunch of other gear to use Tachi: Jinpu

So let me get this right, assume everything you say about your accomplishments are accurate. My guess is you gear swapped prior to obtaining your gear and relics, so since YOU got what you needed SE should just screw everyone else over. Did I hear you right?

[Izzybella]

So let me get this right, assume everything you say about your accomplishments are accurate. My guess is you gear swapped prior to obtaining your gear and relics, so since YOU got what you needed SE should just screw everyone else over. Did I hear you right?

Yes, I believe you did. The most interesting, and telling, part of his post (to me anyways) was:

and all the people I used to get my Relic and Mythic