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Re: Guess what time it is!?!?
I'll go ahead and say that I hate gear swapping in concept and in execution. I don't know whether it's worse to imagine that I'm taking off my tights and slipping on some poofy pants in the middle of a fight to nuke or that different facets of my wardrobe are simply materializing on me to suit the spell I'm casting. I hate the way it makes it unnecessary for people to weigh the pros and cons of different equipment and make intelligent decisions about how they want to build their character, since they can just choose ALL the equipment and just wear whichever piece is best for what they're doing at that precise moment. I hate the way it sucks up a thousand slots of inventory if you want to perform optimally, and I hate the way it makes you pop in and out of existence and screws up people's targeting.
That said, I think that the increase in performance is entirely worth the annoyance. Sure, strictly speaking it's not necessary to gear swap ever, but that's like saying it's not necessary to have equipment. Especially for a mage, most pieces of equipment are only good for one thing: Fire Staff for fire spells, Wizard's Tonban for dark magic, Devotee's Mitts for white magic, etc. If the gear you're wearing isn't doing anything for the spell you're casting at the moment, you might as well be naked—in the case of staves and the mitts you may very well be better off naked depending on the spell. If a mage or anyone showed up to a party naked I'd show them the curb. If someone isn't gear swapping out of ignorance or something that's one thing, but understanding how it works and what its benefits are and flatly refusing to is almost as bad as showing up naked imo.
I'll go ahead and say that I hate gear swapping in concept and in execution. I don't know whether it's worse to imagine that I'm taking off my tights and slipping on some poofy pants in the middle of a fight to nuke or that different facets of my wardrobe are simply materializing on me to suit the spell I'm casting. I hate the way it makes it unnecessary for people to weigh the pros and cons of different equipment and make intelligent decisions about how they want to build their character, since they can just choose ALL the equipment and just wear whichever piece is best for what they're doing at that precise moment. I hate the way it sucks up a thousand slots of inventory if you want to perform optimally, and I hate the way it makes you pop in and out of existence and screws up people's targeting.
That said, I think that the increase in performance is entirely worth the annoyance. Sure, strictly speaking it's not necessary to gear swap ever, but that's like saying it's not necessary to have equipment. Especially for a mage, most pieces of equipment are only good for one thing: Fire Staff for fire spells, Wizard's Tonban for dark magic, Devotee's Mitts for white magic, etc. If the gear you're wearing isn't doing anything for the spell you're casting at the moment, you might as well be naked—in the case of staves and the mitts you may very well be better off naked depending on the spell. If a mage or anyone showed up to a party naked I'd show them the curb. If someone isn't gear swapping out of ignorance or something that's one thing, but understanding how it works and what its benefits are and flatly refusing to is almost as bad as showing up naked imo.
you to bits, but jesus chirst that statement was...I have no word for it.
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