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

[Corrderio]

Gear swap actually made a lot of crafted gear useful and kept crafters in business before it degraded into a consumables only market in FFXI -- people worry about crafting classes in xiv getting the shaft but heavily against anything that promotes making them central.

Which is why the materia/durability systems are in place.

[leomax]

As much as I truly enjoyed swapping in different gear for weapon skills in XI, I think we should move on from it.

Though outside of party play I would macros for swapping gear and abilities to be saved/remembered somehow, instant and not one piece/ability at a time, its just very cumbersome right now.

[Rinsui]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySUp9...eature=related

Please don't turn this into FFX-2.14

Hahaha!
What is this? Barbie Fantasy?

[SHJcules]

No thank you to per action and per skill gear swaps.

Yes please to more gear options, with their own strengths and weaknesses, to swap around on a per situation basis.

[Lenneth_Valkyrie]

Crafters have many other things to stay on board.. we can happily live without this unreal gear swapping..

"Oh please mr. great dragon.. can you wait for me to change my pants so I can use this weapon skill to its maximum power on you.. pretty pleeeeease..? ^_^"

"Crap I'm taking hits..! Time to wear my heavy armor with vitality bonus..!"

<.<'

[Zahak]

gear swapping made xi great? I think not. So glad they are not going to go down that route again.

[Nexxus]

I like gear swap on FFXI, it's like you never ending finding the best set for every situation (yeah, call me elitist or just someone that is interested to my job's potency), it's a good timesink also, farming thoses gear, a lot of research to find the best set to cure, or to deal some magic damage, or to ... blablabla.
For FFXIV, i really don't care about gear swap, i'm starting to facepalm to the auto-attack as ranger with only 1 hands to punch, but that's all.

[syntaxlies]

I find gear swaps absolutely appalling and hope it is one aspect of FF11 that stays in FF11.

[Kiote]

You people are nuts.. I can't go ten minutes without hearing someone whine about their inventory being full..

[RedAffinity]

I know what it feels like to want something, and to find out a permanent decision was made against it. But to the people who feel frustrated by the news, please consider the majority that doesn't like it. Aside from everything else mentioned, gear sets in XI killed inventory. The fact that we can change weapons and class instantly in XIV, means we'll need to likely carry a couple different sets anyway for jobs as it is..

Instead we can focus on our abilities, and focus on our skill rather than the macro menu up -- blinking like a christmas light show with every action ability or spell.