Your system would not allow another keypress until the armor piece had finished equipping. Using the Equipment Tab, I can switch all ten jewels and five armor pieces in the time it normally takes to equip three pieces and then the last piece takes full time for a total of four equip time elapsed for fifteen pieces. Hence the slowdown.
As for the aggro drag, you're not going to be able to arm up enough to be effective against aggro that's already chewing your ass, even with keystrokes. My solution is a maco (assigned to "Q" because it is just below the keys that I use for harvesting) that does the following: Stop current Action. Self Heal 900 (Bar 10 Action 9). Melee Protection Aura (Bar 8 action 9). That leaves me on Bar 8 where my speed up and major magic spells are. I'm in MPA so that means that I have time to evaluate whether I can take the mob solo (usually not) and run for safety or equip my amps.
Some of this may be related to how we each use the controls. I have my right hand continuously on the mouse unless I'm "talking" in a chatbox. I move and target with the mouse, and my most used actions are top row 1 - 6 done with my left hand. (Plus the abovementioned Q, and I use the tilde key for "interrupt".) If you are using arrow-keys or WASD, your experience is going to be much different.
As for the aggro drag, you're not going to be able to arm up enough to be effective against aggro that's already chewing your ass, even with keystrokes. My solution is a maco (assigned to "Q" because it is just below the keys that I use for harvesting) that does the following: Stop current Action. Self Heal 900 (Bar 10 Action 9). Melee Protection Aura (Bar 8 action 9). That leaves me on Bar 8 where my speed up and major magic spells are. I'm in MPA so that means that I have time to evaluate whether I can take the mob solo (usually not) and run for safety or equip my amps.
Some of this may be related to how we each use the controls. I have my right hand continuously on the mouse unless I'm "talking" in a chatbox. I move and target with the mouse, and my most used actions are top row 1 - 6 done with my left hand. (Plus the abovementioned Q, and I use the tilde key for "interrupt".) If you are using arrow-keys or WASD, your experience is going to be much different.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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