weapon swap and armor swap

kalimar44

I would like the ability to have my armor change when I swap to my back up weapon. So my solo bar would be heavy armor with my solo skill set. My second bar would be medium armor with my group skill set. I know I can just manually do this but it would just be easier if the game did this for me. Anyone else for this?

UglyTriangle

If you can swap a full set of armor in the middle of an intense fight, you must have a lot of talent.

BaconMagic

No. Armor is a choice you make before battle. It defines your battle plan in a way. Swapping armor in between strikes is fairly absurd if you think about it in a role playing sense as well, where as swapping weapons is far easier (and should really be drawn on the character that way).

kalimar44

What about making it a option only while out of combat. Separate from the weapon swap at any time. When I solo I use HA,but I like to switch to MA when I group, I have my reasons. Other MMOs have this option.

BaconMagic

On PC you can create armor/gear load out set profiles for easy swapability, this I'd be in favor of but I believe it's an add on. Super sweet.

kalimar44

BaconMagic wrote: »

On PC you can create armor/gear load out set profiles for easy swapability, this I'd be in favor of but I believe it's an add on. Super sweet.

This would be really nice.

UrQuan

BaconMagic wrote: »

On PC you can create armor/gear load out set profiles for easy swapability, this I'd be in favor of but I believe it's an add on. Super sweet.

Yeah, I use Wykkyd's Outfitter & Wykkyd's Macros to swap between gear/skill bars by hitting one key. Well, 2 keys actually, because after you swap you have to do a weapon swap for your second skill bar to load. It's purely a convenience thing, though, because it only works when you're not in combat - and that's a good thing.

ontheleftcoast

The only place I could see this being truly useful and not a source of abuse is if we had a PvE armor/skill bar and a PvP armor/skill bar. Many players use very different skills and equipment in Cyrodiil than they use anywhere else. The only thing I wish we had is if reaching VR ranks (or completing the fight with Molag Bal) opened up a third skill bar. By the time you reach veteran ranks you often want to start playing with alternate weapons. For example my recent play thru with a stamina NB when she reached VR1 I started using a 2H. It would've been nice to keep my 50 skills in Dual Wield and Bow but I had to give one up to start training 2H.