Crafting and gathering without changing Jobs

[Felis]

Can I also play as SMN without changing to SMN please? ^^

Would be nice if the gathering node detection skills were automatic for all classes.

You can equip them as coss-class skills.

[Kahnom]

so you want to gather mature tree with Dark Knight's Great Sword and dig some ores with Monk's Fist ?

[Ashkendor]

so you want to gather mature tree with Dark Knight's Great Sword and dig some ores with Monk's Fist ?

I want to gather fish with my sword rather than playing with all this Precision Hooking crap. :3

[Pooky_Pasha]

I would much rather be able to craft from my retainers. It's not hard to press a button or two to change to a crafter/gatherer class, and it definitely is not worth the time/effort to program what the OP suggests since all you have to do is press a button or two.

[Velisra]

I'm not sure why this is wanted or needed. It's a one click change to a crafting or gathering class if you put the gear set icon on a button bar. Honestly, it sounds as though this wish just comes from being used to games that ARE that way by default, like WoW and RIFT. I was used to that too, but FF is different, and that's okay. If all games were the same, that would be terribly boring! FF makes sense just the way it is.

There are definitely other things I'd rather see added to FF--like Pooky Pasha said, crafting from retainers!

[WingsOfAzrael]

no. just no.

[Sapphic]

Oh please, it's not hard to clone the equipment information to the servers ...

You act like it's set in stone. It's software for heaven sakes. It's "soft".

If it's that easy, do it and submit it to SE so they can implement it.

[Amnesia]

You can equip them as coss-class skills.

The active skills, yes, but not the passive traits.
I might see them adding the passive traits, but having the system automatically equip gear for you just wouldn't work. Let's say you had 2 MIN gearsets. How would it know which to use?