Weapons and Soul Crystal

[Vidu]

B. The reason I am asking is I play on different systems and when setting up gear sets. Some weapons auto equip my soul crystal, some do not and it is a purely QoL adjustment.

There is an easy fix for that: its called "gearsets" and transfering your clientside-data from one system to another one, if you switch between the two of them (friends of mine are doing it all the time because they're traveling a lot). And even if you're not transfering your data all the time: you have to set those gearsets up ONCE and then you can change between them with one single click. Not setting up gearsets seems just as lazy to me as me not wanting to assign jobs to my retainers.

[Wintersandman]

There is an easy fix for that: its called "gearsets" and transfering your clientside-data from one system to another one, if you switch between the two of them (friends of mine are doing it all the time because they're traveling a lot). And even if you're not transfering your data all the time: you have to set those gearsets up ONCE and then you can change between them with one single click. Not setting up gearsets seems just as lazy to me as me not wanting to assign jobs to my retainers.

You did not read. When setting up gearsets (you can see this when you quoted me). Sometimes travel isn't planned and playing isn't planned so transferring isn't always an option. I just happened to be in Portland the past 6 days and decided to jump on. When I did I was setting up gearsets and this just seemed illogical that some weapons auto assign gearsets and some don't especially when I am equipping 70 gear where classes are completely discouraged.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

There is no benefit to doing so other than pure laziness as some gear/glamour is already job exclusive and my research on squadrons is they don't equip the gear it is already for pure glamour.

Other than equipping a few pieces of glamour gear, there’s no benefit to making a combat retainer a job rather than a base class. Combat retainers results are purely based upon their ilevel. It is easy enough to reach the ilevel for the highest rewards using class-gear, no need to delve into job-only gear at all. So while they CAN have a job stone, there’s no real need for it, other than the convenience of ensuring that job-only hand-me-downs are usable by the retainer.

So what you have here is an issue of convenience vs convenience. Something tells me it will be most convenient for SE to do nothing.

[Hasrat]

There is no benefit to doing so other than pure laziness as some gear/glamour is already job exclusive and my research on squadrons is they don't equip the gear it is already for pure glamour.

Benefit is saving a handful of ventures for something that doesn't offer much benefit itself. Why force retainer into job (and force me to pay up for it) if I don't need it?