5.1 New crafted crafting gear?

[Espritduo]

If this follows the Stormblood formula, 5.1 will introduce the equivalent of the Ala Mhigan crafting/gathering gear. This gearset did NOT include offhands, belts or accessories and the base level 70 stuff from 4.0 for those slots was still BiS until they added the Onishi set (which was a full set of MH OH body and accessories) in 4.3.

The scrip gear has never been BIS, at any point, and is always inferior to properly melded crafted gear currently available. I don't expect this to change.

That being said, no expansion has exactly followed the previous expansions in terms of crafting gear progression. SB was different from HW, which was different from ARR. So far ShB is identical to SB on release, but the Ishgardian Restoration content might shake up the next phase of progression from what we got at 4.1.