Quote Originally Posted by SwordCoheir View Post
Otherwise, you fail to see the first rule of Gamers, "If an advantage exists, they will use it.", much like players did bypassing Garuda's Astral Flow. I think it's very evident that gearswapping during battle was never intended to be advantageous in FFXI either, but we saw how that turned out and it's pretty much required for every and anything nowadays. Best choice is to completely block off gear swapping during battle and leave the rest of us players to fend for ourselves.
Actually 'system not designed to grant advantage'.
Depending on how they do it, gear-swapping could induce a complete restart of all cooldown and presumably a longer cooldown of all abilities. Which in turn would cause you to stay disabled for a fair bit in battle if you change gear mid-fight.