Quote Originally Posted by Ryans View Post
Casters already can switch out gear during combat and you don't see them doing it, do you?



I'm honestly curious how you think this is in any way different from other MMOs' gear systems. A player is always "gimp" if they don't have the best gear for the situation and its even more obvious how much they are lacking when there is one set of best-in-slot gear.

Gear changes would make more gear desired by more players because even though it might not be bis, it could be the best parrying body or has the most fire resistance (many more possibilities).

For example, as blm you can survive hellfire from Ifrit with one nail down but you will have very little hp after. If you could change instantly (Not go all blinky for 30 seconds, many games change gear without a 5 second character disappearance per equipment, I'm sure they could do it the same in 2.0) to a set of gear that would give you fire resistance or an hp set of gear, the player wouldn't have to sacrifice their damage for the entire encounter simply to guarantee the survival of one move.
Gear swapping is fine, everyone gear swaps to in FFXIV, they just do it before the battle.
People swap to HP+ gear fighting coincounter, mages swap to magic accuracy gear for ifrit, and so on.

People aren't against gear swapping, they are against gear swapping midfight for every single freaking spells/abilities.