Quote Originally Posted by Nekirr View Post
This makes no sense. Let's pick an event shall we. Let's say Ifrit: You are able to kill it now without gear swaps. If they added gear swaps, it would probably make it easier if people utilized it TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. But you would still be able to kill it without gear swaps. I'm not seeing your point on how you would NEED it to play the game.
All of FFXI was also playable without gear swaps, but they became a de facto necessity for playing because you were a "gimp" if you didn't.