User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-5174994-20141012131620/@comment-3046679-20141012143939

This presents a concept of evolving gear, and I've seen screenshots that have one remarkably similar to the last one. So it might be like Darksiders II, the higher your level, the better and different looking the tiers of armor.