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

[Wynn]

Dear God, no...

Gear swapping was the worst cheese ever to come out of XI. It also encourages elitism. How often have we heard the term "fulltiming" with the implication that the speaker just threw up a little bit just by saying the word?

In fact, here is a post from a rather scholarly fellow on another board that illustrates my point quite nicely:

So much stupid in this thread.

The only reason you'd not want to use gear swaps in ffxi...

1) you suck
2) you're too poor to get any worthwhile equipment and fulltime useless shit and are therefore gimp. you could be the best gamer in the history of the universe, but you're still gimp without the equipment to back it up in ffxi
3) you're playing on a lolconsole. ffxi isn't woth playing on a console. the restrictions on macros alone are proof of that. 6 lines is maybe enough for lvs 1-70, but after that you need more unless you want to hit more than 1 macro for each action... which sucks.
4) you're too stupid to realise the obvious advantage gained from swapping equipment.
5) you're stupid enough to think that swapping gear mid-battle is "unrealistic"... and casting magic, fighting dragons/anything with the delay based combat, TP/HP/MP, the fact you can't step up a tiny little wall but apparently save the world from being destroyed is realisitc? stfu.
6) you're too stupid to realise that <stpt> amd <stal> were added eons ago so it's impossible to lose a target due to equipment change. blinkmenot works too.

The way you do your macros, how you use them and the way you try and improve vasious gear sets is a good half of the game imo. It's the stratergy part of ffxi and without it, you'd have nothing to aim for hardly. jobs would be 50x weaker and events would take way more people.

it alows SE it add more and more equipment with each update without making everything that you have equipped completly useless. this avoid the huge bottle-neck of everyone on the server trying to get the same pieces of equipment with each update.

FFXI isn't WoW. You need more than 1 equipment set to get things done with the best efficiency.

FFXIV is pretty obviously meant to compete with WoW. It's not a replacement for FFXI and never will be. It's pretty clear that it's designed at more casual/lazy players and thus will most likely require less time/effort/work to get to the "top".


You dont want to swap equipment in ffxi? fine, that's your choice. But dont expect to stay in my xp parties or endgame groups if you're not prepared to pull your weight like everyone else there. It's not fair on the group otherwise.


Oh, and for the record... I had 7 lv 75s before the lv cap increase and fine for inventory space. A lot of the best equipment is usable by more than one job, and while it may not be the absolute best piece for that slot (eg mermans rings... useful for THF COR NIN(mdb) RNG instead of behemoth+1 for Racc and mermans for nin) they're more than good enough to get the job done without gimping my performance.

Use your head, have some courtesy and stop being such a burden to the group you're with.

/rantoff

inb4 "omg eletist".