DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[NoctisUmbra]

Yeah guy, that's why you'll notice I never said that there wasn't abunch of people against it. You'll also notice that I never claimed that either side had an overwhelming majority.. But thanks for the "filler" info.. I guess..

I'm not following your statement about "you don't need to be great at everything..". Not sure what that has to do with gear swaps. Gear swaps don't all of a sudden break you out of your role in the party... I'm sorry but I don't think anyone was talking about gear swapping a whm into a tank.. Nice try tho. As I already said, gear swaps just allow you to further customize your role, whatever that may be. If your DPS, through gear swaps during the encounter you may want to be more careful on enmity changes and swap in some -enmity gear, or you may be using abunch of multi-hit WS and want to swap in some crit+, or your about to use some ability (ie. Convert) and want to shorten the CD so you swap in your AF.. That is the concept of gear swapping.

To be fair, I'm not sure where your even coming from most of the time which is why I didn't bother to focus much on your other posts. Your entitled to your opinion as I am am mine, but I figured what was the point if I didn't even understand the point you were trying to make? Plus other people seemed to understand and some agree with your thoughts, so I figured I'd leave it at that.

My initial mentioning of people also being against it and that there's no overwhelming majority either way to speak of was more of a statement to put out there to balance your saying there are other people in XIV who will advocate it. Not so much as warning you of anything really. The only thing in that paragraph I'd say was directed to you is the speak for yourself bit. It's a good rule of thumb in general.

As for your not understanding my points, I apologize. Perhaps I can attempt to clarify a bit, although I felt my examples with BRD were sufficient. In response to your bit about a WHM suddenly being a tank via gear-swapping- although ironic that there were people who claimed it to be possible or even advocated for it to be viable on these forums- is not such an extreme example that I was shooting for.

Granting the ability to have multiple sets for use on the fly is tantamount to having them all. I don't see this as customization, rather I see it as the lack thereof. A means to brute-force your character to effectively perform potentially everything there is gear with a bonus for.

Through customization, one can tailor build a set for themselves to prioritize what they wish to focus on in a party. They can custom-build gear pieces with materia for this purpose. They can even have multiple gear sets that prioritize different focuses of the job/class they are for. Then they can pick and use a set for a given battle based on what is needed. Plenty of customization there. Swapping between pieces of these sets mid battle provides players with the means to no longer need to tailor make gear sets, but rather only make gear pieces and then swap among the best ones for each given skill/purpose. It takes the strategy out of the fight, and relocates it into the tailoring of gear and macros.

I hope that clarifies my stance against gear-swapping.