Please remove the hidden "/wait 1" between macro lines...

[Terabyt3]

Yoshi has already said he did NOT want the ability to swap gear in battle like n XI to be available. It was an absolute ridiculous concept anyway! "I'm about to go HADUKEN on his ass, but wait, I must change my pants!".

I agree the 1sec wait can be annoying as is the forced character standstill while runnong and changing gear. But please no pant change battles!

[viion]

"I'm about to go HADUKEN on his ass, but wait, I must change my pants!".

That kind of perspective can be said about almost everything in the game lol

The delay has absolute nothing to do with gear swapping restrictions anyway due to the stat debuff you get from changing during battle. So it has to do with something else, maybe they dont want spamming, idk?

[Jennestia]

It was an absolute ridiculous concept anyway! "I'm about to go HADUKEN on his ass, but wait, I must change my pants!"

So is the ability to change classes just by switching my weapon.

"Oh you need me as a gladiator? K, lemme drop my axe and pick up a sword which will somehow give me ungodly prowess in the art of swordplay!"

The main problem is the fact the interface is serverside, so there's always going to be an innate delay, which is why this "hidden 1 second" exists, to allow the server to properly register it.

[Coldfire]

There definately is a wait between commands. But the macro system is broken and the wait is always different even if you manually set it. Changing the gear with the gear menu has no such delays.

[Terabyt3]

So is the ability to change classes just by switching my weapon.

"Oh you need me as a gladiator? K, lemme drop my axe and pick up a sword which will somehow give me ungodly prowess in the art of swordplay!"

The main problem is the fact the interface is serverside, so there's always going to be an innate delay, which is why this "hidden 1 second" exists, to allow the server to properly register it.

Well you're hardly going to get "ungodly swordplay" with an axe are you?


Edit: Also you cannot change weapons/class in fight. It's not entirely ridiculous that if you change to using a sword from axe and you have previous experience you're gonna know how to ruddy use the thing.

Anyway the arguement is about changing equips mid-battle. which you can't, which you shouldnt, it's ridiculous

[AmyRae]

So is the ability to change classes just by switching my weapon.

"Oh you need me as a gladiator? K, lemme drop my axe and pick up a sword which will somehow give me ungodly prowess in the art of swordplay!"

Because as we've seen in real life, a gold-medal Olympic fencer is always the best at boxing as soon as they drop their sword put the gloves on. No need to practice, or anything!

[Vyncent]

Because as we've seen in real life, a gold-medal Olympic fencer is always the best at boxing as soon as they drop their sword put the gloves on. No need to practice, or anything!

I think the analogy is more apt when comparing a fencer trying to box with their foil. If the gold medal fencer is also an olympian boxer due to years of training (FFXIV equivalent of levelling-up), then yes, it is entirely feasible that by dropping a foil and picking up boxing gloves they will be quite formidable at boxing.