Quote Originally Posted by KyrsIsley View Post
Imagine fighting Chimera as a tank. Oh! Lightning is coming, swap to lightning resist. Oh! Ice is coming, swap to ice resist. Oh! Fire is coming, swap to fire resist. Oh, my flash/provoke is up, swap to enmity gear. Oh! My HP is low, swap to healing gear for self heal. What if one day they introduce a boss/mob with all elemental spells, are you telling me that to be optimal/beneficial, you will need every set of resist gears + enmity gear + healing gear? In my honest opinion, gear swapping in mid fight was an extremely broken system that eventually became the norm of a game. I am here for FFXIV, not FFXI-2.

In addition, to make more gears desired by more players isn't the same as making them carry multiple sets of gears for every possible encounters in a given battle.
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This is exactly why I don't like the gear swap system. Instead of having to make decisions about which gear you should equip for a fight, a gear swapper would just collect things for every situation and bypass any strategy involved in gear selection.