Returning player can't re-equip gear?

[Canadane]

Glad you managed to figure it out.
You should save your equipment as a gearset. Same as your DoL gear. This way you can just click your gearset icons when you swap between your Summoner and your gathering class, and everything changes over easy peasy!
Whenever you get a new piece of gear, just click the little refresh icon on your character screen to update the current gearset.

[Niwashi]

You should save your equipment as a gearset.

Well, the OP did mention that it was when her old PC died that she stopped before. If not backed up, all previous gearsets (as well as hotbars, macros, and everything else that's stored locally on the client) would have been lost when re-installing on a new machine and need to be re-created from scratch, so it's not really surprising if she didn't have them all set up again yet.

[DoUrden]

Well, the OP did mention that it was when her old PC died that she stopped before. If not backed up, all previous gearsets (as well as hotbars, macros, and everything else that's stored locally on the client) would have been lost when re-installing on a new machine and need to be re-created from scratch, so it's not really surprising if she didn't have them all set up again yet.

Wait. Is it true that gear sets are stored on the local computer? I assume that means the gear though is still in their armory, yes?

[ruskie]

Wait. Is it true that gear sets are stored on the local computer? I assume that means the gear though is still in their armory, yes?

To correct it - your active gear set is stored server side - but all other gearsets are client side.

All other inventory/armoury chest is server side.