Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[ThePatriarch]

Being better than people doesn't make you a douchebag. Statements that make you come across as a douchebag make you a douchebag. See above. "But I play to be better than the rest" "I'm above you in terms on overall successes in a game"

People call people douches for acting like douches. Not because they have more stuff.

Gear swapping is not needed. Its part of your strategy to find the best gear set for the content you are attetmpting. It at least would add some kind of dynamics to this game.

Bolded your last couple sentences there.

I guess that puts me in the status of Douchebaggery then. My kind is a dying breed it seems. I like playing games for the competition aspect. The fight to stay at the top, and work at bettering myself and those in my company.

It's so very discourage watching the MMO industry turning into an amusement park for casual players who just want to hang out online with minimal to no competition between players.

[Sasagawa]

Bolded your last couple sentences there.

I guess that puts me in the status of Douchebaggery then. My kind is a dying breed it seems. I like playing games for the competition aspect. The fight to stay at the top, and work at bettering myself and those in my company.

It's so very discourage watching the MMO industry turning into an amusement park for casual players who just want to hang out online with minimal to no competition between players.

Ever thought of playing games to have fun ?

My breed of people must be extinct lol.

All i want out of an MMO a game is to have fun, RELAX (caps because that bits really important) and enjoy the fantasy world of MMORPGs.

What I dont want

A second job
Being told I am "i am not good enough"
that I HAVE to be online at certain times of day or I will be kicked for inactivity

Maybe its just me, but using derogatory arguments and being a "Cyber Bully" is very closely linked to competitiveness and "elitist" attitudes.

My opinion is you should strive to better yourself for yourself and your own feeling of achievement - a true elitist NOT shout from the roof tops about how amazing you are - fake elitist

I don't know where i am going with this but I just felt like wasting 10 mins at work

[Phen]

I feel the basis of an MMO is specialization. Its why a BLM does things differently than a PLD. Should a WHM be a tank? No- its not supposed to be optimal at healing not tanking.

Most of the jobs have stances that switch them between different forms. These are whats supposed to be your slight changes from one form of optimal to another. These all have certain cooldowns/requirements that set paces from what you can do.

You are not supposed to be optimal for every situation from second to second. If you build full defense you should not be able to go 1 second- full offense- 1 second full defense again.

Also what does it really add to gameplay? You hit a macro- like your probably do now. You arent more skilled for it. You hit the same button for X. It just has a few more lines before it now. If its for the gear you worked hard to show everyone on the internet- that can be accomplished with preplanning like now.


For those wanting to keep armor for long periods a couple of things.
1. If its just emotional reasons please think of materia as the way to hold on to your armor. If i was a little more crazy I could make a family tree of my armor.

2. To hope you can keep it forever if gear swaps exist is a bit of a false presumption. The nature of an MMO means you will most likely change it every other update. What I would say is leveling needs to be a bit slower so you feel a need to get that armor rather than in the time i take to deal with it would be less than just pushing through (though often this is the case anyway even in longer run games).

3. Some people would count switching in new armor as a plus. I didnt particularly like using pretty much the same shoes 1-70 in ffxi. Variety can be a nice thing too.