In the recent live letter from the producer Yoshida stated that we would be getting gear tabs in order to quickly change between gear sets in A Realm Reborn! Which is awesome, and this will be a really great feature. However there’s a big down side. We won’t be able to equip the same item in more than one set unless we have more than one of the same item.
That’s to say if you want to equip two Spinel Ring’s to your Goldsmith set, and also equip two Spinel Ring’s to your Weaver set, you will need a total of four Spinel Ring’s.
Yoshida stated this is the way it is currently set up to make it more “realistic.” However, I think it’s rather unnecessary considering there isn’t much realistic about a person magically switching all of his cloths instantly anyway. Unfortunately I think this may just be a way to cut corners on the programmers end. I’m not programmer, but would it really be that hard to implement some sort of special inventory bag, in which you drag all of your gear that you want to use to the gear tab, and then from there drag the contents of that “bag” to your gear tabs as many times as you want?
On the bright side, while Yoshida did say that this is how the system currently exists, he did also mention that he would be looking for player feedback on the subject. So we may as well get started telling him how we feel about this. I figured I'd make a poll so VOTE HERE. Please feel free to explain why your for, or against this.
(As a personal side-note I sure hope we will get enough tabs for every Job/Class. They said additional tabs will be made available through quests. If implemented correctly this will be an amazing feature.)
TL;DR VOTE HERE / VIEW RESULTS HERE
Since there seem to be some people questioning the authenticity of this here's the direct quote taken from the live letter:
Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...pli=1&sle=trueF: For gear set's do we need to prepare same items for diffferent gear slots?
Y: Right now you will have to get two, for example you have two gear sets to be realistic. We’re trying to make it possible, but for UI it’s going to be confusing, so right now we’re talking about where you can use the macro to move those items between gear sets, so it’s going to bit technical. We want to ask the players and get feedback for this one.
F: So for no right now if you want same item in two gear sets you need to get two of the same item?
Y: Yes at this time that’s it but we want to get players feedback for this one.