FFXI's gear swap was like having extra skills.

[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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[Erariel]

It breaks the game theme for me >_>

[Fayette]

This was already discussed back in June with a response from Bayohne. The majority in the community said no to gear swaps (thank goodness) and it was confirmed we would not have gear swapping in FFXIV.

Gear Swaps Can I have It Thread

Spoke with Battle Master Matsui to get the lowdown on the whole gear swapping question that's got you all buzzin'. In regards to swapping gear while in battle, since changing certain gear while in battle will change your class in FFXIV, we're not planning to make it possible to swap gear in battle. This direction will not change in the future.

We are focusing instead on making adjustments with the battle-related fixes to ensure that you can battle to your utmost ability without having to rely on changing gear multiple times mid-fight.

[Griss]

Gear swapping in xi was a massive snowball that square kept putting snow in front of. Hyper specialized gear that was useful for one and one thing only. lead gear swapping, leads to more specialized gear, more swapping, then there is a egg and a chicken mixed up some where in there. things get so out of hand that third party tools were created to allow for hyper complex and then automated gear swaps.

It's a rabbit hole that i would really rather not go down again.

[Seif]

Never done that in xi. You have ton of skills on 2 real jobs anyway. Never needed more.

[Rydin]

this......

and this...

and even this....

are all the exact same thing

[Scarface]

are all the exact same thing

Did you just necro this? HAHA. Win.

[Rydin]

Did you just necro this? HAHA. Win.

I think a lot of people are just tired of weighing in on this... so since all the pros and cons were already laid out in this thread... we can save ourselves a lot of time

[Asmeret]

I think a lot of people are just tired of weighing in on this... so since all the pros and cons were already laid out in this thread... we can save ourselves a lot of time

Linking threads to past discussions won't do anything, everyone wants to give their own opinion on the matter.

[Rydin]

Linking threads to past discussions won't do anything, everyone wants to give their own opinion on the matter.

I know... but Japanese players tend to just keep 1 thread that encompasses all posts on a single topic..
its easy for the MODs to relay info the devs because its all right there....