My personal opinion is that these sets will not come down in value the same as the Fang crafted sets did. Here is why....
In the case of the previous campaign before Humania, for the lvl 65 crafted fang gear, the crafting items can all be had doing very easy quests that only take a few minutes, and you don't even need the recipes as you can just buy them with plat. The result is that there is a very small premium on crafted vs. uncrafted. For this reason they are also very common and not rare at all. So once it was time to move onto the next campaign, everyone wanted to sell their old sets rather than keep them as a rare collectible or vanity item they wear on occasion.
For the previous campaign before that, for lvl 60 crafted nuri gear --demonic, this gear has a huge premium over uncrafted. The reason is the crafting items (glyph wood & glyph steel) must be farmed and are very rare. The result here when the fang campaign was released was that most people who had demonic sets kept them as a collectible/investment.
So where do the Humania lvl70 sets stand? I'd say somewhere in the middle. Because you can do a quest for ocean blue diamonds, but it is a hard & time consuming quest. As a result, if you look around sand walker/sand skipper sets are much less common than their non-crafted counterparts. Yes, most elite end gamers have them, but most casual gamers do not. For this reason, I think these sets will hold their value in the 500k-1m range. I can't imagine that they go down to the 200-300k level that crafted orlok & sang sets go for.
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