Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[KyrsIsley]

im sorry but i dont know about you but i rarely ever have to change gear prior to any particular encounter.

i will allways take my heal pot on whm, def on pld, atk on dragoon, etcetc.

the only time i would use gear i wouldnt 95% of the time otherwise is through gear swaps.

so bassically what your saying completely irrelevant.

Because using "your" playstyle to say that my statement is completely irrelevant is all that relevant.

/sarcasm

As a warrior tank in Aurum Vale, you will want to use cobalt cuirass or sentienel's cuirass for the majority of the run. However, prior to engaging Miser's Mistress, I will make sure I switch to the warrior AF body. As a mage, I make sure I stack up on HP gear during the tunnel, but once I am at Coincounter, I will make sure I switch to dps focused gear. I am not the only person that does this, I've been in enough groups and see other individuals do the same.

Also, I would argue that as a WHM you don't need heal pot. The pure healing output WHM has right now is more than enough to cover most of the situations in any given encounter, unless you have your entire group standing in front of Morbol or standing in the puddle. I would say that HP food is better suited for WHM, so that Blissful Mind (emergency MP recovery) helps you regain more MP, and also increase your survivability during the off chance that things go wrong and you have to take a hit or two. This to me is why I think choosing gear prior to the encounter is so much more fun than simply gear swapping on the fly.

If you need to ask why I do so, then clearly you don't understand the mechanisms of these encounters.

You're basically saying you agree with him.

I don't really think he agrees with me, since he always take "heal pot on whm, def on pld, atk on dragoon" (I assume he means food, since why would you take heal pot on WHM when you can heal yourself?), and I clearly disagree. :P