Allowing Gear Change in Active Mode

[Molly_Millions]

1. Correct.

glad we can agree on that

2. We do not know if there will be character flashing with the new engine.

we have reason to believe it will still be there. after all, we've had characters flashing in 2 consecutive MMOs from SE, so there is reason to believe the 2.0 client will not be any different in that regard.

3. This would only restrict you from playing with the "hardcore" players, which I'm sure you wouldn't be playing with anyways since you think character flashing is a major issue.

Which is another incorrect assumption. I run a fairly hardcore LS on Fabul.

4. Or you can think of the optimal sets PRIOR to starting battle with more than 1 set of equipment.

again the "all of it" option is not a hard decision when it's available.

5. It only slows the pace of battle with the current engine. With the new engine I highly doubt there will be such horrid lag when changing gear and it makes battle pace faster as a matter of fact due to optimizing your characters damage output.

lets hope that we never have to find out with the 2.0 engine

EDIT: Molly you in no way have to wait a full second between switching gear and using a weapon skill in FFXI. You were just doing macros the wrong way and that was you're own fault. Not the system's.

You are wrong, I hated gear swap macros in XI also.