Quote Originally Posted by Onidemon View Post
The point of an MMO is to play with people. If you want to socialize and make friends go on Facebook or dating site.
I'm not supposed to make friends in this game? Oh my... I feel kinda sad for you. Why would you not want to interact with the people that you're playing with? Why limit making friends to only Facebook and dating sites? If you wanna be an anti-social player who doesn't want to make friends while playing, then that's your thing... I guess. But don't tell Alexis to go somewhere else if she wants to make friends in this game. I don't see anything wrong with people doing that.

ANYWAY, back on topic...
The only problem that I foresee with gear swapping is that it's just ANOTHER THING people will have to conform to in order to play certain event/raid/etc., and elitists would force others to think and play like them or tell those players to gtfo. I saw it happen in FFXI, so don't tell me that this wouldn't happen here.

Also, SE game designers designed FFXIV content without the need for swapping gear. They already said that they will not promote gear-swapping. So, instead of worrying about what gear to swap in, how about we just complete the content the way it was meant to be played? Plan ahead, enter battle with the gear you need, and win the fight. Really, it's that simple. You wanna be awesome by using your character's job's full potential? Well, show people YOUR full potential by planning ahead and creating a strategy with the people you're playing with.

It's already annoying enough that people demand that I have certain abilities learned before playing with them. I don't need people telling me that I need to swap in gear during the middle of the battle while already trying to keep up with the fast pace of things.