Quote Originally Posted by Alexiell View Post
didnt they show every class with unique looking gear in the heavensward-preview videos? This makes me believe we gonna get a new set of gear once they release the red scrips (or even before with start of the raid?). I wouldnt spend too much gil on the current items right now.

regardless of whether the new gear is better or not, if it is, you can be 100% assured that it will require very difficult turn ins, turn ins which will likely be alot easier to achieve with better gear. SE never just hands out the BiS gear like its nothing.

Aside from that, the other reason to get really good gear now is because very few crafters do. If your at the point where your all crafts 60 or nearly 60, it means your in the bunch of hardcore crafters thats mostly like making and spending alot of gil, and
having good gear now gives a crucial advantage in these early weeks to increasing and improving your output. If your not in that group, then yes by all means wait.

tldr; if you can't afford it, of course you should wait as alexiell suggests. this would also indicate that your not entirely a hardcore crafter. (its actually cheap as hell to make yourself, materia excluded)
if you can afford it; you most likely are in the group of crafters that can benefit from it, and most likely already are benefiting from it. when new gear comes out, you will likely have an easier time getting it because your geared already.