Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[KyrsIsley]

"heal pot on whm, def on pld, atk were just examples, i think you failed to see my point. i wasnt saying they are what you should use necceseraly.

i know very well that there are different setups for each class but what im saying is that when you have chosen what you think is best there is hardly any point in deviating from it in any one situation, and if there is a point it is so limited it would make close to no difference.

I think this is exactly where I disagree with you. Take the encounter with a lot of fire damage example I used earlier for instance, during progression I may want to stack up on fire resist so that I increase my likelihood to survive longer. This way I get to see more of the encounter and build my experience on it, whether it's learn to dodge the fire damages, or learn to damage the boss more efficiently. However, once I familiarize myself with how the fight works, I can start taking off fire resist gear and start swapping in my dps set, this way I can squeeze the time of encounter, less time spent in the encounter means less chance of making a mistake, thus downing the boss eventually. Sure, you can argue and say there's always the "best" dps set, but that set is always evolving unless the devs decide to not put in anymore dps gear. As a tank, once you learn how to dodge/mitigate some or most of the big damage moves, you can also start wearing some dps/threat focused gear to allow the dps to push harder as well.

Meh... I'll just abuse my BLM/THM and gear swap all day, I'll become full time nuker. At least I won't be gimped during battle.

With the current system, that's hardly an abuse.