Lets see in FFXI i had TP/haste gear, WS gear, EVA gear on melee. Each job with different items/macros. On mages I had torques, staves, MND gear(debuffs/cure), INT gear(nukes). Even more sets for BRD and BST.

If there was even any plan of this BS on FFXIV, they better give me 1000 inventory space first. I'm already carting around gear for every class. This patch added 7 more full sets of armor I now have to carry around. As it is, you can't even rely on gear swap macros out-of-combat because most of the time you end up with 1 or 2 pieces not being equipped. Let's not forgot how you lost target on that ninja tank everytime he changed a piece of gear.

FFXIV's combat is too fast, and servers too slow to handle it. Gear doesn't even mean much in FFXIV, not even close to the scale of XI.