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

[Betelgeuzah]

Changing gear made XI's end game work.

Which is why even more important question is what their plans are for the gear progression. Situational upgrades won't work because, well, there are only a fraction of situations as opposed to XI. And if there's no situational upgrades, they'll be forced to make equipment obsolete often. Otherwise we have no reason to go after the new equipment, if it doesn't benefit us.

Gear swaps are a brilliant concept and there's no good argument against it. The small flaws in XI's system are easily fixed.

If they don't do something revolutionary (which isn't Yoshida's style) they will need to choose one or the other. And at this point the community is pointing them towards WoW, as opposed to XI with clear improvements (that is ultimately a better system, when executed correctly. Which isn't hard.)

[weeble]

what a shame ...someone start a abolishment of slot points thread cause that at the very least needs to go. what the hell else is there in a pve game but to kill things for gears to wear.

[Roll]

someone start a abolishment of slot points thread cause that at the very least needs to go.

It's over here:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ory-limitation

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

I got to say I am little disappointed simply because of my experiences in FFXI. Having different gear sets really made putting the finishing touches on a job require lots of different gear pieces that really encouraged people to participate in all the different events in which all these pieces came from. Now it seems as 1 piece will generally be the best overall piece and that is it. No more enfeebling sets, stoneskin sets, elemental magic sets, -pdt sets, etc.

[weeble]

yeah we will have to see how this game implements everything>< my bet endgame content will keep dying out. people getting the 1piece they want and quiting rather then doing that event for years. is a shame but we'll see how it goes

[Alhanelem]

Good. From what ive seen in this thread there is plenty of people that dont really want it.

seconded. constant gear swapping metagame = do not want

[Elkwood]

Spoke with Battle Master Matsui to get the lowdown on the whole gear swapping question that's got you all buzzin'. In regards to swapping gear while in battle, since changing certain gear while in battle will change your class in FFXIV, we're not planning to make it possible to swap gear in battle. This direction will not change in the future.

We are focusing instead on making adjustments with the battle-related fixes to ensure that you can battle to your utmost ability without having to rely on changing gear multiple times mid-fight.

Then Fire Matsui as well because you have now just confirmed for us that each patch or update will make the next one useless essentially killing the game similar to what you guys did with Abyssea in XI when you tossed 7 years of peoples lives down the toilet.

Swapping gear made each item a specialty item and kept people killing the same endgame mobs for years. It did not out date the content and allowed the game to progress to a point where there was actually almost to much to do on a weekly basis.

Since you have confirmed for us that the gear will last a year maybe two until the next level cap increase I would say you are taking the game in the direction of WOW and bowing to the masses. I guess the casual gamers have finally won, and those of us that enjoyed XI's very intricut systems with all its complexity and challenges probably wont be around for very much longer.

[Xatsh]

Sorta ashame, FFXIV is doomed to have the same game breaking elements WoW and most mmos have with content now.

Only way to add new content is to destroy all old content now... since there will be 1 set of armor for each class.

This simple thing cut FFXIV's life by 80%.

SE continues to ignore everything that made FFXI into a strong mmo for almost a decade... it is starting to really worry me.

[weeble]

rip ffxiv! lol u read my mind elkwood.this post pretty much confirmed it's own death to me. . lot of mmo's are going to the casuals ...so sad. guess people want to pay for a graphical aproach to aol chat rooms. meh no thanks.

oh and also this game will have to put out at least double the content at twice the speed as ffxi and right now it's 100% slower. and for most who didn't leave no matter how fast you go it will never be fast enough anymore and we will always be waiting for that next content. and unlike ffxi you wont keep them paying and waiting, i know i wont.

[Laughlyn]

Im both happy and kinda sad of this howevere it would save some time during battles not having to do gear swaps.
I could however settle for accessory gear swaps, like rings, necklaces etc to improve some spells / attacks efficiency.

Or...maybe even better / simpler "Attributes" swap instead of gear change, something i'd like to recommend SE evaluating instead of just copy & paste FFXI's old gear swap style.

Hm.. now that i think about it, maybe even add a class in the future wich is able to do Stats buff for a limited duration wich could boost weapon-skills, spells & attacks.
Maybe a Time-mage / Mathematician / Chemist.