Legitimate reasons why many of you do NOT like Gear Swapping

[Rokien]

You guys do know you can beat every content without gear... soo whats the big deal about gear swapping?

[StateAlchemist]

You guys do know you can beat every content without gear... soo whats the big deal about gear swapping?

^ This. I have done Ifrit naked, Moogle naked, AV/CC/DH/TR, HNM blah blah etc etc... at one point in time just because i was too lazy to go back to town and all I had on me was a weapon for the class that was needed.

Edit: ...and won.

[syntaxlies]

You guys do know you can beat every content without gear... soo whats the big deal about gear swapping?

to me this just validates why gear swapping is not necessary.

[bobbygunz]

Maybe they could give people the ability to switch between different weapons, like with a function imbedded in the UI, or perhaps even rearrange each class to have an on and off hand weapon which could be swapped mid combat. (For example, THM/BLM could have a two-handed staff and single-handed cudgel, or something, and BRD could have Bow and a musical instrument).

Swapping out entire wardrobes during combat is somewhat ridiculous though.

[StateAlchemist]

to me this just validates why gear swapping is not necessary.

to me this just validates why anyone arguing against gear swapping being viable is not necessary.

[Ragz]

It's just that you have to strip naked and put on new set of clothe to cast a spell is stupid and pointless.
Also it renders action bar pretty useless since you do everything through macro anyway.

In addition it kills specialization and variety (which there is not much anyway).

[Riaayo]

This is a cop-out.

Just because people outperform you, they are douchebags?

I am not one to say anything deragatory to anyone regarding my successes. But I play to be better than the rest, and instantly I'm labaled a "douchebag" because I'm above you in terms on overall successes in a game?

That's just silly.

No what Xoo said is pretty much true, and far too many people think that they need to be rude about how well they play (or how well they think they play) vs someone that is not playing the game up to their personal standard.

Good players do not need egos, they do not need to act like elitists, and they don't have to exist only to win. They are capable of understanding games exist to have fun on, and while they can certainly aim to be the best themselves, they don't judge players who don't have the same lofty goal in the game.



Gear swapping actually would help the 14 economy a great deal because it causes almost every piece of equipment to suddenly have some sort of use. However gearswapping as it was done in 11 should never come back. If we are going to have it, it needs to be more seamless, like having multiple mannequins which you could macro between with a single command, instead of lines for every different piece you change or having to resort to third party programs.

Maybe when addons hit, it will be allowed. But in all honesty, having people disappear mid-combat because of the shit way this game loads models ruins so much about it... and hell, it completely stiffs you out of those pretty animations so many 11 fans seem to rather see the game fail than lose.

[syntaxlies]

to me this just validates why anyone arguing against gear swapping being viable is not necessary.

basically you both said gear in not necessary which means gear swapping is even more not necessary.

[Exni]

You guys do know you can beat every content without gear... soo whats the big deal about gear swapping?

I don't think pointing out 1.) how much of a cakewalk our 'endgamish' content is.. or 2.) how completely unbalanced our gear currently is.. helps to make your point at all.. The fact that you can clear all content easily without armor is .. a problem.

[Cendres]

You might be on to something...

Oh yay! Looks like I've got some reading to do, thanks for posting the link.