Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[Roaran]

Gear Swapping is common in RPGs.

I need a logically sound argument as to why you do not want gear swapping.

Someone said, "it promotes elitism".

I say gear swapping is beneficial for SE, the worlds' economies, and game play.


BTW Mages can gear swap, melee can't. You have a flaw SE. Fix it and give us gear swapping in ACTIVE mode.

It's fairly simple really, and the developers already answered this long ago.

Their choice was between allowing gear swaps or not. The simple difference in this choice was in when the decision of what gear to use should be made. The developers already stated they wanted this choice to be made before the battle.

Personally, I do not see gear swap macros as a viable game mechanic. If this was FFXI, where combat was necessarily simple and required very little input or movement, then I could see there being a place for gear swap macros. However, this is FFXIV, where the pace of battle is significantly faster and requires far more inputs from the player. There eventually comes a limit to what a human can possibly macro; so, with every increase in inputs, we eventually get closer to a point where we will no longer be able to add battle mechanics. Implementing Gear swaps eventually comes at a cost to the faster paced battles. Battles like Ifrit probably have to be adjusted.

I also wonder whether gear swaps are even worth the time it takes to switch the gear back and forth. Would you really be able to get any gains at all?

[StateAlchemist]

It's fairly simple really, and the developers already answered this long ago.

Their choice was between allowing gear swaps or not. The simple difference in this choice was in when the decision of what gear to use should be made. The developers already stated they wanted this choice to be made before the battle.

Personally, I do not see gear swap macros as a viable game mechanic. If this was FFXI, where combat was necessarily simple and required very little input or movement, then I could see there being a place for gear swap macros. However, this is FFXIV, where the pace of battle is significantly faster and requires far more inputs from the player. There eventually comes a limit to what a human can possibly macro; so, with every increase in inputs, we eventually get closer to a point where we will no longer be able to add battle mechanics. Implementing Gear swaps eventually comes at a cost to the faster paced battles. Battles like Ifrit probably have to be adjusted.

I also wonder whether gear swaps are even worth the time it takes to switch the gear back and forth. Would you really be able to get any gains at all?

Biggest difference you would see is from WHM and BLM currently (however even though we CAN viably gear-swap since we can stay in passive mode it takes TOO LONG) In princess fight I can have fire magic+++ when i go to cast flare i can swap to mag acc PIE, when i go to convert i can swap out for HP++++ gear...same for whm, when whm cures it can stay in hmp gear, soon as they go to rebuff, change to VIT+++ and enhancement magic pot+++ its not like you would be binking all fing fight...

[Andrien]

Personally, I do not see gear swap macros as a viable game mechanic. If this was FFXI, where combat was necessarily simple and required very little input or movement, then I could see there being a place for gear swap macros. However, this is FFXIV, where the pace of battle is significantly faster and requires far more inputs from the player. There eventually comes a limit to what a human can possibly macro; so, with every increase in inputs, we eventually get closer to a point where we will no longer be able to add battle mechanics. Implementing Gear swaps eventually comes at a cost to the faster paced battles. Battles like Ifrit probably have to be adjusted.

QFT

I just hope people understand this, because it seems common sense is so rare it might be considered a super power now.