It's worth mentioning that it is only free to switch between melee and ranged weapons which I am totally fine with.
Its also worth mentioning that you dont loose your AC bonus, when you are wielding shield (as a Ranger for example) but are using your Ranged Weapon.
So the only reason to keep swaping back to meele attack after you shoot is to be able to do AOO.
Quite honestly ...
I would probably welcome, if our characters would be able to AOO in meele no matter wich weapons they curently are holding (aka, let them swap automaticly) ...
Right now it feels like we are stuck somewhere in the middle of two rules ... in your turn, you can swap your weapons any times you want and it cost you nothing ... but outside your turn, you need to hold your sword drawn in order to be able to use it? :-/
//Edit:
The free swap between weapons allows shield classes to always have +2 AC even if they attack with a ranged weapon.
Nah, +2 AC from shield is included all the time as long as you have shield equipped ... you dont need to swap it back to keep that bonus, so free swaping dont really affect this.
