Quote Originally Posted by Sylvant View Post
As of the release of patch 6.0, belts will no longer be equippable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the given reason for this is that it's just a stat boosting item that has no appearance on your character. The dev team will essentially be removing belts and reallocating the stats to other items (alongside the stat squish).
I'm sorry but this is incorrect.
Like with removing HQ gathering items, they're removing belts in an attempt to cull a large number of questionably important items from the game, freeing up space on the backend.