Down with Gear Swapping!

[Maquis]

Gear Swapping shouldn't be allowed in the game.

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?

I would like to point out that if you question the feasibility of someone changing clothes in 2 seconds in a game where you can teleport, warp, summon avatars and more magical things, you probably need someone to tell you that it is called Final Fantasy and not Final Reality.

Apart from that, I think SE added this feature to allow them to create situational gear. Opening up a rewarding system that allows for a wider spread of content.

If you would remove or penalise gear swapping, a large portion of the current available gear would be unwanted and the content players would have to go through to obtain those pieces might not be played as much.

From SE's perspective it would be much wiser to provide bonusses to gear swapping, since it rewards people to obtain situational pieces. Giving people incentive to get all those situational pieces out there and keeping them playing and enjoying FFXI for a longer period of time.


tl;dr: Gear swapping supports situational gear rewards.