Hooray! Yeah I hated situational gear-swapping too. I could understand having an alternate weapon or even an alternate body-piece or helmet or something to use depending on the party set up and what you needed to do, but swapping in every piece of gear for weapon skills/songs/spells just was obnoxious.
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