Solution to "blinking"

[Retsujo]

3rd party tools has nothing to do with the fact that you do not lose target when someone gains the status enhancement of invisible, so I don't understand your argument.

[Laraul]

Question... has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe you should swap the 8 gears pieces that lead to your character "blinking" less often? Or just focus on swapping the gear that doesn't make you "blink" like rings and waist/back gear? I mean this is a non issue for the most part. Adjust your style of play just a little... and everyone will be a little happier...

[Arcon]

Question... has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe you should swap the 8 gears pieces that lead to your character "blinking" less often? Or just focus on swapping the gear that doesn't make you "blink" like rings and waist/back gear? I mean this is a non issue for the most part. Adjust your style of play just a little... and everyone will be a little happier...

No, it has not occurred to me. It has not occurred to me to play worse, to not have to deal with flaws in the game. It still doesn't occur to me. And if it occurs to you, then you just admitted yourself that you're, knowingly and willingly, a worse player than you could be.

[Retsujo]

Swapping gear is a "Problem" for a reason, and anyone who doesn't take full advantage of swapping the gear they have to some other gear they have that better enhances the ability/spell you're about to use is just plain being lazy. Why would you settle for less when you could do so much more?

[Mirage]

I really think SE should implement a delay, since I believe SE doesn't want us to swap too.
But "no gear swap before 3rd party tools"? Who said that? What does that mean?

Ihnako said that, i was disagreeing.

[Ihnako]

Ihnako said that, i was disagreeing.

In posting?
In case you quote quote with the right lines and not what you'r wishing.

[Mirage]

Don't see why i should have to. Don't you read your own posts?

[Ihnako]

I read my own and I never wrote what you imply.
So - where and when - posting #?

You can't so you'r spreading a misstatement.
Have fun.

[Raksha]

The people who wrote the 3'rd party tool just disabled a function of the game itself.
That's not the solution - it's just another workaround.
Blinking wasn't a problem until 3'rd party tools became common.

So the solution - and I agree with you - would be to implement an option to disable the refresh of your/partymembers/others character models.
But then again:
- How could you tell that you/a certain partymember/aso. got (partialy) striped?
- How could you tell that you/a certain partymember/aso. use the right weapon (since it's part of the charactermodel)?

In the end - BMN is a halfhearted workaround and not a solution since you can't answer the two questions above without exzessively checking yourself/others or even more exzessively gearswaping.

I think this is what he was referring to.

[Ihnako]

That may be - but I still didn't say what he/she implyed.
Cause "Blinking wasn't a problem until 3'rd party tools became common."
#1 Most people are too lazy to hit more than one macro for one action they want to perform.
#2 You have to deal with a limited line number and a limited set of accessibe macros. (before the big patch 200 macros at all, now 4.000)
#3 The majority played the game on PS2 or XBOX who can't use anything other than that what the game comes with.

With the ability to write macros that have an infinit number of lines and/or a scripted/(half)automated system where you can even change your whole gear by what you want to do without worrying about what day/weather/time/aso it is, more people became blinking on a regular basis.