Unless I missed something, which could be a big possibility, to use our tradeskill gear and equipment, it must be equipped. So, every time I want to go harvesting, I gotta put all my harvesting gear on and take my other set off. Then when done put the other set back on. I don't know how many times I forgot and got told in raid, hey your still got your tradeskill gear on, lol. Why can't we have a tab, like out appearance tab, where we can just keep that stuff equipped, and ONLY the tradeskill stats work when equipped there? that way we don't ever have to change? Seems it's something that is doable. Just thinking out loud here
Except I think the point is you are trading your Adventure stats for harvesting stats. That is intentional to give up hit points, potency, etc. I'm with you on forgetting to switch, but I kind of like it that you have to make choices, and they have consequences.