No Arrows in ARR?!

[NoctisUmbra]

So many people were against ranged AA when they implemented it, that SE made arc/brd's melee AA instead. What are you basing your statement on?

Did you watch the live letter? Yoshi was on ARC for a good while. Not only did he mention how ARCs AA would change based on distance, but he demonstrated it as well. He targetted a mob far away and started shooting. Once it got close he switched to punches. Not to mention there was no light shot skill going into cool down in his action bar.

Another interesting idea. He shows his gear menu often when on ARC. We should go back and check to see what he has equipped for arrows, if anything.

[Elexia]

What does gear swapping have to do with gear sets? One is switching your gear to benefit a particular action, the other is a saved set of gear. From the video, it doesn't seem beneficial at all to select a gear set, accept, and select accept again...just for one weapon skill.

Both are the same concept, you have a set of gear for a specific reason, also there's much more possibility that there will be a macro command for changing gearsets since people love convenience. Whether used in battle or not, we don't know yet, but we do know there's already a gearswap system in place that works better than using macros now from what we seen, especially seeing as they got rid of the useless checks when you change gear, it'd work even better in ARR.

I mean, BRDs even swap in and out of AF for casting songs now for example.

[NoctisUmbra]

Both are the same concept, you have a set of gear for a specific reason, also there's much more possibility that there will be a macro command for changing gearsets since people love convenience. Whether used in battle or not, we don't know yet, but we do know there's already a gearswap system in place that works better than using macros now from what we seen, especially seeing as they got rid of the useless checks when you change gear, it'd work even better in ARR.

I mean, BRDs even swap in and out of AF for casting songs now for example.

Gear sets are limited in number.
Once you equip something in a gear set it is no longer in your inventory.
You cannot equip the very same item to more than 1 gear set.

Gear sets don't seem to be favoring gear swapping at all. Hopefully we'll remain unable to switch gear when in active mode, and thus especially with the faster paced battle system gear swapping will become very much not worth it.

[Shougun]

Gear sets are limited in number.
Once you equip something in a gear set it is no longer in your inventory.
You cannot equip the very same item to more than 1 gear set.

Gear sets don't seem to be favoring hear swapping at all. Hopefully we'll remain unable to switch gear when in active mode, and thus especially with the faster paced battle system gear swapping will become very much not worth it.

Dont mages engage in combat now when they cast spells? (Preventing gear swaps)

Not sure if they disengage at end of spell though.

[Zumi]

Not having bard/archer use arrows is a good thing. It really isn't fair that 1 class has to get singled out always having to buy ammo to do their job where everyone with a melee weapon that doesn't use ammo doesn't have to buy anything. It sucks when your having to spend like 80k for 1 stack of arrows.

Blizzard actually did the same thing for hunters the archer class in wow. Got rid of their ammo at the end of wotlk and gave them unlimited shots. Nobody really complained.

[Zumi]

Gear sets are limited in number.
Once you equip something in a gear set it is no longer in your inventory.
You cannot equip the very same item to more than 1 gear set.

Gear sets don't seem to be favoring gear swapping at all. Hopefully we'll remain unable to switch gear when in active mode, and thus especially with the faster paced battle system gear swapping will become very much not worth it.

Yea I am petty sure gear sets are just a way to switch gear fast when changing jobs and you still won't change gear a bunch while in combat. This isn't FFXI and in FFXI if you didn't use spellcast it put you at a disadvantage, the whole gear swapping thing was kind of an accident by SEs part in that game.

[Seig345]

I use warped arrows near level cap... I may be the only one, but at the very least, no carpenter's going to be missing my gil after the switch over X)

[Dargoth_Draconia]

The whole reason I have leveled Carpenter up was to make my own arrows and now they are taking them out. Sucks to some extent but then again going through arrows is a pain in the neck. At least I will be able to craft furniture to sell to make up for the loss in arrow money.

[Vanguard319]

Not having bard/archer use arrows is a good thing. It really isn't fair that 1 class has to get singled out always having to buy ammo to do their job where everyone with a melee weapon that doesn't use ammo doesn't have to buy anything. It sucks when your having to spend like 80k for 1 stack of arrows.

Blizzard actually did the same thing for hunters the archer class in wow. Got rid of their ammo at the end of wotlk and gave them unlimited shots. Nobody really complained.

So by your logic, they should just get rid of ALL consumables and food since its not fair to expect players to keep thier chosen class/job properly stocked with the appropriate items?

[Zumi]

So by your logic, they should just get rid of ALL consumables and food since its not fair to expect players to keep thier chosen class/job properly stocked with the appropriate items?

Nope. Food, potions are for everyone. Equal ground here.

Ammo to use your attacks isn't. Having 1 out of 7 classes being required to spend a bunch more gil just to do their job isn't fair. Warrior can do a bunch of fights with a Archer and at the end of the day the Archer has spent much more gil then the warrior, and that is unbalanced.