Down with Gear Swapping!

[Naax]

I ride the fence on this one. I don't really like gear swapping, but I use in on my blm for swapping staves. That's about the only thing I swap around. I don't like it because it takes some of the realism away from the game. I know "realism" and "Game" don't really belong in the same sentence, but I feel the same as some of the others. When was the last time you watched a boxing match where one person changed his shorts out because he wanted to hit his opponent while wearing his lucky shorts, then switch back. I got over the healing problem, but my biggest hurtle was trying to time good blm nukes for magic bursts. The gear swapping that some players do is so obscene that not only do they blink out of existance for a couple seconds, but so does the animation and sound of their actions. If the effects could be seperated from blinking out while ppl gear swap I wouldn't care how much ppl swap around. I guess i'm closer to a "Role-Play" style of player with my opinions on gear swap, But I don't bash one way or the other, I just play my style and adapt to the party situations as needed.

[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.