No Arrows in ARR?!

[NoctisUmbra]

Combined with not having to use throwing weapons to maximize DPS, 2.0 battles seem like they're going to be a lot more fun, less expensive, and less exploitative.

Just crossing my fingers for measures against gear-swapping now. Once that's confirmed I will really look forward to 2.0.

[Elexia]

Gearswapping is here to stay, unless everyone starts crying against the gearset system.

[NoctisUmbra]

Gearswapping is here to stay, unless everyone starts crying against the gearset system.

Better not be. Such an unnecessary eyesore.

[KiriA500]

Gearswapping is here to stay, unless everyone starts crying against the gearset system.

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.

[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]

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.

[Nakiamiie]

As long as we see a quiver on our back filled with arrows (for aesthetic), no problem.

Our characters can go forever without eating, drinking, using the restrooms, etc.
Does that mean we are magical beings or gods? No, it is simply assumed they do so when you blink.

Same for arrows now.

From another topic, relevant to the current concerns.

[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.