Why the hell is there a cooldown when you switch jobs?

[AmalahRose]

The thing I hate most is when I see somebody who needs raising while I am gathering.

Change from botanist to scholar.
Wait for cool down of resurrect to end.
Start casting.
Dead guy goes back to home point.
Change back to botanist. No GP.
*Sigh*

[Estellios]

The thing I hate most is when I see somebody who needs raising while I am gathering.

Change from botanist to scholar.
Wait for cool down of ressurect to end.
Start casting.
Dead guy goes back to home point.
Change back to botanist. No GP.
*Sigh*

I kinda wish Raise was all classes but Gatherers and Crafters don't have MP, and I wouldn't want it to cost GP lol

[AmalahRose]

I kinda wish Raise was all classes but Gatherers and Crafters don't have MP, and I wouldn't want it to cost GP lol

Losing a little GP would beat losing all of it though. It would be so great if gatherers could raise.

[Mikita]

The thing I hate most is when I see somebody who needs raising while I am gathering.

Change from botanist to scholar.
Wait for cool down of resurrect to end.
Start casting.
Dead guy goes back to home point.
Change back to botanist. No GP.
*Sigh*

I wish we could equip Raise or Cure while in a gathering class, but I don't see this happening.

Sadly, what you wrote is exactly what happens most of the time so I don't even bother switching anymore even though I'm a WHM main and would really like to help whenever possible.

Anyone else get friggin' annoyed when you switch to like Miner and all your GP is gone?
Wtf?

In the DoL sub-forum a while back I suggested keeping your GP amount in the background and letting it regenerate naturally as long as you are not actively gathering.

This would mean that you could use some gathering abilities immediately after switching (provided you hadn't gathered in a while), but still prevent abuse since you couldn't just switch back and forth to refill your GP for every node.

One of the most boring things right now is farming unspoiled nodes for materials. Between their appearances, you really can't do anything else because it will reset your GP... so most people just go AFK until the next one appears.