The new gilding system SUCKS! All clothing has lost it's value. Bear Capes and Druid Cloaks aren't in any way better than Bat Capes and Fur Cloaks.
What you should do is make it all clothing gives all it's normal stats it used to give. Every time you guild it it loses 25-50% of all it's stats. (Unless your guilding, for instance, one of the Taproot Lacings onto a nettle shirt, the survival stays the same, but the survival being given is halved and so is the UA bonus.)
Just PLEASE balance out the gilding system!