What is up with that? We have never had to do that before. As far as I can recall, the chest's levels needed to make the purple gear has been the same level as the gear. Why the change at this point?
It may not hurt a super crafter like Zid who was Level 100 on all his crafting skills when crafting cap was 97, but some of us really need that to be craftable at 98 because we grow all our own mats to level all 6 crafters with. It took 5 years of my life to plant enough to get the 6 skills to: 100, 100, 98, 97, 97 and 97

No big deal really, just curious. And this is definitely not a complaint. I love the game regardless of what changes are or are not made. Because..............
It IS after all, just a GAME and if we all stop long enough to look back at our "lives" here, we will probably all think "You know, this really is a pretty cool game regardless of what they do to it.