FFXI's gear swap was like having extra skills.

[Razor]

How could someone honestly like setting up a thousand macros to change it every other WS? Seriously, leave that to FFXI...

Started with S and ended with T my friend. Regardless, at the end of the day Materia is merely a system that allow people to dedicate time and energy (gil) into being better than everyone else. Having the ability to do mid-fight gear changing is not all that much different. You can settle for 1 materia/gear instead of striving for multiple and that is OK. Likewise you can settle for having only 1 gearset and in most situations that will be perfectly OK too. Some of us, however, do actually enjoy ways to maximize our capabilities in game.

What is "tedious work setting up macros" to you is "striving to be the best" for us. Its kind of synonymous with the word "overachieving" and last time I checked that was rarely a bad thing. Speaking of which I feel like that is most people's gripe with gear swapping. You don't have to make multiple gear slots, just like you don't have to slot multiple materia. But some people's motivation is to prevent the people who will make multiple gear sets from doing so because then the parser would begin to frown upon them. And everyone likes to be a winner easily, yes?

[DeadRiser]

Started with S and ended with T my friend. Regardless, at the end of the day Materia is merely a system that allow people to dedicate time and energy (gil) into being better than everyone else. Having the ability to do mid-fight gear changing is not all that much different. You can settle for 1 materia/gear instead of striving for multiple and that is OK. Likewise you can settle for having only 1 gearset and in most situations that will be perfectly OK too. Some of us, however, do actually enjoy ways to maximize our capabilities in game.

What is "tedious work setting up macros" to you is "striving to be the best" for us. Its kind of synonymous with the word "overachieving" and last time I checked that was rarely a bad thing. Speaking of which I feel like that is most people's gripe with gear swapping. You don't have to make multiple gear slots, just like you don't have to slot multiple materia. But some people's motivation is to prevent the people who will make multiple gear sets from doing so because then the parser would begin to frown upon them. And everyone likes to be a winner easily, yes?

Why must you segregate US from YALL? If I'm not mistaken, we are all playing the same game. And the majority obviously doesn't like this.

And DON'T make me bring in what I don't want to. It's starts with an I and ends with an N...

You are breaking my

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