Why the hell is there a cooldown when you switch jobs?

[Freakiie]

In fairness, it rather nullifies the meaning of being a gathering CLASS, if you can freely switch to between combat and civilian skill sets (For example it renders the stealth skill largely pointless if you can switch out, stab all the nearby enemeis, then switch back). You can freely switch between Disciple of the Land classes without a GP penalty.

Imagine if they allowed free switching; next logical step will be that switching at all is inconvenient, and it should be like Guild Wars 2, where you can use resource nodes while set to a combat class.

First off, you can't swap while in combat anyway. Second. YOU know how to fight those mobs. YOU have the equipment with you to do so. Why exactly can't you take out your staff and kill those mobs? Taking out an axe/mining pick suddenly gave you amnesia or something?
Look at it vice versa, what's the point of a combat class if it doesn't allow you to kill mobs when they're close to a node you want to mine?

[RyuujinZERO]

Taking out an axe/mining pick suddenly gave you amnesia or something?

You get dressed/undressed instantly in real life?

If you want to take a swing at an enemy with your pickaxe you can. Hell when I'm gathering in low level zones I'll often help the lowbies with their kills by braining a few mobs with my logging axe

[Freakiie]

I get dressed in less than 30 secs, that's for sure.

[Mistoltin]

You get dressed/undressed instantly in real life?

If you want to take a swing at an enemy with your pickaxe you can. Hell when I'm gathering in low level zones I'll often help the lowbies with their kills by braining a few mobs with my logging axe

Using real life as an argument for a mechanic. Ha, genius!

In all seriousness though, I'd prefer it if basically every single ability would reset to it's natural cooldown. You can't change in combat, you can't change in dungeons either so naturally this isn't really open for abuse, so I don't see the problem.

[KhalidTheGreat]

Anyone else get friggin' annoyed when you switch to like Miner and all your GP is gone?
Wtf?

The miner gp thing is too annoying.
Especially when you've just switched and you discover an unspoiled node :/

[Mayin]

Its so people dont take advantage of switching jobs mid whatever they are doing to get extra cooldowns and such

[ilitirit]

It would be trivial to store the cooldowns for each of your available skills in memory. It doesn't even have to tick. They just store the cooldown period remaining when you switch. SE will probably claim they can't do it because of PS3 memory limitations. This will open up the door for hacks though, unless they store these CD values on the server which is a sucky solution but not impossible.

[Garnatian]

With the cool down resets this is an easier way for SE to keep you from using a CD on class 1 with a two minute timer, switching to class 2, then back to class 1 to reset the timer before the original 2 minute timer had refreshed. The way it works currently is MUCH easier than trying to keep track of all the individual cool downs for 20 different classes/jobs so you can't exploit.

Sure it sucks. but for SE it beats the alternative work/code required.

You can't switch classes inside an instance anyway, so it serves little purpose.

[Mordermi]

Can we get this fixed so we can actually start crafting when we swap to a crafting class instead of waiting a minute and a half for Steady Hand II to reset?

Is there really a cooldown for Steady Hand II when switching? I often switch between crafting classes, and then begin crafting right away. I don't have Steady Hand II, but all of the abilities that I have are instantly available.

[Zfz]

Simple, and less frustrating alternative, would be to set everything to its recast timer once you change classes.

90s recast? gotta wait 90s (okay, sounds fair). 2.5s recast? gotta wait 30s (wtf seriously why?)

So Much This!

When I am chopping trees and watching paint dry, a FATE pops right next to me, I finish off the 2 chops I still have on the tree, switch into my CNJ, and have to stand there doing nothing at all while I see the zerg army overrun that FATE, and get Silver (sometimes even only Bronze) even though I've been there the whole time.

Just put everything into its recast cooldown and be done with it. I don't really see a point to force such a long cooldown on everything.

PS: IIRC the longer cooldowns do activate their recast timer upon switching. What annoys me to no end is the basic attacks like Fast Blade.