The highest level recipes are locked behind Specializations and some rather high stat minimums (850 craft, 820 control). However, you can craft i220 combat gear, which is the same ilevel as Alexander: Midas gear, and some use it as a catch up until they are able to get the i230 Lore gear.

Crafting (and Gathering) gear is still at the i170 crafted, i180 bought level. If you are not geared up in that stuff now (which it sounds like you were not when you went on break) it will still take you weeks of gathering to craft your i170 gear, or months of gathering and crafting to get the i180 gear. The only change here is that instead of getting 5 refinement materials per Favor hand in you get 15 - enough for three refined materials (get 15 Purified Coke, instead of 5, for example).

3.3, expect 850/820, and probably locked behind Specializations, generic crafting/gathering gear. That is, it is not supposed to be class-specific, any class can wear it. Also expect the current 3 star recipes to be removed from behind the Specialists Only Wall.