Quote Originally Posted by Katlyna View Post
The new crafting/gathering armor is probably oriented toward being "catchup" to try and even the playing field, so I'm not anticipating the stats to be much better (if at all) than the current blue BIS crafting gear.
We know that they will be the final DOH/DOL sets for Lv60 characters, and there's still one more tier of battle gear to come later in patch 3.4 where the crafted sets will likely be Item Level 250 and difficulty 4-stars. So I would expect the new DOH gear to be a little bit improved in order to handle the final tier of Lv60 master recipes that are added later. I'm fine if they aren't better, because I already completed all 11 sets of the IL 170/180 DOH/L gear and it would be nice to not make those obsolete, but I think we will need some kind of stat boost from somewhere for 4-star crafting, if not from gear then there'd need to be huge stat meals to consume and wider availability of grade V crafters' materia.