[ Dev's ] Gear Swaps Can I have It?

[weeble]

not only will they not do that, my bet is that anyone in long battles in future will still end up unsheathing and then switching with macros, just adds 1 step not needed. and if they try make gear unchangable while party has things fighting it can be anoying in general and will automatically remove needing most gear in game and removing content along with it.

[Roll]

not only will they not do that, my bet is that anyone in long battles in future will still end up unsheathing and then switching with macros, just adds 1 step not needed. and if they try make gear unchangable while party has things fighting it can be anoying in general and will automatically remove needing most gear in game and removing content along with it.

I thought you said you were gonna stop posting here. I don't know if you notice this but if you sheath your weapon during battle and change your armor, you get a debuff called "Discomfort". I think this is another sign SE does not want gear swapping to come back in XIV.

Just let it go man. Just let it go.

[Duelle]

Dev's Why are Gear swaps not in the game in 11 it was fun making your character better by switching in gear to suit the monster please answer

Seeing that swapping was the one thing that largely ruined FFXI for me due to it being stupid to see your character blink in and out constantly and how immersion-killing it was, I'll say no to gear swapping.

PS: Swapping also makes hybrid jobs a real pain to play and screws over those that are balanced around gear being the limiting factors (see: Red Mage).

[Amage]

Seeing that swapping was the one thing that largely ruined FFXI for me due to it being stupid to see your character blink in and out constantly and how immersion-killing it was, I'll say no to gear swapping.

PS: Swapping also makes hybrid jobs a real pain to play and screws over those that are balanced around gear being on the limiting factors (see: Red Mage).

Cool Story Bro!

[Cassius]

What about allowing us to wear 4 rings, 1 necklace and 2 bracelets, and allow us to choose which ones to activate with a macro? (Well, activating a piece of gear seems a bit weird, but games aren't reality, right?) It wouldn't be as hardcore as gear swapping in FFXI, but would still allow players that are a bit elitist to change a part of their gear to be more efficient. It also would only require a few macros, and will give more work to goldsmithing.

[Physic]

gear swapping was an admitted mistake, they kept it going though, but it really was retarded, in fact it just rewarded people for using windower, with its infinite swaps.
If they want to bring back the cool parts of gear swapping, they need to make a system where you can take stats off of gear and add it to your charachter or some such. Its stupid that most of the time your charachter doesnt exist due to an exploit. Do a ws and disapear, oh wait you need one for boost one for chakra one for most ws, mass quantities of gear, on for blink one for footwork, one for dragon kick.
man, it was a mistake, Im glad its gone, hope it never comes back. If you want to choose your stats/gear abilities for one fight go for it, thats pretty cool actually (one advantage of the armory system) but changing multiple times per fight, disappearing, sure many people did it but it should never have been

[Duelle]

man, it was a mistake, Im glad its gone, hope it never comes back. If you want to choose your stats/gear abilities for one fight go for it, thats pretty cool actually (one advantage of the armory system) but changing multiple times per fight, disappearing, sure many people did it but it should never have been

Indeed. Also, it messes with how content is balanced, because instead of balancing mobs and bosses around players in balanced gear or gear that favors a particular role, you're balancing against guys that have an STR set, a WS set, a TP set, a -PDT set, a -MDT set and so on. The hybrids are most affected by this, though yes, even the melee classes had their own "standards" to follow. It really made the game not fun.

[Physic]

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[Radaghast]

Good god no, gear swaps were annoying as hell. Carrying around 60 pieces of gear for one job to be optimal. In this game where inventory is such an issue already I don't want to have to pay for 10 retainers just to hold everything.

[Anty]

Good god no, gear swaps were annoying as hell. Carrying around 60 pieces of gear for one job to be optimal. In this game where inventory is such an issue already I don't want to have to pay for 10 retainers just to hold everything.

i don'T even wanna think about how many macros i had for almost every spell on my bluemage... damn that was annoying.
I rather have good gear sets with set-bonus on them that fit my class rather then swapping them around.

I like the idea of full-set-boni anyways. You can create nice looking sets and don't have some weird looking stuff swapped in between just so ONE weaponskill does 5% more dmg.