DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[Elexia]

Too bad you've already been overruled by the devs, gear swapping is, rightfully, staying out of this game.

Sadly, they also stated they're not against the idea either so it could still happen whether you like it or not. If they see need for it, they'll add it.

The only thing they said they're AGAINST, is adding a lot of haste gear or haste spell. Also it seems like people who are against gearswap never knew what it was for. For example if I wanted to enhance Refresh, I'd do this:

Equip my: then use refresh.

That's what gear swapping is for. If I were to cast paralyze, I'd either equip enfeebling + gear OR a simple ice affinity staff. Bam, gear swapping done. You people who say "lol you need 82918298 gear per slot to do an action" never used gearswap, don't know what gear swap is and just simply are making assumptions about it because of the people who go overkill with it. No mob in FFXI required you to swap absolutely everything for every action. Mobs had a baseline resistance that just being level 75-99 and capped skill + merits will land just fine unless the mob itself was highly resistant, i.e Shiva flatout resists paralyze due to it being ice based.