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    Jennestia's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Terabyt3 View Post
    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
    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
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    Last edited by Terabyt3; 11-11-2011 at 07:46 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
    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.
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