Down with Gear Swapping!

[Valefor4life]

Here is a game a lot of you may enjoy.

http://www.notdoppler.com/superpress...ionrpg2009.php

No gear swapping involved!

So many people who think FFXI is too hard should just delete their characters, quit and go play that game. It's much more simpler for them.

[TearValerin]

I repeat, if you cant use the macro properly that alleviates the entire issue, you shouldnt play said job.

[Skybrit]

Actually, that is pretty humorous now that I think about it. Changing clothes in battle.. funny thought! haha

[Malamasala]

I want to get rid of gear swapping too. The problem is that you have to solve the 500 design mistakes first that made all jobs rely on 60 armors each.

[Zyeriis]

This thread makes me want to commit seppuku in embarassment of other ffxi players :/ Inflammatory? Yes but this thread is an eyesore and should never have made it past the first page. You really want gear swapping removed so that you can be just as good as those that are better than you without any effort on your part? Good luck killing the game even quicker.

[Valefor4life]

Honestly I've never met anyone how has complain on healing me because I blink too much.

[RAIST]

Ok, so I'm one of these lazy, ignorant ones. I'm doing something very wrong when I'm healing because I'm not using <stpt>/<stal>. Hell I'd never even heard it mentioned before that Haste thread last week. Please help me out.

I'm not sure how to implement it to prevent gear swap blinking from making me lose my target when I Cure. I have Cure IV set up in my Macros as Ctrl-4 so it swaps in Cure Potency gear and /ma "Cure IV" <t>. When I want to Cure a party member, I use the d-pad on my controller to scroll to the player and then Ctrl-4. If the player changes gear in the second or so that it takes to Ctrl-4 then it loses focus and the spell fails. Also, when I'm scrolling down the player list and I happen to highlight someone who then changes gear, my pointer goes back to the top of the list. This tends to happen once every other fight these days as more than a few ppl playing on my server clearly either have conditional auto gear-swap macros using 3rd party tools, or just a serious gear-swap mania.

Clearly I'm a noob, as the experienced players here have explained that all these troubles go away when you use <stpt>/<stal>. I usually go to ffxiclopedia for my info, but it doesn't go into specifics on how to implement this functionality.

By the sounds of it, I'm doing something intrinsically wrong here (please don't say 'using a controller') and would appreciate some guidance on how to use these tags. Plzbnicetx

Make sure your cure call with the <stal> tag is the first line in the macro, followed by gear swaps. It won't do anything until you select target. If you swap then call cure, you could shoot yourself in the foot a little with the extra lag:

/ma "Cure IV" <stal>
/equip lines

If you feel the need to announce who you are curing on you can use the last target flag in the chat line at the end. Forget what it was, but should be on the wiki.

[Vyvian]

<lastst> im pretty sure

[Miera]

Wow! I am surprised that no one brought up PS2 Limitations!

Blinking sucks and it should die in a fire

[HFX7686]

I don't even use the <stal> etc. macros (too lazy to change them) and I've never had too much of a problem with blinking. I just keep myself targeted and switch when I go to cast. Very rarely do I miss. This is a non-issue.