2.5 new gear speculation

[Vivaea]

Yoshi P has mentioned that 2.5, due for release in mid to late January, will include 'new gear for gatherers and crafters'. Our rings are definitely due for an update, and I'm wondering if perhaps they'll introduce an artisan body for use across all crafts. Perhaps some other accessories will be updated too, I'm thinking no new offhands though as they just came in. Don't think they'll upgrade our main tool till heavensward either, but I could be wrong. Thoughts?

[DarkmoonVael]

I think you are right with body being upgraded in 2.5, wether this is through crafting it yourself or gained In the same manner as the artisan glasses is another thing (i remember it being suggested in one of the fan fest events that ther would be something in 2.5 to help all those who joined in april with the ps4 release catch up to those of us who have been playing for longer). Ther could potentially be a 5 ilvl increase in main hand possibly, they have made obtaining the master demis easier for an entire patch, so potential increase in main hand is a possibility (maybe a slight one). I suppose it will all come down to wether the new recipes in 2.5 require higher craft/cont thresholds to start them, i doubt they will, but if they did it would require some ilvl increases in the crafting gear we have .

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

Yoshi P has mentioned that 2.5, due for release in mid to late January, will include 'new gear for gatherers and crafters'. Our rings are definitely due for an update, and I'm wondering if perhaps they'll introduce an artisan body for use across all crafts. Perhaps some other accessories will be updated too, I'm thinking no new offhands though as they just came in. Don't think they'll upgrade our main tool till heavensward either, but I could be wrong. Thoughts?

Body probably, but I don't see the rings being upgraded any time soon. Not unless they go through and give more upgrades to the new i55 accessories as well, which I also really doubt they're going to do.

[Espritduo]

Artisan's body 100% sure. Most likely new i80 main hands as well. They already introduced one of them with the i80 fishing rod, and since the message said new crafting AND gathering gear, and we already have fully upgraded gathering gear, the only thing left is an i80 mainhand for miner and botanist to go with the i80 mainhand we got early for fisher.

New rings to replace the really, really old Aetheryte Ring (only non-green/blue gear left that's BiS for DoH/DoL) would be a nice addition that isn't totally out of the question, either. Yoshi-P has said he wants to ease up on crafting for newer crafters, and the best way to give crafters a break is give them more CP to play with.

[Garlyle]

Artisan's body 100% sure. Most likely new i80 main hands as well. They already introduced one of them with the i80 fishing rod, and since the message said new crafting AND gathering gear, and we already have fully upgraded gathering gear, the only thing left is an i80 mainhand for miner and botanist to go with the i80 mainhand we got early for fisher.

I actually doubt that. The reason the i80 was included for Fisher was to give it another progression step - every other class got a new Offhand introduced.

Anyway, I wouldn't actually expect it. To my recollection of the recent Live Letters, they actually don't want to dump more progression onto crafters at the moment because Heavensward is coming, and they were going to instead focus on helping players catch up (the Artisan item requirement reduction for instance). Which would make sense given we're probably going to be expecting to be replacing everything when Heavensward hits. If there's plans to trade tomes for Crafter gear, I can see this fitting in - items like the Ehcatl Gloves that function as "not best in slot but still really good crafter gear"

[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.

[aerolol]

I just hope they do NOT troll us and release new Lv70 class-specific hands/legs/shoes that would make the cross-class Artisan/Forager gear obsolete.

Artisan body would be nice, not sure we`re getting anything more than that.

[Pterois]

i did hear yoshi dropped a bomb recently that was obtaining doh/dol gear from tombs and since i haven't seen the i80 fishing rod till someone mention it in this thread i would say that i80 main hands must be close. With that being said i would venture to say that the new artisans chest (or equivalent, probably IW) will actually be obtained either through poe tombs or a new tome introduced specifically for doh/dol gear. Start saving!