Equipment Sets Feature ReviewFollow

Can we get a review of the new Equipment Sets swap feature implemented in the new update? would be much appreciated since im currently not subbed.

Basically, from what I've seen, it allows you to swap out anywhere from 1 to all 16 pieces of gear in a single macro line, once you get it set up the way you want.

The Patch Notes on the Official Website offers several screenshots as to how the system works; you simply put a red "X" on the slot if you want that piece of gear to be unequipped entirely, leave it blank if you want the macro to not change that piece at all, or place a piece in that slot if you want the macro to change equipment.

Sounds pretty simple and straightforward.

For example, if you wanted to swap out just your staves, you'd leave all the boxes blank, and put the staff you want (say, a Dark Staff for a resting macro) in the Main Weapon slot. The system will only swap your staff.

If, for some odd reason, you wanted to change your weapon but, say, unequip your helmet (dunno why you'd wanna do this, but I'm just talking theoretically here), you'd set it up with the new weapon in the main slot, and a red X in the Helmet slot.

The macro itself is fairly straightforward, IIRC it is something like /equipset x and there's a switch for whether or not you want the results shown in the chat window (defaults to none). The only problem I cay see, is limited numbers of equipment sets that you can set, as maryadavies said, hopefully you're not the kinda dude with lots of Lv99 jobs that needs to swap out equipment for everything.

The nice thing about it, is it works on both Inventory and Mog Wardrobe gear, so that's up to 160 available storage space for all this gear you're swapping around.

I'm sure another poster with more experience can correct/clear up/add to anything I said here.

Ahh, right.

Now I remember they did say that.

I'm probably going to end up making a Warp Ring and XP Ring Macro. Since you have to have those in your inventory and I want the real rings in Wardrobe, equipping a ring to use it is a bit annoying because you gotta do the whole "Inventory Options" stuff to swap. It'd be much easier with a single button press, use, then single button press to go back to it.

Should be easy since the 2 highest level jobs I have both use Rajas Ring for now, lol.

Just want to add that the sets by default are named Set0xx. xx being 01-20. The first 0 implies they eventually plan on making hundred(s) of sets available. So that's a very good sign.

I am going to make it an expectation based on this:

Perg; I'm managing with 5 jobs, it takes some clever macroing and since I have several mage jobs, sharing of a set or two between jobs, but you can do it.

I feel sorry for anyone who's really hardcore/used to spellcast or plays more jobs than I do though.

Edited, Aug 18th 2014 1:09pm by maryadavies