Gear Swaps?

[Duelle]

Gear swaping in 11 is what kept the game relevant at lvl 75 for so many years, gear 8yrs old+ was still used. All gear swaps do is add another element to the game for people to do, some of the people on this thread are claiming they "did fine" on 11 without using gear swaps, so why would you hate if it was added if it wouldnt effect you?

But you didn't do fine without swapping. Difference in performance was very notable between someone who swapped and someone who didn't. Not to mention swaps led to stupid things like cure cheat macros, which I absolutely abhorred. It would be fine if there had been some passive buff that increased the effect gear had on you the longer you went without swapping, so that I could have bypassed the need to swap entirely. Alas, swappers won the game, people who didn't swap sucked and were gimp. All because the devs were too damn lazy to fix that oversight in design early on.