Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[LemmingKingXXX]

That's not true, you could always cast with your weapon put away. I know because my LS used to hound me about putting my weapon away because I liked the way it looked when I ran with it out.

This is from the 1.19 patch notes

[dev1032] The following actions are now executable while in passive mode:

All magic spells
Actions which can be used on self or other party members

Edit: Wasn't a troll post, my bad.

[Molly_Millions]

I know you're probably trolling, but on the off chance you aren't, this is from the 1.19 patch notes

not sure why I don't remember that. lol

[SwordCoheir]

This is from the 1.19 patch notes

Edit: Wasn't a troll post, my bad.

Ty for saving me the trouble of looking that up just to make sure I wasn't making things up. XD /em gives a cookie.

[Duelle]

BTW Mages can gear swap, melee can't. You have a flaw SE. Fix it so that mages can't swap gear either.

Fixed

I need a logically sound argument as to why you do not want gear swapping.

Challenge accepted.

Swapping means itemization becomes watered down, leading to the creation of "situational" gear. This means that your abilities are no balanced around the stuff you're wearing, but around what you could "possibly" be wearing. This leads to encounters being balanced around that, increasing stat requirements. This in effect leads to inventory bloat because *gasp* you have to carry multiple sets of crap in your inventory to do anything half-decently, which eventually create larger inventory problems as the game ages because the developers find themselves in a spot where they have to add more and more situational gear, which then leads to asinine attempts to circumvent the problem (gear storage NPCs). Which is then further compounded by the fact that you will have people with multiple classes and jobs at level cap. Leading to more wasting of resources to circumvent the problem (porter moogles).

What I find funny about this is that people in FFXI complained about lack of inventory, yet are utterly blind to what was causing their inventory woes in the first place.