Just read the thread, and thought I'd offer my 2 penn'orth.

At the moment, I don't gear swap in terms of armour during combat, for me it is too unrealistic and won't do it, which is fine for me. If my kin say I can't go on raids or whatever as a result I'd need to think about what I do, but thats my choice about how I game.

I have no issue with swopping of weapons during combat, earlier posters have observed they have diffeent weapons for different mobs - makes sense, sometimes it might be best to use a dagger, other times a club and others 2 swords.

A number of posters have said they use specific gear for particular circumstances - frost mitigating cloak in helegrod - I'd happily do that before combat no issue there in my view, I have a high mitigation cloak I'll put on if we're going up against high tactical mobs.

The guy who swopped into a stealth cloak when things were getting hairy in a mob camp makes perfect sense.

Using one set of LI's for pre-combat buffing, then switching for combat again makes perfect sense.

One change I do make sometimes is between DPS and Tank on my champ - this is situational, I may be DPS, tank goes down for some reason (or needs major attention) and I have to fill the gap for a bit, I may change weapon and/or fervour for glory,but this is in response to the situation I am in. I won't swop my 3+3 Hytbold for 6 martial champion though, for me thats too much.

If you do, fine, your choice, I won't worry so long as it doesn't really impact me, if it does I may say something but outside of that fair enough.

What I would like to see is gear bags, they have armour, jewelry and pocket slots (but not weapon/tool/class slots) and out of combat you can switch every item in a gear bag for your current set up - empty slots in the gear bag leave what you are wearing on you.