2.5 new gear speculation

[Lemuel81]

pretty much this ^

I think the only thing were going to see in terms of gear are the rest of the artisian gear. The expansion will be here soon.

[Espritduo]

pretty much this ^

I think the only thing were going to see in terms of gear are the rest of the artisian gear. The expansion will be here soon.

The "rest" of the Artisan's gear amounts to one piece of gear - the body piece. If that was really the only new crafting/gathering related piece of gear being added, they wouldn't have even bothered mentioning "NEW CRAFTING AND GATHERING GEAR!" in the New Year's Letter as if it was a thing to get excited about. But they did. And they specifically said new gathering gear. We have the full forager's set. The only new gathering gear that would even be remotely likely is i80 mainhands for Miner and Botanist, even though they are admittedly unnecessary to hit current node caps. And if they're going to give us i80 gathering mainhands, the likelihood of i80 crafting mainhands to go alongside them (as they usually do) increases dramatically. Just throwing us a body piece isn't enough to warrant an announcement, and I expect Supra upgrades.

The other possibility is a whole new pile of Ehcatl i70 gear purchasable with oaknots that is on-par-but-not-quite with Artisan's to make gearing up for 4-star easier for newer crafters.