Quote Originally Posted by Roaran View Post
Unfortunately FFXIV prevents this behavior from being effective by inhibiting stats upon swapping equipment.

I happen to personally like not having to hit equipment macros and watch my character undress redress undress again and do an invisible dance right before certain skills.
Also easier to balance a static system. But I think just having skills mix-matched before every encounter is bad enough.

I'll fight this mage with my anti-mage skills and gear...and I'll fight this fighter after that with my anti melee gear and skills....it's naturally unbalanced.

It will also allow developers to have stats that don't match up purposely. Speed gear, TP gear, power gear, etc can't be blinked on to l33t -fied it.