FFXI's gear swap was like having extra skills.

[Phen]

Gear swap should not come back. Condemned to the dustbin of history. I Prefer tactical gear decisions, not "carry everything."

[Engineer]

Gear swapping is the one thing I hated most about xi.

It looked silly when players would undress and dress inbetween weapon skills, like think about it hahahaha lol.

I hope this is never implemented in xiv

[Hanemakikaze]

FFXI gear swap was more like a crutch I was forced to use because of SE's terrible way of itemizing gear, making me invisible 80% of the time just because they don't know how to put good stats on one piece of gear. And even if they did implement it without my character going into seizures, I do not want to be forced to have a full inventory constantly when there are so many classes in the game, and I'm forced to carry all this just because I'm expected be trying to maximize my damage. Main class that comes to mind, BLM. Do. Not. EVER. Want.

[alexi14]

The materia system is so we destroy more gear and make the crafters more needed to make more for us

[Molly_Millions]

no, just no. gear swaps in XI were rediculous and should never have been possible.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

as a DNC in FFXI I had to carry alot of stuff (I know RDM had to carry a lot more) I gear swapped for 99% (real numbers here btw) of all my battle actions, my DRG was almost as bad, because I had to try my best to optimize when I played DRG.

I am starting to forget... but I want to say that my DNC had 2 body peices, 3 gloves, 3 leggings, 2 feet, 6 rings, 4 earrings, 2 ranged items, 3 belts, and 3 helm items......... and I would mix/match all these according to what skill I was about to use, or if I was just going to TP... oh thats right I had a full TP/haste set too for DNC ;p

I really hated it, and am glad it is not in FFXIV, the materia system is a much better idea.

[AdvancedWind]

Proper use of equipment IMO is "choose the gear most suited for the content and role you're doing", instead of 'just go with whatever and fire up a macro if the enemy is using a physical attack or a spell, or I'm using cure, or (...)'.

This means you still can have multiple gear sets to min-max to your heart's content for what you plan to do, but you have to actually think a bit and strike a healthy balance between over specializing for one single thing.

I've seen some people calling those who don't want in-battle gear change "lazy", but the real lazy people IMO are the ones who would rather not choose gear effectively and instead carry up craploads of armors so they can change to whatever they need at some exact moment and switch back, instead of actually weighing up what they will need during the entire battle and gear up accordingly.

In other words, I'd rather have a game that makes us think this:

"Hey, this boss has a silencing breath. Should I equip a silence immunity ring instead of an attack ring, or should I try to use the attack ring and do my best to avoid the move?"

instead of

"Hey, this boss has a silencing breath. Let me equip my attack ring and then I just fire up my silence ring macro if he readies it and I won't be able to avoid. MAD SKILLZ".

[mmccoy]

Jesus, this is a problem that was solved by the MMO industry long ago. You shouldn't look to a stupid idea like swapping gear to add some intricacy to the gameplay. If a boss is using silencing breath in what universe does switching gear do anything for you? WoW solved this long ago by setting up mechanics, I.E. Casters don't be in melee range. Or abilities like Tremor Totem to mitigate fear. Anything but taking off your equipment and re-equiping something else. God if that's the best the devs can do this game is going to be simple dumb.

P.S. Before all your haters start shouting go back to WoW. They did a lot right, and a lot wrong and if your too arrogant to look to them for how things work then hate on haters.

[Haibel]

<<Thanks for the Offer, But I'll have to Pass>>

I had 5 complete sets of gear I carried at all times for NIN. then throw on top of that Tool for Casting Ninjitsu. And situational weapons,Food,Pop items. I would have like 10-12 open slots on me while playing Nin. This would be a horrible system in this game. I really wish they would have blocked it from happening in that game. For the last 3 years they have been trying to make gear sets were people would wear the whole set. Adding set bonuses didn't do it. If they blocked gear swaps, or TP erase it like changing weapons it would have corrected this problem.

[Delsus]

Fighting ifrit "Ok let me strip completly naked and change every piece of gear I have to WS" after WS "ok let me just get these clothes off the ground and swap back for TP", it doesnt work well for the immersion crowd, and the constant blinking every 30s can be a nightmare for healers, especially when a DD is low on HP, blinks, healer looses the target, DD dies and blames the healer for not healing.

Gear swaps in battle are annoying, there are many other ways to do this, like abilites to enhance stats, or spells.

Oh and lets not forget not having enough macro lines for it all.

/equip head
/equip body
/equip hands
/equip legs
/equip feet
/equip neck
/equip LI ring (dont know the exact command)
/equip RI ring
/equp L wrist
/equip R wrist
/ equip other left ring
/equip other right ring
/equip underhirt
/equip panties
/ac ferocity
/ac raging strike
/ac other DD buff
/ac chaos thrust

Count em 18 lines just for 1 WS, thats over 18 secs to do 1 WS (auto /wait 1 and any lag)

Now lets take ifrit, your half way through stripping completly and he uses eruption right on you, you are then stuck in an animation lock for 9 secs (under the current servers)

And that is if we could use more than 10 lines in macros, this would need 2 macros, and 2 more to switch back to the haste/acc set, which adds atleast 1 sec.

And before you say this is OTT, look back at FFXI and you will see "to be a good player" we needed to change every piece of gear, I for one had to use 3 macros to WS (wasnt using scripts) to swap gear for my WS's and back to my melee set, I could WS every 30s and died many times because of my endless blinking.

Gear swaps in battle are a pain and should never be seen again.