Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
The in-game gear manager is an option to.
You're unlikely to want to change gear in a fight, so opening a window and clicking something isn't much of an issue.
Plus in game options won't break in future patches nor do they consume ram, or cause conflicts etc.
You don't need to open anything to change gear. I just made a macro for all my toons

#show 16
/equipset axe

This way when I'm doing jousting dailies or Trial, they put the lance in Jamba Items, CTRL NumPad1 to equip the lance on everyone, PageUp to swap back to their real gear.