Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[ThePatriarch]

How about adjust your strategy rather than your gear? Strategy =/= Gear


This is exactly the point those of us on the non-gear swapping side of the fence have been trying to make.

This is a fair response.

What I am about to propose is purely theoretical, just FYI. I know, right now in FFXIV we have no events that would even come close to justifying gear swapping.

Lets say for example, that we have a dragon. This dragon deals purely physical damage + AoE, and Wind Damage for the first 75% of its health.

Now, when you get it to 25% it switches to heavy fire damage, and pure magical damage. In what sense would you wrap a strategy around that? I'm being completely serious. I would love to see true reasons why strategy would always be =/= gear. It just makes sense to me that if a Monster switches to magic damage, ill switch to gear that nullifies magic damage.

I mean, macro's are easy to make. And I only had 1 bar of Gear Swap macros. There were what, like 100 bars total to create?

I am genuinely interested in hearing about new systems though. But to me, just using one set of gear all the way through a raid, or boss seems like easy mode. Before anyone gets mad, this is only my opinion.