DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[Molly_Millions]

+1 to bring back gear swapping.

It is silly not to have it, plenty of MMO's do not just FFXI. I don't understand the argument against it, you have to carry too many items? It breaks immersion? Tough luck. Having gear last exponentially longer, and making itemization so much deeper is worth both of those.

If not allowing us to swap gear in 2.0, please at least give us activated effects on gear (such as in Vanguard) and allow us to use the effects if the item is in our inventory. Killing some highly notorious monster should never become passé because none of the gear it drops is useful any longer. It is completely backwards game design logic, no one asked them to trivialize endgame content after 1-2 patches.

Too bad you've already been overruled by the devs, gear swapping is, rightfully, staying out of this game.

[Exni]

Too bad you've already been overruled by the devs, gear swapping is, rightfully, staying out of this game.

Yes Molly. We all know you LOVE pointing at that "dead" horse.. The half-thoughtout comment from the Dev's that stated they aren't planning on doing it because XIV's armoury system is what is used to change your class.. Yet that response has nothing to do with the rest of the gear (ya know.. everything BUT weapons..). Oh, and can't forget to mention, things change..

[Molly_Millions]

Yes Molly. We all know you LOVE pointing at that "dead" horse.. The half-thoughtout comment from the Dev's that stated they aren't planning on doing it because XIV's armoury system is what is used to change your class.. Yet that response has nothing to do with the rest of the gear (ya know.. everything BUT weapons..). Oh, and can't forget to mention, things change..

Changing classes is only a technical limitation as to why it can't be done, there are also plenty of reasons why it shouldn't be done as well.

[Elexia]

Too bad you've already been overruled by the devs, gear swapping is, rightfully, staying out of this game.

Sadly, they also stated they're not against the idea either so it could still happen whether you like it or not. If they see need for it, they'll add it.

The only thing they said they're AGAINST, is adding a lot of haste gear or haste spell. Also it seems like people who are against gearswap never knew what it was for. For example if I wanted to enhance Refresh, I'd do this:

Equip my: then use refresh.

That's what gear swapping is for. If I were to cast paralyze, I'd either equip enfeebling + gear OR a simple ice affinity staff. Bam, gear swapping done. You people who say "lol you need 82918298 gear per slot to do an action" never used gearswap, don't know what gear swap is and just simply are making assumptions about it because of the people who go overkill with it. No mob in FFXI required you to swap absolutely everything for every action. Mobs had a baseline resistance that just being level 75-99 and capped skill + merits will land just fine unless the mob itself was highly resistant, i.e Shiva flatout resists paralyze due to it being ice based.