Gear Swaps?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Not this topic again... :L

[Nix]

Situational swaps like needing more m.acc for one boss, or needing more atk for another I don't mind, but please . . . No more 70 inventory spaces used on just one job.
I did it in XI because I had to, if you didn't have those gearsets you'd under-perform. SMN was a bloody nightmare having to carry around diff. sets for day of the week, avatar atk/matk gear, perp- gear etc etc, not to mention staves for each one too.
I don't want that kind of thing in XIV, it's not fun at all ><

[Andrien]

If you play PLD, you should know its like a game of DDR on your keyboard.


Why this again?

[Griss]

VOoDoO zombie thread arises!

[Achtzen]

I vote NO for gear swapping in any way, shape, or form during combat. Even for caster classes, players should not be able to change equipment during combat regardless of being in active/passive modes. Changing equipment during a fight makes no sense at all and is one of the things i hated most about XI.

[Ruisu]

I find it hilarious. The same people who denounced jumping as an immersion breaker praise Gearswap, though that makes even less sense than jumping.

Anyways, Gearswapping is a pile of shit and I'm glad the devs discourage it. It didn't allow people to make choices (As a BRD do I want my buffs/enfeebs to stick? Or do I want my songs to be enhanced? Or do I want to be a subpar DD?), because you could just switch to whatever piece of gear was best to min/max the fuck out of everything. They should make it so that when you are engaged in battle, you cannot swap gear at all. The exception only being arrows/throwing projectiles.

[Myrhn]

I'm all in favor of gear swamp. Most of the people that are against it said that is because not enough inventory space but they also carried gear for all 7 DoM/DoW, craft and gathering classes. Maybe if people specialize in one or two classes gear swamps would be viable without hurting so much the inventory space.

[WendyMarvell]

If they introduce a gear-swapping system in game (not 3rd party) and make it be painless and blinkless, I would be happy with it...

Lazy ppl had horror stories because of spellcast macros and in the end non-windower users were at a huge disadvantage, so as long as its in game and lazy-friendly it should be fair game right?

[NadienKirisame]

How about this... you can have your stupid gear swapping only IF when you swap any gear at all your character must go through a magical girl transformation type animation and be unable to do anything until said animation is done... because we all know you can't do anything or use abilities during a MGT...

This would also help for the realists who don't want it because you can't do it in real life... though I tend to follow that though because really even if this is a game and a fantasy world erm... you can just switch out a suit of full plate in the middle of a fight it just really doesn't work like that but if you go through a whole magic transformation that is fine and works and fits so to say...

In the end I just thing you humans are needlessly silly/stupid for even wanted something so unnecessary at all... really... I mean it...

Oh also stop with the stupid oh only lazy people blah blah blah line... you all use it way to much whenever someone doesn't want what you want... "you don't want this because your lazy" or "you don't want that because your lazy"... no really some things are just stupid and unneeded can you not understand that?

The cat is bemused =-.-=

[Elexia]

Oh also stop with the stupid oh only lazy people blah blah blah line... you all use it way to much whenever someone doesn't want what you want... "you don't want this because your lazy"

Considering people don't use macros in this game still. People still complain about changing jobs taking forever because of having to switch a lot of gear with the delay when 1-2 macros solves that problem and they still won't do that.