[ Dev's ] Gear Swaps Can I have It?

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Originally Posted by Physic

man, it was a mistake, Im glad its gone, hope it never comes back. If you want to choose your stats/gear abilities for one fight go for it, thats pretty cool actually (one advantage of the armory system) but changing multiple times per fight, disappearing, sure many people did it but it should never have been

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Indeed. Also, it messes with how content is balanced, because instead of balancing mobs and bosses around players in balanced gear or gear that favors a particular role, you're balancing against guys that have an STR set, a WS set, a TP set, a -PDT set, a -MDT set and so on. The hybrids are most affected by this, though yes, even the melee classes had their own "standards" to follow. It really made the game not fun.

Good god no, gear swaps were annoying as hell. Carrying around 60 pieces of gear for one job to be optimal. In this game where inventory is such an issue already I don't want to have to pay for 10 retainers just to hold everything.

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Originally Posted by Amage

ok ok here something you should have learned in FFXI so it seems u joined after abyssea you can make cure macro's to a player

/ma "Cure IV" <p1> and so on and in alliance <a1> <a2> etc etc ... so blinking wouldnt effect in any way because the code would find player either blinking or not hehhehehehe nice try go back get brady games handbook LMAO

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Ok be realistic for a second, who's going to make 6-18 macros for each spell lol? And that brady games strategy guide is so outdated.

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To this day there are newbs who can't understand this in FF11. It's amazing & you don't need 3rd party BlinkMeNot.

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Originally Posted by weeble

not only will they not do that, my bet is that anyone in long battles in future will still end up unsheathing and then switching with macros, just adds 1 step not needed. and if they try make gear unchangable while party has things fighting it can be anoying in general and will automatically remove needing most gear in game and removing content along with it.

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I thought you said you were gonna stop posting here. I don't know if you notice this but if you sheath your weapon during battle and change your armor, you get a debuff called "Discomfort". I think this is another sign SE does not want gear swapping to come back in XIV.

Just let it go man. Just let it go.

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Originally Posted by Roll

Ok be realistic for a second, who's going to make 6-18 macros for each spell lol? And that brady games strategy guide is so outdated.

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was accually saying for yuou to read it again lol and im just saying for cure macros you would only use it

dont see what the big deal about adding gear swaps i never used it in ffxi and i wont use it here if they add it.

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Originally Posted by Amage

was accually saying for yuou to read it again lol and im just saying for cure macros you would only use it

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So 6-18 macros for Cure? (6 for party, 18 for alliance) Seems a bit much.

Definitely NO for gear swaps. I hated having to spend an hour getting and moving around gear when I changed jobs in FFXI. It was manageable at lower levels but as you started to accumulate multiple 75+ jobs it got way out of hand. Players shouldn't be rewarded for carrying 3-4 sets of armor and spending hours sorting piles of gear instead of playing the game. In short, I'm glad it was done away with.

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Originally Posted by Radaghast

Good god no, gear swaps were annoying as hell. Carrying around 60 pieces of gear for one job to be optimal. In this game where inventory is such an issue already I don't want to have to pay for 10 retainers just to hold everything.

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i don'T even wanna think about how many macros i had for almost every spell on my bluemage... damn that was annoying.
I rather have good gear sets with set-bonus on them that fit my class rather then swapping them around.

I like the idea of full-set-boni anyways. You can create nice looking sets and don't have some weird looking stuff swapped in between just so ONE weaponskill does 5% more dmg.