Allowing Gear Change in Active Mode

[Tacotaru]

Yep. You want my opinion, that's it.

Actually I wanted an intelligent discussion about the topic, but seeing as I'm just talking to someone who's sticking their fingers in their ears and lalalaing, I'll go ahead and move on.

[Scarface]

I was hoping you would respond with someone reasonable and not stoop to realism as an argument. Eorzea isn't real, Roegadyns are not in port towns, Chimerias aren't in sand dungeons, and Hippogryphs unfortunately are not running around my backyard (but god I wish they were ). If your reasoning would have been it was unintentional exploit with the macro system as stated by SE, well, I would have asked for a link, but I wouldn't have had ground to disagree that the original intention was an absolute "no we shouldn't have been able to". I would have disagreed if they didn't think it was for the better, but that's an entirely different point. It astounds me that people pull the RL card while at the same time playing a fantasy based video game. If you're going to halt your suspension at disbelief at changing a gear mid fight, you might also want to account for the fact that no one person could hold the amount of armor it takes for seven jobs, seven different weapons, accessories for all of that invisibly somewhere on their persons. Unless you would like to propose that we should only be able to carry invisibly what would reasonably fit in a small satchel.

Really?....lol I would love to say TL;DR, but I can't and I regret it.

for the most part so far there isn't much gear that would be worth swapping to, stats don't work like they do in 11. Now i see some people wanna use af for the bonus now but don't wanna sacrifice stats. Thats like having you cake and eating it too which i don't really understand cause why would i want cake if i cant eat it. Is there a way to eat it without having it first..... anyways, for the most part i think that once your prepped for battle you have to commit to it, with some simple exceptions like we've said.

Bards who full time in AF body are bad, it takes 2 seconds to swap to something 5x better.

I have a lot of macro's now for gear swaps. (MACC Setup for sleeps, Crit potency setup for excruciate thundaga's, etc)

[Rydin]

Eorzea isn't real

Depends on your definition of "REAL"
The servers "Exist"
My server (Karnak) exists... I personally think as time goes on we'll come to perceive digital space as a form of reality... I think the point you mean to make is that the natural and physical laws of the non-digital world don't apply to a digital 3D space..
and in that argument you are correct

Roegadyns are not in port towns,

You've obviously never been to San Diego

Chimerias aren't in sand dungeons,

Then where are they, genius?

and Hippogryphs unfortunately are not running around my backyard (but god I wish they were ).

Why would you want that? really.. how could that be a good thing?

edit: Im just having fun with you Taco... NHF (No hard feelings)

[Tacotaru]

Then where are they, genius?

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

Why would you want that? really.. how could that be a good thing?

Hippogryph > all and I would tame one and name him Duncan; although, someone questioning why wild hippogryphs roaming around would be a good thing really doesn't deserve an answer at all!

[Rydin]

Hippogryph > all and I would tame one and name him Duncan; although, someone questioning why wild hippogryphs roaming around would be a good thing really doesn't deserve an answer at all!

touché sir

[KumaAkuma]

Bunch of wussies. Erza requips all the time.

[CrystalWeapon]

I really don't see how there is any arguement whatsoever. The dev team clearly said no with a definate stance of not changing this in the future. That response directly from battle producer.

Clicky

I'll add in the key part again.

Edited for those with limited reading skills:

Spoke with Battle Master Matsui to get the lowdown on the whole gear swapping question [...]
we're not planning to make it possible to swap gear in battle. This direction will not change in the future

This is one of the few things they gave a very clear answer on.

[Exni]

I'd like active gear swaps to come to XIV, but I don't see it happening with these servers and XIV armory system. Active gear swapping in XI allowed you to tweak the effectiveness of your individual abilities you were using.. which makes for MUCH more dynamic fights than the spamfests we mostly been getting in XIV thus far.

Zerging, pulling hate, switching to eva+ build for survivability. Nuking in a single target phase, an add phase begins, switch over to enfeeb+ build for CCing. Even moreso, maybe a str+ build for opening battles and building TP, then a crit+ build to unload all ur WS combos, then back to the str+ build... Some of this we can sort of do now in XIV, but not nearly to the extent it was in XI. Having specific builds for specific on-the-fly situtions in XI was one of my favorite aspects of that game. I don't think it's necessary for XIV, mainly because the system is already so different, but it rocked for XI.

[Denmark]

I fail to see how gear swapping blocks you from combos and being active during battle. The server latency is crap i'll give you that, and i'll even give you that in the current state of the game gear swapping mid fight wouldn't work. When 2.0 rolls around though these problems are supposed to be fixed and a non issue, so whats wrong with swapping gear for actions in that situation?

[Arcell]

I fail to see how gear swapping blocks you from combos and being active during battle. The server latency is crap i'll give you that, and i'll even give you that in the current state of the game gear swapping mid fight wouldn't work. When 2.0 rolls around though these problems are supposed to be fixed and a non issue, so whats wrong with swapping gear for actions in that situation?

It doesn't stop you from using combos but it's just another action you have to worry about that can hold you up for even a split second too long for some things. I mean getting off buffs for parts of combos or even between combos can be tricky while also worrying about the proper positioning for them. Adding another action just for switching gear into that mix doesn't mesh well with the gameplay as it stands. Not to mention it's another action that could hold you in place for just a split second too long in a position heavy fight that could get you killed.

I just think the gameplay has enough going on currently that adding gear swapping wouldn't help anything, it would make add needless complexity. As it stands the game is built around choosing a set of gear and going into battle with that. To really make any kind of decent use out of something like gear swapping the game should be built around it as a mechanic that is intended for use. As the devs have stated, this is not their intention and they do not plan to make FFXIV into that kind of game.