Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
Not sure why people would have multiple gear sets with the addition of horizontal progression. Is this an FFXI thing?
Yes, from what I gathered, XI allowed you to change your gear during combat. The result being that players would make multiple gearsets for spefici purposes and then swap them in the middle of a fight. Say there was a Boss which phases based on the elemental wheel. You'd start with Fire-aspected gear for the Ice phase, then when he switches to say...Lightning, you'd whip out your earth aspected gear and fight him there.

And XI has plenty of gear that affects certain skills, in another example lets say there 3 Gearsets with these as set bonuses: once that increases enmity for Fast Blade, One that increases enmity from Savage Blade and one that increases enmity from rage of Halone. If this kind of gear swapping was permitted in XIV then the PLD would be able to change gear almost every GCD