I liked it because it ment I had variety, atm I have the best gear for mage and it cant get better unless I go +3 everything, but getting +3 would just be elitism and that is what gear swapping is, its elitism, so most of you here are most likely hypocrites.

Instead of "do you have XYZ?" it will be "You dont have any +3 gtfo".

And due to the armour system it will be "do you have xyz spell? gtfo", i do it, if you dont have cure/sac 2 i dont wanna play with you, you suck.

So you're all glad you dont have to have 100 pieces of armour, but now you need 100 skills from levelling all the different classes up.

Just replacing 1 thing with another

Although I like that its not in because it did make some thing stough, you are all well over exaggerating it, take a SAM, all you needed was a Haste set and a STR set and you'd be fine for 99.9% of things.

Or... play with friends who wont be picky about xyz stats.