DEVs Stop adding worthless pointless gear to dungeon chests.

[Elexia]

All gear-swapping does is create an expectancy for every player to do more than what they're meant to do on their job. Promote it and then you'll have scores of people saying "Oh look at that BRD he only uses AF and doesn't switch to this or that while not singing."

Can you honestly say this doesn't happen in MMOs without gear-swap? Like be real, can you say you've never, ever seen people expect you to have certain gear or even certain tiers of gear for x reason? i.e Gold gear in Tera?

[NoctisUmbra]

Can you honestly say this doesn't happen in MMOs without gear-swap? Like be real, can you say you've never, ever seen people expect you to have certain gear or even certain tiers of gear for x reason? i.e Gold gear in Tera?

Expecting people to have good gear for their role is one thing. Expecting them to participate in swapping gear mid battle to overextend their purpose/role is another.

I'll expect BRDs in my party to wear the song enhancing AF pieces as those make quite a difference and it is their primary role as a BRD to use those songs. I won't expect them to swap gear while not singing to increase their DPS, as DPS is not the primary focus of the job.

The minute gear-swapping becomes smooth and viable in this game, this expectancy will spread like a plague. There is precedence for enforcing community-set rules on what people need to get invited in this community.

[Jinko]

Can you honestly say this doesn't happen in MMOs without gear-swap? Like be real, can you say you've never, ever seen people expect you to have certain gear or even certain tiers of gear for x reason? i.e Gold gear in Tera?

I would rather be able to tell someone competence by looking at what materia they have inserted in their gear than the actual gear they are wearing.

In WoW I could tell a bad player from a good one regardless of the gear they wore because of the enchantments and gems they had in their gear, anyone can join a pug group and get lucky with a nice piece of gear (Ifrit anyone ?) but seeing what materia a person has in their gear shows you if they know their class IMO.

I like the idea behind materia but limiting it to white items makes it total BS imo, not that I ever want to see multi melded blues either.

As Noctis said before the idea of upgrading AF or U/U items is much more appealing.

[Elexia]

As Noctis said before the idea of upgrading AF or U/U items is much more appealing.

It is, that's why I adore the Magian system in FFXI. It only goes to +2 but hell the boosts are great >.>