We need mid-combat gear swapping.

[nekuxdesu]

Yes, let's start carrying even more gear for mid battle swaps when our inventory has never been expanded in years.

You pro-inventory expansion guys are disgusting.
You have nearly a thousand
THOUSAND
1,000
3 ZEROS
of inventory space (bag, retainers, armoire, key items, clusters/crystals/shards, and armory chest)

come on

[Assirra]

You pro-inventory expansion guys are disgusting.
You have nearly a thousand
THOUSAND
1,000
3 ZEROS
of inventory space (bag, retainers, armoire, key items, clusters/crystals/shards, and armory chest)

come on

I honestly doubt you get close to thousand.
Also, since we are talking about carrying armor around everything except your armor and inventory slot instantly does not matter.

[Ashiee]

I honestly doubt you get close to thousand.
Also, since we are talking about carrying armor around everything except your armor and inventory slot instantly does not matter.

You actually do get about a thousand counting all of those things
Personal Inventory = 100
2x Retainers = 300 (150 slots each)
Armory Chest = 300 (12 x 25)
Armoire = ???, but you can currently hold a decent amount. I currently have.... 222 items stored within
Shards/Crystals/Cluster = 18 slots

That all amounts to... 940 slots. Not 1000 but you can probably hold more then I do in Armoire, and I'm not counting key items /retainer crystals. That also doesn't count things like minions/mounts.

[Shougun]

You actually do get about a thousand counting all of those things
Personal Inventory = 100
2x Retainers = 300 (150 slots each)
Armory Chest = 300 (12 x 25)
Armoire = ???, but you can currently hold a decent amount. I currently have.... 222 items stored within
Shards/Crystals/Cluster = 18 slots

That all amounts to... 940 slots. Not 1000 but you can probably hold more then I do in Armoire, and I'm not counting key items /retainer crystals. That also doesn't count things like minions/mounts.

Two hundred twenty two items!? What am I not storing in my Armoire, I feel underutilized now.. lol

[amihavingfunyet]

Armoire can hold no relevant gear, neither does the key items/crystal section of your inventory. You also can't swap gear from your inventory autimatically by changing gear sets.
But apart from that, I don't see any reason to swap gear infight in a vertical progression.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

You pro-inventory expansion guys are disgusting.
You have nearly a thousand
THOUSAND
1,000
3 ZEROS
of inventory space (bag, retainers, armoire, key items, clusters/crystals/shards, and armory chest)

come on

So your answer is inventory management, the game. I am quite sure people are going to be pleased with having several gear sets for several jobs and their gear rotations and then having to shuffle them between their amory and retainers.

Oh and FYI, key items and crystals have their own personal space and do not contribute to the inventory problem. I am not one of the many people who has full inventory, but this idea the OP presents is only going to exaggerate the problem further. Do I really want to be carrying two or three different sets of gear for my classes just so I can have constant optimal stats in every fight while I listen to people like you telling everyone to "git gud" with item management? So in short, you come on.