Allowing Gear Change in Active Mode

[Blaize]

I'm not sure if people are just having knee jerk reactions to it and not thinking about what they're typing, or they just were yelled at by someone in XI once for not gear swapping and were so thin-skinned about it that it's the worst thing in the world.

I can honestly say this is tripe....I played 11, I had gear swap macros for every job I had leveled. (Quit @ Server merges time, well went pretty much non playing about 6 months before but still...)

Swapping gear 3 times for one action on an Odin fight as a SMN was stupid.

Swapping Gear on WHM Depending on which Cure I cast was dumb, swapping for Regen, Dumb.

Gear on THF going Evasion build for mass pullls/kiting made sense before pull, switching because I was stupid and took hate = dumb. Going Heca or Acc build for certain WS's again dumb....

Pulling a flute outta my ass cuz it enhance minuet = stupid, let alone the part where I have to jam it back in and pull a different flute out my ass cuz it boosted march or elegy or whatever.

I'm not gonna even mention the insanity with the Elemental Staves.

See where I'm going with this? Yea it's nice to min/max.....its not nice needing 30-40 gear pieces to play one job at a decent level. And thats without factoring in the skill elements.

I'm not saying this cuz I'm anti-XI. I'm saying this cuz its how it was, Gear swaps was nothing more than annoying, couldn't care less with regards to the min/max nor other peoples thoughts on "You need this item to play this job" mentality!

[KumaAkuma]

Bunch of wussies. Erza requips all the time.

[Tacotaru]

I said nothing of realism, I said it was ridiculous. Personally, it annoyed the crap out of me in XI when party members did it. I don't care if their doing so benefited me and the party, it was annoying as hell.

So it shouldn't be allowed because it's ridiculous, and it's ridiculous because it's annoying. Is that about the sum of it?

[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.

[Molly_Millions]

So it shouldn't be allowed because it's ridiculous, and it's ridiculous because it's annoying. Is that about the sum of it?

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

Yoshi has pretty much cleaned this game up of all it's ridiculous and annoying mechanics. (here's looking at you fatigue and random sp!) He would be doing the game a disservice by adding this completely unneeded and annoying mechanic.

[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.

[Arcell]

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.

Answer my post at the top of the page then, haven't seen anyone discuss that.

[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?

[Molly_Millions]

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.

You want me to come to your side and agree with you that it's a fantastic mechanic and that everyone should do it. I'm not going to do that because the flashing characters annoyed the shit out of me in XI. Like or not, that's my reason for not wanting it in this game. The same crap happens in this game when you change gear your character flashes, which would again annoy the shit out of me if it were to happen in battle. The stat bonus is not worth the annoyance factor for me.