Quote Originally Posted by Jericho View Post
it's weird that in my 8 years of playing ffxi, I never, ever once heard someone complain that they didn't like gear swapping.

I will admit it when I'm wrong, but so far I'm not. The fact that there's only one useful set is a big problem. Toto-Rak, DH, strongholds, shposhae, all are useless and drop useless gear. There's no balance, and DL gear is an obvious winner. Everyone complains about useless gear, but what did you expect? The game is set up for us to actually hold on to one set per class/job. Nothing more. It's set up for us to blow through the levels, so spending time to obtain 15 or 30 gear is a waste of time. You can't deny that.

But that's what everyone wanted.
Oh, they never complained about gear-swapping? Why? They were playing it weren't they? If a person didn't enjoy that, they'd simply stop playing. Shit if gear-swapping becomes a regular thing in FFXIV, despite having stuck with this game without any long-term breaks since CE release I will drop it right then and there like a bad habit.

I'm sorry, but new gear making some old gear obsolete is old news for an MMO. Sure, a lot of the DL gear just released are best in slot. They're also rare as hell. It's called having goals to work toward.