Quote Originally Posted by Gidonoidon_Sur View Post
Do you all think that gear swapping will become more prevalent with the inception of materia? Like, say I have X piece, and I want a DD version (+Attack, +STR, etc materia attached) and a survival version (+HP, +elemental resistances), I could have both and create macros like in XI and switch back and forth depending on the circumstance. It seems with XIV they moved away from the gear-centric approach of XI (where you could macro in different gear for different situations). But do you think this approach could return with the release of materia?
I think it may be more about making specific gear sets based on what you want to do. I'm gonna try to make a general purpose set of mage gear at first but eventually I will try to make a set for main healing and one for nuking, so I can equip them ahead of time based on the makeup of the party or what we're fighting. I for one am glad in-battle gear swapping isn't in this game and would like to stay it that way, but preparatory gear swapping for different situations is fine.