Cycling your best gear between heroes is a very tedious yet effective strategy. If the gear changes only came into effect at the end of turn, it would still be useful but players would no longer be able to:
- Use their best gear in multiple locations at once
- Strip their heroes of all their gear if they've run into a bad situation
- Use mounts for transport and two-handed weapons in battle in the same turn
- Use a single mount to transport multiple heroes