Down with Gear Swapping!

[Avarice]

Stop being elitist. People can play how they want and have their opinions. Does this forum look like BG??????????????

IT'S HIS $12.95!

Healers would be happy

Mages that continue to bitch about melee who change gear need to find a new job. End of discussion.

[Alderin]

<stal> and <stpt> say hello

Took the words out of my mouth. The healer argument doesn't exist with smart macro'ing.

[cidbahamut]

Actually healers would be happy. They wouldnt lose thier target while paging down an alliance party list to heal someone.

Stop posting this nonsense.

[Dodge]

Actually healers would be happy. They wouldnt lose thier target while paging down an alliance party list to heal someone.

If paging down a list of 18 people is tough enough work, I'd imagine that they're too lazy to breathe. Hook them up to life support, they can't be bothered to eat/drink on their own. FFS, why is there such an issue with <stal>/<stpt>?

[Henihhi]

IT'S HIS $12.95!



Mages that continue to bitch about melee who change gear need to find a new job. End of discussion.

That right there about sums it up. People claim to have played forever, try to give advice and still don't know this simple crap? And then wonder why people make fun of them. Seriously- SE had this fixed with those simple commands. Just because some people try to optimize their abilities by gear swapping and you choose not to is no reason to cry on official forums because you don't know how to make proper macros- The information is out there, and not very hard to find.

[cidbahamut]

FFS, why is there such an issue with <stal>/<stpt>?

Because people are lazy and ignorant.

[Hoshi]

Funny... I always thought of Nidhogg as a dragon. I guess I'll keep an eye out for him the next time I'm in Halvung.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

You know, I got a great idea how to fix the gear swaping issue, I think I'll post that next.

it is fixed, was fixed a long time ago, it is called <STPT> and for alliance I think its.... <STAL>?

People are just lazy and do not want to change their macros/still want something to complain about.

[Haldarn]

it is fixed, was fixed a long time ago, it is called <STPT> and for alliance I think its.... <STAL>?

People are just lazy and do not want to change their macros/still want something to complain about.

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

[Chiibi]

I hope to god this is a joke... <stal> and <stpt> fix said problem mostly (unless they need to make the damn arrow bigger/different color)