Gear swaping is only a problem for people who are lazy...learn <stal> and live with, if you can't probably shouldn't be playing this, either way this is not "complain" worthy, it's almost as dumb as the "raise/lower the abyssea level caps" threads, i'm sorry but whining about gear swap is comeplety unesassary, good players will always do it, and it won't change or go away. it HAS to be done. i always use stal nor do i use any 3rd party programs to help with "blinking" issues, and i'v content and have no problems with it, it's not an issue at all IMO, you just need to learn how to work with it.