[ 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.)