Down with Gear Swapping!

[Dale]

Most people would say stpt and stal were SE's "doing something about it".

I actually can understand why people don't want to use stal, but you can still work around it. Stop using <t> macros, even with <st> macros (which I use, gogo healing magic skillups on undead) or <stpc> macros (IE haste or protect outside of alliance) if you really get stuck, you target yourself and use the blue arrow to hit the blinker. With any sort of reasonable reaction time, you can catch them np.

You are missing the point. It is having to use macros at all. If you are playing with someone who spams gear changes every few seconds it makes any manual action a pain in the ____ to do. That's just not acceptable, and any game-play element that compromises the entire default system of using spells and abilities needs to be adjusted.

But yes, adding <stal> was doing something i suppose, but wasn't enough IMHO, and I would ask for a more comprehensive appraoch to fixing it, not some half-___ work around.

There is also the issue of that annoying yellow spam that floods your battle log as well, which is equally an issue for me - though no one ever seems to mention that, which makes me suspect the motives of thsoe who are disagreeing with me and who keep praising the integrity of a flawed system. Let's be careful we don't argue just for the sake of argument and admit when there is a design flaw that needs to be fixed. Else what is the point of these forums.