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

[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.

[Jennestia]

Lol at people that says no-gear-swap = the end of the world.

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.

[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..!"

<.<'

[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.

[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..

[ChiefCurrahee]

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.

Oh thank god!!! Gear swapping was the worst idea ever in FFXI. Not only was it hard on buffers and healers losing your target every time a player blinked. But changing gear around for each and every nuke, WS, JA ect ect LAME!!!

[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.