Gear Swaps?

[Kalien]

I actually really liked gear swaps in FFXI, but I am also a mathematician and enjoy min-maxing.

The great thing about gear swaps is that it kept gear relevant! Pieces that were 5 years old still has uses, it gave the XI endgame so much more longevity.

It also gave the developers quite a bit of freedom when designing gear, things could be quirky and situational because players could swap it in when needed.

The only real problem with gear-swapping in XI was that it almost required windower because SE did a bad job with the macro system.

[Jeronlmo]

/blinkmenot anyone?

Its really not like it was impossible to get rid of, 90% of the people in 11 prob did. If they get rid of it themselves it would be amazing and people would have 1 less thing to use as an excuse for "I couldnt figure out how to make decent macro's".

[Jeronlmo]

Did you just call yourself a cat and refer to yourself in the 3rd person while trying to tell us your point is useless?

I just stated several "uses" though i see no examples of "unnecessary/useless" in your post.

[NadienKirisame]

Did you just call yourself a cat and refer to yourself in the 3rd person while trying to tell us your point is useless?

I just stated several "uses" though i see no examples of "unnecessary/useless" in your post.

I'm pretty sure I said I... but anyways to your points at this stage of the game it is unneeded... and no really you could learn your job/role/class just fine without unnecessary gear swaps... or maybe you couldn't? is that what you are trying to tell everyone? That you cannot learn how to play the game without gear swapping? Is that it?

Really now... I do swear you humans are so funny... and it is actually pretty funny to see the way you take what I say...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

[Amage]

I'm pretty sure I said I... but anyways to your points at this stage of the game it is unneeded... and no really you could learn your job/role/class just fine without unnecessary gear swaps... or maybe you couldn't? is that what you are trying to tell everyone? That you cannot learn how to play the game without gear swapping? Is that it?

Really now... I do swear you humans are so funny... and it is actually pretty funny to see the way you take what I say...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

this is a class a RPer fail blog anyways .

[NadienKirisame]

this is a class a RPer fail blog anyways .

LOL oh wow did you really call me an RPer? That is rich... no really I love it... Also I have been using the cat line long before this game so it has nothing to do with my "character"... actually what it has to do with is the fact that after reading forums like these for so long I really really can't call my self a human... I don't fit in with the way you all think and I can actually think for myself where as you all follow a very nice script which I must as you are doing very well at.

Though I will say... nice sig :P

I would say something about something but meh I don't actually care all that much and I'm pretty sure gear swap will not be added in any time soon if ever... so I think I'll leave this thread before I lose braincells from the stupid it emits...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

[Amage]

LOL oh wow did you really call me an RPer? That is rich... no really I love it... Also I have been using the cat line long before this game so it has nothing to do with my "character"... actually what it has to do with is the fact that after reading forums like these for so long I really really can't call my self a human... I don't fit in with the way you all think and I can actually think for myself where as you all follow a very nice script which I must as you are doing very well at.

Though I will say... nice sig :P

I would say something about something but meh I don't actually care all that much and I'm pretty sure gear swap will not be added in any time soon if ever... so I think I'll leave this thread before I lose braincells from the stupid it emits...

The cat is bemused =-.-=

LMAO you dont even knoww 1 50

[Jeronlmo]

Now your trying to turn the discussion specifically to me? People like you i would assume fear gear swaps because you didnt understand how to use them, those few that claim they "did fine" without them, simply did not, there is no way around it.

Atleast with comparing endgame with non-endgame people in 11, people using swaps and people not was very easy to tell, you would hit no stat caps, you would settle for a nobles body and light staff and have what... 28% cure potency or something? I had cure potency 50% (cap), -50% cure casting time (cap), as much fastcast equiped at the start of every single cast that could be found in the game, and as much mnd that could be added at the end of the cast without getting rid of cure potency, that is the difference between you and me, i knew my job, you believed you did.

But again, im assuming you did no endgame, or if you did... it wasnt "real" endgame. So you doing "well" would be fine for what you did.

[Jeronlmo]

I just dont see it as an oversight i guess, thats like compairing people that want to wear no gear to people that do, "why should i have to wear gear at all, the people that wear gear have an advantage and its obv. an oversight and should be fixed over all". You can trace that back asfar as you want, like "why should i have to log in, I pay for the game, i should just win".

[Jeronlmo]

As the game is right now, yes it would take to long, and there is already gear lag when changing, but were not talking this second.

Saying scripting is an exploit/cheating... i guess in your terms your not wrong because it wasnt a default in the game, but SE added the gear into the game with no way to actually make use of it, without scripting you couldnt use 80% of the gear at any given time, it would be single sets of what is optimal at all times, cookie-cutter. kinda like pvp in 11, no gear swaps.

As i see it, the scripting made use of all that gear, SE just had a very very small macro system, it was what... 5 lines or something? Nobody ever got banned for using windower for the scripted macro's.
Why should they stress the ps2 anymore with something that the community already found a solution to on the comp (btw, the reason ff11 is the way it is now, with copied zone/gear and lack of new auto-translator and over-hauling of old events and basically turning them into abyssea is because the ps2 memory is full and they cant add new content) every single thing they added into the game as defaut stressed it more and would have to replace something else.