Lets talk of Gear Sets

From what we saw from interviews and the gameplay presentation. There will the addition of Gear Sets. The best part of gear sets is that it will not be counted toward the spaces in our actual bag. Which is a life saver!

Then a million questions began to run through my head. Will the Gear set be class/job exclusive, or will they be shared by entire character. For instance, will I have 5 gear sets for my CNJ/WHM, then 5 more for my PGL/MNK, or will I have to share those gear sets with both of those different classes/jobs.

Also, the fact that the gear is no long part of your bag inventory, will it be set to one and only one gear set, or will one piece of gear be able to exist in multiple of gear sets. For example, for Whm, I decide I want a healing set and a hybrid healing/nuking set. But for both of these sets, I find it necessary to have Healer Boots equip to both. Will I be forced to manually take the boots off one set and add it to another set, or will there be some way to have them exist elsewhere, like some kind of separate "Mannequin Inventory".

And then....
I kid, what do you think~?

inb4 thread devolves into debate over swapping gear during battle (IT WON'T HAPPEN. GET OVER IT)

I think they'll provide enough gearsets for each job as a minimum. So that's 7. They may round that up to 8. But I don't see the point in limiting a gearset to each job. That's just backwards, inhibitive, and not the philosophy that I think Yoshi-P is going for.

As for swapping gear, I'd imagine them operating like inventory bags. You can pull one up, drop the boots into a bag, pull the other up, then drop it into your other gearset... I don't think that sounds tedious at all, compared to what we've been used to lately.


Also, Macros.

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Originally Posted by Denmo

inb4 thread devolves into debate over swapping gear during battle (IT WON'T HAPPEN. GET OVER IT)

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Ironically the only thing people said against this was:

-Blinking in battle made no sense (yet we see that no longer occurs)

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-Having to have multiple gearsets which we see will become a standard feature.

Never forget the DoH and DoL~

But I'd seriously love to get away from having to macro gear for certain situations ever again.

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Ironically the only thing people said against this was:

-Blinking in battle made no sense (yet we see that no longer occurs)

and

-Having to have multiple gearsets which we see will become a standard feature.

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Funny part about the new inventory, when Yoshi was equipping his DRG, there was no blinking from what I saw. o:

This is why I always craft a multi purpose gear set, like mage set and fighter set, just to save slots

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Ironically the only thing people said against this was:

-Blinking in battle made no sense (yet we see that no longer occurs)

and

-Having to have multiple gearsets which we see will become a standard feature.

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- messes up game balance
- developers have to create content that is a challenge by recognizing gear-swapping mid-battle as an 'unintended feature'
- massive lag-generating macros

.. were the other downsides, from what I recall.

Im also against multiple gearset, even if 2.0 accomodate this
I never play XI, but from what I hear, *shudder*, lets hope that not happen here

Indeed, only reason I want gear sets would be to ease the burden of having to switch from WHM to all my DoH classes and then back to WHM.

But not as though I want gear switching in battle! I'd just like a way to effectively gear for solo play and party play as well.

are you leveling your DoH or doing HQ?
if only for leveling purpose, lots of gear is wearable by all class, like woolen tight, or mahogany patten

you can use that and still can level your DoH